City Theatre, producer of the long-running and popular Summer Shorts festival of short plays, offers one full-length production in the Arsht Center’s Theater Up Close series: Carmen Rivera's “La Gringa,” Nov. 30 – Dec. 17, a poignant comedy about a young woman’s search for identity.
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The Delray Beach Playhouse opens its season with “She Loves Me,” Nov. 24 – Dec. 10, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s musical comedy about romance in a 1930s European perfumery, followed by “Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and the Shadow of her Smile,” Dec. 11 – 14, a one-woman show exploring the actresses on- and off-stage triumphs and challenges.
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables takes audiences on musical journeys – around the world, through time and even the heavens – with an interesting lineup of new and more recent musicals.
Zoetic Stage, the regional theater company in residence at the Arsht Center, and multiple Carbonell Award-winning artistic director Stuart Meltzer, has three premieres and a classic musical planned for Miami-Dade audiences:
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre in north Palm Beach County is offering audiences classics of every genre, starting with Agatha Christie’s quintessential whodunnit, “Murder on the Orient Express,” Oct. 29 – Nov. 12. All aboard the exotic and mysterious Orient Express as it departs with a train full of larger-than-life suspects, each one with a motive and an alibi. This clever adaptation boasts all the glamour, intrigue and suspense with a healthy dose of humor to quicken the pace.
Pigs Do Fly Productions at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale showcases mature actors and speak to the issues of older audiences.
Two plays written by two of Broadway’s greatest playwrights have recently opened, both dealing with AIDS. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” was seen as an allegory for the AIDS crisis when it debuted in 1987. Terrance McNally’s “Love! Valour! Compassion!”, which debuted on Broadway in 1994 deals with AIDS head-on as two of the characters battle the disease.
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