City Theatre's 20th Annual SUMMER SHORTS Opens This Week at Adrienne Arsht Center

City Theatre and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County invite audiences to celebrate 20 years of the SUMMER SHORTS FESTIVAL from June 4 - June 28, 2015 at the Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House).

Tickets range from $35 to $45, and are now on sale to the general public. Evening performances will be held Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with afternoon matinees on Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets may be purchased through the Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online atwww.arshtcenter.org. Groups of ten or more call (786) 468-2326 or email groups@arshtcenter.org for special discounts.

The Carbonell Award-winning festival has become a nationally recognized event that puts audiences up close with a company of chameleon-like actors playing multiple characters in a series of nine short plays. SUMMER SHORTS: America's Short Play Festival has built its reputation on featuring the top short plays from the country's best playwrights, with a 2015 line-up that boasts four world premiere plays and five Southeastern premieres.

The 2015 SUMMER SHORTS FESTIVAL line-up includes:

Bedtime by Jane Martin, World Premiere

As they prepare for bed, a couple experiences the arc of a lifetime together before the lights go out.

Mrs. Evelyn Foxy & Her Low Orbit Anxiety by Steve Yockey, City Theatre Commission & World Premiere

Poor Mrs. Foxy has a terrible fear the sky is falling, and will do anything possible to keep anyone around her safe. Her daughter is impatient.

Risen From The Dough by France-Luce Benson, Southeastern Premiere

Maryse and Leonide, Haitian sisters who own a bakery, are confronted by the complicated realities of immigrant life in Miami as they await the arrival of the health inspector.

Cougar by Holli Harms, Southeastern Premiere

Kate nervously awaits a reunion with a past love, when Mark arrives instead with romance on his mind. Eleanor provides the hilarious play be play as Mark pursues his cougar.

Flare by Edith Freni, Southeastern Premiere

A neurotic and frightened woman sits next to a very calm pilot on a bumpy flight. She has issues, and he's patient. It goes into funny and unexpected sports territory

Let's Get Physical by Kelly Younger, World Premiere

Gerard's routine medical exam with Dr. Munt seems to be going well, until lovely Dr. Deveraux arrives and complicates the procedures.

Mandate by Kelly Younger, Southeastern Premiere

Forced into a guy's night out by their wives, a stay-at-home dad and a stay-in-his-cubicle accountant go on a disastrous 'first date' only to learn that friendship really is magic.

The Anthropology Section by Patricia Cotter, Southeastern Premiere

Marion experiences a new twist on the social experiment of gay marriage when she runs into Tessa in the anthropology section at the bookstore, and discovers her former girlfriend's gotten married!

Human Resources by R. Eric Thomas, World Premiere

After a company merger with a start-up a corporate drone starts to notion strange things about the new coworkers. They've got strange ways of doing things, they're excessively zany. They might be puppets. Like, actual puppets.

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