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With Medieval Wit and Drama, “Lion in Winter” Ends City Repertory’s Second Season

| May 17, 2013

James Goldman’s “Lion in Winter”–opening at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre this weekend–may be set in a Medieval Christmas, but the themes are as contemporary as family love, quarrels, mistresses and jealousies, and the action blazes with humor and passion.

Waiting for Godot’s Funnier Version: “Line” Opens at City Repertory Tonight

| April 19, 2013

“Line” is the longest-running off-off Broadway play in history, a funny blend of the wit and philosophy, and what it means to be first. It opens at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre tonight, and runs for just six performances this weekend and next.

Many of Flagler’s Arts Groups Begin to Look Beyond Egos to a Cooperative Alliance

| April 16, 2013

An emerging arts alliance for Palm Coast and Flagler County would capitalize on the economic benefits of an arts scene with more coordinated projects and strategy, led by the tourism council’s conciliating voice of Georgia Turner. Obstacles remain, however.

Sex, Drugs, Tombs and Magical Thinking in 3 Dazzling Shows at City Repertory Theatre

| March 29, 2013

Three weekends, three one-person shows, three experiences that will shock, touch and awe as John Sbordone directs “Sex Drugs, Rock & Roll,” “The Year of Magical Thinking” and “Spoon River” in a whirlwind of triple performances through March 31.

With “Twilight,” Rodney King Riots Transform Palm Coast Stage Into a Rap of Revelations

| February 23, 2013

“Twilight,” the new play opening at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, is a violently exuberant recreation of the world of the 1992 South-Central riots into a unique theatrical experience that manages to coil hope, humor and grit out of despair.

Stephen Sondheim Sidles Up to Palm Coast in “Side by Side” at City Repertory Theatre

| January 19, 2013

“Side By Side By Sondheim,” a revue opening at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre Friday, is a clever reinvention of Stephen Sondheim’s lyrical genius by way of his classics, from “West Side Story” to “Sweeney Todd.”

Robert Gill’s Mark Twain Takes Palm Coast at City Repertory Theatre

| November 29, 2012

Robert Gill has taken Mark Twain all over Florida, performing in Jacksonville, Orlando, Avon Park, and St. Augustine, but this will be the Palm Coast debut, and it flows with whiskey and irreverence.

The Language of Class Warfare from Shaw’s “Pygmalion” to Sbordone’s Repertory Theatre

| November 17, 2012

Language as class still has its cliques, as do all prejudices. It’s also a central theme of Pygmalion, the newest production of an old classic opening tonight (and running through Sunday) at John Sbordone’s City Repertory Theatre, at Hollingsworth Gallery.

Lazarus Act: City Repertory Theatre’s “Jacques Brel” Revives Grand Voice With Force and Style

| September 14, 2012

“Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well,” the Palm Coast City Repertory Theatre’s most successful production of its inaugural season, is rich in powerful and intuitive performances that recreate, in English, the songs and themes of the late French Bob Dylan.

Ed Skellings’s Death Leaves Florida Without a Poet Laureate for the First Time in 32 Years

| September 3, 2012

A memorial to Ed Skellings will be held at the City Island library in Daytona Beach on Sept. 6 as the Florida State Poets Association lobbies the Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott to formalize the poet laureate’s appointment and link it to Florida’s literary and literacy efforts.

Ed Hess, Beverly Beach Commissioner and Walter Brennan Alter Ego, Died in A1A Wreck

| August 3, 2012

Ed Hess was a Beverly Beach commissioner for at least 16 years, and had performed on stages and elsewhere for half a century, especially his Walter Brennan imitations.

Rodney King’s Twilight, and Anna Deavere Smith’s: Coming to Palm Coast

| June 18, 2012

Rodney King was found dead at his home’s pool on June 17. Anna Deavere Smith 18 years ago wrote “Twilight,” a one-woman play that retells the story of the Rodney King riots through the voices of 37 people involved in the story. “Twilight” will be staged in Palm Coast this fall.

“An Evening With…” Saturday At City Repertory Theatre: The Manic, the Jazzy and the Stately

| May 17, 2012

Manic comic Jonathan Haglund, the Island Duet (Caren and Paul Umbarger) and the Flagler Youth Strings Quartet are combining for “An Evening With…” Saturday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the City Repertory Theatre at Hollingsworth Gallery in palm Coast. It’s the CRT’s last event of the season.

For Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, A Nuclear Drama to End a Radiant First Season

| May 4, 2012

“The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” is a terrible title but wonderful play, a wrenching, angry drama with comedic elements that caps the City Repertory Theatre’s first season at Hollingsworth Gallery, with six performances this weekend and the next.

Seriously Sit-Com: A Play in High “Art” at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre

| March 29, 2012

Three friends. A white painting. And the mayhem it causes. The latest play at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, opening Friday (at Hollingsworth gallery) is a provocative comedy that’s been translated in 35 languages since its premier in Paris in 1994.

Women’s Wrestling as Inspiration: “Miracle Worker” at FPC’s Black Box Theatre Tonight

| February 16, 2012

The story of Hellen Keller and Annie Sullivan, with FPC junior Agata Sokolska and senior Leana Gardella in the title roles, is director Kelly Nelson’s valentine to inspiration. The play will be staged Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Jacques Brel, Alive and Well and Living At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre

| January 20, 2012

Starting Friday, the City Repertory Theatre will stage six performances of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,” the Eric Blau and Mort Schuman revue of the great Belgian troubadour, under the direction of John Sbordone.

In “Talking With…,” Yet Another Triumph for Palm Coast’s Embryonic City Repertory Theatre

| October 30, 2011

Jane Martin’s “Talking With…” is an emotional roller-coaster of laughs and sorrows through 11 women’s monologues, superbly pulled off in Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre’s newest production at Hollingsworth Gallery.

Jane Martin’s “Talking With…,” at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre Oct. 28-Nov. 5

| October 19, 2011

Jane Martin–a pen-name–pulls off a clever series of monologues by 11 women in “Talking With,” directed by John Sbordone at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre.

Between “Laramie” and “Spelling Bee,” All Flagler’s a Stage

| September 23, 2011

John Sbordone’s production of “The Laramie Project” and the Flagler Playhouse’s “Spelling Bee” musical are enough to briefly spoil serious and less than theater lovers this weekend. Take advantage.

“The Laramie Project” at Palm Coast’s New Repertory Theatre: This Is Who We Are

| September 22, 2011

Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre launches its inaugural season with “The Laramie Project,” a drama based on the torture and murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, for being gay, and what the murder did to Laramie–and the nation.

Kisses, Spoofs, Puns and Rap Run Wild in Repertory Theatre’s Shakespearean Vaudeville

| August 5, 2011

Director John Sbordone’s first workshop production this weekend at the Repertory Theatre’s stage, at Hollingsworth Gallery, dares grope where no Shakespeare has versed before. It’s high-energy hilarity.

Sbordone’s Next Act: Ex-Playhouse Director Opens New Theater With Poetry Clash

| July 23, 2011

Palm Coast’s theater scene is about to get much richer as John Sbordone launches his City Repertory Theatre with a “poetry clash” at Hollingsworth Gallery, where the theater will have its home for the coming season.

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