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Pedro Costa

2026-11-07T17:05:04Z

David de Hilster: Add photo

:''This article is about the Boca Raton musical theatre performer and producer. For the Portuguese film director, see [[wikipedia:Pedro Costa|Pedro Costa]] on Wikipedia.''
{{Infobox artist
| name = Pedro Costa
| image = Pedro_Costa.jpg
| caption = Costa performing on stage
| disciplines = Musical theatre performer · Producer · Director
| based_in = Boca Raton, Florida (from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
| education = Boca Raton Community High School (2025)<br />University of Florida (class of 2029)
| known_for = Founding [[Our Time Productions]]
| productions = ''The Road Ahead'' (2026, producer and director)
| companies = [[Our Time Productions]] (founder)
| awards = "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship (2024)
| years_active = c. 2023–present
| website = [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ Instagram]
}}
'''Pedro Costa''' is a Brazilian-American musical theatre performer, producer and director from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, now based in Boca Raton, Florida. While still a student he founded '''[[Our Time Productions]]''', an independent theatre company whose first show, the musical cabaret ''The Road Ahead'', sold out both of its performances in June 2026. He is a student at the University of Florida, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ |title=Pedro Costa (@pedro_mboc) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref name="sold">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DaihvJcFpGj/ |title=The Road Ahead: thank you |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-07-08}}</ref>

== Early life and training ==
Costa's hometown is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<ref name="fbabout">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007074481887&sk=about |title=Pedro Costa: About |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> He moved to Boca Raton, Florida, and graduated from Boca Raton Community High School in 2025.<ref name="fbedu">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007074481887&sk=directory_education |title=Pedro Costa: Education |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> In May 2024, at the end of his junior year, he rehearsed and performed in the opening number of the Dream Awards, Palm Beach County's high school musical theatre awards, on the main stage of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. That week he also received the "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship. He called it "one of the most memorable weeks of my life".<ref name="dream">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C7fs7f_I_9y/ |title=Dream Awards week |website=Instagram (@pedro_mboc) |date=2024-05-27}}</ref>

He credits three teachers for his training: "Thank you to Jackie, Jason, and Mrs. Nixdorf for all your years of training, I could not have done any of this without the three of you as my mentors."<ref name="dream" />

== Our Time Productions ==
Costa founded [[Our Time Productions]] in 2026 "to bring together a group of artists aspiring to achieve something beyond what they've done before, with the courage to try new things and with the passion to achieve their goals."<ref name="why">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DXkqQptDBcO/ |title=Why Our Time Productions |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-25}}</ref> He raised money for its first show through a crowdfunding campaign, then produced and directed it: ''The Road Ahead'', a cabaret of musical theatre songs, at Barclay Performing Arts in Boca Raton on June 26 and 27, 2026. Both performances sold out. Afterwards he thanked "all of you who have supported me in this journey and made my dream of producing and directing come to life."<ref name="sold" />

== University ==
Costa began studying at the University of Florida in Gainesville on August 31, 2025, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig" /><ref name="fbedu" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ @pedro_mboc] on Instagram
* [https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ Our Time Productions] on Instagram

{{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Pedro}}
[[Category:Theatre artists]]
[[Category:Living people]]

File:Pedro Costa.jpg

2026-11-07T17:05:03Z

David de Hilster: Photo of Pedro Costa performing

== Summary ==
Pedro Costa performing on stage.

== Licence ==
Photo supplied by David de Hilster for use on the Artists Wiki.

Pedro Costa

2026-11-07T17:02:50Z

David de Hilster: Add hometown Rio de Janeiro and University of Florida start date (Facebook)

:''This article is about the Boca Raton musical theatre performer and producer. For the Portuguese film director, see [[wikipedia:Pedro Costa|Pedro Costa]] on Wikipedia.''
{{Infobox artist
| name = Pedro Costa
| disciplines = Musical theatre performer · Producer · Director
| based_in = Boca Raton, Florida (from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
| education = Boca Raton Community High School (2025)<br />University of Florida (class of 2029)
| known_for = Founding [[Our Time Productions]]
| productions = ''The Road Ahead'' (2026, producer and director)
| companies = [[Our Time Productions]] (founder)
| awards = "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship (2024)
| years_active = c. 2023–present
| website = [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ Instagram]
}}
'''Pedro Costa''' is a Brazilian-American musical theatre performer, producer and director from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, now based in Boca Raton, Florida. While still a student he founded '''[[Our Time Productions]]''', an independent theatre company whose first show, the musical cabaret ''The Road Ahead'', sold out both of its performances in June 2026. He is a student at the University of Florida, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ |title=Pedro Costa (@pedro_mboc) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref name="sold">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DaihvJcFpGj/ |title=The Road Ahead: thank you |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-07-08}}</ref>

== Early life and training ==
Costa's hometown is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<ref name="fbabout">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007074481887&sk=about |title=Pedro Costa: About |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> He moved to Boca Raton, Florida, and graduated from Boca Raton Community High School in 2025.<ref name="fbedu">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007074481887&sk=directory_education |title=Pedro Costa: Education |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> In May 2024, at the end of his junior year, he rehearsed and performed in the opening number of the Dream Awards, Palm Beach County's high school musical theatre awards, on the main stage of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. That week he also received the "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship. He called it "one of the most memorable weeks of my life".<ref name="dream">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C7fs7f_I_9y/ |title=Dream Awards week |website=Instagram (@pedro_mboc) |date=2024-05-27}}</ref>

He credits three teachers for his training: "Thank you to Jackie, Jason, and Mrs. Nixdorf for all your years of training, I could not have done any of this without the three of you as my mentors."<ref name="dream" />

== Our Time Productions ==
Costa founded [[Our Time Productions]] in 2026 "to bring together a group of artists aspiring to achieve something beyond what they've done before, with the courage to try new things and with the passion to achieve their goals."<ref name="why">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DXkqQptDBcO/ |title=Why Our Time Productions |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-25}}</ref> He raised money for its first show through a crowdfunding campaign, then produced and directed it: ''The Road Ahead'', a cabaret of musical theatre songs, at Barclay Performing Arts in Boca Raton on June 26 and 27, 2026. Both performances sold out. Afterwards he thanked "all of you who have supported me in this journey and made my dream of producing and directing come to life."<ref name="sold" />

== University ==
Costa began studying at the University of Florida in Gainesville on August 31, 2025, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig" /><ref name="fbedu" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ @pedro_mboc] on Instagram
* [https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ Our Time Productions] on Instagram

{{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Pedro}}
[[Category:Theatre artists]]
[[Category:Living people]]

Pedro Costa

2026-11-07T17:01:05Z

David de Hilster: Boca High class of 2025 (confirmed)

:''This article is about the Boca Raton musical theatre performer and producer. For the Portuguese film director, see [[wikipedia:Pedro Costa|Pedro Costa]] on Wikipedia.''
{{Infobox artist
| name = Pedro Costa
| disciplines = Musical theatre performer · Producer · Director
| based_in = Boca Raton, Florida
| education = Boca Raton Community High School (2025)<br />University of Florida (class of 2029)
| known_for = Founding [[Our Time Productions]]
| productions = ''The Road Ahead'' (2026, producer and director)
| companies = [[Our Time Productions]] (founder)
| awards = "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship (2024)
| years_active = c. 2023–present
| website = [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ Instagram]
}}
'''Pedro Costa''' is an American musical theatre performer, producer and director from Boca Raton, Florida. While still a student he founded '''[[Our Time Productions]]''', an independent theatre company whose first show, the musical cabaret ''The Road Ahead'', sold out both of its performances in June 2026. He is a student at the University of Florida, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ |title=Pedro Costa (@pedro_mboc) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref name="sold">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DaihvJcFpGj/ |title=The Road Ahead: thank you |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-07-08}}</ref>

