Florida Playwrights' Theatre

Florida Playwrights' Theatre or FPT was a 54-seat black box theatre in Hollywood, Florida that was in operation from 1993 to 1999. It was begun by Paul and Angela Thomas, whose goal was to create a small repertory company that would produce new plays and little-known plays, as well as the classics, including their annual Shakespeare festivals.

New Plays Premiered

• "Apathy-The Gen X Musical" by Mickey Zetts (Both as a late-night 1995 and a mainstage 1997)
• "Love is a Masochist" by Mickey Zetts (shown with "The Piano that Jack Filled", adapted by Duncan Pflaster from the song-cycle by Adam Rabin) 1996.
• "Wilder and Wilder by Duncan Pflaster (Both as a late-night and a mainstage - 1995)
• "Amazing Dædalus" by Duncan Pflaster (Late-night 1997)
• "Audition Pieces" by Kim Mowrey
• "The Jessie Donovan Show" by Roberta Morgan

Other Plays Produced

1993

• Dancin' to Calliope by Jack Gilhooley
• Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel by Nelly Sachs
• The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You by Christopher Durang
• Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch
• Greater Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
• 1st Annual Shakespeare Festival
  • Twelfth Night
  • As You Like It
• The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley
• Double bill of Graceland by Ellen Byron and Line by Israel Horovitz

1994

• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
• The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Messiah by Martin Sherman
• A Woman Called Truth: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Sandra Fenichel Asher
• The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

1995

• Angel City by Sam Shepard
• Lenny by Julian Barry (Carbonell Award won for Best Actor Todd Durkin, nominated for Best Supporting Actor Larry Jurrist)
• 2nd Annual Shakespeare Festival
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Secret Lives of The Sexists by Charles Ludlam
• Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star by James McLure
• What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton
• Oleanna by David Mamet
• The Loman Family Picnic by Donald Margulies
• On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) by Eric Overmeyer
• Reckless by Craig Lucas

1996

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian
• 3rd Annual Shakespeare Festival
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
• Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang (Carbonell Award 'nomination for Best Actress Angela Thomas)
• American Buffalo by David Mamet
• Times Square Angel by Charles Busch

1997

• Betty the Yeti: An Eco Fable by Jon Klein
• 4th Annual Shakespeare Festival
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Romeo and Juliet
• The Diary of Anne Frank"" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
• Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis

1998

• 5th Annual Shakespeare Festival
  • Hamlet
  • The Tempest
• Black Comedy/White Lies by Peter Shaffer
• The Art of Dining by Tina Howe
• Titanic by Christopher Durang

External links

• Small Wonder Article from New Times Broward/Palm Beach