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Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie, the world's most recorded drummer, will headline the Miami Jazz Workshop to be held at the Miracle Theatre on Sunday, October 25th.

American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' series of edgier plays continues with Steve A.

Experience IN THE HEIGHTS before it embarks on its first national tour! This winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to Gainesville's Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Sunday, October 25, 2 p.

OKLAHOMA! is the first of the Rodgers & Hammerstein masterworks and is credited with establishing the musical play as a significant art form, paving the way for all others that came after it, including the works of Lerner & Loewe, Frank Loesser and Leonard Bernstein.

The Bach Festival Society celebrates the 200th anniversary year of Mendelssohn's birth with presentations of his choral masterwork Elijah on Saturday, October 24 at 7:30 p.

The Studio@620 will produce the world premiere of Sharon Scott's new musical, MAHALIA, JUST AS I AM, running Oct.

Martin Charnin, creator, director and lyricist of Annie, will be theatrically reunited with his original Annie, Andrea McArdle, for the first time since the mega-musical was on Broadway in 1977.

ove is Love, a new musical revue conceived and directed by Martin Charnin, best-known for co-creating Annie, premieres in Florida for ten performances at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre October 15 - 25, 2009.

Knowles Memorial Chapel hosts Mendelssohn's Elijah, one of the Bach Festival Society's most-loved works, on Saturday,October 24 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, October 25 at 3:00pm .

Neil LaBute's Tony nominated REASONS TO BE PRETTY will make its Southeastern debut presented by GableStage and performed at the Biltmore in Miami.

David Bell explores the life of the star, born Fania Borach, in Fanny Brice: The Real Funny Girl, which has its world premiere production Nov.

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FLORA THE RED MENACE, by the Tony Award winning team of Kander and Ebb, is currently playing at the Rising Action Theatre in Florida.

American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Cabaret series continues with five new productions running in October and November.

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Michael Blachly, Director of UF Performing Arts, announced yesterday at the Shands Cancer Hospital Business Leaders Reception that UF Performing Arts will be presenting Chords of Color for a Cause, a six-week summer music festival geared toward raising awareness and understanding of different types

AVENUE Q, the three-time Tony winning Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a irreverent Tony-winning book and score, will make its Gainesville debut at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, November 9 and Tuesday, Novembe

YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), is set to honor two internationally-acclaimed artists, dancer and choreographer Desmond Richardson and actress and director Liv Ullmann.

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The Stradivari Quartet, made up of four extraordinary artists performing on a unique set of Stradivarius instruments, provided by the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger, will bring their distinctive sound to University Auditorium on Sunday, November 8 at 2 p.

TANGUERA - THE TANGO MUSICAL comes directly from a New York run to make its West Coast premiere at the Au-Rene Theatre in Ft.

American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' series of edgier plays continues with Steve A.

WILLIE NELSON will be appearing at the Maxwell C.