== Early life and training ==
Costa grew up in Boca Raton and graduated from Boca Raton Community High School in 2025. In May 2024, at the end of his junior year, he rehearsed and performed in the opening number of the Dream Awards, Palm Beach County's high school musical theatre awards, on the main stage of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. That week he also received the "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship. He called it "one of the most memorable weeks of my life".<ref name="dream">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C7fs7f_I_9y/ |title=Dream Awards week |website=Instagram (@pedro_mboc) |date=2024-05-27}}</ref>

He credits three teachers for his training: "Thank you to Jackie, Jason, and Mrs. Nixdorf for all your years of training, I could not have done any of this without the three of you as my mentors."<ref name="dream" />

== Our Time Productions ==
Costa founded [[Our Time Productions]] in 2026 "to bring together a group of artists aspiring to achieve something beyond what they've done before, with the courage to try new things and with the passion to achieve their goals."<ref name="why">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DXkqQptDBcO/ |title=Why Our Time Productions |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-25}}</ref> He raised money for its first show through a crowdfunding campaign, then produced and directed it: ''The Road Ahead'', a cabaret of musical theatre songs, at Barclay Performing Arts in Boca Raton on June 26 and 27, 2026. Both performances sold out. Afterwards he thanked "all of you who have supported me in this journey and made my dream of producing and directing come to life."<ref name="sold" />

== University ==
In fall 2025 Costa began studying at the University of Florida in Gainesville, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ @pedro_mboc] on Instagram
* [https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ Our Time Productions] on Instagram

{{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Pedro}}
[[Category:Theatre artists]]
[[Category:Living people]]

Pedro Costa

2026-11-07T16:57:09Z

David de Hilster: Remove missing template

:''This article is about the Boca Raton musical theatre performer and producer. For the Portuguese film director, see [[wikipedia:Pedro Costa|Pedro Costa]] on Wikipedia.''
{{Infobox artist
| name = Pedro Costa
| disciplines = Musical theatre performer · Producer · Director
| based_in = Boca Raton, Florida
| education = Boca Raton Community High School<br />University of Florida (class of 2029)
| known_for = Founding [[Our Time Productions]]
| productions = ''The Road Ahead'' (2026, producer and director)
| companies = [[Our Time Productions]] (founder)
| awards = "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship (2024)
| years_active = c. 2023–present
| website = [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ Instagram]
}}
'''Pedro Costa''' is an American musical theatre performer, producer and director from Boca Raton, Florida. While still a student he founded '''[[Our Time Productions]]''', an independent theatre company whose first show, the musical cabaret ''The Road Ahead'', sold out both of its performances in June 2026. He is a student at the University of Florida, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ |title=Pedro Costa (@pedro_mboc) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref name="sold">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DaihvJcFpGj/ |title=The Road Ahead: thank you |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-07-08}}</ref>

== Early life and training ==
Costa grew up in Boca Raton and attended Boca Raton Community High School. In May 2024, at the end of his junior year, he rehearsed and performed in the opening number of the Dream Awards, Palm Beach County's high school musical theatre awards, on the main stage of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. That week he also received the "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship. He called it "one of the most memorable weeks of my life".<ref name="dream">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C7fs7f_I_9y/ |title=Dream Awards week |website=Instagram (@pedro_mboc) |date=2024-05-27}}</ref>

He credits three teachers for his training: "Thank you to Jackie, Jason, and Mrs. Nixdorf for all your years of training, I could not have done any of this without the three of you as my mentors."<ref name="dream" />

== Our Time Productions ==
Costa founded [[Our Time Productions]] in 2026 "to bring together a group of artists aspiring to achieve something beyond what they've done before, with the courage to try new things and with the passion to achieve their goals."<ref name="why">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DXkqQptDBcO/ |title=Why Our Time Productions |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-25}}</ref> He raised money for its first show through a crowdfunding campaign, then produced and directed it: ''The Road Ahead'', a cabaret of musical theatre songs, at Barclay Performing Arts in Boca Raton on June 26 and 27, 2026. Both performances sold out. Afterwards he thanked "all of you who have supported me in this journey and made my dream of producing and directing come to life."<ref name="sold" />

== University ==
In fall 2025 Costa began studying at the University of Florida in Gainesville, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ @pedro_mboc] on Instagram
* [https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ Our Time Productions] on Instagram

{{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Pedro}}
[[Category:Theatre artists]]
[[Category:Living people]]

Out Time Productions

2026-11-07T16:57:02Z

David de Hilster: Redirect (common misspelling)

#REDIRECT [[Our Time Productions]]

Our Time Productions

2026-11-07T16:57:02Z

David de Hilster: New article: Our Time Productions

{{Infobox venue
| name = Our Time Productions
| venue_type = Independent student theatre production company
| location = Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
| opened = 2026
| founder = [[Pedro Costa]]
| director = [[Pedro Costa]] (producer and director)
| art_forms = Musical theatre, cabaret
| productions = ''The Road Ahead'' (June 2026)
| website = [https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ Instagram]
}}
'''Our Time Productions''' is an independent theatre production company in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 2026 by the student performer and director [[Pedro Costa]]. Its motto is "Creating opportunities and pursuing dreams".<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ |title=Our Time Productions (@our_time_productions) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> Its first production, the musical cabaret ''The Road Ahead'', sold out both of its performances in June 2026.<ref name="sold">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DaihvJcFpGj/ |title=The Road Ahead: thank you |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-07-08}}</ref>

== History ==
Costa explained that he started the company "to bring together a group of artists aspiring to achieve something beyond what they've done before, with the courage to try new things and with the passion to achieve their goals."<ref name="why">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DXkqQptDBcO/ |title=Why Our Time Productions |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-25}}</ref> The company describes its values as "ambition, risk taking, community, and courage".<ref name="announce">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DY-0SihsS2-/ |title=Announcing The Road Ahead |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-05-30}}</ref>

To pay for its first show, the company ran a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign in spring 2026, the "Race to 3K", with the goal of raising $3,000 by May 10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DXK6C6pFmu6/ |title=Race to 3K |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DXsWFJbjF-X/ |title="We're pushing for $3000 by May 10th" |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-28}}</ref>

== ''The Road Ahead'' (2026) ==
''The Road Ahead'' was announced on May 30, 2026. It was a cabaret of songs from many musicals about "the fear and excitement of following your dreams and those who help you along the way".<ref name="announce" /> Auditions were open to anyone and held by self-tape, and rehearsals began on June 8.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DZBNBtLsz2S/ |title=Auditions |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-05-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DZaRiXQsb3o/ |title=First rehearsal |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-06-10}}</ref>

Costa produced and directed the show. It was performed at 7:30 p.m. on June 26 and 27, 2026 at Barclay Performing Arts, 9050 Kimberly Boulevard, Boca Raton, with tickets sold through the Find Your Voice Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ3GlGOsREj/ |title=Cast announcement |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-06-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DaDeJVuM5Nm/ |title=Opening night |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-06-26}}</ref> Both performances sold out. The company called its debut "a major success" and promised: "Our Time Productions has only just begun, and there is a lot more in store for the future!"<ref name="sold" />

