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Miami City Ballet has been selected to make its debut at the 2010 Fall for Dance Festival at New York's City Center September 28th and 29th, 2010. The company will perform Twyla Tharp's 'The Golden Section.' The festival, running September 28th - October 9th, 2010, will showcase 20 dance companies and choreographers from across the United States and around the world. Miami City Ballet is one of ten dance companies making their debut in the festival. 'We are thrilled to perform, as it builds on our ongoing successful relationship with New York City Center, where the company made its debut in 2009,' said Edward Villella, founding artistic director and CEO of Miami City Ballet.

In their second collaboration, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Mad Cat Theatre Company present GOING GREEN THE WONG WAY, a world premiere comedy. Created by and starring trouble-making funny lady Kristina Wong and directed by Mad Cat Theatre's founder and resident prankster, Paul Tei, GOING GREEN THE WONG WAY recounts the hilarious and misfortunate adventures of Wong's life-long attempt at sustainable living, and the challenges and triumphs of being eco-friendly.

New Theatre's (THE NEW) 25th Anniversary continues with the Southeastern Premiere of the critically acclaimed Broadway play, Jack Goes Boating (October 8 - 24, 2010) by Bob Glaudini after its successful New York City production directed and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Laced with cooking classes, swimming lessons and a smorgasbord of illegal drugs, Jack Goes Boating is a touching and warmhearted play about learning how to stay afloat in the deep water of day-to-day living where date panic, marital meltdown, betrayal, and the prevailing grace of the human spirit abound.

Opening this weekend at the Stage Door, and running until September 26, is the musical 'Mack and Mabel.' At the helm is director Michael Leeds (Tony nomination 'Swingin' on A Star'), who was a performer in the first National Tour with Bernadette Peters. Consequently, he has a special affinity for the show and was able to convince Jerry Herman to give him some leeway on new approaches and changes to for this production. 'I didn't get everything I wanted,' says Leeds with a laugh, ' but he was kind enough to give me a lot, including the ending that was eventually used on the tour, but not on Broadway.'

Zoetic Stage and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County present the world premiere of SOUTH BEACH BABYLON, a wickedly funny, sexy new play by acclaimed Miami playwright Michael McKeever. This production launches Zoetic Stage's inaugural season and will be directed by the company's Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer, featuring an all-star cast of South Florida's best and brightest actors. SOUTH BEACH BABYLON will run December 2-12, 2010 in the Carnival Studio Theater in the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House.

'Last year Caldwell introduced the Broadway Concert Series with the highly acclaimed performances of Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods,' said Clive Cholerton Artistic Director. 'This year, we're expanding our programming further by incorporating our lobby as a performance space and transforming it into a combination jazz nightclub/black box performance space.'

Based on the legendary short story by Edgar Allan Poe, two friends reconnect after many years of separation. Things of mystery and intrigue start to happen as it intertwines three lives attempting to drive everyone into madness.

Spotlights will race across the sky, ticket holders will arrive on a red carpet, and the celebration of the Broward Center's 20th anniversary year will be launched Wednesday, October 6, at 8 P.M. with the season premiere of THE NEW MEL BROOKS MUSICAL YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN marking the first salvo of the excitingly diverse 2010 2011 Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale 8-musical theatrical season, presented by the Florida Theatrical Association at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

Rising Action Theatre opens its new Season at its new location at the Sunshine Cathedral campus with Fit To Be Tied by Nicky Silver, an off-beat comedy about a fabulously wealthy but desperately lonely man who lives a solitary life for many years. When he meets the great love of his life, Boyd, a young runaway with no family who is working as an angel at Radio City's Christmas Spectacular, Arloc invites him up for a drink. When Boyd readies to leave, Arloc is terrified that his last chance for happiness will slip away, so he ties him up. At that moment, Arloc's mother, Nessa, descends upon him with problems of her own.

