With “The Rainmaker,” Palm Coast’s City Rep Theater Reads Into America’s Most...
"The Rainmaker" is at heart a sentimental comedy that reprises some of the oldest mythologies of America's Great Plains optimism: the faker and the husband-hunting rube whose mutual combustion unravels...
View ArticleAt Palm Coast’s City Rep Theatre, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in...
The Jane Wagner play made famous by Lily Tomlin comes to Palm Coast's City Repertory Theatre with a gaggle of prophetic wit and satire about the dawning Donald Trump era. The post At Palm Coast’s City...
View ArticleCity Rep Theatre Inaugurates “Next to Normal,” a Musical on the Theme of...
“Next to Normal” debuted Off-Broadway in 2008, winning the Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Score. The musical opened on Broadway in April 2009 and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, winning...
View ArticleWit as Weapon In “Waltz of the Toreadors,” City Repertory Theatre’s...
The 1951 play by France's Jean Anouilh is a bitterly funny send-up of middle class pretensions and expectations, and another daring experiment by Palm Coast's City Repertory Theatre. The post Wit as...
View Article“John & Jen” and Generational Shock in Musical Closing City Repetory...
"John & Jen" features the same two actors portraying family members over two generations crossing America's tumultuous 60s and beyond, and testing family ties. At Palm Coast's City Rep Theatre. The...
View ArticleFrom “I Am A Camera” To Macbeth, City Repertory Launches Seventh Season Of...
City Repertory Theatre continues to go where no other Palm Coast or Flagler theater dares to go, opening tonight its seventh season with "I Am Camera," a work set in Weimar Berlin, and at the origin of...
View ArticleYou’re Not Reading Wrong: [Title of Show] Sings Anthem To Selfie Culture In...
The latest musical to be staged at Palm Coast's City Rep Theatre is about creating a show that takes its name – brackets and all – from the entry form used to submit a finished work to a festival. The...
View ArticleIn City Rep Theatre’s “Other Desert Cities,” A Recognizable Family At War...
The Jon Robin Baitz play opening Friday at Palm Coast's City Rep Theatre explores in darkly comic tenors a family's reverberations through Vietnam, the Iraq war and the present. The post In City Rep...
View ArticleWith ‘Macbeth’ and Measureless Content, Palm Coast Arts Foundation and City...
It's "Macbeth" time Thursday through Sunday as the Palm Coast Arts Foundation and City Repertory Theatre hope Shakespeare in the Park, in Town Center, becomes a local tradition. The post With ‘Macbeth’...
View ArticlePalm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre Leaps Into Faith and Murder with ‘Agnes...
“Agnes of God” is an investigation of religion, of faith, of science, of what, how and why we believe, says City Repertory Theatre John Sbordone. The play opens Friday. The post Palm Coast’s City...
View Article“The Last Romance” Bids a Golden Valentine for Adult Sensibilities at City...
Joe DiPietro's romantic comedy at Palm Coast's City Repertory Theatre stars real-life couple Sue and John Pope, who must act as if they don't love each other. The post “The Last Romance” Bids a Golden...
View Article“Wrong Turn at Lungfish”: CRT Comedy Pairs Blind Grump and Street Tart in...
A battle of wits plays out between a blind and bitter college professor and an uneducated street tart in “Wrong Turn at Lungfish,” the Gary Marshall comedy-drama at City Repertory Theatre in Palm...
View ArticleBogosian’s “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll” at CRT: The Frightening Drift of...
Those who see the show at Palm Coast's City Repertory Theatre will find themselves in very recognizably angry American territory even though the play was written in 1990. The post Bogosian’s “Sex,...
View ArticleAt City Rep’s Theater Workshop for Teens, Homer’s Odyssey Navigates Scylla...
CRT’s “Odyssey,” staged this weekend at City Marketplace in Palm Coast, stars eight performers ages 15 to 21 in the culmination of the six-week-long workshop that sought to break the performers from...
View ArticleFrom Charlie Brown to Signs of Intelligent Life, City Rep Launches Next to...
Palm Coast's City Repertory Theater is opening its sixth season with its usual mixture of daring, squirm-inducing and mainstream fare, with such uncommon works as “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” the musical...
View ArticleGiving Charm a Chance, City Rep’s 6th Season Opens With “You’re a Good Man,...
“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” the musical opening at Palm Coast's City Repertory Theatre Friday, was written not by Schulz but by Clark Gesner, who of course based his “average day in the life of...
View ArticlePalm Coast City Rep’s “Mystery of Irma Vep” Is Latest Victim of Hurricane...
Patrons who purchased single-performance tickets will be given refunds. Season ticket-holders will be able to use their “Irma Vep” tickets to attend a performance of A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” in...
View ArticleFor Palm Coast’s Boldest Stage in New Season, “Rocky Horror,” Satanic Puppet,...
Palm Coast-based City Rep, always willing to do a Capt. Kirk and boldly go where few community theaters have gone before, will offer six productions in the coming season. The post For Palm Coast’s...
View Article‘Rocky Horror Show’ Takes Palm Coast in City Rep’s Season Opener, With...
In Palm Coast for the first time, the campy raunchy musical parodies vintage science fiction and horror B movies and relies on audience participation for extra-special effects. The post ‘Rocky Horror...
View ArticleHow Palm Coast Tamed Shakespeare’s Shrew, With Eyes On A Lot More at Arts...
City Repertory Theatre's second edition of Shakespeare in the Park kicks off tonight at the Palm Coast Arts Foundation's venue in Town Center, which the city sees as an anchor to future cultural...
View ArticleCity Repertory Theatre’s New Season: Shakespeare, Teen Lust and Two Neil Simons
Palm Coast's City Repertory Theatre continues to push boundaries with three tales of adolescent love and lust, "Romeo and Juliet" not least, but also a couple of box office-pleasing Neil Simons. The...
View ArticleCritical Lack of Exhibit Space Hobbling Palm Coast Art Scene Even as...
For the first time in 20 years, the Flagler County Artist of the Year will not have a show, for lack of space. The critical lack of exhibit space is on the radar of the Flagler County Art League, the...
View ArticleFrom Verona to Brooklyn, With Love: Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Parks It...
Brent Jordan and Lillie Thomas are in the lead roles in City Repertory Theatre's and the Palm Coast Arts Foundation's "Romeo and Juliet," originally planned for the big tent in Town center, but moved...
View ArticleAbridged by Pandemic, City Rep Theatre Season Kicks Off with Wacky...
Palm Coast's City Repertory Theatre returns for the first time since the pandemic with "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" in an outdoors production at the Palm Coast Arts...
View ArticleAudrey II Puts Bite in City Rep’s “Little Shop of Horrors,” Opening Outdoors...
"Little Shop of Horrors" is City Repertory Theatre's most expensive production in 10 years, and is intended in part to give theater-goers a break from pandemic fatigue even as the show easily invites...
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