== Productions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! Production !! Notes
|-
| 2026 || ''The Road Ahead'' || Musical cabaret; produced and directed by Pedro Costa; Barclay Performing Arts, Boca Raton, June 26–27; both performances sold out
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ @our_time_productions] on Instagram

{{DEFAULTSORT:Our Time Productions}}
[[Category:Theatres]]

Pedro Costa

2026-11-07T16:57:01Z

David de Hilster: New article: Pedro Costa, founder of Our Time Productions

:''This article is about the Boca Raton musical theatre performer and producer. For the Portuguese film director, see [[wikipedia:Pedro Costa|Pedro Costa]] on Wikipedia.''
{{Infobox artist
| name = Pedro Costa
| disciplines = Musical theatre performer · Producer · Director
| based_in = Boca Raton, Florida
| education = Boca Raton Community High School<br />University of Florida (class of 2029)
| known_for = Founding [[Our Time Productions]]
| productions = ''The Road Ahead'' (2026, producer and director)
| companies = [[Our Time Productions]] (founder)
| awards = "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship (2024)
| years_active = c. 2023–present
| website = [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ Instagram]
}}
'''Pedro Costa''' is an American musical theatre performer, producer and director from Boca Raton, Florida. While still a student he founded '''[[Our Time Productions]]''', an independent theatre company whose first show, the musical cabaret ''The Road Ahead'', sold out both of its performances in June 2026. He is a student at the University of Florida, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ |title=Pedro Costa (@pedro_mboc) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref name="sold">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DaihvJcFpGj/ |title=The Road Ahead: thank you |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-07-08}}</ref>

== Early life and training ==
Costa grew up in Boca Raton and attended Boca Raton Community High School. In May 2024, at the end of his junior year, he rehearsed and performed in the opening number of the Dream Awards, Palm Beach County's high school musical theatre awards, on the main stage of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. That week he also received the "Blood, Sweat and Tears" scholarship. He called it "one of the most memorable weeks of my life".<ref name="dream">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C7fs7f_I_9y/ |title=Dream Awards week |website=Instagram (@pedro_mboc) |date=2024-05-27}}</ref>

He credits three teachers for his training: "Thank you to Jackie, Jason, and Mrs. Nixdorf for all your years of training, I could not have done any of this without the three of you as my mentors."<ref name="dream" />

== Our Time Productions ==
{{main|Our Time Productions}}
Costa founded [[Our Time Productions]] in 2026 "to bring together a group of artists aspiring to achieve something beyond what they've done before, with the courage to try new things and with the passion to achieve their goals."<ref name="why">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/reel/DXkqQptDBcO/ |title=Why Our Time Productions |website=Instagram (@our_time_productions) |date=2026-04-25}}</ref> He raised money for its first show through a crowdfunding campaign, then produced and directed it: ''The Road Ahead'', a cabaret of musical theatre songs, at Barclay Performing Arts in Boca Raton on June 26 and 27, 2026. Both performances sold out. Afterwards he thanked "all of you who have supported me in this journey and made my dream of producing and directing come to life."<ref name="sold" />

== University ==
In fall 2025 Costa began studying at the University of Florida in Gainesville, in the class of 2029.<ref name="ig" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.instagram.com/pedro_mboc/ @pedro_mboc] on Instagram
* [https://www.instagram.com/our_time_productions/ Our Time Productions] on Instagram

{{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Pedro}}
[[Category:Theatre artists]]
[[Category:Living people]]

Sarah Lash

2026-11-07T16:56:18Z

David de Hilster: Add Grease (Coastal Carolina, October 2025)

{{Infobox artist
| name = Sarah Lash
| image = Sarah_Lash.jpg
| caption = Lash (photo: Slow Burn Theatre Company)
| disciplines = Musical theatre actress · Singer · Dancer
| based_in = South Florida
| education = School in Deerfield Beach, Florida<br />Boca Raton Community High School (2023)<br />Coastal Carolina University
| degree = Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Musical Theatre, Coastal Carolina University (expected 2028)
| training = [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]; [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]] (from 2020); voice with Michael Soper
| years_active = c. 2018–present
| notable_roles = Alyssa Greene (''The Prom'', Slow Burn Theatre Company, 2024)<br />Dolly Levi (''Hello, Dolly!'', 2023)<br />The Drowsy Chaperone (''The Drowsy Chaperone'', 2022)<br />Heather Chandler (''Heathers'', 2019)
| companies = Slow Burn Theatre Company
| awards = Future Stars, best vocalist (2019)<br />Outstanding Musical Theater award, Boca Raton Community High School (2023, shared)<br />Dream Awards nominee (2023)
| website = [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Slow Burn Theatre cast page]
}}
'''Sarah Lash''' is an American musical theatre actress and singer from South Florida. She trained and performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] in Boca Raton, where she played Heather Chandler in ''Heathers'' (2019). She went on to play Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of ''The Prom'' at the Broward Center (2024).<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=376 |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref><ref name="ftos">{{cite web |url=https://www.floridatheateronstage.com/?p=36997 |title=Everyone, come to Slow Burn's The Prom |author=Oline H. Cogdill |website=Florida Theater On Stage |date=2024-03-27}}</ref>

== Education ==
* School in '''Deerfield Beach''', Florida
* '''Boca Raton Community High School''', Boca Raton, Florida (graduated May 2023)
* '''Coastal Carolina University''', Conway, South Carolina: '''Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre''' (expected 2028)

=== Training ===
* [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]], Boca Raton: member of '''ShowStoppers''', Showtime's auditioned Broadway performance troupe
* [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]], Boca Raton, under [[Angela Morando-Taylor]]: from June 2020; senior studio captain (2022)
* Voice: student of Michael Soper (Michael Soper Music)

Lash went to school in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and then to Boca Raton Community High School, where she graduated in May 2023. She also sang in the school's chorus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid0FWZq6E8eAjjrPam6eHvqwezcSjMbYNCRzmrToZ7XEbeXNNLnufpkjdPLZ5KCmsBYl |title=Boca High fall chorus concert |website=Facebook |date=2021-11-12}}</ref> At the senior awards she shared the school's Outstanding Musical Theater award with [[Luanda de Hilster]] and Emma Maass, and the three also received theater excellence awards at the senior drama banquet.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02JhgDUXWUKkWbGbQvGhhjqo8PmnJh1dtytZFjwESS52ejrkGxpHdU56pRpBQq3eNhl |title=Senior awards |website=Facebook |date=2023-04-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid071hd4MNebaChEUEL8aycMYJVwHovQnxXZEAgjBbixSGMwiiEFzTwdtLGFNnq1hPol |title=Senior drama banquet |website=Facebook |date=2023-05-11}}</ref> Outside school she performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] and trained at [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]]. She is studying musical theatre at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, in the class of 2028, working towards the university's audition-only B.F.A. in Musical Theatre.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/sarahlashh/ |title=Sarah Lash (@sarahlashh) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coastal.edu/theatre/programs/bfa-musicaltheatreconcentration/ |title=B.F.A. – Musical Theatre Concentration |website=Coastal Carolina University}}</ref>

