Theatre Works finds a brand-new home
Theatre Works Florida opens the doors to its brandnew performance space this Friday night. The Polk County troupe will be based at the TWF Theatre at the Davenport Community Campus, 8 W. Palmetto St., Davenport.
Although the company has been in the area since 2007, most of its work was done in other Central Florida theaters. Notable productions included the regional premieres of “Hands on a Hardbody” at the Garden Theatre in Winter Garden and “Rock of Ages” at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando. The company also produced work at the Orlando Fringe Festival and toured “Schoolhouse Rock Live” in 2015, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The first season in this new permanent location will consist of the off-Broadway 1950s-60s pop musical “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” Friday through Sept. 17; the holiday-themed “Winter Wonderettes,” Dec. 1-17; and raucous comedy “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” March 9-25.
Tickets to “The Marvelous Wonderettes” are $24 adults, $19 students. Season tickets to all three shows are $61 adults, $51 students. For more information, go to theatreworksfl.org.
World premiere
“Grindr: The Opera” will make its world premiere at Orlando’s Footlight Theatre, in the Parliament House resort, on Sept. 15. Tim Evanicki Productions presents the show, which will then tour to Fort Lauderdale and Atlanta.
Grindr is a gay hook-up app for cellphones. The comedy, which includes musical styles from baroque to pop, looks at how the technology has changed gay relationships. In the show, Grindr is a mythical siren whose power is derived from human lust.
The show originally was to open Friday but will now run Fridays-Saturdays Sept. 15-Sept. 30 with an extra show Sept. 18. The Parliament House is at 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando; tickets are $20. For more information, go to phouse.ticketleap.com.
Music’s future
There are still two chances to catch concerts by Null-state, a group composed of flautist-composer Melody Chua and composer Benjamin D. Whiting. The two mix electronics, computer coding and music and have developed a sensor-augmented electroacoustic instrument called the chaosflote.
Null-state has spent the week in residence at Orlando’s Timucua Arts Foundation as part of the Accidental Music Festival’s seventh-season kickoff.
Both concerts will feature the chaosflote. The first will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., Orlando. Tickets are $15, free to museum members. The second performance, which is free, will be 7:30 p.m. Friday at the UCF Rehearsal Hall on the campus of the University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando.
For more information, go to Timucua.com.