Theatre

Fantasy Theatre Factory (FTF) at the Sandrell Rivers Theater is excited about its Play Reading Series, which seeks to promote the creation of new works by Florida playwrights. Please visit tickets.ftfshows.com or call (305) 284-8872 to reserve your tickets. Centennial by Edward Bloor Directed by Deborah Kondelik Art teacher Betty Parsons is pulled from her classroom by the principal, Dr. Kammer, to organize Caledonia High’s 2018 Veterans Day assembly. Dr. Kammer orders her to “keep it simple,” but that proves to be impossible as students and a teacher from a century before materialize. They turn a rote Veterans Day assembly into something real, and disturbing, and not at all simple, showing a stunned assembly audience the true costs of the Great War.

The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center (AHCAC) celebrates Women’s History Month with the NAACP award-winning play, “Pretty Fire” March 13-15th at the Sandrell Rivers Theater, 6103 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127. This production is a part of AHCAC’s 45th Anniversary celebration. “Pretty Fire,” winner of two NAACP Theatre Awards (Best Play and Best Playwright), is the first play of a trilogy written by playwright and actress Charlayne Woodard. In five autobiographical vignettes, the play is a touching story of an African American family through three generations of love, struggle and triumph. The one-woman show shares the story of Woodard’s premature birth and her growing up in Albany, New York, while the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in her grandparents’ town in Georgia. In honor of Women’s History Month, the Center has chosen to have a predominantly female production including the director, stage manager and producer, with the lead played by actress Trittney Huzzie. “Pretty Fire” also serves as the directorial debut of Carbonell-nominated actress, and Winner of the Broadway World Award for Best Actress, Khadijah Rolle. Rolle believes it is important for the industry to see women of color in the director’s chair. “I am honored for the opportunity to work with such dynamic women of color. I’m equally honored to work with the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center for my first show. The Center is a staple amongst the arts community and has impacted so many lives of people that look like me.”

Three days before his bid for reelection, in the wake of a school shooting in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, a Republican U.S. senator makes an off-the-cuff comment to a blogger that gets leaked on “the Twitter,” calling into question the senator’s stance on guns and God. As his devoutly Christian wife and liberal Jewish campaign manager try to contain the damage, this look at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion is simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting

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Storytelling session in Spanish. Guest author: Antonio Orlando Rodríguez. For children, discovering new characters in children's stories and reuniting with some of them is always a delight. In this morning, kids and adults can enjoy stories of yesterday and today, and have fun, be amazed and excited about them. A meeting to celebrate as a family the importance of sharing words and stories. This cultural activity is organized by the Cuatrogatos Foundation in coordination with Dowtown Doral Pop-up X Mind Body Social. (Illustration by Andrea Mahnke, Ediciones Ekaré). Cuentacuentos en español. Autor invitado: Antonio Orlando Rodríguez. Para los niños, descubrir nuevos personajes de los cuentos infantiles y reencontrarse con algunos de ellos es siempre una delicia. En esta mañana, chicos y grandes podrán disfrutrar de historias de ayer y de hoy, y divertirse, asombrarse y emocionarse con ellas. Un encuentro para celebrar en familia la importancia de compartir palabras y cuentos. Esta actividad cultural es organizada por la Fundación Cuatrogatos en coordinación con Dowtown Doral Pop-up X Mind Body Social. (Ilustración de Andrea Mahnke, Ediciones Ekaré).

National Theatre Live is a groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre live from the London stage to cinemas around the world including the Coral Gables Art Cinema! Event 1: Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons, captured live from The Old Vic in London. Event 2: Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. Event 3: James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, straight from London’s West End.

A war to retrieve the beautiful Helen of Troy has ended. The city has been laid to waste; its men slaughtered. Its women have been forced to the beach where the Greeks will soon enslave them as the spoils of war. As they await their fate, Queen Hecuba, her daughter Cassandra and the other women confront the travesties and devastation of war. Ellen McLaughlin’s contemporary adaptation of Euripides’ centuries-old drama is a lucid and humbling perspective on the refugees of war.

Music and Lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson Book by Catherine Johnson Over 60 million people worldwide have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show. This sunny and funny tale follows the story of a young woman’s search for her birth father on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. A large cast, non-stop laughs and explosive dance numbers, told through the story telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs, propel this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship into one of the most unforgettable musicals of all time.