Aventura Arts & Cultural Center October Lineup Highlighted by Song, Music and Dance

Aventura Arts & Cultural Center Season kickoffs of two South Florida cultural favorites, along with joyful Jewish music and dance are all on tap during October at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Both Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida and the Miami International Piano Festival begin their 2024-2025 seasons, while the City of Aventura co-presents the first two of four “YI Love Jewish” shows highlighting Yiddish music and dance.  

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The Broward Center for the Performing Arts celebrates 10 years of classes

The Broward Center for the Performing Arts celebrates 10 years of classes at the Rose Miniaci Arts Education Center at the Broward Center with a free open house on Saturday, August 24, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  Guests can tour the education center facilities, observe or participate in sample classes, grab the mic in Broadway Karaoke, play Broadway trivia, meet the teaching artists, win prizes, register to win a free fall class, enjoy family-friendly activities, light refreshments and more. Classes are on sale to the public starting July 16, 2024.

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ISLAND CITY STAGE CLOSES OUT DYNAMIC 12TH SEASON WITH CAMP AND COMIC MELODRAMA

Grab your best partners-in-crime and hatch a plot to catch Die, Mommie, Die! by Charles Busch, Island City Stage’s riotous 12th Season closer running August 22 – September 22. Off-Broadway star Kris Andersson (aka Dixie Longate) leads a multitalented cast of performers in this killer comic melodrama that evokes the 1960s “Grande Dame Guignol” films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner.

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ACTORS’ PLAYHOUSE’S ‘HUNDRED DAYS’ IS THE THEATRICAL EPITOME OF BRAT SUMMER

Originally posted on Artburstmiami.com | Written by Michelle F. Solomon

It may take one hundred days to fully realize all that’s happening on the Balcony Theatre stage at the Miracle Theater with Actors’ Playhouse’s season closer. And while the unusual musical theater concept “Hundred Days” may not be for everyone, it is an experience that should not be missed.

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ANTHONY NUNZIATA AND SUMMER SINGING WAITERS EVOKE NOSTALGIA OF DINNER SHOWS AT WICK THEATER SUPPER CLUB

This weekend, the Wick Theater Supper Club in Boca Raton will bring back memories when South Floridians flocked to have both dinner and musical theater or a singer perform at venues such as The Colony Hotel in West Palm Beach, the Jan McArt and Burt Reynolds Dinner Theaters in Palm Beach county, the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood and the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

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FLORIDA CULTURAL ARTS GROUPS NEED TO ALIGN WITH PRO SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND AWARENESS

One has to think that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is playing the part of the famed character Ebenezer Scrooge in playwright Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ as a Christmas in June production. DeSantis seems to be the real Scrooge. Last month, DeSantis vetoed $32 million that was earmarked for 577 Florida cultural arts not for profit organizations, leaving many of the companies that fuel our creativity and imagination with works of comedy, dance, drama, music, theater among other arts without expected government support.

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