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Florida Studio Theatre's Youth and Teen Performing Arts Workshops begin the week of September 28, 2009. The class schedule has something to offer everyone in the theatre spectrum. Interested youth and teens can experience behind-the-scene classes from the new additions of Theatre for Tots and Kids Komedy Cabaret to Musical Theatre and Teen Scene Study. All Classes are held on designated days. Scholarships are available.

In a move that will pair one of the nation's premier performing arts centers with one of the world's most recognized brands, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County announced that it has finalized a license agreement with Bacardi U.S.A., Inc. that will bring the company's BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® gin brand, the top-valued and fastest-growing premium gin in the world, to downtown Miami in the form of a BOMBAY SAPPHIRE-branded lounge.

Welcome to the Carney Hook Marina Motel, where three, desperate men are tempted to join the heist of a lifetime. It's summer, 1984, Eddie has a plan, and he needs a crew to pull it off. When these schemers and dreamers come up against three women with plans of their own, the course to a fortune is threatened by more than bad weather. The Lady Swims Today is a drama in the tradition of Key Largo and To Have And Have Not, with film noir shadows and flashes of comedy.

New Theatre kicks of its 2009-2010 Season with Shakespeare's comedy, The Taming of the Shrew adapted by Roberto Prestigiacomo. This classic battle-of-the-sexes romp is the tale of a shrewish woman and her strong-willed husband, both causing havoc on the conventions of courtship and marriage.

Playwright Richard Greenberg won a Tony Award for Best Play 2003 for Take Me Out. Take Me Out traveled from London to New York in the first co-production of the Donmar Warehouse and The Public Theater, and then transferred to Broadway. He is the author of over 25 plays including 8 South Coast Repertory World Premieres: The Violet Hour, Three Days of Rain (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Olivier, Drama Desk and Hull-Warriner nominations), and The Extra Man. He is a winner of the Oppenheimer Award and the first winner of the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career.

Set against the backdrop of the last day of the Civil War, a badly wounded Jewish confederate soldier returns to his Richmond estate and begs his now freed slaves to nurse him. In keeping with traditions of that time, the slaves are also Jewish, bringing into question conflicts of societal and religious acceptance. During the course of the play, secrets are revealed which will irrevocably alter all their lives. The final scene, set to the backdrop of the Passover Seder, will likely resonate with audiences long after the final bow.

This is Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration and, in many ways, their most innovative. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, a high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful backdrop against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love is seldom smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. But we're pulling for them every step of the way to succeed in making a new life together, and excited that they'll being doing it in 'a brand new state' - the triumphant OKLAHOMA!

The smash hit 'Fuerza Bruta' extends at the Arsht Center through August 2.

Revived to great acclaim on Broadway last season, this hilarious, acid-etched satire depicts Hollywood as a culture as corrupt as the society it claims to reflect. Two greedy studio executives are set to pitch a can't-lose deal to their boss when an unlikely obstacle, in the form of a seductive temp secretary, creates unexpected complications.

Miami's most influential arts patrons and philanthropists will gather this November for an overnight celebration titled Arts Odyssey: A Collaboration. Underwritten by The Yachts of Seabourn, this exclusive event will benefit the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and its three resident companies: New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy, Miami City Ballet and Florida Grand Opera.

The SANFORD AND DOLORES ZIFF CLASSICAL MUSIC SERIES will present four diverse works by the highly regarded Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Pinchas Zukerman, on December 16; a solo recital of audience favorites by four-time Emmy® Award and 15-time Grammy® Award-winning violinist Itzhak Perlman on January 12; the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of the internationally recognized American conductor Leonard Slatkin, on February 14; and outstanding pianist Lang Lang accompanied by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra, on March 29, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. The four-part series will take place entirely in one of the most acoustically superb concert halls in the world - the Center's John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.

In a world of Reality Television: American Idol, America's Got Talent, Intervention, America's Best Dance Crew, College Hill, and the Real World; Darryl Reuben Hall's REALITY CHECK brings together eight soulful strangers who've come together to live in THE HOUSE OF SONG for weeks as cameras follow their every step.

Mindy will help participants discover, through visualization, how to create that inner beauty and let it shine on the outside. Allowing oneself to acquire one's own personal style, self-esteem and honesty is essential in today's world.

STILL UNTITLED, a new play written by South Florida resident Matt May, based upon stories by Terrance Olear, will receive its world premiere production July 22 - 26, 2009 in Fort Lauderdale. Set backstage on the opening night of Tristan O'Brien's Broadway debut, the play chronicles his reflections on life, love, loss, and perseverance, while coping with the back-to-back deaths of his mother and brother.

Everybody adores Judy Garland. Rising Action Theatre has brought her back for a visit by popular demand. Rising Action Theatre presents Judy Garland Live!

A season ticket subscription is available that includes Smokey Joe's Café, Hamlet, Almost, Maine, Baby with the Bathwater, and Rent. Camelot: In Concert is available as a special add-on to the season subscription. Subscription prices for the five show season are: Weekdays and Matinees: $68 regular admission / $60 seniors. Friday and Saturdays: $80 regular admission/ $68 seniors. Camelot:In Concert reduced price tickets for season subscribers are Weekdays and Matinees: $18 regular admission/$16 seniors. Friday and Saturdays: $22 regular admission/$18 seniors.

Puerto Rican-born actress/poet Deborah Magdalena, a veteran performer of TV and film, including Sesame Street, Apollo Comedy Hour, Suns of Thunder, Striptease and For Love of Country, will be performing pieces from her New CD 'Deborah LIVE' and is launching a one-hour bilingual variety show Todo Urbano con Deborah Magdalena.

The producers of the Miami Improv Festival invited The Nuclear Family to perform as the weekend's headliner because of their wild and always crazy plots mixed with the incredible singing, dancing and acting talents of John Gregorio, Stephen Guarino, and Jimmy Ray Bennett. Executive Producer, David Christopher explains, 'It is a tremendous treat to have a group as funny and talented as The Nuclear Family here at the Miami Improv Festival. After their breakout performance at the Miami Improv Festival in 2003 we have eagerly been trying to get their great show back to South Florida. These guys are hysterical, and it won't be long before one, two or all three of them end up on a show like Saturday Night Live, so see them now here in Miami, while you can!'

Florida Studio Theatre announces the return of Adult Workshops. This July there is a unique opportunity to preview a selection of classes that will be offered this fall. These special workshops will take place July 25-26, 2009.