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Actors' Playhouse's production of A Rock Sails By asks: Is there life after death, life beyond Earth, and what's it all for?

What happens when you take the writing of comedies like "30 Rock" and "The Office," and you make the setting a television station?

Boca-based filmmaker Jill Melody is busy celebrating her next big success—now streaming worldwide. The president of Punchline Productions and the founder of the Florida Comedy Film Festival is also the triple-threat producer-director-star of the mischievous new comedy JUST MY TYPE which is now available for viewing on both GooglePlay and Amazon Prime.

In 2020, Miami’s City Theatre was planning a splashy 25th-anniversary edition of its Summer Shorts festival. But it was canceled due to COVID-19. Now, 27 years after the theater's creation, the postponed 25th festival is finally here, running through July 2, 2022, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

ART HEIST MIXES MYSTERY, THEATER Oline H Cogdill There’s an art heist going around the country—and insightful sleuths are needed to solve the crime. The Art Heist Experience is an interactive true-crime show inspired by the theft of 13 works of art worth $500 million from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. During the play, masked audience groups walk around the crime scene, interviewing “suspects,” then come the solution. Plenty of evidence and clues are scattered abou...

The interactive crime caper 'Art Heist' will be staged outside the Broward Center, and the audience gets to play along.

Arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 17-23 Our weekly guide to the visual and performing arts in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Dancing in the street Sarasota Contemporary marks its 15th anniversary with the outdoor street festival “Fiesta de Colores.” Presented from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in the courtyard of Rosemary Square, adjacent to the company’s studios, it will feature DJ Karim Manning, local lyricist and B-boy Rick Levin and an interactive projection design by Logan Gabriel Schulma...

Arts events in Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 10-16 A Dickens of a performance Jim Floyd has a rare treat for himself and audiences this holiday season. He not only gets to return to performing after a long pandemic-forced break, but he’s playing all the characters in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” including the author himself. Floyd stars in the Players Centre for Performing Arts production of Greg Oliver Bodine’s one-man version of the classic story outdoors at the Bazaar at Apricot ...