Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Scene for September 9, 2011

There's a new category for local production that are playing one week only.  We're calling it "coming and going" for obvious reasons.  And there are a lot of them this week.

So here's what's happening on The Scene this weekend;

opening...

For a change, Rising Action Theatre has a much-anticipated opening; As Bees In Honey Drown opens this week.  The production marks a shift in the company; Andy Rogow is producing, and has Avi Hoffman directing Amy McKenna.  Through October 9.

Alliance Theatre Lab is opening 'night Mother at Barry University's Pelican Theatre (the space often used by Naked Stage). Through September 25.

The African American Performing Arts Community Theatre opens its production of Jelly Belly, through October 2.

Anagram Entertainment opens An Evening with Mr. Johnson - The Penis Diatribes at Empire Stage.  Through October 2.


you still haven't missed...

The Brothers Size opens at GableStage on Saturday.  This marks the first time playwright Tarrel Alvin McCraney has had a play produced in his hometown.  Through October 2.

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
opens at the Stage Door Theatre, through October 9.

Song Man, Dance Man plays both Stage Door Theatre locations; Saturdays in Miami, and the rest of the week in Coral Springs.  Through September 25th.



coming and going...

Karen Stephens reprises her tour de force in Bridge & Tunnel, this time presented by the Boca Raton Theatre Guild at the Willow Theater.  This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday only.  Read the reviews from her last performance HERE.

A group called The New Light Theatre is presenting four plays about love at Gallery 101 in Fort Lauderdale. Vanessa Garcia's The Proposal and Breaking Bread are paired with Wendy White's Marry Me! and I Want To Be Your Sculpture.  The evening is billed as Jump Into Love.  Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  We're not familiar with this company, although they apparently mounted a show back in July.

FUNDarte presents If You're Going To Pull A Knife, USAlo at the Onstage Black Box Theater at Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Wait, the Auditorium has a black box?!?  When did that happen?  Anyway,
the play, performed in Spanish and English, runs Thursday through Sunday only.  Tickets available through FUNDarte.

The Actor's Workshop & Repertory Company presents columbinus through September 11.

Ground up and Rising reappears to present Little Flower of East Orange and September 10, two free play readings.

last chance to see...

Ron Mangravite's adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V winds up its run at The New Theatre on September 10.

Promethean Theatre 's romp with the undead, Song of the Living Dead finishes this Sunday, September 10.

Mad Cat Theatre Company's production of So My Grandmother Died blah blah blah at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse also closes September 10, 2011.

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