Lynn University Presents CLORIS LEACHMAN April 2 and 3April 3, 2011Making her first Florida appearance, the celebrated actress will take the audience on a hilarious and sometimes poignant journey through her spectacular career and life. An Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress (The Last Picture Show, 1971) and the only actor to ever win nine Emmy Awards, Cloris Leachman is now co-starring as the wacky grandmother Maw Maw in this season's funniest new TV series, Raising Helen on Fox. Her best selling autobiography, Cloris, is now available in paperback.
FST's Sarasota Festival Of New PlaysApril 2, 2011With the world premiere of Laughing Matters in the Goldstein Cabaret, FST officially embarks on the SARASOTA FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS. The festival is a dynamic event that gives continued life to the work of emerging playwrights, going beyond producing the world premiere. This year, FST produces the 20th annual festival. SARASOTA FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS attracted playwrights, actors, directors, and designers from around the country to produce the following components of the 2011 festival:
Lynn University Presents CLORIS LEACHMAN April 2 and 3April 2, 2011Making her first Florida appearance, the celebrated actress will take the audience on a hilarious and sometimes poignant journey through her spectacular career and life. An Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress (The Last Picture Show, 1971) and the only actor to ever win nine Emmy Awards, Cloris Leachman is now co-starring as the wacky grandmother Maw Maw in this season's funniest new TV series, Raising Helen on Fox. Her best selling autobiography, Cloris, is now available in paperback.
Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years: A Life In The TheatreApril 3, 2011This Miami-Dade premiere follows a critically acclaimed Palm Beach County engagement, and a sold-out run in Broward. Join South Florida favorite Avi Hoffman who has entertained millions through his top rated TV specials, Too Jewish? and Too Jewish, Too!, for this ALL NEW musical celebration.
WICKED LOTTERY - Musical Phenom Holds Day Of Performance Lottery At The Broward CenterApril 1, 2011Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
Kravis Center Presents Dazzling Performers And Productions In April, May And JuneApril 1, 2011Kravis Center to Offer a Nonstop Series of Dazzling Performers & Productions
During April, May & June 2011
Highlights Include the Beach Boys, Bill Maher,
Frankie Avalon, Fabian & Bobby Rydell,
Smokey Robinson, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Yanni, The Color Purple & 18th Annual Reach for the Stars
Laughing Matters Brings The Laughs With 'Unconditional Surrender'April 1, 2011Laughing Matters, the ultimate hit of the Goldstein Cabaret, is back and bigger than ever.
Laughing Matters: Unconditional Surrender will parody national and local topics. From the new city commission to the new roundabouts, there's always something happening in Sarasota that we can all collectively laugh at. The show will have preview performances on March 30 and 31, with opening night on Friday, April 1.
Musical Phenomenon WICKED Returns To The Broward Center March 31, 2011With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award-winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ('My So Called Life,' 'Once And Again' and 'thirtysomething'), WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Vagina Monologues) and features musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...).
New American Theater Continues Cabaret Series At BayWalkMarch 31, 2011New American Theater (NAT) has announced two new shows in their NAT Cabaret Series. Currently onstage is Songs For A New World, with performances thru April 10th. After that, two great cabaret series shows including the return of 'Elvis' and a tribute to Peggy Lee.
New Musical 'Alexander Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going To Move'March 31, 2011Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF continues its 2010-2011 Bright House Theater for Young Audiences Series with a musical adaptation of Judith Viorst's colorful children's book, Alexander Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move, playing at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center from March 31 - April 24, 2011.
Lynn University Presents CLORIS LEACHMAN April 2 and 3March 30, 2011Making her first Florida appearance, the celebrated actress will take the audience on a hilarious and sometimes poignant journey through her spectacular career and life. An Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress (The Last Picture Show, 1971) and the only actor to ever win nine Emmy Awards, Cloris Leachman is now co-starring as the wacky grandmother Maw Maw in this season's funniest new TV series, Raising Helen on Fox. Her best selling autobiography, Cloris, is now available in paperback.