She began training at Taylor Made in June 2020, with the summer intensives at the studio's new Boca Raton location.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid0368NSCerFQ8tiaKEKBtu6jBjr4zfLFLQtxuQZ57QaRNGGG3v7Zv4JpgJBAKBUJx6bl |title=Taylor Made summer intensives |website=Facebook |date=2020-06-08}}</ref> In 2022 she was one of Taylor Made's senior studio captains, helping with the studio's day-to-day running, marketing and planning.<ref name="dot">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/luanda-wins-taylor-made-scholarship-named-head-studio-captain/ |title=Luanda Wins Taylor Made Scholarship & Named Head Studio Captain |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-05-30}}</ref> That year she also took a dance workshop with the Broadway performer Charlotte d'Amboise at the Straz Center in Tampa.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02sgATiQne6QSC25c8vAu7byEaVvk1xMDstTHktTZxhXJZkxTDj9iKupgN6tom5ms6l |title=Workshop with Charlotte d'Amboise |website=Facebook |date=2022-03-18}}</ref> Taylor Made prepared her, de Hilster and Emma Maass for the College Audition Project (CAP) auditions in Atlanta in November 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02rx1TxBTdjyBBRnmHj2dYj8hi1oK15z2NgXnjqFKgiXFazX3sPDTmVpkokoLVbbokl |title=CAP auditions in Atlanta |website=Facebook |date=2022-11-08}}</ref>

== Career ==
=== Showtime Performing Arts Theatre ===
Lash was a regular performer at Showtime in downtown Boca Raton. While still in middle school she joined the teen and adult cast of ''Rent'' (March 30 – April 14, 2019). A reviewer wrote that her improvised solo in "Seasons of Love" "garnered applause each and every night where the audience interrupted the song in mid sing when Lash hit her high 'whistle note'".<ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=340 |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdW95XqiaE |title=Seasons of Love by the cast from Rent |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref> That year she won best vocalist at the Future Stars competition in Boca Raton, singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref name="rent" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>

She was a member of '''ShowStoppers''', Showtime's auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe for middle and high school students, along with [[Luanda de Hilster]].<ref name="ss">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=ShowStoppers Broadway Troupe |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (archived) |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

In May 2019 she appeared in Showtime's production of ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpzLDGmxKw |title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref>

In December 2019 she played the lead Heather, Heather Chandler, in Showtime's ''Heathers''. [[Luanda de Hilster]] played Heather McNamara and Carmela Nussbaum played Heather Duke. The reviewer wrote: "Lash's condescension is impeccable and her voice acting is spot on routinely going from quiet hate, to screaming out commands to the other Heathers."<ref name="heathers" />

=== Boca Raton High School ===
At Boca Raton Community High School, Lash played the title role in ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' (2022), opposite Eryk Dewire as Adolfo. A reviewer called her portrayal of "the drunken, frustrated Chaperone … a tour-de-force acting performance embellished with her angelic award-winning voice".<ref name="drowsy">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1525 |title=Back Home |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-04-17}}</ref> As a senior she played the lead, Dolly Levi, in ''Hello, Dolly!'' (2023), and was nominated for a 2023 Dream Award, the Palm Beach County high school musical theatre awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1920 |title=Luanda Earns Dream Awards Nomination for a Second Year |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2023-05-10}}</ref>

=== Concerts ===
On December 18, 2021, as a student of the voice teacher Michael Soper, she sang "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia'' at Carnegie Hall in New York. Afterwards she wrote: "New York was a dream."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/mikesopermusic/posts/pfbid02krH4UyWibH69qVc5t3nZxZeLVZjTQ3VxdRV8cZKrBBAzkxmCMAWaw2a8Mj5GDqn2l |title=Carnegie Hall, December 18, 2021 |website=Facebook (Michael Soper Music) |date=2021-12-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHtbCYJOcu/ |title=New York was a dream |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2021-12-30}}</ref> On July 29, 2023 she performed in a "Broadway Extensive" show at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid01NcjZMwe8c6EW3geHZ7SBse3HKgC9B7YQEnXmDL6gryhYHECY11e2zRtQU3PBSNVl |title=Broadway Extensive at the Kravis Center |website=Facebook |date=2023-07-29}}</ref>

=== Slow Burn Theatre Company ===
In spring 2024 Lash played Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's ''The Prom'', directed by Patrick Fitzwater, at the Amaturo Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (March 23 – April 7). Regina Brown played Emma Nolan, Alyssa's girlfriend, and [[Shelley Keelor]] played Alyssa's mother, Mrs. Greene.<ref name="ftos" /><ref name="sft">{{cite web |url=https://southfloridatheater.com/2024/04/02/will-you-go-to-the-prom-with-me/ |title=Will You Go to 'The Prom' With Me? |author=Christopher McDaniel |website=South Florida Theater |date=2024-04-02}}</ref> ''Florida Theater On Stage'' called her "the lovely-voiced Sarah Lash", and wrote that she "shines in her angst-ridden song 'Alyssa Greene,' about the pressure her controlling mother puts on her".<ref name="ftos" /> It was her first professional show. Afterwards she wrote: "We built a prom! My first professional show will forever be one for the books!", with "a special thank you to Patrick for helping me live my dream".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C5hLsv8umxE/ |title=The Prom |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2024-04-08}}</ref> Keelor, her voice teacher, wrote: "It's such a blast playing opposite my student and future star, Sarah Lash!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160369130139613 |title=The Prom |website=Facebook (Shelley Keelor) |date=2024-03-29}}</ref> Slow Burn lists her among its cast members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ |title=Sarah Lash |website=Slow Burn Theatre Company}}</ref>

=== Coastal Carolina University ===
At Coastal Carolina University she was in the theatre department's productions of ''Grease'', directed by Steven Higginbotham at Wheelwright Auditorium (October 17–26, 2025),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coastal.edu/news/fall2025/classicmusicalgreasehitsccuswheelwrightstage/ |title=Classic musical Grease hits CCU's Wheelwright stage |website=Coastal Carolina University |date=2025-10}}</ref> and ''Godspell'' (February 2026), a futuristic production set "in the age of AI".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid02DGiQ2oDM4vsGFs2LKFMnwCVVrHvVtrLg6rDhUNAw7LpGfCJ8sveQKXcbpKJSnm2Tl |title=Godspell opens |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-02-07}}</ref> In May 2026 she danced in ''Stanza'', a concert of mostly student-choreographed dances inspired by student poetry, which she called her first dance concert. That spring she also took part in the Opera Workshop's "Miscast" performance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid0TYXcbUeHP3mhrtMLG6YgQyGPdxtYr7L9bqD5DXkJE3M7aZoRAusfAjxSYUvtd8Hrl |title=Stanza |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid02HoUUVekCZgFUXhHSHg47i2SaBueXdS4WSatsjEesg42iK5p3XQUJEw8EzfndpPx5l |title=Opera Workshop: Miscast |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-04-30}}</ref> Looking ahead to her junior year, she wrote: "My time @ccutheatre has fulfilled and challenged me in indescribable ways, and I can't wait to start the second half of this journey in the coming year."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DavqpM3mj63/ |title=Godspell and Stanza |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2026-07-13}}</ref>

