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'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.'

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, one of the most enduring love stories of all time, tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers and their famously feuding families. As tensions between the Montagues and Capulets approach a deadly breaking point, the children of each house fall more and more deeply in love. Orlando Shakespeare Theater's age-reversed reading allows audiences to see this classic story from a new angle - the lovers will be 45 years old and up, and the parents will be 40 and below. Come see this classic romance through a pair of older eyes, with their children desperately trying to control them! What might we learn about the relationships between parents and children, how age changes our outlook on life, and the nature of love?

Boca music man and former member of The 4 Seasons, leads the Florida Sunshine Pops Orchestra in a tribute to one of the best-selling musical groups of all time. This March South Florida residents will have a chance to experience the legendary music of Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons live in concert with one of the group's former members.

The Boca Raton Theatre Guild will continue its extremely successful season with John Kander and Fred Ebb's classic musical, Cabaret. The Guild's recent production of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound consistently filled the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park to capacity throughout its run. Cabaret will run from February 25th through March 13th.

This year, Orlando Shakes welcomes former local resident and PlayFest veteran, playwright Mark Brown (Around the World in 80 Days, The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, and China - The Whole Enchilada) back to the Margeson Stage for an Inside the Actor's Studio style conversation with Orlando Shakes Artistic Director Jim Helsinger on Friday, April 8, 2011. Mr. Brown's new play, Don Quixote - The Reckoning will be presented as one of two workshops during PlayFest.

Florida Repertory Theatre presents A Little More Than You Wanted to Spend, a new play written and performed by Florida Rep Associate Artistic Director, Chris Clavelli. Spend is a one-man tour-de-force that leads the audience down a harrowing, darkly hysterical journey of despair and spiritual triumph, playing in the Florida Rep Studio Theatre on March 20 and 21 at 8pm. Dennis Cunningham of CBS News called A Little More Than You Wanted to Spend 'a riveting human experience played out in an amazing performance by the urgent and compelling Chris Clavelli.'

PLANTATION -- Following the successful, record-breaking run of The Irish Curse, Award Winning Mosaic Theatre is proud to announce that Stephen Belber's Dusk Rings A Bell will feature a member of 'Chicago's Elite 8,' Jenny McKnight in the lead role of Molly to star in the first production of this play outside of New York.

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.

Back by overwhelming popular demand and as a kick off to its 25th Anniversary Season, Florida Stage presents the return of ELLA as its 2011 summer sensation. Though it has been seen in regional theatres such as Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, ELLA was created at Florida Stage nearly 5 years ago and has since gone on to be produced in many theatres across the country.

In this delicious new comedy from the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, an offbeat friendship grows between a cantankerous white shop owner and an ambitious black teenager with something to hide. Amidst the changing face of an old Chicago neighborhood, a local donut shop becomes the setting for old secrets, new beginnings and the redemptive power of friendship.

Rodgers and Hart's Broadway classic Pal Joey comes to the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre this spring. Running from April 13 - 23, 2011, Pal Joey tells the story of Joey - a nightclub habitué in the habit of loving and leaving women. Despite that, he is also thoroughly lovable.

The University of Miami announced the return of alumnus Joshua Henry (B.M. ‘06) for an evening of theater songs and backstage stories on Sunday, April 10th at 8 PM in Gusman Hall (1314 Miller Drive, Coral Gables). The event called 'Broadway Unplugged' is a fundraiser to benefit his N.Y. theater company - Jaradoa Theater.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, one of the most enduring love stories of all time, tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers and their famously feuding families. As tensions between the Montagues and Capulets approach a deadly breaking point, the children of each house fall more and more deeply in love. Orlando Shakespeare Theater's age-reversed reading allows audiences to see this classic story from a new angle - the lovers will be 45 years old and up, and the parents will be 40 and below. Come see this classic romance through a pair of older eyes, with their children desperately trying to control them! What might we learn about the relationships between parents and children, how age changes our outlook on life, and the nature of love?

MIAMI---In a stunning portrayal of a high fashion model who gets caught up in the fashionista world of the 1970's, Robyn Peterson, a Miami girl who made it big, will open in her one woman show, 'CATWALK CONFIDENTIAL' for a limited six (6) performance run, Thursday, March 17 at 8 P.M. through Sunday, March 20, at the Carnival Studio Theater in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Kravis Center to Offer a Nonstop Series of Dazzling Performers & Productions During March & April 2011 Highlights Include the Beach Boys, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Natalie Cole, Kathy Griffin, Jackie Mason, Itzhak Perlman, Smokey Robinson, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Yanni, Spring Awakening, West Side Story & 18th Annual Reach for the Stars

Set in Cuba in 1953, 'A Bearded Lover' is a dark and heartwarming play about three eccentric sisters who are preparing for a long journey into the sea. Love and loyalty are tested; even the bond of sisterhood is challenged, pushed to the limit, and changed forever.

This Tony winning Best Musical, simply gets everything right. I would never have imagined that the story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, would bring together a creative team that would helm a theatrical landmark. After this show, I will certainly never think of juke box musicals as something to fear. Greatness can happen in juke box musicals, and it is on display in JERSEY BOYS.

How I Became a Pirate, based on the bestselling children's book by Melinda Long with illustrations by David Shannon, has been touring Southwest Florida schools since November, and played to packed houses in the Lunchbox Theatre Series this fall. Admission for the Series is $12, and includes the performance, an interactive pirate workshop, and a lunch provided by The Morgan House.

South Florida's most celebrated ballroom dance competition is returning on Saturday, April 16, when the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts presents the 18th annual Reach for the Stars. The annual fundraiser benefits the Kravis Center ‘s S*T*A*R (Students and Teachers Arts Resource) Series and education programs.

Arthur Miller's fiercely compelling drama about love, belonging and betrayal, A View from the Bridge centers around Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American longshoreman who lives in Brooklyn with his wife Beatrice and his orphaned 17-year-old niece Catherine. Beatrice's two cousins enter the country illegally seeking a better life in America, and when Catherine falls in love with one of them, Eddie's jealousy erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family and his world.