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THEATRE<br />
Acrosstown Repertory Theatre .....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville 352-371-1234<br />
Curtis M. Phillips Center ...........................................315 Hull Road, Gainesville 352-392-ARTS<br />
Fine Arts Hall Theatre - SFC ...........................3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville 352-395-4181<br />
Gainesville Community Playhouse .......4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville 352-376-4949<br />
Hippodrome State Theatre .................................25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville 352-375-4477<br />
UF Constans Theatre .................................................Museum Road, Gainesville 352-273-0526<br />
Nadine McGuire Blackbox Theatre ...................Museum Road, Gainesville 352-392-1653<br />
Insomniac Theatre Company ............................E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 352-897-0477<br />
Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 352-236-2274<br />
High Springs Community Theater ..........130 NE 1st Avenue, High Springs 386-454-3525<br />
ACROSSTOWN<br />
REPERTORY THEATRE<br />
The Star Spangled Girl<br />
Through Feb. 3<br />
A comedy in which two young men publish<br />
a radical newspaper, encounter and<br />
fall madly and ridiculously in love with a<br />
fl ag-waving super patriot Olympic swimmer<br />
who moves in next door to them.<br />
GAINESVILLE COMMUNITY<br />
PLAYHOUSE<br />
Chasing Manet<br />
Through Feb. 10<br />
Inside the confi ning walls of Mount Airy<br />
Nursing Home, a rebellious painter from<br />
a distinguished family and an ebullient<br />
Jewish woman with a huge adoring family<br />
form an unlikely bond as the two plot an<br />
escape to Paris aboard the QE2. But can<br />
they possibly pull it off amidst the chaos<br />
of their surroundings?<br />
UF CONSTANS THEATRE<br />
A Servant to Two Masters<br />
Through Feb. 3<br />
This timeless comedy is a farcical masterpiece<br />
with its roots in the slapstick<br />
commedia dell’ arte. The plight of poor<br />
Truff aldino, who is determined that he can<br />
serve two demanding masters and yet<br />
woo lovely Smeraldina, still manages to<br />
delight audiences today.<br />
HIPPODROME STATE THEATRE<br />
Venus in Fur<br />
Through Feb. 3<br />
Meet Vanda, an unusually talented young<br />
actress determined to land the lead in<br />
a new play based on the classic erotic<br />
novel, Venus in Furs. Vanda’s emotionally<br />
charged audition for the gifted but<br />
demanding playwright Thomas becomes<br />
an electrifying game of cat and mouse that<br />
blurs the lines between fantasy and reality,<br />
seduction and power, and love and sex.<br />
King O’ The Moon<br />
Feb. 20 - March 17<br />
It’s 1968 in Buff alo, N.Y., and the Pazinski<br />
family gathers to honor their late father’s<br />
memory. They quickly become entangled<br />
in each others’ problems — Rudy is rethinking<br />
the priesthood, Eddie is preparing<br />
for fatherhood and Vietnam, Annie is contemplating<br />
divorce, and their mother Ellen<br />
considers a new romance. There’s rarely a<br />
quiet moment in the Pazinski household as<br />
they hurtle towards the next decade.<br />
INSOMNIAC THEATRE<br />
The Vagina Monologues<br />
Feb. 1 - Feb. 3<br />
V-Day (www.vday.org) is a global activist<br />
movement to end violence against<br />
women and girls that raises funds and<br />
awareness through benefi t productions of<br />
Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award-<br />
winning play The Vagina Monologues<br />
and other artistic works. A portion of the<br />
show’s proceeds will benefi t the Rape<br />
Crisis Center in Ocala.<br />
Phat Girls<br />
Feb. 15 - Feb. 24<br />
Phat Girls is a fast-paced account of the<br />
struggle many women experience dealing<br />
with weight and body image. The audience<br />
is transported from childhood to<br />
adulthood, witnessing the development<br />
and many facets of an eating disorder,<br />
in addition to how these women learn to<br />
survive in a body-conscious society. Phat<br />
Girls relates to these issues with humor,<br />
poignancy and an honesty that everyone<br />
will be able to relate to.<br />
OCALA CIVIC THEATRE<br />
A Funny Thing Happened on<br />
the Way to the Forum<br />
Feb. 7 - March 3<br />
In ancient Rome, crafty but lovable Pseudolus<br />
the slave (Chip Morris) yearns for his<br />
freedom — whether he has to buy, win or<br />
steal it. When his master and mistress go<br />
away on a trip, they leave Pseudolus in<br />
charge of their son, Hero (Sam Dugger).<br />
Pseudolus sees a golden opportunity when<br />
young Hero confesses that he is pining<br />
away for Philia (Alex Thorsberg), the lovelybut-vacant<br />
courtesan next door. Pseudolus<br />
off ers to help Hero win Philia’s heart in exchange<br />
for his freedom, but as it turns out,<br />
Philia is promised to pompous warrior Miles<br />
Gloriosus (Caleb Velez). However, this is no<br />
obstacle to the scheming Pseudolus, who<br />
will stop at nothing to achieve his goal.<br />
HIGH SPRINGS COMMUNITY<br />
THEATER<br />
Death of a Salesman<br />
Feb. 8 - March 3<br />
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony<br />
Award for Best Play, Arthur Miller’s classic<br />
story of Willy Loman is one of the greatest<br />
works of the 20th century. Through a series<br />
of tragic soul-searching revelations of<br />
the life he has lived with his wife, his sons,<br />
and his business associates, the audience<br />
discovers how his quest for the “American<br />
Dream” kept him blind to the people who<br />
truly loved him.<br />
46 February 2013 seniortimesmagazine.com
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