Paul Rudnick's THE NEW CENTURY At The Waterfront PlayhouseMarch 29, 2011'The New Century' is a laugh-out loud collection of four one-act plays. As The New York Times raved, 'The one-liners fly like rockets in [this] rollicking play...Mr. Rudnick turns stereotypes into bullet-deflecting armor and jokes into an inexhaustible supply of ammunition.'
Tony Winner IN THE HEIGHTS Opens Tonight!March 29, 2011IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of
Miami-Dade County from March 29 - April 3. Tickets are on sale now and are available at the Adrienne Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online at www.arshtcenter.org.
Palm Beach Dramaworks Serves Up Sardi's At 11TH Anniversary GalaMarch 28, 2011More than 250 guests promenaded the red carpet at the Kravis Center's Cohen Pavilion on Saturday, March 19th for a superb dinner 'a la Sardi's' with dazzling entertainment - in celebration and support of West Palm Beach's longest residing theater company - Palm Beach Dramaworks.
Classic Noel Coward Comedy 'Blithe Spirit' Performed At Gulfshore PlayhouseMarch 28, 2011This funny and stylish comedy from Noel Coward, the author of Private Lives and Hay Fever, is the story of a cantankerous novelist, Charles Condomine, who is re-married but haunted - literally - by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. When a 'happy medium', one Madame Arcati, conjures up the specter of his former spouse, all the personalities, worldly and otherwise, clash with rib tickling results.
Florida Stage Announces Winners 11th Annual Young Playwrights FestivalMarch 28, 2011For the eleventh year in a row, Florida Stage is presenting its Annual Young Playwrights Festival, a celebration of the playwriting skills of school children from throughout Palm Beach County. This year, six winning plays representing the work of ten talented young people have been chosen from more than two hundred submissions. Winners will have their work presented as a staged reading by professional actors in the Festival's culminating public performance at Florida Stage. The Young Playwrights Festival performance will be held at Florida Stage on Monday, March 28, beginning at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. The event is open to the public.
Kathy Griffin - Emmy Winning Comic Phenom Plays The Arsht One Show Only March 28, 2011Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in partnership with AEG presents a very special addition to the 2010-2011 COMEDY PLANET SERIES. On March 28, 2010 at 8 p.m. KATHY GRIFFIN will present a racy, raucous, rambunctious evening of stand-up comedy in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.
Kathy Griffin - Emmy Winning Comic Phenom Plays The Arsht One Show Only 3/28March 28, 2011Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in partnership with AEG presents a very special addition to the 2010-2011 COMEDY PLANET SERIES. On March 28, 2010 at 8 p.m. KATHY GRIFFIN will present a racy, raucous, rambunctious evening of stand-up comedy in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.
Currently spending his time between New York and Florida, Beau was born to a theatrical family in Brooklyn. He studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and at HB Studios. He studied theater singing with Julia Sperratore and Helen Gallagher. Beau later taught drama at the Lincoln Center Square for the Arts. It was at this time Beau began working with the Theater Development Fund and helped found New York's famed HALF PRICE TICKET BOOTH. Early in his career, Beau was screen tested and contracted for Warner Brothers. He co-hosted, an early cable variety series on Manhattan's Teleprompter channel. At this time he directed the Johnny Specca musical, SEX IS..? at the Lincoln Center Library Theater. Beau has performed Off-Broadway in FAT FELL DOWN, The Comic Strip Theater's LITTLE LULU AND THE INVISIBLE INK and WILL THE REAL ZOOPERMAN PLEASE STAND UP. Around the country he has delighted audiences with his performances in ANYTHING GOES, THE APPLE TREE, GUYS & DOLLS, and HELLZAPOPPIN! He sang for New York audiences at such cabarets as The Duplex and Upstairs at the Downstairs. He has had numerous television appearances but is most proud to have been a winning contestant on the game shows JACKPOT and THE $20,000 PYRAMID.