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Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF continues its 2010-2011 Bright House Theater for Young Audiences Series with a musical adaptation of Judith Viorst's colorful children's book, Alexander Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move, playing at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center from March 31 - April 24, 2011.

Making her first Florida appearance, the celebrated actress will take the audience on a hilarious and sometimes poignant journey through her spectacular career and life. An Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress (The Last Picture Show, 1971) and the only actor to ever win nine Emmy Awards, Cloris Leachman is now co-starring as the wacky grandmother Maw Maw in this season's funniest new TV series, Raising Helen on Fox. Her best selling autobiography, Cloris, is now available in paperback.

'The New Century' is a laugh-out loud collection of four one-act plays. As The New York Times raved, 'The one-liners fly like rockets in [this] rollicking play...Mr. Rudnick turns stereotypes into bullet-deflecting armor and jokes into an inexhaustible supply of ammunition.'

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from March 29 - April 3. Tickets are on sale now and are available at the Adrienne Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online at www.arshtcenter.org.

More than 250 guests promenaded the red carpet at the Kravis Center's Cohen Pavilion on Saturday, March 19th for a superb dinner 'a la Sardi's' with dazzling entertainment - in celebration and support of West Palm Beach's longest residing theater company - Palm Beach Dramaworks.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is once again partnering with producer James Drayton to present the annual African-American Film Festival at 7 p.m. on three successive Tuesday evenings, March 29, April 5, 12. The theme for the 2011 African-American Film Festival is Films That You May Rather Forget.

This funny and stylish comedy from Noel Coward, the author of Private Lives and Hay Fever, is the story of a cantankerous novelist, Charles Condomine, who is re-married but haunted - literally - by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. When a 'happy medium', one Madame Arcati, conjures up the specter of his former spouse, all the personalities, worldly and otherwise, clash with rib tickling results.

For the eleventh year in a row, Florida Stage is presenting its Annual Young Playwrights Festival, a celebration of the playwriting skills of school children from throughout Palm Beach County. This year, six winning plays representing the work of ten talented young people have been chosen from more than two hundred submissions. Winners will have their work presented as a staged reading by professional actors in the Festival's culminating public performance at Florida Stage. The Young Playwrights Festival performance will be held at Florida Stage on Monday, March 28, beginning at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. The event is open to the public.

Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in partnership with AEG presents a very special addition to the 2010-2011 COMEDY PLANET SERIES. On March 28, 2010 at 8 p.m. KATHY GRIFFIN will present a racy, raucous, rambunctious evening of stand-up comedy in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.

Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in partnership with AEG presents a very special addition to the 2010-2011 COMEDY PLANET SERIES. On March 28, 2010 at 8 p.m. KATHY GRIFFIN will present a racy, raucous, rambunctious evening of stand-up comedy in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.

South Florida theater goers are in for a parade of solid hits direct from Broadway and South Florida premieres with the announcement that the current smash hit, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, opens the all musical Broadway in Miami 2011 - 2012 season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Scheduled as a lead-up to Halloween, from October 25 - 30, THE ADDAMS FAMILY will be followed by SHREK THE MUSICAL, a pre-holiday show that is great fun for ogres and ogresses of all ages, December 6 - 11; MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, introduces families to one of the greatest moments in rock ‘n' roll history, set to bring in the New Year, December 27 - January 1; and Twyla Tharps's loving ode to Frank Sinatra, COME FLY AWAY, locked in as the spring entry, March 20 - 25. For the first time in Miami, Disney's THE LION KING, the recordbreaking musical set in the African pride lands, will play May 15 - June 10 as the season's stunning finale.

Florida Repertory Theatre announced the opening of August: Osage County, a play the New York Times called 'fiercely funny' and 'turbo-charged.' This Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning tragicomedy is a fast-paced, brutally honest look at an American family in crisis, and unfolds on the stage like a like a juicy TV drama. It will both stun audiences and leave them begging for more.

Continuing its recent trend of ‘first in the region to produce', Caldwell Theatre Company is set to launch the Pulitzer Prize Nominated and Tony Nominated smash hit, Next Fall, by Geoffrey Nauffts, which dives headfirst into the world of religion, families and honesty to oneself.

'This is the perfect play to follow August: Osage County, where the family was totally dysfunctional and devoid of love. In King O' the Moon the family is also dysfunctional, but they love each other and want one another to be happy,' said Producing Artistic Director and the play's director, Robert Cacioppo. 'This is a really heartwarming play about a family in transition, and though it is a sequel, it definitely stands on its own.'

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from March 29 - April 3. Tickets are on sale now and are available at the Adrienne Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online at www.arshtcenter.org.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' at the Waterfront Playhouse is receiving rave reviews, sell-out houses and standing ovations. Constance Gilbert in her rave review in Solares Hill says 'Scoundrels is purely fresh, hilarious fun...manic magic...The Waterfront Playhouse has raised the bar once again.'

The South Florida community is invited to celebrate the achievements of the talented theater professionals in the region at the 35th Annual Carbonell Awards on Monday, April 4, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. in the Amaturo Theater, at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 S.W. 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets are $25 with $20 tickets available for groups of 10 or more. Tickets are available at the Broward Center's box office or by calling 954-462-0222 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              954-462-0222      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visiting www.browardcenter.org. This must-see award ceremony will feature performances from each of the productions nominated for Best Musical in 2010.

Locking in the theatrical treasure that is the long running multi Tony-Award® winning musical is the dynamic international hit, BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL. Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale continues its long time tradition of providing local theater-goers with the best of current and classical musical theater showstoppers to celebrate the 20th Anniversary 2011-2012 subscription season presented by Florida Theatrical Association in association with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

MIAMI CITY BALLET ends its landmark 25th Anniversary Season in South Florida with the company premiere of John Cranko's acclaimed, full-evening production of ROMEO AND JULIET, the world's most famous love story, set to the thrilling score by Sergei Prokofiev. Budgeted at over one million dollars, with an ensemble cast of more than 35 dancers, ROMEO AND JULIET promises to be the crowning highlight of MIAMI CITY BALLET'S extraordinary anniversary season, featuring four company premieres, a record number of dancers (50) and the return of live music with The Opus One Orchestra, 42-56 musicians strong, under the baton of maestro Gary Sheldon, supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.