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Florida Playwrights' Theatre

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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.

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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 (Carbonell Award 'nomination for Best Actress Angela Thomas)
  • 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
  • References

    Florida Playwrights' Theatre Wikipedia