Florida Playwrights' Theatre

Florida Playwrights' Theatre

Florida Playwrights' Theatre or FPT was a 54-seat black box theatre in Hollywood, Florida that was in operation from 1993 to 1999. It was begun by Paul and Angela Thomas, whose goal was to create a small repertory company that would produce new plays and little-known plays, as well as the classics, including their annual Shakespeare festivals.

New Plays Premiered

* "Apathy-The Gen X Musical" by Mickey Zetts (Both as a late-night 1995 and a mainstage 1997)
* "Love is a Masochist" by Mickey Zetts (shown with "The Piano that Jack Filled", adapted by Duncan Pflaster from the song-cycle by Adam Rabin) 1996.
* "Wilder and Wilder by Duncan Pflaster (Both as a late-night and a mainstage - 1995)
* "Amazing Dædalus" by Duncan Pflaster (Late-night 1997)
* "Audition Pieces" by Kim Mowrey
* "The Jessie Donovan Show" by Roberta Morgan

Other Plays Produced

1993
* "Dancin' to Calliope" by Jack Gilhooley
* "Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel" by Nelly Sachs
* "The Mystery of Irma Vep" by Charles Ludlam
* "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You" by Christopher Durang
* "Psycho Beach Party" by Charles Busch
* "Greater Tuna" by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
* 1st Annual Shakespeare Festival
** "Twelfth Night"
** "As You Like It"
* "The Miss Firecracker Contest" by Beth Henley
* Double bill of "Graceland" by Ellen Byron and "Line" by Israel Horovitz
1994
* "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles
* "The House of Blue Leaves" by John Guare
* "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare
* "Messiah" by Martin Sherman
* "A Woman Called Truth: The Story of Sojourner Truth" by Sandra Fenichel Asher
* "The Children's Hour" by Lillian Hellman
1995
* "Angel City" by Sam Shepard
* "Lenny" by Julian Barry (Carbonell Award won for Best Actor Todd Durkin, nominated for Best Supporting Actor Larry Jurrist)
* 2nd Annual Shakespeare Festival
** "Much Ado About Nothing"
** "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
* "The Secret Lives of The Sexists" by Charles Ludlam
* "Laundry and Bourbon" and "Lone Star" by James McLure
* "What The Butler Saw" by Joe Orton
* "Oleanna" by David Mamet
* "The Loman Family Picnic" by Donald Margulies
* "On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning)" by Eric Overmeyer
* "Reckless" by Craig Lucas
1996
* "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
* "Talk Radio" by Eric Bogosian
* 3rd Annual Shakespeare Festival
** "The Comedy of Errors"
** "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
* "The Mystery of Irma Vep" by Charles Ludlam
* "Laughing Wild" by Christopher Durang
* "American Buffalo by David Mamet
* "Times Square Angel" by Charles Busch
1997
* "Betty the Yeti: An Eco Fable" by Jon Klein
* 4th Annual Shakespeare Festival
** "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
** "Romeo and Juliet"
* "The Diary of Anne Frank"" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
* "Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis
1998
* 5th Annual Shakespeare Festival
** "Hamlet"
** "The Tempest"
* "Black Comedy/White Lies" by Peter Shaffer
* "The Art of Dining" by Tina Howe
* "Titanic" by Christopher Durang

Links

* [http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/1998-01-01/culture/small-wonder/ Small Wonder] Article from New Times Broward/Palm Beach


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