== Selected credits ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Production !! Role !! Venue / company
|-
| 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Ensemble (soloist, "Seasons of Love") || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
|-
| 2019 || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' || Cast member || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
|-
| 2019 || ''Heathers'' || Heather Chandler || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
|-
| 2021 || Michael Soper Music concert || Soloist ("In My Dreams") || Carnegie Hall, New York
|-
| 2022 || ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' || The Drowsy Chaperone || Boca Raton Community High School
|-
| 2023 || ''Hello, Dolly!'' || Dolly Levi || Boca Raton Community High School
|-
| 2023 || ''Broadway Extensive'' || Performer || Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach
|-
| 2024 || ''The Prom'' || Alyssa Greene || Slow Burn Theatre Company, Broward Center
|-
| 2025 || ''Grease'' || Cast member || Coastal Carolina University, Wheelwright Auditorium
|-
| 2026 || ''Godspell'' || Cast member || Coastal Carolina University
|-
| 2026 || ''Stanza'' (dance concert) || Dancer || Coastal Carolina University
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Sarah Lash] at Slow Burn Theatre Company
* [https://www.instagram.com/sarahlashh/ @sarahlashh] on Instagram

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Sarah Lash

2026-11-07T16:39:51Z

David de Hilster: Add Carnegie Hall, senior awards, training, Kravis, Coastal Carolina productions from Facebook/Instagram research

{{Infobox artist
| name = Sarah Lash
| image = Sarah_Lash.jpg
| caption = Lash (photo: Slow Burn Theatre Company)
| disciplines = Musical theatre actress · Singer · Dancer
| based_in = South Florida
| education = School in Deerfield Beach, Florida<br />Boca Raton Community High School (2023)<br />Coastal Carolina University
| degree = Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Musical Theatre, Coastal Carolina University (expected 2028)
| training = [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]; [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]] (from 2020); voice with Michael Soper
| years_active = c. 2018–present
| notable_roles = Alyssa Greene (''The Prom'', Slow Burn Theatre Company, 2024)<br />Dolly Levi (''Hello, Dolly!'', 2023)<br />The Drowsy Chaperone (''The Drowsy Chaperone'', 2022)<br />Heather Chandler (''Heathers'', 2019)
| companies = Slow Burn Theatre Company
| awards = Future Stars, best vocalist (2019)<br />Outstanding Musical Theater award, Boca Raton Community High School (2023, shared)<br />Dream Awards nominee (2023)
| website = [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Slow Burn Theatre cast page]
}}
'''Sarah Lash''' is an American musical theatre actress and singer from South Florida. She trained and performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] in Boca Raton, where she played Heather Chandler in ''Heathers'' (2019). She went on to play Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of ''The Prom'' at the Broward Center (2024).<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=376 |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref><ref name="ftos">{{cite web |url=https://www.floridatheateronstage.com/?p=36997 |title=Everyone, come to Slow Burn's The Prom |author=Oline H. Cogdill |website=Florida Theater On Stage |date=2024-03-27}}</ref>

== Education ==
* School in '''Deerfield Beach''', Florida
* '''Boca Raton Community High School''', Boca Raton, Florida (graduated May 2023)
* '''Coastal Carolina University''', Conway, South Carolina: '''Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre''' (expected 2028)

=== Training ===
* [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]], Boca Raton: member of '''ShowStoppers''', Showtime's auditioned Broadway performance troupe
* [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]], Boca Raton, under [[Angela Morando-Taylor]]: from June 2020; senior studio captain (2022)
* Voice: student of Michael Soper (Michael Soper Music)

Lash went to school in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and then to Boca Raton Community High School, where she graduated in May 2023. She also sang in the school's chorus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid0FWZq6E8eAjjrPam6eHvqwezcSjMbYNCRzmrToZ7XEbeXNNLnufpkjdPLZ5KCmsBYl |title=Boca High fall chorus concert |website=Facebook |date=2021-11-12}}</ref> At the senior awards she shared the school's Outstanding Musical Theater award with [[Luanda de Hilster]] and Emma Maass, and the three also received theater excellence awards at the senior drama banquet.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02JhgDUXWUKkWbGbQvGhhjqo8PmnJh1dtytZFjwESS52ejrkGxpHdU56pRpBQq3eNhl |title=Senior awards |website=Facebook |date=2023-04-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid071hd4MNebaChEUEL8aycMYJVwHovQnxXZEAgjBbixSGMwiiEFzTwdtLGFNnq1hPol |title=Senior drama banquet |website=Facebook |date=2023-05-11}}</ref> Outside school she performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] and trained at [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]]. She is studying musical theatre at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, in the class of 2028, working towards the university's audition-only B.F.A. in Musical Theatre.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/sarahlashh/ |title=Sarah Lash (@sarahlashh) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coastal.edu/theatre/programs/bfa-musicaltheatreconcentration/ |title=B.F.A. – Musical Theatre Concentration |website=Coastal Carolina University}}</ref>

She began training at Taylor Made in June 2020, with the summer intensives at the studio's new Boca Raton location.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid0368NSCerFQ8tiaKEKBtu6jBjr4zfLFLQtxuQZ57QaRNGGG3v7Zv4JpgJBAKBUJx6bl |title=Taylor Made summer intensives |website=Facebook |date=2020-06-08}}</ref> In 2022 she was one of Taylor Made's senior studio captains, helping with the studio's day-to-day running, marketing and planning.<ref name="dot">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/luanda-wins-taylor-made-scholarship-named-head-studio-captain/ |title=Luanda Wins Taylor Made Scholarship & Named Head Studio Captain |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-05-30}}</ref> That year she also took a dance workshop with the Broadway performer Charlotte d'Amboise at the Straz Center in Tampa.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02sgATiQne6QSC25c8vAu7byEaVvk1xMDstTHktTZxhXJZkxTDj9iKupgN6tom5ms6l |title=Workshop with Charlotte d'Amboise |website=Facebook |date=2022-03-18}}</ref> Taylor Made prepared her, de Hilster and Emma Maass for the College Audition Project (CAP) auditions in Atlanta in November 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02rx1TxBTdjyBBRnmHj2dYj8hi1oK15z2NgXnjqFKgiXFazX3sPDTmVpkokoLVbbokl |title=CAP auditions in Atlanta |website=Facebook |date=2022-11-08}}</ref>

== Career ==
=== Showtime Performing Arts Theatre ===
Lash was a regular performer at Showtime in downtown Boca Raton. While still in middle school she joined the teen and adult cast of ''Rent'' (March 30 – April 14, 2019). A reviewer wrote that her improvised solo in "Seasons of Love" "garnered applause each and every night where the audience interrupted the song in mid sing when Lash hit her high 'whistle note'".<ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=340 |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdW95XqiaE |title=Seasons of Love by the cast from Rent |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref> That year she won best vocalist at the Future Stars competition in Boca Raton, singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref name="rent" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>

She was a member of '''ShowStoppers''', Showtime's auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe for middle and high school students, along with [[Luanda de Hilster]].<ref name="ss">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=ShowStoppers Broadway Troupe |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (archived) |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

In May 2019 she appeared in Showtime's production of ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpzLDGmxKw |title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref>

In December 2019 she played the lead Heather, Heather Chandler, in Showtime's ''Heathers''. [[Luanda de Hilster]] played Heather McNamara and Carmela Nussbaum played Heather Duke. The reviewer wrote: "Lash's condescension is impeccable and her voice acting is spot on routinely going from quiet hate, to screaming out commands to the other Heathers."<ref name="heathers" />

=== Boca Raton High School ===
At Boca Raton Community High School, Lash played the title role in ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' (2022), opposite Eryk Dewire as Adolfo. A reviewer called her portrayal of "the drunken, frustrated Chaperone … a tour-de-force acting performance embellished with her angelic award-winning voice".<ref name="drowsy">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1525 |title=Back Home |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-04-17}}</ref> As a senior she played the lead, Dolly Levi, in ''Hello, Dolly!'' (2023), and was nominated for a 2023 Dream Award, the Palm Beach County high school musical theatre awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1920 |title=Luanda Earns Dream Awards Nomination for a Second Year |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2023-05-10}}</ref>

