REVIEW: AT ACTORS’ PLAYHOUSE, ‘NOW AND THEN’ EXPLORES ROADS TAKEN AND PATHS IGNORED

Written By Christine Dolen

Originally published on artburstmiami.com

A man walks into a bar and – OK, we’d stop right there if we’d vowed to keep this particular review 100 percent spoiler free.

But Sean Grennan’s dramatic comedy (or “dramedy,” as director David Arisco describes it) is neither a joke nor a shaggy dog story.  Even if you guess what’s going on minutes into the new Actors’ Playhouse production of “Now and Then” (and many people will), Grennan’s play keeps you hooked from start to finish.

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Pompano Beach Cultural Center Hosts the Bell’Arte Concert Series World-renowned Classical and Broadway Stars Take the Stage

Pompano Beach Arts is proud to announce an extraordinary new concert series produced by “Generation” Venetian Arts Society (GENVAS) specifically for the Pompano Beach Cultural Center. The Bell’Arte Concert Series, in its inaugural season, will consist of four fine arts salon-style concerts, each unique in topic and genre. The impressive lineup of internationally acclaimed artists includes opera star Eglise Gutiérrez, Tony Award winner Levi Kreis, operatic and soul powerhouse Alfreda Gerald, and violin phenom Rachel Barton Pine. The events are ticketed, and the $45.00 ticket price includes a post-concert champagne and dessert reception with the Artist. For more information, www.pompanobeacharts.org

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Reimagined Beauty And The Beast Brings New Magic To An Old Classic

What has always set theatre apart as a medium is the chance it offers us to not only tell or hear stories but to connect with others through the shared experience of stories. And though the uniquely immediate and uniquely communal nature of the theatre can sometimes get lost, amidst the multitudes of other concerns that go into putting together a season and then putting up a show, both aspects of the art form were back at the forefront of up and coming director Giancarlo Rodaz’s immersive reimagining of modern classic Beauty And The Beast via Area Stage.

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DELRAY BEACH PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS THIRD ANNUAL PLAYHOUSE PLAYWRIGHTS’ PROJECT!

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DELRAY BEACH PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS

THIRD ANNUAL PLAYHOUSE PLAYWRIGHTS’ PROJECT!

Saturday, October 22 & Sunday, October 23

Ten new plays by local playwrights will be showcased over a two-day Festival

Now, in its third year of producing one-act plays by local playwrights, the Delray Beach Playhouse’s Festival of New Plays 2022 will be held on October 22 and 23, 2022. Ten one-act plays by local Playwrights and read by local actors, showcase the diverse and talented theatrical community in South Florida.

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‘The Blues Opera’ Is Back By Popular Demand!

Back by popular demand, Juggerknot Theatre Company, creators of “Miami Motel Stories” presents “The Blues Opera”, an autobiographical, immersive one-man-show written by Miami blues musician, Eric Garcia, AKA “Uncle Scotchy”. Returning on Wednesday, Sept. 21, after two months of sold out shows, this one-of-a-kind intimate performance opens to 12 guests at a time in a secret location in Little Havana

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REVIEW: AREA STAGE COMPANY’S TRANSFORMATIVE ‘BEAUTY AND THE BEAST’ MAKES CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC ORIGINAL

Written By Christine Dolen

Originally Published on artburstmiami.com

Area Stage Company’s new immersive production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is, as the French would say, magnifique.

Presented in a transformed Carnival Studio Theater at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the show is a two-year labor of love and creativity on the part of Giancarlo Rodaz, Area Stage’s associate artistic director.  Working with numerous collaborators, the young director has achieved a larger-scale success on the order of his immensely popular immersive version of “Annie,” which the company presented in June of 2021, in the company’s smaller South Miami theater.

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FORT LAUDERDALE GAY MEN’S CHORUS PRESENTS “LIFE IS A CABARET” CONCERT ON SEPTEMBER 10

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (August 12, 2022) – Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus (FTLGMC) will present “Life is a Cabaret” on Saturday, September 10, at 8 p.m. at United Church of Christ (2501 NE 30th Street in Fort Lauderdale). The special concert will include a sentimental selection of favorite Broadway tunes and popular standards with live musical instrumentation.

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