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‘A Year With Frog & Toad’ Delivers Lots of Smiles

The Hippodrome Theatre’s musical production, which opens this week, is a warm-and-fuzzy children’s story about friendship that carries a strong message for adults: Let’s all…

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Hippodrome Marks 40 Years of Timeless Classic

When the Hippodrome Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol opens this week, it will mark the 40th consecutive season the theater has presented the Charles Dickens…

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Hipp’s Artistic Directer Earns Statewide Honor

The Florida Theater Conference is recognizing Lauren Warhol Caldwell with a Lifetime Achievement Award in professional theater later this week during a ceremony at Santa…

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Acrosstown Puts Its All Into ‘Rocky Horror Show’

Just in time for Halloween, the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre presents The Rocky Horror Show, featuring Dr. Frank N. Furter, that “sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania,” and…

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Hippodrome Hits Stride With ‘Georgia McBride’

After a heart-thumping run of 1984 to start its season, the Hippodrome Theatre lightens things up with a hilarious production of The Legend of Georgia McBride,…

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‘Se Llama Cristina’ Takes Journey Out of Darkness

The Actors’ Warehouse begins its 2017-18 season this week with a drama by Octavio Solis that looks at a Latino man and woman facing their…

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Another Acrosstown Original: ‘Trailer Park Elegy’

The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre opens its 2017-18 season with Michael Presley Bobbitt’s heartwarming comedy/drama about finding humanity in the least likely place. Even a goat…

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Timing Everything as Hippodrome Presents ‘1984’

Gainesville’s home for live professional theater kicks off its 45th season with a gripping adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel about Big Brother that, in…

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‘Me & Jezebel’ Shows Davis as Real-Life Character

The two-women production at the Actors’ Warehouse describes what happened when the aging film star dropped in on a Connecticut family and made herself right…

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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Exudes Playfulness

The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre presents its second installment of Summer Shakespeare. This year it’s the Bard’s most frequently performed comedy that’s still funny 400 years…

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