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• Beating all expectations, Opera Orlando generated $1 million in revenue during the 2018/2019 season. What’s their secret? An incredibly immersive experience for every audience member in a unconventional setting.
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• Could acting help dementia patients better handle stress? That’s what researchers in Orlando are hoping to find out.
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• This is the last weekend to catch Osceola Art’s presentation of the musical, “The Last Five Years” at its Stage Left Studio theater. The show explores a relationship between two people over a five-year period.
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• This is the last weekend of the first production from a brand-new central Florida theatre company. Dangerous Theatre is taking over what was called the Princess Theatre in Sanford.
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• Living Room Theater is just what it sounds like, theater in peoples’ living rooms. These 70-minute private performances are made up of short vignettes from the funny to the serious in front of a small audience on a couch.
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• Interactive theatre is getting a lot of attention these days – it seems that audience members like to be a more active part of the show. Enter Pseudonym Productions, an Orlando group dedicated to making interactive theater even more immersive, with elements of gaming added to the creative approach.
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• An immersive theatre show. An attraction. A real-life role-playing video game. It’s hard to describe “The Republic,” a 90-minute interactive entertainment experience that turns audience members into active participants whose choices shape the story. Actors inhabit two dozen fully-designed rooms in the 18,000-square-foot Lake Ivanhoe warehouse that’s home to “The Republic.” They guide you through a fictional dystopian society on the brink of revolution. Along the way, you choose your side…and change the narrative. This is The Republic’s first full weekend in operation, after an award-winning test run during last month’s Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival. Creator Sarah Elger spoke with 90.7’s Nicole Creston about The Republic…starting with what makes it so difficult to define.
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