Get on the Bus

If you're looking for stage action, go back to school

Comments (0) By Ronald Mangravite Thursday, Sep 11 2003

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The line of educational mainstage offerings for the upcoming fall season certainly deserves attention from South Florida playgoers. This selection of shows is a lot livelier than what most of the pros offer and many of the student performers offer a lot of talent and creative juice. Just the thing for a jaded playgoer with an attack of the gripes. Here's a look at what's ahead at some of the area's educational theaters:

Barry University (305-899-3398) in Miami Shores offers the comic operetta The Pirates of Penzanceand the grand opera La Boheme.

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The Frogs by Stephen Sondheim at UM

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Florida International University (305-348-3789), which has had strong programming, presents Steve Martin's comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile, plus As You Like It, Cabaret,and a new AIDS drama, Before It Hits Home.

Florida Atlantic University (561-297-3810) serves up Alfred Jarry's absurdist classic Ubu Roi, followed by Peter Weiss's hard-hitting take on Auschwitz, The Investigation; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; and Much Ado About Nothing.

The New World School of the Arts (305-237-3541) offers Poor Murderer, Anything Goes, and Yukio Mishima's Madame De Sade, plus an array of new works.

The University of Miami (305-284-3355) starts off with Noises Off, the British comedy hit, followed by the strange, intriguing musical Violet; Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; Jane Martin's sendup of Chekhov, Anton in Show Business; and the classic musical Sweet Charity.