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Jackie is just out of jail and trying to stay clean and sober.

Directed by Michael Garces, NE 2ND AVENUE depicts the lives of eight distinct characters: a Puerto Rican small-time drug dealer, a deprived African-American young lady, a Haitian jitney driver, a Cuban-Jewish grandfather, a Rasta Man, an African-American adolescent trying to find his footing in life

Upwards of 150 participants are projected to travel to Orlando to participate, making it the best-attended conference in STA's history.

In what will surely be thought of as one of the most unique theatrical experiences in recent South Florida history, Caldwell Theatre Company presents Kristoffer Diaz's Pulitzer Prize finalist play, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.

The international smash hit musical, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is set on December 4, 1956, when an auspicious twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 27 - January 1, 2012.

The Manatee Players will hold auditions on Sunday January 22 & 23 at 7 p.

CEE LO GREEN, songwriter, producer, one half of Gnarls Bentley, host of Fuse TV's 'Cee Lo Green: Talking to Strangers' and The Voice co-judge, is one of popular music's most in-demand guest artists, lending his voice to hit tracks by the likes of TLC, OutKast, Diddy, Santana, Common, and the Pussyca

It's almost over! There's just FOUR days of voting remaining for the 2011 Florida Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Florida Award? There is no time to

"We are about to launch our most exciting rep season yet with the celebratory American play about the beginning of show business as we understand it in America, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, followed by one of the hottest Tony Award® winning plays of the last few seasons, GOD OF CARNAGE.

Florida Repertory Theatre announced the opening of God of Carnage, 2009's Tony-winning BEST PLAY and one of the hottest new plays in America right now.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 27 - January 1, 2012.

Florida Studio Theatre (FST) broke box office records this week and closes the year with an unprecedented 11,000 subscriptions to its Mainstage season and became the largest subscribed regional theatre in the southeast.

The stage musical version of the television sitcom HAPPY DAYS opens at the Manatee Players on January 12 and plays through January 29.

Florida Studio Theatre announces new performance schedule for Winter Blunderland, a new holiday improv show beginning Tuesday, November 29.

'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

Nat Chandler (The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Phantom of the Opera) and Teri Dale Hansen (Showboat, Boys from Syracuse) will appear in concert with Jerry Steichen and the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra on December 30, 2011 at 8:00 pm.

On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Tony Award winner Roger Rees will perform his one-man show, What You Will in a special appearance at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds tells the story of Tillie, a hopeful and focused dreamer who struggles to keep her aspirations alive amidst the chaos of her home-life, controlled by a desperate mother wonting of love and a rebellious sister.

HAIR won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival as well as the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical.

Brooklyn Boy has been called one of Donald Margulies' funniest and most moving plays.

En route to Broadway, Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi opens December 25th in Miami Beach at the Colony Theatre, followed by a run in Fort Lauderdale's Parker Playhouse.

'Willie Nelson & Family: Live in Concert' will come to the Broward Center on February 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM.

The New York Times calls this Les Miserables "an unquestionably spectacular production from start to finish.

Returning to The Colony's world famous Royal Room for her third engagement and second New Year's Eve celebration is Mary Wilson, a true musical legend.