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The competition continues another week in Sarasota due to popular demand! After a successful ten week run, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Music and lyrics by William Finn; Book by Rachel Sheinkin; Conceived by Rebecca Feldman; Additional material by Jay Reiss) will extend for an eleventh week at Florida Studio Theatre's Keating Theatre, January 26 to January 29, 2010.

A 'W-I-N-N-E-R' (Sarasota Magazine) with audiences and critics alike, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is a hilarious musical comedy of six young people in the throes of puberty and are overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves. Together they learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. The 2005 Tony Award-Winner for Best Book of a Musical, it played for over 1,000 performances on Broadway and continued to have success across the nation in both touring and regional performances. 'We are thrilled that Florida Studio Theatre's production speaks to Sarasota audiences as it has world-wide. A lovable and humorous insight to the trials and tribulations of growing up...it is the quintessential American story,' stated Artistic Director and Show Director Richard Hopkins.

The competition will continue well into the New Year at Florida Studio Theatre due to popular demand!

Florida Studio Theatre opens the Winter Mainstage Season with the Tony Award-Winning 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Florida Studio Theatre opens the Winter Mainstage Season with the Tony Award-Winning 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

The smash hit Off-Broadway musical,' Dames at Sea opens the Saint Michael's Playhouse summer 2009 season Tuesday, June 16, and runs through June 27, starring Broadway musical talent top to bottom. Tickets for the show are discounted 20% through the run of the show if bought as part of a four-play season subscription. Performances of 'Dames' are Tuesday, June 16 through Saturday, June 20, at 8 p.m. each evening and Saturday, June 20, and Saturday, June 27, at 2 p.m., on the stage of the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

Florida Studio Theatre Opens a new installment of Laughing Matters on March 24, 2009. Laughing Matters has consistently remained the biggest hit in the Goldstein Cabaret! Laughing Matters Too broke all Cabaret attendance records in 2007 and returns with great enthusiasm in 2009! Parodying both local and national current issues, audiences can not only relate but find an escape with laughter!

Florida Studio Theatre Opens a new installment of Laughing Matters on March 24, 2009. Laughing Matters has consistently remained the biggest hit in the Goldstein Cabaret! Laughing Matters Too broke all Cabaret attendance records in 2007 and returns with great enthusiasm in 2009! Parodying both local and national current issues, audiences can not only relate but find an escape with laughter!

Jerome Kern once stated, 'Irving Berlin has no place in American music-he is American music.' Florida Studio Theatre opens its Cabaret Winter Season with Steppin' Out, October 21st. The show will feature a jazz and modern day influence on Berlin favorites such as 'Puttin' On The Ritz,' 'Anything You Can do,' 'Cheek to Cheek' and 'Always.'

Florida Studio Theatre opens its Cabaret Winter Season with Steppin' Out, October 21st, featuring a jazz and modern day influence on Berlin favorites such as 'Puttin' On The Ritz,' 'Anything You Can do,' 'Cheek to Cheek' and 'Always.'

Florida Studio Theatre opens its Cabaret Winter Season with Steppin' Out, October 21st, featuring a jazz and modern day influence on Berlin favorites such as 'Puttin' On The Ritz,' 'Anything You Can do,' 'Cheek to Cheek' and 'Always.'

The Red Light District production of Ascension by Edmund De Santis, playing Off-Broadway at The Lion Theatre, will close this Sunday, November 19th

A second extension has been made for the Red Light District production of Ascension, by Edmund De Santis, which plays Off Broadway at The Lion Theatre

Ascension by Edmund De Santis, opened at Off-Broadway's The Lion Theatre on October 11th; it plays a limited engagement through November 12th

An extension has been made for the Red Light District production of Ascension, by Edmund De Santis, which plays Off Broadway at The Lion Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street.

Red Light District will present the world premiere of Ascension by Edmund De Santis at Off-Broadway's The Lion Theatre

Red Light District will present the world premiere of Ascension by Edmund De Santis at Off-Broadway's The Lion Theatre

Red Light District will present the world premiere of Ascension by Edmund De Santis at Off-Broadway's The Lion Theatre