Brendan Ragan News

The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training continues its season with Craig Lucas' dark, zany comedy, Reckless. A cast of seven will play 22 different characters. Directed by Brendan Ragan, FSU/Asolo Conservatory alum and founding Artistic Director of Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota, Reckless runs February 20 - March 10 in the Cook Theatre, with a pay-what-you-can preview night on Tuesday, February 19. Tickets are $30.

Wakey Wakey At Urbanite Theatre Is A Wake Up Call

Brilliant INCOGNITO Hits Urbanite's Stage

Theatre Odyssey announced the casts and directors for the thirteenth annual Ten-Minute Play Festival being held May 3-6 at the Cook Theatre (Asolo/FSU Center for the Performing Arts). For tickets, click here.

Hauntingly Beautiful Echoes Plays at The Urbanite

The play hopefully titled THE BEST TEN MINUTES EVER turned out to be the judges' pick for best script at Theatre Odyssey's Twelfth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, held this past weekend May 4-6 at the Asolo Theatre.

It's funny, biting and scary, but will it be as humorous after Election Day?

Urbanite Theatre, a new Florida-based non-profit, inaugurates an innovative producing model this summer in New York by bringing back Origin Theatre Company's critically acclaimed production of Tim Ruddy's 'The International' returns with its original cast for a three-week encore engagement Off-Broadway from Wednesday July 15 to Sunday August 2 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street. Christopher Randolph directs.

Gorilla Theatre will present AN ILIAD, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, Adapted from Homer's "The Iliad", translated by Robert Fagles. Opening January 10 at the Springs Theatre, 8029 N. Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. 8 pm. and running through February 2, with performances at the Firehouse Cultural Center in Ruskin Jan 17-19.

Gorilla Theatre will present AN ILIAD, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, Adapted from Homer's "The Iliad", translated by Robert Fagles. Opening January 10 at the Springs Theatre, 8029 N. Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. 8 pm. and running through February 2, with performances at the Firehouse Cultural Center in Ruskin Jan 17-19.

Stageworks presents comic mastermind David Ives' Venus in Fur, the sexiest, funniest, most acclaimed hit of the recent Broadway season. This seductive comedy blends love, lust, and literature, with the ultimate battle of the sexes. This sizzling new play will keep you guessing until the very end.

Asolo Repertory Theatre's annual play festival will showcase four world premiere plays, including a Greenfield Prize-winning piece by noted playwright John Guare (House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation), Eddie in the Andes. Showcasing the freshest talents writing for the theatre today, the fourth edition of Unplugged will also present readings of new theatrical works by Deborah Zoe Laufer, Informed Consent; Rogelio Martinez, When Tang Met Laika; and Steven Drukman, Marquis Aurelius. The staged readings will be the first time these new works-in-progress are read aloud publicly, and each reading will be followed by a conversation between the playwright and the audience. "A unique aspect of Unplugged is the opportunity for the audience to help shape the work of art from the ground up," said Greg Leaming, Director of The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, Associate Artistic Director for Asolo Rep, and curator for the Unplugged New Play Festival. "Some playwrights choose to use the feedback they receive during these post-reading conversations to hone the work before they consider it finished."

Asolo Repertory Theatre challenges its audiences to answer questions both women and men have been asking themselves since the second wave of feminism emerged in the 1960's: is it possible for women to balance a career and a family at the same time? If yes, then does 'having it all' equate fulfillment in life? The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein's 1989 Pulitzer and Tony Award winning play, maps the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a member of the baby boomer generation and a successful art historian, during the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's.

Director Aldo Pantoja's deeply moving production of CRUMBLE (LAY ME DOWN, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) might be the best show Single Carrot has yet done.

Single Carrot theater presents CRUMBLE (LAY ME DOWN, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) by Sheila Callaghan from April 28 - May 23, 2010.

In association with the Center for International Theatre Development's New Directors-New Voices Project and Towson University, Single Carrot Theatre will be presenting leading Russian playwrights in Baltimore for the first time.

For the third straight year, Single Carrot Theatre, along with the help of columnist Anna Ditkoff, has compiled and will present an entire year's worth of Murder Ink, a City Paper column that factually documents all murders that take place within Baltimore City limits.

For the third straight year, Single Carrot Theatre, along with the help of columnist Anna Ditkoff, has compiled and will present an entire year's worth of Murder Ink, a City Paper column that factually documents all murders that take place within Baltimore City limits.

Single Carrot Theatre presents a wordless exploration of 'nightfall, sensuality, power, and an unlikely love story.'