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Review: Venice Theatre’s “The Full Monty”
The guys of The Full Monty. Every time I see the musical The Full Monty (now onstage at Venice Theatre) I’m freshly amazed by the guts of its performers, willing to bare themselves both physically and...
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FSU/Asolo Conservatory’s The Water Engine
The cast of The Water Engine. Photo Frank Atura By Kay Kipling There’s a very good chance you’ve never heard of the play The Water Engine, now onstage in an FSU/Asolo Conservatory production at the...
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Venice Theatre Stage II’s God of Carnage
Amity Hoffman, Neil Kasanofsky, Laurie Colton and Matt McCord in God of Carnage. By Kay Kipling Four civilized, upper-middle-class Brooklynites gather over coffee to discuss a recent playground...
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Asolo Rep’s South Pacific
Ben Davis and Kelly Felthous in South Pacific. Photo by Cliff Roles By Kay Kipling It’s all too easy to forget, if you’ve seen a classic like South Pacific multiple times, that when it first opened on...
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Florida Studio Theatre’s Hairspray
Cast members of FST’s Hairspray. Photo by Maria Lyle By Kay Kipling They’re singing and dancing up a storm over at Florida Studio Theatre’s Gompertz in a production of Hairspray that’s just about as...
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Sarasota Ballet’s Rubies, Lux Aeterna and Sergeant Early’s Dream
The Sarasota Ballet’s Rubies. By Kay Kipling Watching the Sarasota Ballet’s performance this past weekend at the Sarasota Opera House made me feel that I don’t attend the company’s productions often...
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Manatee Players’ Meet Me in St. Louis
A lively number from Meet Me in St. Louis. By Kay Kipling At a time when St. Louis, Mo., is in the headlines in a most unfortunate way, it’s pleasant to sit back and indulge in the nostalgia of the...
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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s Black Nativity
Lynette White, Amber Myers and Dibias W. Livingston in WBTT’s Black Nativity. By Kay Kipling It’s been a while since Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe has presented a production of Black Nativity,...
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The Players’ A Christmas Story, the Musical
Jeffery Kin and cast members in A Christmas Story, the Musical. By Kay Kipling If you, like me, have watched the movie A Christmas Story over and over on TV at the holiday season, you might approach...
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Florida Studio Theatre’s Dancing Lessons
Jason Cannon and Vanessa Morosco in Dancing Lessons. Photo by Cliff Roles By Kay Kipling If you’re familiar with playwright Mark St. Germain’s work, perhaps from previous productions at Florida Studio...
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