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Mad Cow Theatre Announces MY FAVORITE THINGS: The Holidays Go Broadway!


by Stephi Wild - December 16, 2021

Mad Cow Theatre has announced a special edition of a beloved holiday cabaret tradition—My Favorite Things: The Holidays Go Broadway! ...

Sondheim Cabaret Tribute Announced At Winter Park Playhouse


by A.A. Cristi - December 15, 2021

Russell Stephens will debut his new solo cabaret - Everybody Says Don't: The Music and Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim - at The Winter Park Playhouse on January 26 and 27, 2022 as part of the theatre's popular Spotlight Cabaret Series.  Playhouse Musical Director Christopher Leavy will accompany on piano...

Mad Cow Theatre's Lease Terminated by the City of Orlando Due to Outstanding Debt


by Stephi Wild - November 04, 2021

Mad Cow Theatre has been served Termination of Lease paperwork due to an outstanding debt owed to the City of Orlando. The company has been told to leave the property, effective immediately....

Mad Cow Theatre Presents PIPPIN


by A.A. Cristi - October 29, 2021

Mad Cow Theatre has announced the third production of its 24th season, the high-energy, award-winning musical Pippin to be performed at Mad Cow's Harriett Theatre on December 1 through 19. ...

Mad Cow Theatre Will Perform THE ROYALE Next Month


by Stephi Wild - October 26, 2021

Mad Cow Theatre has announced the second production of its 24th season, Marco Ramirez's searing drama The Royale, to be performed at Mad Cow's Zehngebot-Stonerock Black Box Theatre on November 17 through December 5, 2021. ...

Mad Cow Theatre Announces New Artistic Director


by Stephi Wild - September 25, 2021

Mad Cow Theatre has announced that Dr. Julius John has joined as Artistic Director.   Mad Cow Theatre is a twenty-three-year-old theatre company started in 1997, with a hallmark of producing plays from all parts of the theatre canon.    ...

Opera Orlando Announces Expansion of Staff and Infrastructure


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 02, 2021

As Opera Orlando prepares for its sixth full season and its move into Steinmetz Hall, the Company has expanded and reorganized its staff and infrastructure to continue its growth as an organization....

Mad Cow Theatre Announces Women's Voices Festival Playwright Finalists


by Stephi Wild - July 31, 2021

In March, Mad Cow put out a call for submissions from female-identifying playwrights for their chance to participate in the festival. The theatre received over 300 submissions and a diverse panel of nineteen readers narrowed the submissions down to three....

THE BLUEST EYE to be Presented by Mad Cow Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 17, 2021

Celebrate the legacy of Toni Morrison's acclaimed novel The Bluest Eye. Brought to life as a tremendously moving theatrical event by Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly, Smart People,) The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola, a young Black girl who believes everything in her world would be made wonderful i...

BWW Review: Get Up and Go to Encore Performing Arts' HEAD OVER HEELS at Orlando Shakes' Margeson Theater


by Albert Gutierrez - June 12, 2021

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, yet that is exactly what the intrepid team behind HEAD OVER HEELS sought to do. The 2018 musical retells Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia by way of Shakespearean line delivery and the music of The Go-Go's....

Past Shows

Hurricane Diane
7/6 - 7/24/2022


Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the ...

Indecent
6/22 - 7/10/2022


INDECENT, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is a deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem ...

The Royale
The Royale
11/17 - 12/5/2021


The Royale | The Zehngebot-Stonerock TheatreBy Marco RamirezNov 17 Dec 5, 2021A knockout award-winning new play. Told in a boxing ring over six rounds, The ...

A Year with Frog and Toad
A Year with Frog and Toad
10/15 - 10/24/2021


Waking from hibernation in the Spring, Frog and Toad plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, go sledding and learn life lessons along the way. The two ...

Goldfish Have No Memory


When Erics twin sister Ava disappears from his life, he uses his skills in robotics to create a replica based on the data she has ...

In Defense of Ourselves


In Defense of Ourselves occurs across three crucial time periods for Black America. Mary Church Terrell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett prepare for the Women's Suffrage ...

Asphodels
Asphodels
8/27


Gwen and Toby are happily married and after several miscarriages, are finally expecting their "rainbow baby". When Gwens twin brother moves in after a nasty ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles


NOW EXTENDED AUGUST 5th - 15th! Mad Cow Theatre makes its triumphant return to the Harriett stage with the side-splitting comedy, The Hound of the ...


Mad Cow Theatre and producer Hunter Arnold unofficially kicked off the holiday season early today, announcing that a special filmed version of Charles Dickens' beloved ...

