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One of the world's most loved musicals MAMMA MIA!, based on music by ABBA, will run for eight performances, October 25-30, at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. Carolyn and Richard Sloane are sponsoring this presentation of MAMMA MIA! at the Kravis Center, which is currently 'Celebrating 20 Years of Artistic Excellence and Commitment to the Community.'

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.

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.

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.

Join Mosaic for passion, poetry and poltergeists! Mosaic Theatre presents a free Staged Reading of 'A Bouquet for Raven Poe' by author Edward Castle, Tuesday, September 27 at 7:00 pm. Join them for this comedy of manners and mayhem and... since we're talking about Edgar Allan Poe, you can throw in a fair dose of the macabre as well.

On Saturday, September 24th at 8:00 p.m. acclaimed vocalist Debbie Orta and the Debbie Orta Jazz Group will bring their own distinctive sound, style and incredible energy to the Arts Garage in a concert highlighting Orta's mastery of the art of Jazz. And on Sunday, September 25th at 7:30 p.m. dazzling female illusionists/impersonators Ricky Rollick, Melissa St. John and Roxi DeVine will return to Arts Garage for an encore performance of Divas in Art. Last month's show sold out beyond capacity.

ARTS AT ST JOHNS presents Fall Season of Jazz, Classical Music, and Love Songs All events are at the Arts at St Johns at St. John's on the Lake Church, 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach 33140

A SWINGIN' HOLIDAY with The New York Pops, scheduled for December 5 in the Kravis Center's Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall, has been canceled.

On September 15, 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.

Ground Up & Rising, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit professional theatre and film organization whose programming is intended to widen empathetic sensibilities and promote understanding amongst humankind, announced their upcoming production of 'True West' by Sam Shepard. This Miami Beach production is offered as part of Ground Up & Rising's exciting new program, The 'Zero Point' project, a compelling new initiative that aims to build theatre's future audience through bare-bones, bold presentations of incredible theatre.

More than 60 theatre and opera hopefuls auditioned for 40 roles in the classic operetta Show Boat says TheatreZone Artistic Director Mark Danni. Based on Edna Ferber's novel, Show Boat chronicles life and loves of the three generations of show folk on the Mississippi.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performance Arts will kick off its star-packed and show-filled 20th anniversary season with Public Ticket Sale Day & Open House. The exciting and eclectic array of international artists and attractions from every discipline slated to appear at the Kravis Center include Broadway legend Bernadette Peters, talk show champion Larry King, song stylist supreme Diana Krall, the renowned Joffrey Ballet, inimitable funnymen Dennis Miller, Martin Short and Larry the Cable Guy and such major Kravis On Broadway hits as THE ADDAMS FAMILY, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES starring George Hamilton, HAIR, COME FLY AWAY and LES MISÉRABLES. *

In this examination of marginalized people battling to have their voices heard: a white teenager dreams of being a black gangsta rapper; a wheelchair-bound kid explains how his mother smoked crack during pregnancy; a pale-skinned Bronx street vendor enrages a policeman who can't figure out what race he is; and a young Puerto Rican man on crutches rhapsodizes about his dancing talent.

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

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.

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) 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.

The first play to be featured will be MURDER ON GIN LANE by Tony Finstrom. Wayne Rudisill will direct the reading and the all-star cast will include Jeffrey Bruce, soon to be seen in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Iris Acker, the host of the local Beacon TV series Onstage with iris Acker; Beth Holland, New York actress and local Board of Directors President of The Symphony of the Americas; and Ms. McArt, who is widely recognized as the First Lady of Florida's Musical Theatre.

RISING ACTION THEATRE HAS AN IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR AN ACTOR SINGER FOR THE MUSICAL'THRILL ME' They must cast this ASAP!! A 2 Person musical About Leopold and Loeb. Singing Consummate Singer Actor 18-30

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.