Michael McKee News

With his hit show, The Marvelous Wonderettes, still going strong in New York and having just opened in Chicago, writer/director Roger Bean took a break this weekend to come check out the first regional production of his work here in Coral Gables at the Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre.

Audiences left the Miracle Theatre humming classic 50's and 60's tunes and still smiling from the on-stage antics of the four-girl wonder act at the Opening Night of Actors' Playhouse's production of The Marvelous Wonderettes on October 2nd.

Coral Gables is South of Broadway to South Florida theatre fans when Actors' Playhouse opens its exciting 2009-2010 season with the current New York hit musical THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES at the Miracle Theatre October 2nd. Actors' Playhouse is the first regional producing theatre company outside of New York to receive the licensing rights for this smash hit musical while it is still playing Off-Broadway.

Coral Gables is South of Broadway to South Florida theatre fans when Actors' Playhouse opens its exciting 2009-2010 season with the current New York hit musical THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES at the Miracle Theatre October 2nd. Actors' Playhouse is the first regional producing theatre company outside of New York to receive the licensing rights for this smash hit musical while it is still playing Off-Broadway.

A rocking new Shorts 4 Kids line-up for families with tunes penned by Grammy Award Winner Cyndi Lauper and breakout artist Lisa Loeb ('Stay: I Missed You') along with a mix of fast and funny plays for families and a new 'Create-a-Short' Contest featuring the work of young artists; the company's naughty, bawdy late night undershorts Series featuring sinful comedies by the nation's hottest talents along with music penned by Tony-nominated writer Michael John LaChiusa ('The Wild Party'); and its celebrated Signature Shorts Series, which returns to its strong comedic roots with previous festival favorites Christopher Durang ('For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls' and 'The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come From') and South Florida's prolific Michael McKeever ('Splat!' and 'Laura Keene Goes On.') Signature Shorts will also feature a dark comedy by Harold Pinter.

Theresa Rebeck's 'Mauritius,' a Broadway Hit which made it Southeastern Premiere at New Theatre on April 16th has been extended through May 24, 2009.

New Theatre presents its final production of the 2008-2009 Season, Mauritius, making its Southeastern Premiere, by Pulitzer Prize nominated Theresa Rebeck, running April 16 - May 17, 2009.

He knows exactly where he was when the acting bug bit him. David Perez-Ribada, who is playing in the current run of Boleros for the Disenchanted at the Florida Studio Theatre, was a freshman at Grosse Pointe Michigan High School in 1990 when he was struck by the aura of the stage.

He knows exactly where he was when the acting bug bit him. David Perez-Ribada, who is playing in the current run of Boleros for the Disenchanted at the Florida Studio Theatre, was a freshman at Grosse Pointe Michigan High School in 1990 when he was struck by the aura of the stage.

Dangerous is a complex love story set against the backdrop of the gathering Nazi storm, laced with lust, conspiracies and diabolical revenge. First staged at Caldwell's innovative and popular 2008 Play Reading Series where it received audience rave reviews, Dangerous is 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' deconstructed.

Each year, The Drama League's one-night-only gala concert at NYC's famed Rainbow Room boasts an incredible roster of Broadway's biggest and brightest stars, performing favorite songs from Broadway seasons past and present. The musical revue is the highlight of The Drama League's annual benefit gala at Rockefeller Center's breathtaking Rainbow Room.

Caldwell Theatre Company 2008-2009 Mainstage Season celebrates its 34th Season in Boca Raton.

Caldwell Theatre Company 2008-2009 Mainstage Season celebrates its 34th Season in Boca Raton Play #1 Now - December 14, 2008 She Loves Me Musical Book by Joe Masteroff Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Music by Jerry Bock Based on Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo This blockbuster multiple award-winning musical is considered the most charming musical ever written. With a book by Cabaret's Joe Masteroff, and music and lyrics by the team that brought us Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!, She Loves Me is an enchanting love story. Georg and Amalia are two coworkers who bicker constantly but anonymously write each other through a Lonely Hearts column, and ultimately fall in love. With 25 show-stopper songs, She Loves Me is, as Frank Rich of The New York Times said, '... a continuously melodic evening of sheer enchantment and complete escape' and is, as TheaterMania writes, '... impossible not to love.'

'A Moon for the Misbegotten,' written between 1941-1943 was performed for the first time in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. The play premiered on Broadway in 1957 and has been revived four times, winning multiple Tony Awards. The most recent production starring Kevin Spacey and Eve Best in 2007 came to Broadway after its run at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

Seeking the following roles only (all others have been cast): FROST/NIXON by Peter Morgan. Director: Michael Hall (at EPA.) Richard Nixon: 64. David Frost: Late 30s. British talk-show host, playboy. Col. Jack Brennan: 50s. Nixon's former Chief of Staff. Nixon loyalist.

'A Moon for the Misbegotten,' written between 1941-1943 was performed for the first time in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. The play premiered on Broadway in 1957 and has been revived four times, winning multiple Tony Awards. The most recent production starring Kevin Spacey and Eve Best in 2007 came to Broadway after its run at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

West Palm Beach's only resident professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks announced Eugene O'Neill's last completed drama, 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' will kick off its 9th anniversary season on Friday, October 17th (8PM) at their intimate downtown theatre (322 Banyan Boulevard.) The 2008-09 slate of productions will continue with a distinguished roster of plays including 'The Chairs' by Eugene Ionesco, 'The Weir' by Conor McPherson and the Florida premiere production of 'At Home At The Zoo' by Edward Albee.

Touring productions of Monty Python's Spamalot and Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady evenly split eight of the 10 Stock Road Show Awards with Chita Rivera - The Dancer's Life and Camelot taking home one each.

This year's red carpet season got off to a shaky start as a strike derailed the glamour in Los Angeles and New York. South Florida shows the nation how to get it right as the 32nd Annual Carbonell Award nominations were released today along with details of the awards ceremony, which is one of the most anticipated events of the theatrical season. The Carbonell Awards, sponsored by The Law Firm of Broad & Cassel, P.A., will take place Monday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Amaturo Theater of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.