Do you want your play workshopped or produced?

Do you want your play workshopped or produced?

    If you’ve ever dreamed of witnessing actors perform your play onstage, Zoetic Stage could give you your first big break. Specifically, the Miami-based company is seeking never-produced, full-length plays for a festival series of workshopped new work. And Zoetic Stage might fully produce your piece as part of...

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Thirty-year Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59.

Thirty-year Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59.

  Photo by Alan Smason   Rebecca Luker, a much-praised Broadway actress and singer who earned three Tony Award nominations during her 30-year career, died on Wednesday, Dec. 23 in a Manhattan hospital. She was 59. Luker’s agent, Sarah Fargo, confirmed her death. The Broadway star announced in February that...

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Safe, live theater returns to Miami Beach with ‘Seven Deadly Sins’

Safe, live theater returns to Miami Beach with ‘Seven Deadly Sins’

Photo courtesy of Ernesto Sempoll Jessica Farr and Caleb Scott appear in the sultry Amsterdam Latitudes in Miami New Drama’s production of Seven Deadly Sins.     By AARON KRAUSE MIAMI BEACH — You’ll rarely find people celebrating in purgatory. Then again, you probably won’t find elsewhere the kind of...

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Palm Beach Dramaworks to read from ‘A Christmas Carol’

Palm Beach Dramaworks to read from ‘A Christmas Carol’

      By AARON KRAUSE When Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) presents A Christmas Carol this year, the South Florida company will not stage one of the myriad adaptations available to theaters. Rather, performers will read from Dickens’ 1843 novella – just like the author read from his work. “No...

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Broadway star Ann Reinking dies at 71

Broadway star Ann Reinking dies at 71

Ann Reinking Nov. 10, 1949 — Dec. 12, 2020   Ann Reinking, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who performed on Broadway for 30 years, making a name for herself particularly through her work in the musical Chicago, has died at age 71. Reinking died in her sleep in a hotel room...

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A moving, scary ‘A Christmas Carol’ is streaming

A moving, scary ‘A Christmas Carol’ is streaming

            Photo by Chris Whitaker Ebenezer Scrooge (Jefferson Mays) looks as though he’s freefalling in a streaming version of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol.   By AARON KRAUSE At times, one of the newest adaptations of A Christmas Carol sounds and looks more like...

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Ring in the new year with new play development

Ring in the new year with new play development

  By AARON KRAUSE If you’d like to participate in the process of writing new plays, Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) can give you that chance through its New Year/New Plays Festival. Indeed, while performers read the plays, audiences play their own part. “We will, as always, be soliciting your feedback...

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MNM’s ‘Closer Than Ever’ is creative, heartfelt

MNM’s ‘Closer Than Ever’ is creative, heartfelt

  Photo courtesy of MNM Theatre Company. Thanks to technology, actors are able to look as though they’re near each other, and even holding hands, in MNM’s Closer Than Ever.   By AARON KRAUSE The telling and timely stage picture appears at the end of West Palm Beach-based MNM Theatre...

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Theater company recording original 60’s musical as a radio series

Theater company recording original 60’s musical as a radio series

      By AARON KRAUSE Giancarlo Rodaz was not a child of the 60’s. But Rodaz, who is in his mid-20’s, loves music from the era, and researched the decade. Further, he feels that musical theater could use more 1960’s shows. So, the versatile, visionary South Florida theater artist...

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Actors’ Playhouse to reopen for holiday show

Actors’ Playhouse to reopen for holiday show

  Photo by Alberto Romeu Actors’ Playhouse is welcoming audiences back for a stage musical adaptation of Madeline’s Christmas.   Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre will welcome back audiences for a “festive treat for adults and children alike.” However, things will look different under the Coral Gables-based Actors’ Playhouse’...

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