Thursday, September 2, 2010

The 2010-2011 Theatre Season

It starts with a trickle in October, and takes off as the snowbirds arrive with the annual migration from the hinterlands.  It kicks into high gear between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and doesn't really slow down until after Easter.  It's the new theatre season!

october


4.
Naked Stage, The 24 Hour Theatre Festival, one night only.

6.
Broward Center, Young Frankenstein, through October 17.  This kicks off the Broward Center's 20th anniversary - it's going to be a big party!

Actors' Playhouse, The Color Of Desire, through November 7.

8.
New Theatre, Jack Goes Boating, through October 31.

Palm Beach DramaWorks, Candida, through November 21.

14.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Zero Hour, through October 24.

The Women's Theatre Project, Bridge and Tunnel, through November 7.  Karen Stephens was a hit in this play up in Sarasota; this is a "must-see" in a season of great plays.

15.
Slow Burn Theatre, The Rocky Horror Show, through October 30.

19.
Arsht Center, Dreamgirls, through October 24.

Old School Square, The Great American Songbook, through November 21.

20.
Stage Door Theatre, On the Town, through December 5.

23.
GableStage, A Behanding in Spokane, through November 21.

27.
Florida Stage, Cane, through November 28.

29.
Naked Stage, No Exit, through November 21.

november


2.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Twelve Angry Men, through November 14.

4.
Alliance Theatre Lab, The House of Yes, through November 21.

5.
Rising Action Theatre, The Boys in the Band, through December 12.

7.
Caldwell Theatre, Vices: A Love Story, through December 12.

11.
Mosaic Theatre, Collected Stories, through December 5.

16.
Broward Center, Burn The Floor, through November 28

17.
Actors' Playhouse, Oliver!, through December 26.

18.
Mad Cat Theatre, Going Green the Wong Way, through November 20.

19.
New Theatre, Fizz, through December 12.

23.
Kravis Center, Dreamgirls, through November 28.


december


2.
Zoetic Stage, South Beach Babylon, through December 12.

3.
Stage Door Theatre, Snoopy, through January 16.

7.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Academy, through December 19.

Arsht Center, Forbidden Broadway, through December 26.

15.

Florida Stage, Goldie, Max & Milk, through January 16.

17.


Palm Beach DramaWorks, Freud's Last Session, through February 6, 2011.

Broward Center, My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm Home for the Holidays, through December 19.

Broward Center, CATS, through December 19

24.
Stage Door Theatre, Mame, through February 6.

28.
Broward Center, Rock of Ages, through January 6.

Arsht Center, Beauty and the Beast, through January 2.

30.
GableStage, A Round-Heeled Woman, through January 30.  This is the play scheduled to star Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sharon Gless, who premiered it last year.

31.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Capitol Steps, through January 1.

january


2.
Caldwell Theatre, Becky Shaw, through February 6.

4.
Kravis Center, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, through January 9.

6.
Broward Center, Cooking With The Calamari Sisters, through December 9.

11.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Sound of Music, through January 30.

14.
Rising Action Theatre, The Killing of Sister George, through February 13.

16.
Parker Playhouse, Forever Plaid, one night only.

18.

Broward Center, Les Misérables, through January 30.

19.
Actors' Playhouse, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, through February 13.

27.
Slow Burn Theatre, Kiss of the Spider Woman, through February 6.

28.
New Theatre, TBA, through February 20.

Old School Square, All Shook Up, through January 30.

february


1.
Kravis Center, Young Frankenstein, through February 6.

2.
Broward Center, Improvised Shakespeare, One Day Only

4.
Stage Door Theatre, Plaza Suite, through March 20.

5.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, One Man Star Wars Trilogy, One Night Only.  (I could kick myself - I've been doing this all along, and never considered charging admission.  Damn it.)

9.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Defending the Caveman, through February 10.

10.
Mosaic Theatre, The Irish Curse, through March 6.

15.
Broward Center, West Side Story, through February 27

18.
Old School Square, The Music Man, through February 20.

20.
Caldwell Theatre, TBA, through March 27.

22.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Jolson at the Winter Garden!, through March 13.

24.
Parker Playhouse, Ella, through February 27.

25.
Palm Beach DramaWorks, Dinner With Friends, through April 17.

Stage Door Theatre, Light in the Piazza, through April 10.

26.
GableStage, Superior Donuts, through March 27.

28.
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Second City, One Night Only.

march


2.
Arsht Center, Jersey Boys, through March 20.

Florida Stage, Ghost-Writer, through April 3.

4.
Old School Square, S'Wonderful, through March 6.

8.

Kravis Center, West Side Story, through March 13.