Hot Flash! From the successful producers of Menopause The Musical - GFour Productions is heading into its third trimester. They are soon to deliver 90 minutes of fun in the original play MOTHERHOOD The Musical, premiering September 24th in South Florida.

Highlights of the Kravis Center's 19th Season Include Doobie Brothers, Whoopi Goldberg, Roberta Flack, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons and Broadway Hits Dreamgirls and Spring Awakening.

Based on Damon Runyon's short story The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown, GUYS AND DOLLS tells the story of a group of small-time gamblers and the ladies in their lives. Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, bets fellow gambler Sky Masterson that he can't make the next 'doll' he sees fall in love with him. The next 'doll' to enter happens to be the prim and proper neighborhood missionary, Miss Sarah Brown, and the stage is set for a heavy dose of high spirited entertainment set to the toe-tapping beat of Frank Loesser's superlative score.

'Last year Caldwell introduced the Broadway Concert Series with the highly acclaimed performances of Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods,' said Clive Cholerton Artistic Director. 'This year, we're expanding our programming further by incorporating our lobby as a performance space and transforming it into a combination jazz nightclub/black box performance space.'

Black is a latent fingerprint examiner in Florida and a former forensic scientist for the Cleveland coroner's office. She is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and has testified in over 50 homicide trials. Her new book, Trail of Blood, tells the story of a madman, who murdered by night and left his handiwork to be discovered in the first glare of day during the days of the Depression in Cleveland. He was America's Jack the Ripper, but even more prolific.

More than 65 professional actors from across the country will audition in Naples this weekend, traveling as far away as New York City and Chicago and as nearby as Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando, seeking one or more of 32 available roles, reports Mark Danni, founder and artistic director of TheatreZone, the non-profit professional theatre company in residence at The Community School of Naples campus.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County proudly announces new and ongoing partnerships for the 2010 2011 CARNIVAL STUDIO THEATER SEASON, featuring four dynamic programming initiatives: THE BEST OF SOUTH FLORIDA, GROUNDBREAKING NEW WORK, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEATER, and FAMILY-FRIENDLY THEATRICAL HITS - all presented in the Carnival Studio Theater in the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House. This diverse new season highlights world-class theater, dance, and music that breaks boundaries, cross-pollinates artistic genres, and expands the future of the performing arts.

More than 65 professional actors from across the country will audition in Naples this weekend, traveling as far away as New York City and Chicago and as nearby as Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando, seeking one or more of 32 available roles, reports Mark Danni, founder and artistic director of TheatreZone, the non-profit professional theatre company in residence at The Community School of Naples campus.

The Lake Worth Playhouse and Florida filmmaker Steev Brown are proud to announce the line-up for Lake Worth's first annual film festival September 17-19, 2010. The L-Dub Film Festival will take place at the Playhouse Stonzek Studio Theatre and will include more than 50 films of all genres.

'Come to the Cabaret, old chum, come hear the music play!' That's the invitation issued today by theatrical producer Vicki Halmos, founder of the Palm Beach Principal Players, who's new production company - the hot and hip Entr'Acte Theatrix - will be presenting the Tony Award-winning, Kander & Ebb musical CABARET, October 14-24 at the Count de Hoernle Theatre (Caldwell Theatre) in Boca Raton.

Asolo Rep 2010-2011 Season ANTIGONE NOW Preview Oct. 4; Opening Night Oct. 8; Touring schools and communities starting Oct. 5 BONNIE & CLYDE Nov. 16-Dec. 19 LA BÊTE Jan.7-Feb. 20 TWELVE ANGRY MEN Jan. 14-March 26 BOEING BOEING Jan. 21-April 23 LAS MENINAS March 18-May 15 DEATHTRAP April 1-May 14 THE INNOCENTS April 15-May 14 GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE May 19-June 5 BEETHOVEN, AS I KNEW HIM June 8-12 MARILYN: FOREVER BLONDE! June 18-July 10