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MiamiHeraldcomTropicaLLifeiTHEMIAMIHERALD 2M I SUNDAY JUNE 20 2010 SOUTH FLORIDA ARTS SCENE You can help send playwrights to the Fringe Excello Dance Space 8700B SW 129th Ter Miami just north of the Falls Shopping Center Tickets are $LS $10 for students under 25 and seniors and available at the door cash only Seating is limited Reservations and info: 305-298-587 kpdance bellsouthnet JORDAN LEVIN ALL-FLORIDA SHOW The 59th annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition which opens Tuesday at the Boca Raton Museum of Art drew 1398 entries Juror Linda Norden former director of the James Gallery of the Graduate Center City University of New York winnowed through the batch and selected 91 works by 80 artists for display Included are paintings sculpture photography videos and installations "While these artists share Florida as their residence and their works collectively reveal something about Florida contemporary art the exhibit provides an opportunity to recognize the international world in these Florida artists' works" Wendy Bla-zier the museum's senior curator said in a statement The exhibit runs through Aug 8 The museum at 501 Plaza Real is open 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday-Friday and noon to 5 pm Sunday Admission is $8 $6 for seniors $4 for students Info: 561-392-2500 bocamus eumorg LESBIAN PLAYFEST The Women's Theatre Project and the Pride Center at Equality Park have joined forces for Girl Play the second annual lesbian play-reading festival Directors Genie Croft Marjorie O'Neill-Butler Miami Herald Staff Playwrights Vanessa Garcia and Wendy White have a new production titled Two Islands actually the umbrella title for Garcia's Island Blogos-phere and White's The Jewish Nun which they plan to debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August But first to help raise the money to get the show to Scotland they're holding a staged reading at 8 pm Friday at ArtServe Gallery 1350 Sunrise Blvd Fort Lauderdale Garcia performs her piece with sister Nicole Garcia It is about a young Cuban-American woman who befriends a group of fearless bloggers still living in Cuba White's play performed by Casey Dressier is about a woman's self-imposed celibacy in an era of free love The fundraiser begins with cocktails at 7:30 pm Info: 305-450-9931 or thekranecom CHRISTINE DOLEN IN CELEBRATION Karen Peterson and Dancers Miami's longtime mixed-ability dance troupe celebrates its 20th anniversary with performances next weekend The event features two pieces made in a fertile new collaboration between Peterson and video and visual artist Maria Lino One is Mano a Mano which the company recently performed in Washington DC as part of the Very Special Arts International Festival The piece looks at unconventional concepts of beauty using two traditional dancers and two in wheelchairs as well as live and recorded video The second Buoyant Dreams uses video by Lino of disabled dancers moving freely in the water Performances are at 4 pm Friday and 4 pm and 8 pm Saturday at the Steven Chambers and Kim Ehly have joined forces to stage three programs of lesbian-themed short plays featuring professional South Florida actors Each show will be preceded by a cocktail hbur featuring a special drink dubbed the Luscious Lesbian Martini The performances happen at 8 pm Friday 8 pm Saturday and 3 pm June 27 at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center 2040 Dixie Hwy Wilton Manors Tickets are $15 per program or $35 for the set Info: 866-811-4111 womens theatreprojectcom CHRISTINE DOLEN COLLEGE FARE Two college theater programs are keeping students busy and audiences entertained throughout the summer Florida International University's Alternative Summer Theatre Festival kicks off Wednesday with a production of Caryl Churchill's pithy Top Girls running through June 27 Next is Nilo Cruz's A Bicycle Country running July 7-11 then Edward Excaliber's Prodigal: The Execution of William Spencer July 21-25 Performances are 8 pm Wednesday-Saturday 5 pm Sunday at the DM 150 Studio Theater 10910 SW 17th St Miami Tickets are 'TOP GIRLS' just $10 Info: 305-348-0496 In Boca Raton Florida Atlantic University is opting for more mainstream summer offerings Running in repertory are And the Tony Goes To Celebrating 60 Years of Broadway's Best Musicals (through July 22) William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Friday-July 25) and Donald Mar-gulies' Shipwrecked! (July 9-24) Performances are in FAU's Studio One Theater on the campus at 777 Glades Rd Tickets are $20 ($15 for students and seniors) Info: fauev entscom 800-564-9539 CHRISTINE DOLEN MAKING US PROUD Tony Glazer who grew up in