The Scene for July 24, 2015

Theatre may slow down during the sizzling Florida summer, but it certainly doesn’t stop.  From the launch of a national tour, to the extension of a staging of a Sondhiem classic, there’s something playing in every corner of South Florida.
   

The South Florida Theatre League’s Summerfest Play Reading Series is moving right along.  Every Monday now through August 31, there is a free reading of an original play written by a local playwright at one of the member theaters.  This Monday, there’s a bookend:  you have the choice of Wrongful Death by Christopher Demos-Brown at the Maltz Jupiter Theater, or Gina Montel’s The Prey presented by The Mangrove Collective at The Little Haiti Cultural Center.

    

Here’s what’s playing this week on The Scene:

    

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opening...

..and closing this week at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts is the national tour of Love Letters, featuring Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal, who starred in 1970’s Love Story.  It was “the” romantic movie for a decade.  The tour is actually launching from Fort Lauderdale, so you get to see it first, but you’ll need to do it by Sunday.

 

TheaterXP brings Key West Radio Theatre to life through Saturday; another brief “coming and going” production.

 

   

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you still haven't missed...

 

Evening Star Productions presents The Last Five Years at the Sol Theater through August 2.

 

Actors’ Playhouse presents Unnecessary Farce at The Miracle Theater through August 9, 2015.

 

Broward Stage Door Theatre presents WaistWatchers, the Musical, which as already been extended through September 6., and Sisters of Swing, which has been extended through August 2.
  
Looking Glass Alice opens at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, through August 16.

  

MicroTheatre Miami is running three plays in English and four plays in Spanish on Thursdays.  Check it out: you can choose which plays you see, and you only pay for the ones you choose.  It's a sweet deal, and a great night out.

 

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last chance to see...

The Palm Beach Dramaworks concert presentation of A Little Night Music has been extended through July 26th – don’t miss it!

 Florida Atlantic University presents She Loves Me, through July 26.

The venerable Lake Worth Playhouse presents The Who's TOMMY, through July 26.

 

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community and conservatory...

Marry Poppins plays the Pembroke Pines Theater of Performing Arts through August 9.
 

Main Street Players presents Reefer Madness through August 9.

 

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for kids...

 

Actors' Playhouse presents Hansel and Gretel at the Miracle Theater through July 25, 2015.

 

Area Stage presents The Fantastic Mr. Fox, through July 26.

 

Miami Children's Theater presents Shrek the Musical at the Dave and Mary Alper JCC through July 24.