Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies

The Gable Stage Presents Time Stands Still Book by Donald Margulies May 5 – June ...

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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri

Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre presents Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Book by Richard Alfieri May 4 - May ...

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World Premiere of Home Exchange by Hy Conrad

Waterfront Playhouse Presents Home Exchange Book by Hy Conrad May 3 – May 26...

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13 by Dan Elish

The Main Street Players Presents13 Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Book by Dan Elish May 4 – May 20...

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Industry Night for LAST CALL by Terri Girvin Mon., April 30

First Step Productions at Empire Stage on Monay, April 30 will be having an industry night performance for their critically acclaimed production of LAST CALL.  A typical day in a bartender's life is full of snap judgments and snappy comebacks.  On this day her two worlds collide when the needy and quirky customers in this New York bar fight for her attention as she deals with a barrage of desperate phone calls from her self-medicating, about-to-be-homeless mother. Bill Hirschman (Florida Theatre On Stage)...

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The Past Week In Theatre History (April 23 - 27)

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: APRIL 23-27By David Gewirtzman and Anne Bradley and Ernio Hernandez   1564    Okay, no one's actually certain that April 23, 1564 was William Shakespeare's birthday, but that's the accepted date. Over the next 52 years, the Bard would pen such works as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Othello, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar. 1911     The Folies Bergere Theatre in New York hosts a triple-bill. Hell is described as...

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What’s The Expiration Date On That Arts Organization?

Butts In The Seats, the musings about practical solutions for arts management by Joe Patti , had an interesting post yesterday about building a theatre or an arts organization with an pre-determined life span. What’s The Expiration Date On That Arts Organization? A couple weeks ago Grant Makers in the Arts posted a piece by Rebecca Novick, Please Don’t Start A Theater Company. I had been thinking about the article for some time now when I saw a similar piece by David J. McGraw, The Epoch Model: An Arts Organization with an Expiration...

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Show reviews for the week of April 23, 2012

First Step Productions and Empire Stage presents the World Premiere of Last Call by Terri Girvin.  Directed by Michael Leeds and featuring: Terri Girvin.  Sound Design by Phil Pallazzolo and David Hart. Rod Stafford Hagwood reviewed the show for The Sun-Sentinel Terri Girvin's 'Last Call' is one hell of a cocktail The thing about a one-woman show, in this case the world premiere of "Last Call" at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale, is that it almost always comes off as indulgent. Thankfully, that is not the case with this...

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Current Productions for the week of April 23, 2012

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum by Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart At The Jerry Herman Ring Theatre Until April 28 Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.  Light and fast-paced, witty and irreverent!  It takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from Roman farces with...

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Taxes on Theatre Tickets???

This blog post from 2amTheatre about new taxes being imposed in California, one of them being on theatre tickets, should be a little wake up call for us to make sure it doesn't happen here. Taxes: I Dont Think It Means What You Think It Means I get it. Taxes are a necessary part of civic life. But what some of our civic officials don’t seem to always get is that taxes don’t always guarantee the revenue they’re hoping to make. Where is all this coming from? Well, as of Friday afternoon an urgent call went out to California theatre artists. URGENT:...

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Peter Rabbit and the Garden of Doom

Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Presents National Children's Theatre Festival Winner! Peter Rabbit and the Garden of Doom April 25 - May 26 A brand new children’s musical chosen from Actors’ Playhouse national call to competition, PETER RABBIT AND THE GARDEN OF DOOM is this year’s National Children's Theatre Festival Winner.  Peter Rabbit really loves vegetables, but when his sweet-toothed sisters Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail want only cakes and cookies, that’s all Mother Rabbit will serve.  Luckily he’s found...

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The Country Boy by John Murphy

The Irish Theatre of Florida presents The Country Boy by John Murphy April 27 -May...

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Death and Harry Houdini by Nathan Allen

The Adrienne Arsht Center Presents At the Ziff Ballet Opera HouseDeath and Harry Houdini Written and Directed by Nathan AllenMagic by Dennis Watkins April 26 – May ...

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Creativity...who has it? How can you get it?

Joe Patti at Butts In The Seats, a blog with his collected musings about practical solutions for arts management, talks about Creativity. We’ve Discovered Creativity! Creativity is getting A LOT of play lately. I have written on the subject at least six or seven times since the new year, including a discussion about the IBM study that found corporate executives value creativity over pretty much everything else. Thomas Cott features a cross section the subject in his You’ve Cott Mail today. There is the Creativity Post site which devotes...

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Never Say You Suck

Mercedes Rose on February 28 blogged about never saying you're sorry while on auditions at Unscripted: A Blog for Actors.   She now takes it one step further and lets us know something else never to say infront of others... Never Say You Suck The last few auditions I have been involved with (both as an actor and as a producer) have had one thing in common: a lot of negative self-talk from the actors.Very LOUD negative self-talk. An actor gets done with their audition and immediately announces to the room at large: "I can...

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Do You Suffer From PGDS

Brittany Baratz over at Unscripted: A Blog for Actors tells us what it feels like when a fabulous acting job ends and you don't have anything lined up afterwards. PGDS - Post-Gig Depression Syndrome I suffer from what I call PGDS, or Post-Gig Depression Syndrome. You know the drill; you've been working with a wonderful cast for several months, enjoying eight shows a week, and the comfort of feeling validated by your work. You're a working actor, hell yeah! Until the show ends and suddenly you are thrown into the pool of the...

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