Hollywood has won the 2009 Arnold Weissberger Award from the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts for his play The Substance of Bliss In his script Glazer son of Marietta and Ira Glazer tells the story of Paul and Donna who sit in their backyard one night waiting for their troubled 15-year-old son to come home so they can take him to a drug-rehab center As they wait their KAREN PETERSON AND DANCERS conversation veers from the banal (house renovation) to the gut-wrenching (their decision to marry and have the child who is now the core of their heartbreak) Glazer will receive $10000 plus the publication of his script by Samuel French Inc and a July 9 reading Juan Martinez art history professor at Florida International University has won first place in the Latino Book Awards in the nonfiction Best Arts Book-English category for his monograph Maria Brito about the Cuban-American painter sculptor and installation artist best known for work that embodies narratives of displacement and loss Created in in 1999 by nonprofit Latin Literary Now which supports literary excellence the Latin Book Awards were presented at New York City's Javits Center during Book Expo America TELEVISION REVIEWS Thar trouble in those 'burbs CITY THEATRE AND ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER PRESENT CAMP KAPPAWANNA World Premiere! 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A New Lisa Loeb Musical 1 PM and 4 PM Carnival Studio Theater (ZM Ballet Opera House) SUMMER SHORTS America's Short Play Festival Signature Shorts 7 PM Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet opera House) undershorts 1 0 PM Carnival Studio Theater (Zrff Ballet opera House) Lisa Loeb Camp Kappawanna BY GLENN GARVIN ggarvin aMiamiHeraldcom A few weeks back Florida public TV stations aired a documentary sternly warning that living in the suburbs cramps your spirit and withers your intellect Turns out they didn't know the half of it The 'burbs will make you grow fangs drink blood rob old ladies and pose for nude photos And not in a good way either That at least seems to be the theme of ABC's two new Sunday-night series You dwellers in leafy sun-dappled suburbs can choose your poison Would you rather find out your neighbors are a family of grifters thieves and punks? Then go for Scoundrels Thirsty vampires? Take The Gates Given this choice of summer piffle I'd go for neither of the above unplug my TV set and curl up with a good book Or a mediocre book Or even the ingredients list on a box of cereal But if you're being held hostage by deranged and ruthless ABC programmers who've put a gun to your head and said you must watch at least one of the shows which frankly is about the only promotional scheme that's going to sell these things I'd go for Scoundrels in which the occasional laughs are at least intentional Scoundrels stars Virginia Madsen as Cheryl West a kind of June Cleaver of the underworld left in charge of a family of petty crooks when her husband is carted off to the slam Not that she doesn't have standards: Burglary arson blackmail and loan-sharking are one thing but when she finds out one of her daughters is posing for nude photos she hits the roof "Just because we're Wests doesn't mean we have to be criminals!" she insists The kids roll their eyes: Parents! Charmless and predictable Scoundrels seems like a tepid rehash of The Riches a lively and thoughtful FX show about a family of gypsy thieves trying to go straight that was done in by the 2008 television strike ABC swears though that it's an adaptation of a hit New Zealand show called Outrageous Fortune Memo to self: If relocated to New Zealand as part of the witness-protection program take lots of DVDs 'THE GATES' New Zealand however cannot be blamed for The Gates approximately the 1712th American television show about vampires (Amusingly ABC originally scheduled it in the 9 pm hour before somebody realized that would run it up against HBO's True Blood where all the real fang-banger fans hang out) You know the score: New slightly troubled family moves to town Notices corpses with throats torn out piling up on the lawn next door But homeowners' association warns that housing code section 5207 paragraph 12(b) prohibits hanging garlic on front door To be fair not everybody in the neighborhood is a vampire There are also werewolves and witches And they're even more horrified than their human neighbors "It's about the car pools the school committees the dinner parties and the book clubs" moans stricken vampiress Clair Radcliff (Boston Legal's Rhona Mitra) Just wait til she finds out her house isn't zoned for coffins 0 CAMP KAPPAWANNA World Premiere! 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