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GableStage completes 2013-14 theater lineup

 

Directors are Kim Ehly, Genie Croft and Marjorie O’Neill-Butler. Ehly is also in the acting company along with Sally Bondi, Casey Dressler, Lela Elam, Noah Levine, Ann Marie Olson, Barbara Sloan, Karen Stephens, Carol Sussman, Pilar Uribe and Elayne Wilks.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday with audience favorites getting a second reading at 2 p.m. June 23. Tickets are $15 for one program, $25 for two, $35 for all three; 866-811-4111, womenstheatreproject.com.

Christine Dolen

‘Function + Will’

Function + Will, an installation by Miami artist Luis Garcia-Nerey, is on view through July 13 at General Audience Presents, an alternative art venue at 769 NE 125th St., North Miami.

Garcia-Nerey built an interactive installation in the 13-foot high project room that spans the length of the gallery and divides it in two. Viewers are encouraged to climb the stairways on each side of the structure and put their heads through holes that afford a view of the faux forest Garcia-Nerey built inside.

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 786-489-3889, generalaudiencepresents.com.

GALENA MOSOVICH

FIU festival

Florida International University’s Alternative Theatre Festival 2013 kicks off at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday with a program of improv, short plays and readings showcasing alumni who have gone on to theater careers.

Next up is Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette, directed by Stephanie Sandoval, June 26-29 and July 4-6. Marina Pareja directs Charles Ludlum’s Reverse Psychology July 10-13 and July 18-20, followed by Kenny Finkle’s new play, A Thousand Years, staged by Michael Yawney, July 24-27 and Aug. 1-3.

The festival closes Aug. 8-10 with a production of Glengarry Glen Ross directed by Wayne E. Robinson Jr. that reunites a cast of now-professional actors who did the David Mamet play as students in 2002 — Ricky Waugh, Meshaun Labrone Arnold, Daniel Gutierrez, Ivan R. Lopez, Joe Llorens and Ramon Vuenes — plus Gustavo David Ortiz and Danny Suarez.

Shows are in the Black Box Theatre at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, 10910 SW 17th St., Miami. Tickets are $10, with a $20 donation suggested for the alumni showcase and Glengarry Glen Ross, which are scholarship fundraisers; 305-348-0496, theatre.fiu.edu.

Christine Dolen

Briefly noted

• Playwright Lauren Gunderson will make an appearance after the 1 p.m. June 23 performance of The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful (and Her Dog), the family-friendly musical she co-wrote with Brian Lowdermilk that is part of City Theatre’s Summer Shorts Festival at the Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722, arshtcenter.org.

•  Conundrum Stages celebrates its fifth anniversary at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday with an eclectic program of performances, poetry and music at Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ Abdo New River Room, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Admission is a suggested $5 donation; 954-673-5124, conundrimstages.net.

• The de la Cruz Collection, 23 NE 41st St., Miami, will be closed through July 2 and again on July 13, Second Saturday Gallery Night in the Design District.

• Miami collector Tanya Capriles de Brillembourg’s extensive collection of Latin American art will be on public view for the first time June 23- Sept. 2 at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts; mfah.org.

• The ACND Gallery of Art at Archbishop Curley Notre Dame Prep, 4949 NE Second Ave., Miami, is soliciting entries from teaching artists working at elementary and middle schools near Miami’s art districts for a Sept. 14-Oct. 31 exhibit, Art Touches Lives. Submission deadline is June 30; galleryofart@acnd.net, 305-751-8367.

Compiled by Miami Herald staff. Send news about theater to cdolen@MiamiHerald.com; dance, pop and Latin music to jlevin@MiamiHerald.com; visual arts to jwooldridge@MiamiHerald.com and classical music and jazz to kmartin@MiamiHerald.com. Add events to our calendar at MiamiHerald.com/events.

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