=== Concerts ===
On December 18, 2021, as a student of the voice teacher Michael Soper, she sang "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia'' at Carnegie Hall in New York. Afterwards she wrote: "New York was a dream."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/mikesopermusic/posts/pfbid02krH4UyWibH69qVc5t3nZxZeLVZjTQ3VxdRV8cZKrBBAzkxmCMAWaw2a8Mj5GDqn2l |title=Carnegie Hall, December 18, 2021 |website=Facebook (Michael Soper Music) |date=2021-12-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHtbCYJOcu/ |title=New York was a dream |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2021-12-30}}</ref> On July 29, 2023 she performed in a "Broadway Extensive" show at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid01NcjZMwe8c6EW3geHZ7SBse3HKgC9B7YQEnXmDL6gryhYHECY11e2zRtQU3PBSNVl |title=Broadway Extensive at the Kravis Center |website=Facebook |date=2023-07-29}}</ref>

=== Slow Burn Theatre Company ===
In spring 2024 Lash played Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's ''The Prom'', directed by Patrick Fitzwater, at the Amaturo Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (March 23 – April 7). Regina Brown played Emma Nolan, Alyssa's girlfriend, and [[Shelley Keelor]] played Alyssa's mother, Mrs. Greene.<ref name="ftos" /><ref name="sft">{{cite web |url=https://southfloridatheater.com/2024/04/02/will-you-go-to-the-prom-with-me/ |title=Will You Go to 'The Prom' With Me? |author=Christopher McDaniel |website=South Florida Theater |date=2024-04-02}}</ref> ''Florida Theater On Stage'' called her "the lovely-voiced Sarah Lash", and wrote that she "shines in her angst-ridden song 'Alyssa Greene,' about the pressure her controlling mother puts on her".<ref name="ftos" /> It was her first professional show. Afterwards she wrote: "We built a prom! My first professional show will forever be one for the books!", with "a special thank you to Patrick for helping me live my dream".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C5hLsv8umxE/ |title=The Prom |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2024-04-08}}</ref> Keelor, her voice teacher, wrote: "It's such a blast playing opposite my student and future star, Sarah Lash!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160369130139613 |title=The Prom |website=Facebook (Shelley Keelor) |date=2024-03-29}}</ref> Slow Burn lists her among its cast members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ |title=Sarah Lash |website=Slow Burn Theatre Company}}</ref>

=== Coastal Carolina University ===
At Coastal Carolina University she was in the theatre department's ''Godspell'' (February 2026), a futuristic production set "in the age of AI".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid02DGiQ2oDM4vsGFs2LKFMnwCVVrHvVtrLg6rDhUNAw7LpGfCJ8sveQKXcbpKJSnm2Tl |title=Godspell opens |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-02-07}}</ref> In May 2026 she danced in ''Stanza'', a concert of mostly student-choreographed dances inspired by student poetry, which she called her first dance concert. That spring she also took part in the Opera Workshop's "Miscast" performance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid0TYXcbUeHP3mhrtMLG6YgQyGPdxtYr7L9bqD5DXkJE3M7aZoRAusfAjxSYUvtd8Hrl |title=Stanza |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid02HoUUVekCZgFUXhHSHg47i2SaBueXdS4WSatsjEesg42iK5p3XQUJEw8EzfndpPx5l |title=Opera Workshop: Miscast |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-04-30}}</ref> Looking ahead to her junior year, she wrote: "My time @ccutheatre has fulfilled and challenged me in indescribable ways, and I can't wait to start the second half of this journey in the coming year."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DavqpM3mj63/ |title=Godspell and Stanza |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2026-07-13}}</ref>

== Selected credits ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Production !! Role !! Venue / company
|-
| 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Ensemble (soloist, "Seasons of Love") || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
|-
| 2019 || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' || Cast member || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
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| 2019 || ''Heathers'' || Heather Chandler || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
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| 2021 || Michael Soper Music concert || Soloist ("In My Dreams") || Carnegie Hall, New York
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| 2022 || ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' || The Drowsy Chaperone || Boca Raton Community High School
|-
| 2023 || ''Hello, Dolly!'' || Dolly Levi || Boca Raton Community High School
|-
| 2023 || ''Broadway Extensive'' || Performer || Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach
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| 2024 || ''The Prom'' || Alyssa Greene || Slow Burn Theatre Company, Broward Center
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| 2026 || ''Godspell'' || Cast member || Coastal Carolina University
|-
| 2026 || ''Stanza'' (dance concert) || Dancer || Coastal Carolina University
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Sarah Lash] at Slow Burn Theatre Company
* [https://www.instagram.com/sarahlashh/ @sarahlashh] on Instagram

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Showtime Performing Arts Theatre

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David de Hilster: Fix note

{{Infobox venue
| name = Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
| image = Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_logo.jpg
| caption = Showtime's marquee-style logo
| former_names = SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre; Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre (c. 2010)
| venue_type = Youth and community musical theatre · Performing arts school
| address = 503 SE Mizner Blvd., Suite 73<br />Royal Palm Place
| location = Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
| opened = c. 2005–06 (first season); website online by July 2006
| closed = c. 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic)
| founder = [[Marilyn Perry]]
| director = [[Marilyn Perry]] (executive director and producer)
| capacity = 100–125 seats
| stages = One theatre; 3 dance studios; recording studio; 5 instructional studios in total
| art_forms = Musical theatre, dance, acting, voice, instrumental music
| programs = Children's Broadway season; adult and teen series; ShowStoppers Broadway troupe; Kidz on Stage; classes and private lessons; holiday and summer camps
| productions = ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2007)<br />''Les Misérables''<br />''Nunsense''<br />''Matilda'' (2019)<br />''Rent'' (2019)<br />''Billy Elliot'' (2019)<br />''Heathers'' (2019)<br />''Newsies'' (2020)
| website = [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 YouTube] · [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Facebook]
| archived_website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/ showtimeboca.com] (Wayback Machine)
}}
'''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre''' (originally '''SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre''', often called '''Showtime Boca''') was a performing arts school and small musical theatre at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. Its founder, [[Marilyn Perry]], ran it as executive director and producer. From the mid-2000s until the COVID-19 pandemic it staged seasons of children's, teen and adult musicals and taught dance, acting, voice and instrumental music to students from age three to adult.<ref name="about2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.htm |title=About Us |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182925/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref><ref name="staff2017">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

== History ==
The theatre's website was online by July 2006 under the name '''SHOWTIME Dance and Performing Arts Theatre'''. At that time it described a 3,400-square-foot facility at Suite 73, 503 SE Mizner Boulevard, in the Royal Palm Place shopping district.<ref name="home2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Boca (home page) |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721212343/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/ |archive-date=2006-07-21}}</ref><ref name="contact2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_contactus.htm |title=Contact Us |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222090855/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_contactus.htm |archive-date=2007-02-22}}</ref> Its stated mission was "to provide a professional, yet fun and supportive atmosphere where students of all levels can succeed", teaching "not only 'how you do' but 'why you do'".<ref name="home2006" /> The facility had:<ref name="home2006" />
* three dance studios with sprung ("floating cushioned") floors
* a 24-track digital recording studio for voice and music classes
* a teaching and performance theatre with about 120 seats, stage lighting and a custom sound system

