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'26 Miles' at New Theatre

26 Miles by Pulitzer Prize finalist Quiara Alegría Hudes. Artistic director Ricky J. Martinez is staging the play, about a Cuban-American mom, her long-estranged Jewish daughter, and the bonds they forge as they head west together. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday- Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday (additional shows at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 6 and Dec. 13). The play runs through Dec. 20 at New Theatre, 4120 Laguna St. in Coral Gables. Tickets are $40 Friday-Saturday and Sunday matinee, $35 other shows (student rush tickets $15). Call 305-443-5909 or visit www.new-theatre.org.

THEATER REVIEW

Review | New spin on 'The Voysey Inheritance' a success

Beneath the elegant façade, obscured by the opulent trappings of wealth, a scandal is brewing. A respected, successful man known for his charitable works and his familial generosity has been using other people's money to buy a rich man's lifestyle. He has been found out by someone who trusted him, worked with him. And now the younger man, possessed of this ruinous knowledge, must decide whether to bring a carefully constructed house of cards tumbling down.

THE MUSIC SCENE

Michael Feinstein, Cheyenne Jackson: Satisfying pairing of a him and a him

In his glowing review of Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, a New York Times critic last month wrote of the musical revival's ''satisfying pairing of a him and a her.''

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Review | 'Macon City: A Comic Book Play' is brought to life with creative glee

Marco Ramirez is a wildly imaginative playwright whose writing acknowledges a fundamental reality: If you want to entice the under-30 crowd into experiencing theater, you'd better give 'em something exciting in a form that really speaks to them.

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'Macon City: A Comic Book Play' at Barry University

Macon City: A Comic Book Play, a new work getting its first production by The Naked Stage. Jasmine Fluker and Hugh Murphy are in the play, along with Naja Corbett, Jason DeWitt and Giordan Diaz. David Hemphill, Scott Genn and Alyn Darnay round out the cast. They portray citizens of an American metropolis, folks just trying to survive after their decaying city is abandoned by its crime-fighting superheroes. The play opens Friday in the Pelican Theatre on the Barry University campus, 11300 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday (no Thanksgiving performance), and the play runs 'til Nov. 29. Tickets are $25 (seniors 60 and older pay $18, students $12). Call 866-811-4111 or visit www.nakedstage.org.

THEATER

Review | 'Legally Blonde': It's like, you know, too cute

How much you enjoy Legally Blonde the Musical -- and loads of people do -- will probably depend on your tolerance for things kitschy and adorable.

THEATER

'Legally Blonde' star plays it from the heart

Becky Gulsvig has been awash in pink, onstage anyway, since she began playing various roles in the cast of the musical Legally Blonde during its Broadway run from mid-2007 until the fall of 2008.

THEATER REVIEW

Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago a pleasure for audience

David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play of a certain era: early Mamet, post-sexual revolution, pre-AIDS.

Written in 1974, the play flits from one short scene to the next, providing a snapshot of twentysomething big city ``romance'' and serving as a window into the younger Mamet's mind. This is a work that is funny, foul-mouthed and more than a little misogynistic; still enjoyable, but a harbinger of better things to come from a talented playwright.

COMING TO TOWN

Joan Rivers brings laughs to Arsht

Her face has, hmmm, changed over the years, but the way she talks is vintage Joan Rivers. ''Someone told me -- and I hate the term -- stars have very distinct voices. You know Cher, immediately. You know Liza, immediately,'' says Rivers, who performs Wednesday night in Miami. ''When I was a little girl, I picked up the phone and someone said, 'Little boy, put your mother on.' I almost died. Now, Chastity Bono would have loved that!''

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'The Voysey Inheritance' at the Caldwell

The Voysey Inheritance has its first preview performance at 2 p.m. Sunday. Mamet's version of Harley Granville-Barker's 1905 drama about a wealthy clan undone by the patriarch's Ponzi scheme (Bernie Madoff, anyone?) stars Peter Haig as the owner of the family-run investment firm. Also in the large cast are Terry Hardcastle, Lourlene Snedeker, Stephen G. Anthony, Kathryn Lee Johnston, Jim Ballard, Katherine Amadeo, Cliff Burgess, Dennis Creaghan, Marta Reiman, John Felix and Dan Leonard.

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Review | Amusing turns terrifying in 'The Walworth Farce'

For all that most American theater fans know, playwright Martin McDonagh is in a league of his own when it comes to spinning Irish tales wrapped in humor and terror. Think again.

THEATER

Get your Irish up in 'Walworth Farce'

At first, The Walworth Farce looks like a routine the Three Stooges might have dreamed up -- if Larry, Curly and Moe had been Irish, that is.

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'The Walworth Farce' at Carnival Studio Theater

If Quentin Tarantino wrote a play for the Three Stooges, the result might look a lot like Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, a darkly comic play running Wednesday through Nov. 7 in the Carnival Studio Theater at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Raymond Scannell and Tadhg Murphy, part of the cast from Ireland's Druid Theater Company, play sons who ritualistically act out a version of their family's story for their demanding, housebound father.

THEATER

Review | 'The Color Purple' worth the wait -- and you may have to

The Color Purple took its time -- 27 years, to be exact -- making the journey from the pages of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the stage of Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Its fleeting run ends Sunday, but as the cheering crowd affirmed at Tuesday's opening, the musical is abundantly worth the wait.

THEATER

Review | A few gems, but 'Naked Women Fully Clothed' comes up short

You know those joke-filled chain e-mails everyone gets? Maybe the one that uses bits of Jesus' biography to explain why the son of God was Mexican or Jewish or Irish, or the one that tries to make you laugh as it explores how older women's body parts start to resemble Jell-O.

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Review | `Reasons To Be Pretty' a wild ride

The battle between Neil LaBute's boy-men and the women who put up with them rages on in Reasons To Be Pretty, the playwright's first script to hit Broadway -- and, for GableStage, the first resounding success of the new South Florida theater season.

THEATER

'Color Purple,' the musical, comes to Arsht

Celie, the central character in Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, lives a life most folks would consider unendurable.

THEATER REVIEW

`Two Jews Walk Into a War' misses the mark

Seth Rozin's Two Jews Walk Into a War, a new comedy now launching a premiere-filled season at Florida Stage, has been likened by folks at the Manalapan theater to earlier plays by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple or The Sunshine Boys, take your pick) and Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot).

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`Reasons To Be Pretty' at GableStage

Neil LaBute returns to familiar themes -- the premium society puts on appearance, the ways in which men and women drive each other crazy -- in Reasons To Be Pretty, his Tony Award-nominated Broadway play opening Saturday at GableStage. Erin Joy Schmidt and Ricky Waugh portray at-odds lovers in the show, which runs through Nov. 22.