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Paradise Blue

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

U.S. citizens Lali and Beng are being held prisoner in a small, dirty cement cell. Where have they been taken? How much time has passed? Are they alive? Has their story been broadcast to the world? How did they get here? What will happen to them?

No One Is Forgotten

Urbanite Theatre

Experience the transformative power of art with "Anna in the Tropics" at the Asolo Repertory Theatre. This Pulitzer-prize winning masterpiece by Nilo Cruz, directed by Marcela Lorca, is set to captivate audiences from February 21 to March 13, 2025, with previews on February 19 and 20. Set in Ybor City, Florida, in 1929, the play unfolds in a cigar factory where workers are enthralled by the readings of a handsome lector from Cuba. His choice of literature, "Anna Karenina," ignites a flurry of passions, setting the stage for a story that intertwines Tolstoy, the tropics, and the American dream into an intoxicating narrative. As an industrial revolution looms, the play explores the dangerous and transformative powers of art. Don't miss this hailed production that promises a journey through love, literature, and liberation.

Anna in the Tropics

FSU Center for the Performing Arts

Nan is working the night shift at Dunkin, fielding frequent calls from her husband, who needs help finding…everything. Meanwhile, Jennifer is doing her best to ignore Joey, the aging patient wearing down her…patience. At the same time, Lili is overwhelmed by the looming pressure of the SAT exam and her father’s insistence that she go to work the night before the test.

Jennifer, Who Is Leaving

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Back for the fifth year and taking place at Urbanite Theatre, the Modern Works Festival is a five-day playwriting contest, reading festival, and celebration of women in theatre.

Modern Works Festival


OAK by Terry Guest
 
Directed by Mikael Burke

WORLD PREMIERE
May 31 to June 30, 2024

SYNOPSIS
It’s 7pm. Do you know where your children are? It’s snatching season, and town-wide curfew regulations have fostered a culture of fear in the community along Odella Creek. Too many have fallen victim to the freedoms promised by the red-eyed monster...Will cousins Suga, Big Man, and Pickle resist temptation, or become the next names in the morning news? Step into the darkness and experience the terror firsthand in the new Southern Gothic horror, OAK.

When Pia is gifted a surprise rescue dog by an old friend, Krys, the women and their partners face-off over issues of class, accountability, and good breeding. The winner of Urbanite Theatre’s 2023 Modern Works Festival, WESTMINSTER is part morality play/part screwball romp, digging into “acceptable” social prejudices—and the consequences of leaving those biases unchecked.

Westminster

Hang on to the edge of your seat through the twists and turns of a gripping cat-and-mouse game in Dial 'M' for Murder. Frederick Knott’s classic thriller of blackmail and revenge, the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic movie, is given a stylish, intoxicating update in Jeffrey Hatcher’s brand-new adaptation. In 1950s London, a husband plots to murder his wife, but when his plan goes awry, he must scramble to keep from getting caught. Will he get away with it, or will justice be served? Only one way to find out. “Wonderfully theatrical... The pace is quicker, the dialogue is snappier, the women are smarter and more complex.” -The Times of San Diego

Dial 'M' for Murder

Asolo Repertory Theatre

Be seduced by the story of Esther, a Black seamstress in 1905 New York seeking love and companionship. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage returns to Asolo Rep with Intimate Apparel, a searing, sensual, and powerful story of forbidden romance. Esther spends her days sewing corsets for other women but hasn’t found love for herself. When she receives a letter from a Barbadian man working on the Panama Canal, Esther kindles an exchange that leads to marriage with a stranger, even while her heart is drawn to a Jewish shop owner who’s promised to another woman. Nottage’s lyrical and heart wrenching play is a modern classic about the power of human connection.

Intimate Apparel

Grab a drink with William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe as you get an inside peek at the tumultuous relationship of two of history’s greatest playwrights, each harboring momentous secrets. Fresh off critically acclaimed world premiere runs at the Alley Theatre and Guthrie Theatre, Born with Teeth will plunge you into the palace intrigue, high stakes spy craft, and cutthroat betrayals of a ruthlessly ambitious age that is surprisingly like our own. Be among the first in the nation to watch this delicious, sexy, and award- winning new play that offers an alternate perspective on the history we think we know.

Born with Teeth

Feel the heat of the courtroom in the sizzling American classic Inherit the Wind, an explosive drama inspired by the most important trial of the 20th Century. As a media circus descends upon a small American town, two of the largest figures of their time engage in a battle of wits and wills to ensure that justice is served, in the process charting the course of education for generations. An international phenomenon that became an Oscar®-nominated film, Inherit the Wind will get your pulse racing as you relive a defining moment of American history, brought to life by Asolo Rep’s new Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein.

Inherit the Wind

"Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say." -Virginia Woolf.

 

Dressed in drag, Judith heads to London to save her brother’s reputation. In a patriarchal, politically-charged, and deeply divided nation, she pursues work as a poet and discovers the pleasures and pitfalls of passing as the bard himself.

Judith

This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is set in the segregation-era South of 1944. On a Louisiana Army base, two shots ring out. A Black sergeant is murdered. A series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America. One persistent investigator must race against his white leadership to unravel the crime before they unravel him.

A Soldier's Play

When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, Bella makes a surprising request of Christopher that neither knows if he can fulfill.

The Sound Inside

Glory. Survival. Legacy. Citizenship. Four Latino boxers all chase a world title to achieve their personal versions of heaven. But to get there, they must battle each other, their own battered bodies, and the universe itself. 

That Must Be the Entrance to Heaven

Back for the fourth time and returning to an in-person experience, the Modern Works Festival is a playwriting contest, reading festival and celebration of women in theatre.

2023 Modern Works Festival

When a soldier returns from war carrying the ghosts of his tour, he’s faced with a sobering decision: address his alarming PTSD with Virtual Reality therapy, or risk losing access to his family forever. Can this new technology re-calibrate the brains and bodies of wounded soldiers? 

Backwards Forwards Back

As birders, John and his daughter Caitlyn adore spending tender autumn days attempting to catch glimpses of elusive birds. But as seasons, the climate, and global politics change, the two find their connection as rare as a red-headed Woodpecker. 

Birds of North America

Siblings Mordy and Jane have a problem. Their dreadful, centenarian grandfather is an emotional and financial tax on the family, and he just won’t die. Scheming almost entirely via sarcastic and misspelled text messages, the siblings hatch an outrageous plan to relieve their family of their grandfather’s burden.

The Burdens

What compels an actor to play a character that they probably shouldn't? In this sidesplitting roast, J. Elijah Cho cleverly answers that question by exploring Mickey Rooney's infamous yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Play events in Sarasota, FL

Paradise Blue

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

No One Is Forgotten

Urbanite Theatre

Anna in the Tropics

Asolo Repertory Theatre

Jennifer, Who Is Leaving

Urbanite Theatre

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Modern Works Festival

Urbanite Theatre

Oak

Urbanite Theatre

Westminster

Urbanite Theatre

Dial 'M' for Murder

Asolo Repertory Theatre

Intimate Apparel

Asolo Repertory Theatre

Born with Teeth

Asolo Repertory Theatre

Inherit the Wind

Asolo Repertory Theatre

Judith

Urbanite Theatre

A Soldier's Play

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

The Sound Inside

Urbanite Theatre

That Must Be the Entrance...

Urbanite Theatre

2023 Modern Works Festiva...

Urbanite Theatre

Backwards Forwards Back

Urbanite Theatre

Birds of North America

Urbanite Theatre

The Burdens

Urbanite Theatre

Mr. Yunioshi

Urbanite Theatre