Later descriptions gave the size of the two-storey building's theatre as 100 seats (2010) and 125 seats (2014).<ref name="about2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.html |title=About Showtime |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423162609/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.html |archive-date=2010-04-23}}</ref><ref name="about2014" /> In early 2007 Sara Perry Trabin was listed as artistic director, Sergio Crego as acting program director and Scott Sutter as music director.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601175336/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_staff.htm |archive-date=2007-06-01}}</ref> In 2010 its Facebook posts called it '''Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/314203692994 |title=Spring break camp: High School Musical 3 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-01-26}}</ref> By the mid-2010s the name had changed to '''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref name="staff2017" />

Showtime called its 2013–14 season its "9th Season", which would place its first season in 2005–06.<ref name="fb9th">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151699201668099 |title="Help us kick off our 9th Season" |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-09-27}}</ref> Most shows played the theatre's own stage in Royal Palm Place, which it described as "our 100+ seat beautiful Showtime Performing Arts Theater". Some larger productions, such as ''The Story of the Nutcracker'' (2013–14) and the ''Return to Broadway'' revue (2014), moved to the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151885343213099 |title=Final performance on the Showtime mainstage before the Willow Theatre |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-12-27}}</ref><ref name="fbsummer2018">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid031Dma3jefuj3NeNbKnSMbGcKSEifkF3Lt1nNR3J92D6ZddY3v25cXba68iYGQbRhZl |title=Summer 2018 productions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-06-23}}</ref> In November 2012 Showtime was filmed for a television theatre channel, which recorded a dance company rehearsal, the ShowStoppers troupe, an improv class, interviews and a performance of ''The Little Mermaid''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid07hzwK8sVAdiKpLcJfpkfKX1SVbZpR772dY74rQAf87TkvU1WDC9B5WAeVhGcG8ysl |title=Filming for a TV theatre channel |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-11}}</ref> Hurricane Irma closed the theatre in September 2017. When classes resumed, it posted: "Power is back on, air is cold, music is lively!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0LrqECmhFq4jKU6XnGkfi7w9d7chSKmwZkEUjpN5MrM823fMkicgqRe9DztefktZel |title=Classes resume after Hurricane Irma |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-09-14}}</ref>

=== Closure ===
Showtime's 2019–2020 season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. ''The Sound of Music'' was scheduled to open on March 7, 2020, with Saturday performances from March 14 to April 11.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0MFmS2Zq2dB6YGQgkjkaFCffayCK7zAfxmDoRDFfhpEcD6dQHBZjXuAA9q7ErTnDLl |title=The Sound of Music |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-19}}</ref> The teen musical ''13'' was first set for weekends from March 14 to 29, and was then moved to April 4–19.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02sdDSNwQj2cNdZCXsjXtP3LJ5H3zDKkf7W79m7iWUPbmcr7eKHdCrsxW8NEYL18BWl |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02BZfKGDJrsd9CfhyPUBzP3sLNsnxTsMETUw15ffS5iovVFpu3oSKg57JmSZoB47Gdl |title=13 The Musical (new dates) |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-03}}</ref> On March 14, 2020 Perry posted the theatre's first coronavirus update: "News regarding the Coronavirus and it's potential threat to our community is rolling in every few hours."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid036TNaovB2wLoKWstbSo2t2VUmwbVpMvaXLvLaTASGdvNu3tYBJN46jEKWX8S53dccl |title=Coronavirus updates |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-14}}</ref> It is not clear whether ''The Sound of Music'' gave any performances before the shutdown; ''13'' was never staged.<ref name="fb">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="luanda13">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Lands Female Lead in the Musical "13" |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-30}}</ref> A "Stranger Things" spring-break camp (March 23–27, 2020) and the end-of-year Showcase awards on May 31, 2020 were also on the calendar. Showtime's YouTube channel posted its last video, a second trailer for ''13'', on March 13, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHCGpLFVhc |title="13" The Musical Trailer 2 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-13}}</ref>

On the day of the cancelled showcase the theatre posted: "Today would have been the day… our 14th annual Red-Carpet event. Years of great memories but so sad to be missing our favorite families today." Later in 2020 it shared news of a COVID-19 outbreak at a Broward County summer camp, commenting: "Not the best of times to be putting our young ones and families at risk.<ref name="fb" />

Showtime never publicly announced a permanent closure. After 2020 its Facebook page posted only occasional memories: in 2021 a clip from ''Annie Warbucks'' singing "Changes… oh so relevant!", and in 2024 a video of ''Rent''.<ref name="fb" /> The home page of its website, still online in 2023, read: "Please stay tuned for updated performance dates."<ref name="home2023">{{cite web |url=https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (home page) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |archive-date=2023-05-29}}</ref> Business directories now list the theatre as closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://startpage.mapquest.com/us/florida/showtime-performing-arts-theatre-22291950 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=MapQuest}}</ref>

[[File:Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_main_theatre.jpg|thumb|right|Showtime's main theatre and stage at Royal Palm Place]]

== Programs ==
Showtime presented a season of children's musical theatre each year from September to May, together with programs for teenagers and adults. Its classes and programs included:<ref name="about2014" />
* '''Theatre''' (age 3 to adult): acting, improvisation, audition preparation, musical theatre, "Broadway Babies" and "Kidz on Stage"
* '''Dance''': ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, acro, hip hop, ballroom and musical theatre jazz
* '''Music''': voice, piano, guitar and drums
* '''Private coaching''' for auditions to performing-arts magnet schools and college conservatory programs
* '''ShowStoppers''': an auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe with junior and senior divisions<ref name="home2023" />
* '''Youngest Performers / Kidz on Stage''': 12-week performance programs for small children, ending in a show. Titles included ''Moana'', ''Trolls'' and ''Mary Poppins''.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Camps''' during the winter, spring and summer school holidays, each built around a show, such as ''Cats'', ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and "Stranger Things"<ref name="fb" />
* '''Showcase''': an annual "Red-Carpet" awards event at the end of each season. The 2020 event would have been the 14th.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Musical Theatre Experience''': a Thursday performance program for kindergarten to grade 6, ending in a show such as ''Aladdin'' (2012), ''Annie'' (2013) or ''Seussical'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10154199301988099 |title=Thursday performance program |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-04}}</ref>
* '''Competition Dance Company''': formed in 2012, it competed at Dance America and CanDance events<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150980122833099 |title=Competition Dance Team auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-07-25}}</ref>
* '''Audition Prep Course''': a 10-week course preparing students for auditions at Bak Middle School of the Arts and the Dreyfoos School of the Arts<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151767104733099 |title=Audition Prep Course |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-11-01}}</ref>
* '''Adult Professional Series''': productions with paid, non-Equity adult casts, from 2010<ref name="fbseason1011">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=431123503098 |title=2010–2011 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-09-10}}</ref>
* '''Improv''': weekly shows by Sick Puppies Comedy, hosted by Casey Casperson (2012), and "IMPROV University" classes with Anthony Francis (2015)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151061837003099 |title=Sick Puppies Comedy |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153289214853099 |title=IMPROV University |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-11-09}}</ref>

