Challenge, Accepted
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
November 4-13, 2021 World Premiere! Join us for the World Premiere of three never-before-seen horror short-story classics adapted for the stage and presented in one unforgettable evening! Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, an iconic feminist masterpiece, follows one woman’s confinement and descent into madness. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death invites … Read more
A Film by Craven Frankel Written and Directed by Michael Glover January 3 – 5, 2020 A father and daughter in a horror-movie-obsessed family learn to live without the mother in the months following her death. The mother learns to live with being dead. This poignant and funny play was a standout at our 2018 … 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
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
A big thank you to our friends at gainesvilledowntown.com for an awesome writeup this week! Acrosstown Theatre Puts Playwrights in Spotlight
December 8-11, 2016; various times Our 2016-2017 Season marks the fourth 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
Sullivan Alfred-Sanford of the Daily GLOB (Gator Lunch Out Blog– if you’re not getting it delivered to YOUR inbox each day, you’re missing out!) has much to say of our world premiere of Hometown Knights, and all of it, well, damned tasty. “well-seasoned and delicious“ “diverges from 2016 poltical campaigns by remaining engaging and entertaining“ … Read more
