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• Kids can become playwrights

  Miami Childrens Theater has created a playwrights' festival for Miami-Dade County kids 13 to 18, but the company isn't just looking for scripts.  It is holding three free workshops (the first is from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday) to help the aspiring young writers learn how to create stageworthy short scripts.

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• A conference, a deal, a reading and a college show

  

  Going into the weekend, here's a brief roundup of theater news and events:

  *  Arnold Mittelman, the long-time producing artistic director of the (still) closed Coconut Grove Playhouse, is planning a 2012 South Florida conference under the auspices of his National Jewish Theater [...]

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• Free theater...and other news

  

  Theatre Communications Group's annual Free Night of Theater is actually a collection of nights throughout October.  As in the past, some South Florida theaters are taking part, hoping to expand their audiences by offering a free sample of their work.  This year, seven companies here [...]

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• Ground Up starts up again

  

  Ground Up & Rising, the talented but frequently homeless young theater company that has roamed around much of Miami-Dade County, is resurfacing in a multifaceted way.

  First up, this Saturday, is a free play-reading festival at St. John's on the Lake, 4760 Pine Tree Dr., Miami [...]

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• The season starts early

  South Florida's theater season used to get rolling in October. Not anymore.

  This week brings openings of shows with multi-week runs at five professional theaters, plus three more shows that will be around just this weekend.  Those longer-running shows (which we'll get into in more detail before the weekend) are the [...]

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