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Boeing-Boeing, the uproarious jet-propelled comedy that had audiences and critics cheering in London and on Broadway in a 2008 Tony-winning production,is coming in for a landing on the TPT stage.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County presents four-time Tony Award nominee and Miami native Raúl Esparza in a much anticipated solo performance. As part of the 2011-12 Knight Masterworks Season Pop Series, Esparza returns to the Adrienne Arsht Center on February 11, 2012 at 8 p.m. in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.

With a mix of handsome tenors and stunning divas, Bravo Amici performs an uplifting collection of well-known classical and contemporary songs and arias. London's Daily Star raves, 'The next big thing is singing sensation Bravo Amici. They have already seduced audiences with their stunning looks and gorgeous sounds."

JERSEY BOYS is the winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award®, the 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Show Album, the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the 2010 Helpmann Award for Best Musical (Australia).

Adapted from Joan Didion's best-selling memoir and starring Florida Rep regular, Sara Morsey, The Year of Magical Thinking, plays in Florida Rep's intimate 90-seat Studio Theatre Jan. 11 to Feb. 4.

The young performers in Entr'Acte Theatrix' upcoming production of Godspell are hard at work preparing for their January 12th opening night at the Borland Center, but no one is complaining! In fact, the actors and the production crew are all having a blast. 'This show has made me remember how important it is to have fun not just in work, but in life,' enthuses Juan Gonzalez Machain, who plays Jesus in the show.

Florida Repertory Theatre announced the opening of God of Carnage, 2009's Tony-winning BEST PLAY and one of the hottest new plays in America right now. Playing Jan. 6-22 with discounted previews Jan. 3, 4, and 5, God of Carnage is a comedy of BAD manners where two sets of Brooklyn parents attempt to have a civilized discussion about their children's playground scuffle.

"We are about to launch our most exciting rep season yet with the celebratory American play about the beginning of show business as we understand it in America, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, followed by one of the hottest Tony Award® winning plays of the last few seasons, GOD OF CARNAGE. Also, with this brand new interpretation of a relatively unknown classic in YENTL with new music by Jill Sobule, it promises to be one of the most exciting things we do in this season," said Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards.

Kravis Center Kicks Off 2012 with a Month-Long Line-Up of Superior Entertainment + Comedy by Jackie Mason & Dennis Miller + Hit Shows Like ELVIS LIVES, HAIR & Neil Berg's 103 YEARS OF BROADWAY + World Premiere of DIVORCE PARTY: THE MUSICAL + Classic Music from Joshua Bell & Hye-Jin Kim, Cleveland Orchestra & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra + Pop Hits by B.B. King, The Lennon Sisters & The Nylons + High Kicks from The State Ballet Theatre of Russia + Magical Memories with Larry King & More 'Celebrating 20 Years of Artistic Excellence and Commitment to the Community'

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts announced a cast change in the upcoming production of FOREVER TANGO. Dancer Anna Trebunskaya, a regular on the popular TV series Dancing With the Stars, is replacing the previously announced Cheryl Burke. The Tony® nominated hit and recurring National PBS special will be presented at 8 p.m. on Sunday, February 12, in the Kravis Center's Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall.

Award Season has begun at BroadwayWorld. This year, Florida has its own awards! We are waiting for You. Voting for the 2011 BWW FLORIDA Awards is now open.

Kravis Center Celebrates the Holidays with a Month-Long Line-Up of Knock-Out Super Shows Laughs from Wanda Sykes & Second City Improv All Stars Music from the Emerson String Quartet & Matisyahu Moscow Classic Ballet's The Nutcracker BLAST, CELTIC WOMAN, MY FAIR LADY, Masters of Illusion Live & More!

The international smash hit musical, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is set on December 4, 1956, when an auspicious twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together. Sam Phillips, the "Father of Rock 'n' Roll" who was responsible for launching the careers of each icon, brought the four legendary musicians together at the Sun Records storefront studio in Memphis for the first and only time. The resulting evening became known as one of the greatest rock 'n' roll jam sessions in history.

For Mad Cat Theatre Company's 12th season (that's right 12th), Miami's very own original gangbusters fighting for your right to see new work with a healthy dose of why not attitude theatre company, will be back at The Light Box at the Goldman Warehouse located at 404 NW 26TH Street with an inventive new play Macbeth and the Monster by Angela Berliner which has previously only been seen at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles.

Returning to The Colony's world famous Royal Room for her third engagement and second New Year's Eve celebration is Mary Wilson, a true musical legend. It was a vision of musical stardom as a Detroit teen that inspired her to co-found one of the most successful female singing groups in recording history - The Supremes.

TheatreZone artistic director Mark Danni rings in the New Year 2012 directing Company, legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's musical masterwork about New York marriages. In scene after scene, the audience is introduced to 'those good and crazy people,' lead character Robert's married friends, as he weighs the pros and cons of married life.

The New York Times calls this Les Miserables "an unquestionably spectacular production from start to finish." The London Times hails the new show "a five star hit, astonishingly powerful and as good as the original." The Star-Ledger says 'a dynamically re-imagined hit. This Les Miserables has improved with age" and NY1-TV proclaims "this new production actually exceeds the original. The storytelling is clearer, the perspective grittier and the motivations more honest. Musical theatre fans can rejoice: Les Miz is born again."

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) continues its 2011-2012 Signature Series with A Tuna Christmas, playing November 30 - December 30, 2011 at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, the outrageously funny and much loved characters of Tuna, Texas are back just in time for the holiday season.

Jackie is just out of jail and trying to stay clean and sober. He turns to his AA sponsor when he suspects his longtime girlfriend, who is still into drugs, of cheating on him. What proof does he have? A man's hat has been left on the nightstand. This Broadway hit, a fast and furious study of lives in collision, is a bruising and very funny dance of love, betrayal and indecision.

Directed by Michael Garces, NE 2ND AVENUE depicts the lives of eight distinct characters: a Puerto Rican small-time drug dealer, a deprived African-American young lady, a Haitian jitney driver, a Cuban-Jewish grandfather, a Rasta Man, an African-American adolescent trying to find his footing in life, a Cuban rafter and a gay man, who each take the audience on a memorable journey through the intense streets of Miami. Through its characters, NE 2ND AVENUE brings voice to Miami's marginalized urban populations, exploring underlying issues of racism and social injustice, acknowledging the differences among us and ultimately discovering the common threads that bind us together.