9.
Actors' Playhouse, August: Osage County, through April 10

10.
Parker Playhouse, S'Wonderful, through March 13.

16.
Old School Square, My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm STILL in Therapy!, through March 17.

24.
Parker Playhouse, Spring Awakening, through March 27.

25.
Broward Center, The Second City, one night only

New Theatre, The Radiant, through April 17.

29.
Arsht Center, In The Heights, through April 3.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Crazy for You, through April 17.

30.
Broward Center, Wicked, through April 24.

31.
Mosaic Theatre, Dusk Rings A Bell, through April 24.


april


10.
Caldwell Theatre, TBA, through May 15.

14.
Broward Center, Forbidden Broadway, through April 17.

21.
Slow Burn Theatre, Blood Brothers, through May 1.

29.
Stage Door Theatre, The Music Man, through June 19.

30.

GableStageIn the Next Room, (or:The Vibrator Play), through May 29.

may


4.
Florida Stage, The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider, through June 5.

6.
Palm Beach DramaWorks, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, through June 19.

10.
Kravis Center, The Color Purple, through May 15.

11.
Actors' Playhouse, The 39 Steps, through June 5.

20.
New Theatre, A Streetcar Named Desire, through June 12.

31.
Arsht Center, HAIR, through June 5.

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The Scene for September 3, 2010

September.  When I was a kid, we'd be starting school next week.  Here in 21st century South Florida, the kids started two weeks ago in some places. But even with the start of school, officially, summer isn't over: and the summer theatre season still hasn't quite run its course.

Here's what's playing this Labor Day weekend in South Florida....


opening...

New Theatre's latest summer Shakespeare, The Tempest,  plays through September 19. Read about it on the South Florida Theatre Review.

The Male/Female Thing
opens at AAPACT, and runs through September 26.


you still haven't missed...

Promethean Theatre's production of Evil Dead: The Musical at NSU's BlackBox Theatre.  It plays through September 12, but even with two added Thursday shows, it's been selling out.

Fifty Words plays at GableStage through September 12, 2010.

Mack and Mable at the Stage Door Theatre plays through September 26.


last chance to see...

The Comfort of Darkness plays at The Caldwell Theatre through September 5. 

Florida Stage presents Low Down Dirty Blues through September 5, 2010.

Read more...

Monday, August 30, 2010

Mondays are Dark

Not in the news but worth noting; area playwright Tony Finstrom says the current production of Mack & Mabel at Broward Stage Door rivals the original Broadway production, while Evil Dead the Musical has been selling so well that Promethean Theatre has added two additional nights to the run.

But enough gossip, here's your Monday reading list:

Broward goes BARE, or is it Completely Hollywood?
The South Florida Sun reports that the next musical at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts is Bare: The Rock Opera.  They also report that Completely Hollywood is opening at Mosaic Theatre.

Shows for Kids in Aventura
The Miami Herald looks at the programming for Aventura's new Arts and Cultural Center, and finds it kid-friendly.

Hello?
Ever wonder who you're talking to when you order tickets?  1st Draft introduces you to the box office staff at Florida Stage.

Zero Returns
Jim Brochu and his one man show Zero Hour are coming back to South Florida. Read about it in Playbill, TC Palm, and BroadwayWorld.com. The play will have a limited engagement at the Maltz Jupiter Theater on Oct 14-17, and Oct 21-24.  Brochu had a hit with the play two years ago at the Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs, before taking it to a critically acclaimed and oft-extended run in New York.

Briefs Reprise
South Florida Gay News and The Drama Queen have stories up on Zoetic Stage, which includes some discussion of their fundraiser tonight at Actors' Playhouse.

Death; It's for Kids!
Actually, that's death masks.  The Sun Sentinel visits the Puppet Network, which is run by Jim Hammond.  Hammond toured with The Lion King, and has started producing children's plays that incorporate puppets.  His company will also fabricate scenery and props.

South to Southwest
Some South Florida actors will be appearing over on the Gulf Coast this next season, according to The Stage Door

Meanwhile...
... The Palm Beach Daily News reports that the Royal Poinciana Playhouse is still closed.  The referendum that the Palm Beach Theatre Guild wanted on the November ballad has been found unconstitutional.
Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge David Crow ruled Thursday in favor of
the town in its challenge of the constitutionality of the PAC’s proposed
referendum requiring voter approval before certain landmarked buildings
could be razed.

The court “does not doubt the sincerity and motives of the defendants and those citizens of the town who signed the petition and those who support it or desire to preserve what many feel are historic landmarks in the town,” Crow wrote in his order. “However, no matter how laudable these goals may be, that decision is not by popular vote when that popular vote is in conflict with Florida statutes,” he wrote.
Patrick Flynn vows to fight the ruling.

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