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Orlando arts center's Broadway deal makes everyone a winner
After a month of handwringing, public appeals and lines in the sand, a deal was struck on the future of Broadway touring shows in Orlando. The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts will co-present touring shows with the Florida Theatrical...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Orlando, The Lion King (movie), Wicked (musical), Tourism and Leisure
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Famed authors behind the plays onstage in Orlando
Central Florida's theaters will be bursting with famous names during February — but they're names from the page, not on the stage. Plays presented around the region will boast some of the most famed names in literature, from ancient Greek writer...
Tags: Seminole State College, Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Winter Park, Winter Garden, Nobel Prize Awards
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Mad Cow Theatre extends 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor'
Mad Cow Theatre has added a week of performances to its current production of Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor." The show will now play through Feb. 24. Set in 1953, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" provides a behind-the-scenes peek at a...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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Seminole State opens August Wilson's 'King Hedley II'
Where do the years go? Seminole State College is up to its eighth installment of August Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle" of plays. Wilson, the noted African-American playwright who died in 2005 wrote 10 plays set in Pittsburgh. Each takes place in a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Seminole State College, Zora Neale Hurston
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Highs, lows — and a graceful exit
It's my final column of the year and, for that matter, the new millennium — not to mention of all time. Unless it isn't. I'm so confused. Anyhow, let's look at the highs and lows of 2012 — not that you have much choice if you're going to...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (movie), John Carter (movie), The Avengers (movie, 2012), CBS Corp., To Kill a Mockingbird (movie)
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Audition notice: 'Dreamgirls' at Mad Cow Theatre
Here's an audition notice for "Dreamgirls" at Mad Cow Theatre: Mad Cow Theatre announces auditions for Dreamgirls MAD COW THEATRE is holding auditions for its upcoming production of Dreamgirls with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom...Tags: Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Entertainment, Customs and Tradition, Music
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Mad Cow Theatre opens 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor'
Mad Cow Theatre's next production is the comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical take on his work on Sid Caesar's classic television program "Your Show of Shows." Set in 1953, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" provides a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Television Industry, Entertainment, Sid Caesar
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Rob Winn Anderson wins new-play award
Orlando resident Rob Winn Anderson has won the 2012 Christopher Brian Wolk Award from New York's Abingdon Theatre Company for "The Tenth Son." Anderson will be presented with his award, which comes with $1,000, on Monday, Dec. 10, in New York City....
Tags: New York City, Eugene O'Neill, Winter Park, Irving Berlin, Busch Gardens Orlando
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Theater review: 'The Road to Mecca' from Mad Cow Theatre
There's a point in "The Road to Mecca" when the central character is described as brighter than the myriad candles that surround her. That's also the case with Mad Cow Theatre's production of Athol Fugard's play, the first to be staged in its new Black...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Nursing, Medical Specialization, Africa
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Theater review: 'The Farndale Avenue... Christmas Carol'
Christmas is a time for nostalgia — and good will — so maybe we should cut the Orlando Shakespeare Theater's current holiday comedy some slack. After all, it's full of old jokes, old visual gags and old comedy set-ups. Even the premise...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Charles Dickens, Religious Festivals, Celebrities, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character)
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Movie awards, TV spoilers, local theater
Well, it'll be a while before we get to see the film that was voted best picture of 2012 by the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday: Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which deals with the hunt for O. bin Laden. It doesn't open in wide circulation...
Tags: Winter's Bone (movie), Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernie (movie), John Goodman, Government
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Theater review: 'A Christmas Survival Guide' from Garden Theatre
With a merry ho-ho-ho at the Garden Theatre comes "A Christmas Survival Guide," bubbling over with cheer and goodwill. The holiday revue, by James Hindman and Ray Roderick, is produced by the Garden Theatre, which has several large-scale community-...
Tags: Theater, Christmas, Holidays, Santa Claus (fictional character), Winter Garden
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