The Amish Project
The Amish Project
8/11 - 9/10/2017


Playwright Jessica Dickey delves into a hidden culture in this fictionalized version of the infamous Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting of October 2006. Described by The ...

Fences
Fences
8/4 - 8/27/2017


Troy, a middle-aged garbage man, struggles to keep his family afloat and his dignity intact, while battling crippling disappointment over his stolen ambition to be ...

Skylight
Skylight
6/16 - 7/9/2017


Skylight frames the reeling aftermath of an extramarital May-December romance and its subsequent ripples, affecting everyone it touched. David Hare's brilliance is evident, as the ...

Animal Crackers
Animal Crackers
6/2 - 7/2/2017


A nostalgic, outrageous, rollicking, laugh-out-loud Marx Brothers musical comedy. Lunacy ensues, dignities are compromised, and romance reigns in a nonstop “profusion of puns, gags, and ...

Three Sisters
Three Sisters
3/24 - 4/16/2017


“To Moscow! To Moscow!” Nostalgic yearning for lively yesteryears preoccupy the Prezorov sisters—Masha, Irina, and Olga—as time marches on in their provincial 19th century rural ...

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
1/20 - 2/19/2017


Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play written by Steve Martin in 1993. It features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who ...

Buyer & Cellar
Buyer & Cellar
8/12 - 9/11/2016


THE STORY: Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a ...

The Big Meal
The Big Meal
8/5 - 8/28/2016


Typescript, dated 4/12/12. Unmarked script was used for a Playwrights Horizons presentation at the Peter Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y., which ...

The Brothers Size
The Brothers Size
6/10 - 7/10/2016


THE STORY: In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, ...

Avenue Q
Avenue Q
6/3 - 7/3/2016


Avenue Q is an American musical in two acts, conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who together, wrote the music and lyrics. The book ...

Long Day's Journey into Night


Long Day's Journey Into Night is a drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941–42 but first published in 1956. The ...

Painting Churches
Painting Churches
2/19 - 3/20/2016


Is it possible to capture a lifelong love story in a single image? To render the nuances of ephemeral memory with brushstrokes? In Tina Howe’s ...

Ain't Misbehavin
Ain't Misbehavin
6/5 - 7/12/2015


A musical revue with music by Thomas “Fats” Waller conceived by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby 1978 Drama Desk & Tony Award Winner for Best ...

The Letters
The Letters
8/22 - 9/21/2014


When Anna is called in for a meeting with her superior, everything seems to be going well. But nothing is quite as it seems in ...

The Light in the Piazza
The Light in the Piazza
12/6 - 12/29/2013


THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring the ...


Over 30 performances of jazz, pop, Broadway, comedy, and a few surprises featuring many of Central Florida's favorite cabaret singers, along with artists from the ...

Billy Bishop Goes to War
Billy Bishop Goes to War
8/3 - 8/26/2012


An unlikely hero and the worst student in the Royal Military College, Billy Bishop went on to become the most decorated officer of the Royal ...

Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men
8/3 - 8/26/2012


The stakes are high in this thrilling courtroom drama where a jury of twelve men are deciding the fate of a teenager accused of murdering ...

Next to Normal
Next to Normal
6/8 - 7/8/2012


One family is about to face the music. Next to Normal is an emotional powerhouse of a musical about a family trying to take care ...

The Pitmen Painters
The Pitmen Painters
6/15 - 7/8/2012


Heralded in London and on Broadway, this new play by the Tony Award-winning writer of Billy Elliotis based on a triumphant true story. A group ...

The 10th Annual Orlando Cabaret Festival


Mad Cow Theatre’s brand new 2-theatre complex in Downtown Orlando plays host to The Tenth Annual Orlando Cabaret Festival, April 27 - May 13, 2012. ...

Private Lives
Private Lives
3/30 - 4/29/2012


Passion, anger, love, laughter and romance all shaped by Noël Coward’s wit and comic genius sets the stage for perpetually dueling lovers Amanda and Elyot. ...

Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
2/24 - 3/25/2012


One of Ibsen’s most compelling and conflicted characters, Hedda Gabler is trapped in a marriage that she desperately wants to escape. Imperious yet isolated, Hedda ...

Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa
2/3 - 3/4/2012


This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five brave, Glenties ...

Legacy of Light
Legacy of Light
7/29 - 8/28/2011


During the Age of Enlightenment, as Sir Isaac Newton was watching apples fall, another brilliant physicist, Emilie du Châtelet finds herself with child. At 42, ...

The Understudy
The Understudy
8/5 - 8/28/2011


When a Hollywood action star who is trying to prove himself in a serious Broadway play comes up against a new understudy with a chip ...

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