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LIBERTY CITY will make its Miami premiere on the crest of its New York success where Thompson was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. Variety, the 'bible' of show business, welcomed LIBERTY CITY as an 'exceptional performance with scorching insight on how history both frees and chains us at the same time.'

Alone Together tells the story of George and Helene Butler, and it unfolds hilariously as they send their third and final son off to college. Now that they're alone, they'll finally be able to live their dreams? Take up painting, exotic vacations or maybe even make love by the fire. But those plans are quickly interrupted as not one, but all three of their sons come home unannounced.

On a Marine Corps base in North Carolina in 1971, two officers-one black and one white-are on a collision course over race, women and the high cost of doing the right thing. This riveting new work by the author of the Tony Award-winning Doubt is about power, love and responsibility-who has it, who wants it and who deserves it.

Written by one of the most exciting young playwrights today, Roberto Aguire Sacasa saw five of his new plays produced between 2006 through 2008 at major U.S. Theatres : Based on a Totally True Story, at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Good Boys and True (at Second Stage), The Velvet Sky at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, King of Sorrows (Working Theatre) at and Dark Matters at the Rattlestick Theatre. He is the author The Muckle Man, which earned two Helen Hayes Award nominations, including The Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Additionally, Roberto proudly writes The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man for Marvel Comics and is developing Dark Matters into a horror screenplay for Warner Brothers.

The original production of A CHORUS LINE opened at the Public Theater's Newman Theatre on May 21, 1975 and transferred to Broadway's Shubert Theatre on July 25th, where it officially opened on Broadway on October 19th of that year. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Direction, Choreography, Actress, Supporting Actress, Score and Book, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It ran for nearly 15 years, closing on April 28, 1990 after 6,137 performances.

'The Weir' premiered in London in 1997. After a successful run in the West End, it opened at The Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway to critical acclaim.

Broadway's Davis Gaines takes the starring role as the demon barber of Fleet Street along with Tony Award winner Faith Prince as the diabolical Mrs. Lovett. The two have worked together before on several projects including Guys and Dolls in Seattle and In Living Color in New York and Orlando.

Arts at St. Johns will explore, through a selection of songs, how the format of the Broadway musical originated in New York City in the late 1800's, through a collaboration of talented theater actors, vaudeville performers and burlesque dancers, led by the lavish producer Florenz Ziegfeld. The first popular shows, written by great American composers such as the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern, were campy, fun, and poetic, with various plots, songs, flashy costumes and, at times, risque subject matter.

Though the characters don't share scenes, they do share a coherent civilization where homelessness, guilt and an addictive desire to feel 'wonderful' (a state attained with drugs, power, money or sex) are ubiquitous. Beware - they may shake your cages. Like the paranoia in a Hitchcock movie, it's a little too close for comfort - no one is allowed a safe distance.

This New York International Fringe Festival hit was written by Garet Scott and directed by Kevin Thomsen (MTV's Spy Groove, HBO's Quality of Mercy.) It stars David R. Gordon (Making Porn) as John, and Mark Finley as Susan/Sharon, leading the New York cast. Original score is by Emmy-Award-winning composer John Bauers.

Fresh from its Off-Broadway debut last season, 'At Home At the Zoo,' delves deeper into his acclaimed play The Zoo Story by adding a first-act, Homelife. In this work, featuring Todd Allen Durkin, Margery Lowe, and Christopher Swan, primal magnetism and exploration is taken to a new level as Peter makes that fateful journey where he meets Jerry in Central Park.

Missing Glass Slipper in the River District. Florida Repertory Theatre announced the January 31st opening of Cinderella Confidential in its popular Lunchbox Theatre Series.

The Waterfront Playhouse presents 'Doubt, A Parable' by John Patrick Shanley. 'Doubt' is the most highly honored play in the last decade having been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, as well as 24 major theater awards.

'Vanities' begins in the early 1960's - Joanne, Kathy and Mary are vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later, in their college sorority house, they confront their futures with nervous jauntiness. When they reunite briefly in New York in 1974, their lives have diverged and old-time banter rings false. This snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three small town Texas

The Ring Theatre presents the family musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Based on the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles M. Schulz, the musical invites audiences of all ages to join the beloved Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Schroeder, Linus, and Sally as they encounter the wonders of childhood. From Charlie Brown's disappointments on Valentine's Day to Snoopy's flying ace doing battle with the nefarious Red Baron, everyone's favorite Peanuts' moments are brought to life in this lighthearted performance

Tony Award Nominated actor Alan Campbell will star as Father Flynn, the priest whose actions are being called into question. Campbell received his nomination for originating the role of Joe Gillis, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Sunset Boulevard' opposite Glenn Close, Betty Buckley and Elaine Paige. Naples audiences will remember Alan from his star turn in Gulfshore Playhouse's production of 'Oleanna' by David Mamet.

As composer, Hamlisch has won virtually every major entertainment award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards; his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, received the Pulitzer Prize. He is the composer of more than forty motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, for which he received a third Oscar.

Fort Myers'own Florida Repertory Theatre was featured in the January 16th edition of the Wall Street Journal in a review of its current production, Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Revealed was the news that Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump who has stepped out as a major designer of high-style jewelry, will serve as Honorary Chairperson.

The concert will feature Epple on a number of different flutes - flutes from around the world, including Celtic, Native American, African, Suling, and bass flute. Epple will be joined by special guest musicians and performers, including Chuck Grinnell on keyboard, DL Turner on the harp, Darrell Nutt on percussion, Shirley Lorene on guitar and vocals, Pond Water Experiment, Ray Nesbit, Lawrence Voytek, Nicole Long and a few other surprise guest performers.