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Homegrown has gone virtual with Homegrown @ Home! Tune in to our free online event to see and hear works by our newest local playwrights! By holding this event in Zoom, we able to bring you into the new play development process. See actors read a new script. Participate in a talkback with actors, director, … Read more
December 4-9, 2018; various times Our 2018-2019 Season marks the sixth anniversary of this not-to-be-missed event! It’s your opportunity to see staged readings of local authors’ plays here– first– before they hit the big time! Best of all, it’s just $15 to see all 14 performances over six days, and get a nifty laminated keepsake ticket (or, you could … Read more
Do you live in our near Gainesville, Florida? Are you age 18 or under? Have you written a short play (twenty minutes or less)? If you answered “yes” to all three, you’re in the right place! (If you’re over 18 and would like to submit to our festival, please go to this page, instead!) Please … Read more
Sunset Village by Michael Presley Bobbitt Directed by Tom Miller September 7-23, 2018 Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm Sneak preview: Thursday, September 6, at 8:00 PM In Florida’s most notorious retirement community, a recent widow is pulled into a senior citizen Neverland where venereal disease rates are the highest in the nation, … Read more
World Premiere All’s Fair Written by Sloane Henry, Directed by Jennifer Hutton March 15 – 25, 2018 The Acrosstown is pleased to be fulfilling its mission to help develop and bring the best new Gainesville plays to fruition (and to our audiences!)! In Gainesville’s newest play, written by Sloane Henry and developed at last year’s … Read more
Open Auditions: Sunday & Monday, January 7 & 8, 2018, at 7:00 pm At the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre 619 South Main Street, Gainesville, FL 32601 World Premiere: All’s Fair By Sloane Henry Directed by Jennifer Hutton Performance dates: March 15-25, 2018 Don’t be shy, you were born to be a star! Join us at open … Read more
December 7-17, 2017; various times Our 2017-2018 Season marks the fifth anniversary of this not-to-be-missed event! For audiences, it’s the opportunity to see staged readings of local authors’ plays here– first– before they hit the big time! For local playwrights, it’s the opportunity to see how your play works with real actors and real audiences so that you can … Read more
Trailer Park Elegy Written & Directed by Michael Presley Bobbitt September 1-17 World Premiere! While working at a trailer park to escape the publicity from a dark episode in his recent past, Elijah finds the cremated remains of a woman sitting forgotten on a shelf for the past 17 years. The effort to uncover the … Read more
May 12-28, 2017 UMMU By Tom Miller Directed by Michael Presley Bobbitt A brilliant artist lost in a world of his own imagination. A brilliant psychologist trapped by his unusual cure. A beautiful woman who may be an angel or an alien, or who may not even exist. This world premiere of a Gainesville play that … Read more
Open Auditions: Sunday & Monday, March 5 & 6 UMMU By Tom Miller Directed by Michael Presley Bobbitt Performance dates: May 12-28, 2017 Don’t be shy, you were born to be a star! Join us at open auditions for the locally written masterpiece UMMU at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre! A brilliant artist lost in a … Read more
