Tag: 9/4/25

Island City Stage presents At the Wedding by Bryna Turner 8/21/25 – 9/14/25

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Island City Stage presents At the Wedding by Bryna Turner
Thursday, 08/21/2025-09/14/2025, 07:00 pm-09:00 pm
Island City Stage
2304 N. Dixie Highway,
Wilton Manors, Florida, 33305
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Cost: $43 – $55

You are cordially invited to the best day of someone else’s life… but what if it’s also the worst day of yours? Follow Carlo as she navigates the highs and lows of attending her ex’s wedding while dealing with her own heartbreak in Island City Stage’s South Florida premiere of At the Wedding by Bryna Turner, running August 21 – September 14. Tickets are on sale now.

At the Wedding premiered off-Broadway at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater in 2022. A story of loss, love and redemption, the play focuses on the world’s loneliest (and wittiest) single woman, Carlo, as she crashes her ex-girlfriend’s wedding to a man. Through a series of flirtations, conversations, and collisions with past lovers, old enemies, new friends and perfect strangers, Carlo strives to understand whether or not heartbreak is a permanent human condition.

New York Theatre Guide called At the Wedding “Bitterly funny… wisecracking and wisdom-sharing about the unbreakable bond between love and pain… there’s a fun time to be had at this wedding.” The New York Times shared, “Fresh and trenchant… The lines are funny; Turner has a boxer’s sense of the two-punch rhythm of jokes… Authorial patience is part of what makes At the Wedding so fresh; though there are plenty of one-liners, it is not a yuk-yuk comedy foisting its laughs at you or over-signaling its intentions… Also revivifying is the way Turner reshapes the wedding genre for our time, inviting new characters to the party.”

Island City Stage’s premiere production of At the Wedding is directed by Andy Rogow. An ensemble production, the show stars Hannah Benitez, Sandi Stock, Hannah Hayley, Timothy Mark Davis, Sheena O. Murray, Elizabeth Price and Steven Guez.

At the Wedding’s Co-producers are Sue Wilder & Russell Vance, Lights and Sound Sponsor is Scott Bennett, Set Sponsors are Trevor & Margie Fried and Talent Sponsor is the DC Allen & Ken Flick No Gay Hate Fund at Our Fund Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the following: The Our Fund Foundation, The Schubert Foundation Inc., the SHS Foundation, The Maval Foundation, the Warten Foundation, OutClique and the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council.

At the Wedding closes out Island City Stage’s 2024-25 season of powerful storytelling focusing on the nature of families with sold out performances of The Fantasticks, Edward Albee’s
A Delicate Balance, Fat Ham by James Ijames and The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas.

Individual show tickets start at $43. A Mimosa Sunday Brunch sponsored by John Fomook & Charles Lee will take place on August 31 for $55. A special Women’s Night at the Theatre sponsored by Sue Wilder will take place on September 7. The show runs for 75 minutes with no intermission.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.islandcitystage.org, call (954) 928-9800 or email boxoffice@islandcitystage.org. Follow Island City Stage on Facebook at facebook.com/IslandCityStageFL and on Instagram at @islandcitystage1.

History Fort Lauderdale presents “Paradise Under Palmettos,” A Fine Art Exhibit 7/10/25 – 9/7/25

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History Fort Lauderdale presents “Paradise Under Palmettos,” A Fine Art Exhibit
Sunday, 07/10/2025-, 10:00 am-04:00 pm
History Fort Lauderdale/New River Inn
231 SW Second Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33301
Website
Cost: Free

History Fort Lauderdale, proud steward of our community’s past by making our heritage accessible and engaging to residents and visitors, will present “Paradise Under Palmettos” from Thursday, July 10, through Sunday, September 7. This free summer fine art exhibit, highlighting Florida’s wildlife and untamed beauty, will feature works by award-winning artist Tim Forman plus local artists Tammy Seymour, Hitomi Saito, Stephanie Leyden, Marene Downs, Heather Neiman, Sara Schesser Bartra and Danielle Perry. A free meet and greet with the artists will take place on Thursday, July 10, from 6 – 8 p.m., at the New River Inn Museum of History building on History Fort Lauderdale’s campus (231 Southwest Second Avenue). Complimentary light bites and beverages will be provided.

Tim Forman is the third generation of Formans to have been born and reared in South Florida. He first picked up the brush at nine years old under the instruction of Peter Olsen. By 17, Forman was receiving commissions. Primarily a self-taught artist, Forman’s work is the result of dedicated practice. He uses field sketches, plein air paintings, and photographs to compose his pieces that are painted in layers with both knife and brush. He creates his landscapes to portray the splendor and simplicity of the natural world around us. Through his work, Tim seeks to lift the spirits and inspire awe above our day-to-day lives.

History Fort Lauderdale hosts a variety of engaging multicultural experiences, year-round. It seeks to bring awareness to the community through both traveling exhibits and multiple permanent exhibits including “Women Trailblazers,” “Fort Lauderdale – the Early Years,” “Roots of Resilience: The Journey of Black Broward,” “Fashion & Musical Theatre,” “From Dugouts to Dream Yachts: the story of boatbuilding along the New River,” Seminole Arts & Culture,” “New River Archaeology,” “Viva Fort Lauderdale: Celebrating Hispanic Art & Culture,” and “Take PRIDE, a retrospective on LGBTQ life in South Florida.”

History Fort Lauderdale’s “Paradise Under Palmettos” is sponsored by the following funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Jan and Ed Crocker Unrestricted Fund, Leo M. and Alice J. Rutten Fund and The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund. Additional funding is provided, in part, by Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward County Cultural Council and Visit Lauderdale.

History Fort Lauderdale is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. with docent guided tours, daily, at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Group walking tours are available upon special request. Admission is $15 for adults; $12 for seniors and $7 for students (through age 22 with a valid student ID). Admission is free for members, military and children ages six and under. Tickets are available online at HistoryFortLauderdaleTickets.

For more information about “Paradise Under Palmettos” at History Fort Lauderdale, please call (954) 463-4431 or visit us online at historyfortlauderdale.org.

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