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Orlando Shakespeare recently announced its 25th anniversary season with promises that it will be the best and largest season yet. Over the past 25 years, Orlando Shakespeare debuted 17 world premieres and produced about 130 productions since 1989. PJ Albert is Orlando Shakespeare's Managing Director, and he took some time to discuss the process of developing such a comprehensive season.

Anyone who has ever wanted to run away from their daily life will connect with ENCHANTED APRIL. Based on a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, it is the story of four English women living during the 1920s, hoping to escape from dreary London for a holiday in Italy.

The suicide of a University of Central Florida student, which made national headlines this week, makes this University's production of SPRING AWAKENING eerily timed, but a necessary discussion. Meant to provoke discussion about taboos like sex, abortion, homosexuality, child abuse, and suicide, the show is edgy and modern.

What can only be described as brilliant direction and a completely dedicated group of actors, this dramatic love story hits on more than just the relationship between a guy and a girl. CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD is deeply moving and thought provoking.

The story is familiar, Jesus lives, does some supernatural stuff, changes the world, and dies. The real Jesus would never guessed that his story would mesh with "Ain't nobody got no time fo' dat" lady or a singing goat, but it happened and it was awesome.

THE ODYSSEY is not just a very long journey home for a guy, but when looked at as a whole it is an epic adventure. As part of Orlando Shakespeare's Studio Series, actor and writer, Charlie Bethel tells this harrowing story.

Acclaimed solo-performer and amazing storyteller, Charlie Bethel currently performing in Orlando Shakespeare's THE ODYSSEY, sits down to answer some of BroadwayWorld.com questions. Bethel is an actor and writer from Minneapolis, MN, who finds inspiration from the everyday life we all live.

The best way to describe THE D WORD - A MUSICAL is like a Joan Rivers talk show set to a mixed tape. This show has the compilation of various song aspect to tell the story of four women who go through being "Ditched, Dumped, Divorced, and Dating". A far cry from a sad story, the sex talk, relationship therapy, and middle-age women problems had the audience rolling in their seats.

Sarah Ruhl's adaptation translates EURYDICE into a contemporary and easier to swallow version of the original myth.

The kids will delight with the crazy antics of the Cat who run Sally and Boy amok while mother is out. Young and young-at-heart audience members were rolling in their seats as the Cat's and his crazy sidekicks, Thing 1 and Thing 2, wreck the house.

Set in a time when ladies were expected to marry rich and keep their emotions in check, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is a classic story of love and love loss perfect for ladies night.

Local Orlando actors enter basic training in BILOXI BLUES. Neil Simon's BILOXI BLUES is a coming of age story told through the perspective of Eugene Jerome and his interactions with his fellow army recruits.

A review of Orlando's Theatre Downtown cabaret benefiting local stage manager, Carla Young.