Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Scene for March 6, 2009

This week's Scene is a little late; the flu bug caught up with me. But the show must go on, and it's going on all over South Florida this week.

Michael Hall has stepped down as Artistic Director of the Caldwell, and his replacement, Clive Cholerton, had his production of Dangerous reviewed in VARIETY. South Florida Theatre has hit national prominence from time to time, going back the halcyon days of the Coconut Grove Playhouse, but it's always worth noting the accomplishment when it happens.


Just a reminder:
Clicking on a highlighted show title leads you to the review summaries for that show.

openings

The long-awaited production of Les Misérables opens at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theater. Artistic Director David Arisco has been mulling this one over for years

This is the regional premiere of one of the most popular musicals ever written, performed at South Florida's pre-eminent producers of musicals.



what's playing

Rising Action Theatre is running two shows concurrently through March 15th: Say You Love Satan plays Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30, with a 7pm show on Sundays, and Simply Barbra plays Thursdays through Saturdays at 9:30pm, with a 3pm matinee on Sundays.

DEFIANCE plays at GableStage through March 22nd.

Caldwell Theater presents Dangerous, the world premier of Michael McKeever's latest play, through March 29th.

Sugar runs through March 29th at the Broward Stage Door Theatre.

The Weir plays at Palm Beach Drama Works through April 5th, 2009.

SISTERS! A Celebration of the Human Spirit plays at the African American Performing Arts Community Theater through March 22nd.

A Dead Man's Cell Phoneplays at Mosaic Theatre through March 22, 2009.

The Glass Menagerie, the Tennessee Williams masterpiece of American drama, plays at New Theatre in Coral Gables through March 29, 2009



passing through...

Liberty City opened Wednesday, February 18 at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, and runs through March 1, 2009. It's based on actual events that happened not far from the stage it's playing on, as told by the person who lived through it - the star of the show.

A Jew Grows in Brooklyn has been wandering around South Florida for several months, and settles West Palm Beach's Cuillo Center for the next 7 weeks. It runs through April 5, 2009.

Combing Through Life's Tangles plays at the Hollywood Playhouse through March 14th. Drag Queen in a beauty salon; need we say more?



last chance to see...

Sol Theatre Project is running the Eric Bogosian drama Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll through March 7th.

Florida Stage is running the world premier of The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock through March 8, 2009.


for kids

The Steadfast Tin Soldier returns to the Playground Theatre, and plays through March 8, 2009

Alice in Wonderland plays at Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables through April 4.

Willy Wonka is playing at the Coral Gables Youth Center, produced by the Miami Children's Theater, through March 14.

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