On Stage - Page 119

by DICK KEREKES & LEISLA SANSOM Players by the Sea and Mix Tape Productions presented the World Premier of The Creationists written and directed by Joshua Kreis McTiernan. Three more performances are scheduled on February 24, 25, and 26 at the Players Theatre in Jacksonville Beach. Performances are in the

by DICK KEREKES & LEISLA SANSOM The Florida State College at Jacksonville Artist Series is presenting Neil Goldberg’s fascinating Cirque Dreams Illumination, running through Sunday, February 20 at the Times Union Center in downtown Jacksonville. If you like Broadway shows and circus acts, then you will indeed be totally thrilled

by DICK KEREKES & LEISLA SANSOM The Stanton Prep drama students once again left their Northside campus to bring a play to the stage of Theatre Jacksonville in San Marco Square. At the end of 2010, they presented the musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the

by DICK KEREKES & LEISLA SANSOM Players by the Sea School of the Arts presented a World Premier of an original script by the school’s director, Barbara Colaciello, titled NO-I-TAN-I-GAM-I. It was performed over 4 days, February 10 to February 13 on the Players main stage in Jacksonville Beach. If

by Don Westwood The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s yearly opera presentation is one of the region’s most eagerly awaited cultural events. The local audience is augmented by opera fans who travel from central and south Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. This year’s offering was Donizetti’s romantic comedy, L’ELISIR D’AMORE (THE ELIXIR

by Liltera Williams The electrifying production, Cirque Dreams Illumination, will ignite Jacksonville when it comes to at the Times-Union Center’s Moran Theater February 15th to the 20th. Created and directed by Neil Goldberg and presented by the Artist Series, the latest Cirque Dreams installment will showcase “ordinary people doing ordinary

by DICK KEREKES & LEISLA SANSOM It will be the land of candy and fantasy on stage at OPCT for the month of February with the opening of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, a musical based on the children’s book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” All performances are in the theatre

by DICK KEREKES Thanks to the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, on Wednesday January 19, residents of North Florida had the opportunity to see and hear one of the elite musical theatre performers, the incomparable Bernadette Peters. Conductor Fabio Mechetti and the members of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra opened the festival evening

by DICK KEREKES & LEISLA SANSOM Theatre Jacksonville opened its first show of 2011 with the Pulitzer Prize (2007) wining play, David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole, setting a high standard for the remainder of the season. This is a superb production in every way, including an excellent cast of actors, powerful

by Liltera R. Williams If you missed this past Saturday’s performance of Drumline Live, based on the 2002 film and presented by The Artist Series, you missed an entertaining production full of masterful schematics and jaw-dropping musicianship. The 39 member cast of HBCU students from all over the country wowed