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Arts Garage, the wildly successful brainchild of the Creative City Collaborative (The Collaborative), has become the venue of choice for a diverse array of local, national, and international performers as well as a preferred destination for South Florida arts seekers and aficionados. Opened in April 2011, Arts Garage is a 5,500 square-foot facility designed specifically for multi-disciplinary art performances and exhibitions.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) announced that Rus Blackwell, Mark Ferrara, Anne Hering and Suzanne O'Donnell will duke it out this fall in GOD OF CARNAGE, playing October 12 through November 13, 2011 at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. Yasmina Reza's 2009 Tony Award-winning play, under the direction of Mark Routhier, pits two high-strung couples against each other in a 90-minute brawl hailed as a 'four-way prize fight' by The New York Times.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County presents the Miami premiere of STUFFED AND UNSTRUNG, a madcap comedy show, for adults only, featuring a motley crew of Henson puppets (the Miskreant Puppets) sharing the stage with improv comedians. A creation of Henson Alternative, the one-of-a-kind live stage comedy is the brainchild of Academy Award-winning puppeteer, director, producer, and writer Brian Henson and actor and improvisational master Patrick Bristow. STUFFED AND UNSTRUNG opens the Adrienne Arsht Center's 2011-2012 Comedy Planet series in the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House for one night only on October 9, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

Set in the Louisiana bayous, the play explores the struggles of two brothers who walk the line between law and liberty, locked in a fierce tug-of-war for their souls. This haunting, funny, and heartbreaking tour-de-force probes sexuality, coming of age, and the bonds of family. The Brothers Size marks the emergence of a major new voice in American theatre.

Anagram Entertainment and The Empire Stage are proud to present the South Florida premiere of Michael A.Matteo's new comedy, An Evening With Mister Johnson - The Penis Diatribes. Performed in two versions, 'It's Hard Being a Dick' and 'It's Harder Being a Gay Dick', explores the relationship between man and his..... 'best friend'.

Louis Armstrong comes back to life at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre where Dennis Neal stars in the world premiere of Terry Teachout's Satchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play about the most beloved jazzman of all time. Set at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong performed in public for the last time before his death in 1971, Satchmo at the Waldorf is a theatrical tour de force, a play in which the same actor portrays Armstrong and Joe Glaser, the trumpeter's controversial manager. Inspired by their actual words, the play takes a searching look at the complex relationship between the genius from New Orleans who turned jazz into a swinging art form and the hard-nosed, tough-talking ex-gangster from Chicago who made him an international icon.

How did Judy Garland overcome her stage fright? What was Gwen Verdon's ritual before each performance? Where did David Merrick hide his various toupees? Learn the answers to these questions and many other insider anecdotes about legendary theatre performers from one of Broadway's great stage managers at TheatreZone's annual Sneak Peek, held in the G&L Theatre, Sunday, November 13 at 2 pm.

As 'the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!' (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles' discography live onstage, including the most complex and challenging songs that The Beatles themselves recorded in the studio but never performed for an audience. Together longer than The Beatles, RAIN has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance that's as infectious as it is transporting. From the early hits to later classics (I Want To Hold Your Hand, Hard Day's Night, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Let It Be, Come Together, Hey Jude and more), this adoring tribute will take you back to a time when all you needed was love, and a little help from your friends!

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) celebrates the 100th birthday of American playwright Tennessee Williams through its popular free reading series, Three By Tenn. The series begins with Williams' best-known tale of struggle and survival, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, on Sunday, September 25 at 7PM.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) presents Tony-Award Winning actor Brian Bedford in his one-man show, The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet, playing at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center on Wednesday, February 29, 2012.

Manhattan born Arthur Miller is one of the most highly esteemed American playwrights. He is recognized for his insight and keen perception into the tribulations of the American working class. His play Death of a Salesman won Miller the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949. Miller's other best known works include The Man Who Had All The Luck, A View From the Bridge, and After The Fall.

New Theatre (THE NEW) continues it's 'family' theme season with the National New Play Network's Rolling World Premiere of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, running October 14 - 30, 2011. This timely and controversial work examines the lives of two all but abandoned teens having to create a makeshift family and its values while getting through the pangs of growing up. New Theatre joins the prestigious Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where it had its first production and the Actor's Express in Atlanta, GA to present the National New Play Network's Rolling World Premiere of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them.

Kicking off their 2011-2012 Season, Caldwell Theatre Company presents Amy Herzog's widely acclaimed family drama After The Revolution. The play was named one of the Top Ten plays of the New York Times plays of 2010 and was recently included in the prestigious yearbook, Best Plays of 2010-2011 which sites the top plays of the past New York theater season.

'How to Be Gay in the 21st Century' is a theatrical review of major gay changes in the 21st century. There is nothing wrong with being gay...but there's plenty wrong with the way a lot of people are gay. In this musical romp, you'll find that in this new century there are new ways to do everything, and being a 21st Century gay is foremost among those new things.

Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops will kick-off opening night for their 20th concert season with the Great American Songbook Spectacular featuring, for the first time ever, television star Tom Wopat, direct from Broadway's hit, Catch Me If You Can, along with world-famous Big Bands songstress, Lynn Roberts. They will be performing your favorites from the Great American Songbook including songs by Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Judy Garland and more.

Lynn University to Present CLINT HOLMES At Wold Performing Arts Center - October 15-16 Lynn University and Jan McArt, Director of Theatre Arts Program Development, announced the opening performance of the 2011-2012 season of the LIVE AT LYNN Theatre Series at the beautiful Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center

Tony-Award Winning Star Donna McKechnie Returns to TheatreZone -- Takes on lead role as Marmee in Little Women: The Broadway Musical Broadway star and legendary entertainer Donna McKechnie returns to TheatreZone in Naples, cast as Marmee in Little Women: The Broadway Musical, announced artistic director Mark Danni. Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, the musical follows the adventures of the four remarkable March sisters coming of age during the American Civil War era.

'CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE' A DELICIOUS CONFECTION OF CHARM, SPARKLE AND TALENT BY THE SLEIGHLOAD LIGHTS UP THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DECEMBER 27 - JANUARY 1, 2012 CREATED AND DIRECTED BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR NEIL GOLDBERG TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW

As 'the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!' (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles' discography live onstage, including the most complex and challenging songs that The Beatles themselves recorded in the studio but never performed for an audience. Together longer than The Beatles, RAIN has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance that's as infectious as it is transporting. From the early hits to later classics (I Want To Hold Your Hand, Hard Day's Night, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Let It Be, Come Together, Hey Jude and more), this adoring tribute will take you back to a time when all you needed was love, and a little help from your friends!

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts announced that single tickets for the national tour of the new musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will go on sale September 24th at 9AM. The first 100 people in line for THE ADDAMS FAMILY tickets will receive a free CD sampler from the show. A special 'Addams Family Photo Booth' will also be set up that day for some special, spooky fun. Ticket prices start at $25 and will be available at the Kravis Center box office 701 Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach, by visiting www.kravis.org, or by calling 561.832.7469 or 800.572.8471. Group orders of 20 or more may be placed by calling 561-651-4438 or 561-651-4304