Showtime casts also performed in the community. The ShowStoppers sang at a Miami Heat event. The ''Elf'' cast performed at the City of Boca Raton's holiday tree lighting at Mizner Park in November 2018. The theatre took part in the Arts Spark Kids Fest at Sugar Sand Park (2019 and 2020). On March 8, 2020 it hosted a free master class and auditions by the New York Broadway Artists Alliance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/videos/563917017406553/ |title=Elf cast at the Mizner Park tree lighting |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0QSDr9dwGoR3jGjRNy6jzk3naq3FsgMzVTziGXpJEQDMh7ETniexWmthWXUGCwMVpl |title=Broadway Artists Alliance master class |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-04}}</ref>

CBS Miami included Showtime in a list of the best theatre groups for children in South Florida. It highlighted the acting and dance programs, music lessons, the "Musical Test Drive" (a one-on-one session trying up to four instruments), holiday musical theatre camps and birthday parties.<ref name="cbs">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/best-theatre-groups-for-kids-in-south-florida/ |title=Best Theatre Groups for Kids in South Florida |website=CBS Miami}}</ref>

== Productions ==
Showtime staged a children's and young performers' "Broadway season" every year from at least 2007–08 to 2019–20, with adult and teen productions alongside it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/past-youth-productions |title=Past Youth Productions |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929182533/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/past-youth-productions |archive-date=2017-09-29}}</ref> Each season ended with Showtime's own "Tony Awards" ceremony for its students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK14JIC4lMM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2014 2015 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_ljwrVyUk |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2015-2016 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-19}}</ref>

=== Early years ===
Saturday matinées in 2007 included ''Alice in Wonderland – The Musical'' and ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''. That year an adult cabaret series presented ''An Evening with Richard Rodgers'', ''Rock 'Em Broadway'' and ''Broadway Rhythm''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_productions.htm |title=Productions |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209104419/http://showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_productions.htm |archive-date=2007-02-09}}</ref> Around 2014 the adult series included ''Nunsense'' and ''Les Misérables'', and the theatre hosted monthly shows by the improv troupe Sick Puppies Comedy. Other productions announced on Showtime's Facebook page include ''The Little Mermaid'' (2012, reopening after Hurricane Sandy), ''Legally Blonde'', ''Willy Wonka'', ''American Idiot'' and ''The Story of the Nutcracker'', which was performed at the Willow Theatre. There was also a cabaret series, ''The Golden Age of Broadway'', with wine and snacks.<ref name="fb" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/adultseries.htm |title=Adult Series |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182940/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/adultseries.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref>

=== Productions by season ===
The table lists Showtime's productions from 2009 to 2020. Facebook rows (*) list the main productions of each season; YouTube rows list productions with videos.<ref name="ytchannel">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594/videos |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre – Videos |website=YouTube |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Date !! Production !! Notes
|-
| 2009–10* || ''Pocahontas''; ''High School Musical 3'' (spring break camp); ''Stage to Screen'' (ShowStoppers revue, May 2010) || <ref name="fbboca2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=386888578098 |title=Stage to Screen; Best of Boca 2010 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-04-27}}</ref>
|-
| 2010–11* || ''Alice in Wonderland''; ''A Christmas Carol''; ''Hercules''; ''Peter Pan''; ''13'' (April 2011); ''On Broadway'' (ShowStoppers revue); ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'', "for the first time ever" with an all-adult cast || <ref name="fbseason1011" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150114180628099 |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-03-14}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2011* || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''; ''Annie''; ''All Shook Up'' (camp) ||
|-
| 2011–12* || ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (adult, December 2011, directed by Andy Fiacco); ''Snow White''; ''Aladdin''; ''Rent''; ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''; ''Broadway Rocks!'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150269023708099 |title=Ruthless! The Musical auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-08-15}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2012* || ''Legally Blonde''; ''Cinderella''; ''Godspell'' ||
|-
| 2012–13* || ''The Little Mermaid''; ''The Wizard of Oz''; ''[title of show]'' (adult, December 2012, directed by Beverly Blanchette); ''Tarzan''; ''In the Heights'' (teen production); ''Mulan Jr.''; a ''Rock of Ages'' spring break camp || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151078898238099 |title=2012–2013 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151155759498099 |title=[title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-15}}</ref>
|-
| 2013–14* || ''Shrek the Musical''; ''The Story of the Nutcracker''; ''Nunsense'' (adult series); ''Pocahontas''; ''Les Misérables'' (teen and young adult production, January–February 2014); ''Sleeping Beauty''; ''Return to Broadway'' at the Willow Theatre || Billed as Showtime's "9th Season"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10151760412548099 |title=2013–2014 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-10-30}}</ref>
|-
| 2014–15* || ''A Very Muppet Musical''; ''The Wedding Singer''; ''Willy Wonka'' (sold out); ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Rent''; ''Oh What a Night!'' (a tribute to ''Jersey Boys'', adult professional cast); ''Cinderella'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152508806368099 |title=Auditions: Rent, Oh What a Night!, Cinderella |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152607589138099 |title=Willy Wonka |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-12-27}}</ref>
|-
| 2015–16* || ''The Wizard of Oz''; Green Day's ''American Idiot'' (adult professional series, October 2015, billed as a regional premiere); ''Hairspray''; ''Elf Jr.'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153223135798099 |title=American Idiot |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-09-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153379520988099 |title=Elf Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-12-30}}</ref>
|-
| 2016 || ''Les Misérables'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuP4x7Rwos8 |title=Les Miserables - "Bring Him Home" 2016 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-06}}</ref>
|-
| 2016–17 season || ''The Addams Family''; ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''; ''The Lion King''; ''Mulan''; ''School of Rock''; ''Hercules'' || Previews posted July 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ERmvTMH_c |title=Showtime 2016-2017 Season |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-11}}</ref>
|-
| 2016–17* || ''Annie Jr.''; ''The Lion King Jr.'' (October 2016); ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' (December 2016 – January 2017) || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154071871653099 |title=The Lion King Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154219792778099 |title=A Charlie Brown Christmas |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-10}}</ref>
|-
| 2017–18 season || ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''Into the Woods''; ''Shrek the Musical''; ''School of Rock''; ''Les Misérables''; ''Hairspray''; ''Frozen'' || Performance videos posted June–August 2018<ref name="ytchannel" />
|-
| 2017–18* || ''Into the Woods Jr.''; ''Les Misérables'' (school edition, October–December 2017); ''Shrek the Musical Jr.''; ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''In the Heights'' (adults, teens and children, May 2018) || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10155235276378099 |title=Les Misérables final performance |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/180663475902081/ |title=In the Heights |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-05-19}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2018* || ''Hairspray Jr.''; ''Bye Bye Birdie''; ''The Greatest Showman'' || <ref name="fbsummer2018" />
|-
| 2018 || ''Elf'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMG0OW1o5OM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre - Elf 2018 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| 2018–19* || ''Once on This Island Jr.''; ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Matilda'' (billed as the "South Florida Regional Premiere") || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid05B184LzqajYqPfTxuDoEvonJcA4FUKrgdwo53UcTodReJwWukzwvAYyM32Kjobdsl |title=Once on This Island Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/2182047115172986/ |title=Matilda The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-02-23}}</ref>
|-
| February 2019 || ''Matilda the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtfMYCSn_dM |title=Matilda The Musical "Revolting Children" - February 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-18}}</ref>
|-
| March 2019 || ''Annie Warbucks'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKhvaDOGdw |title=Annie Warbucks "Annie Ain't Just Annie Anymore" - March 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-07}}</ref>
|-
| March 30 – April 14, 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Teen and adult cast; directed by Emily Mittleman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VlysuPMsqM |title=Rent The Musical - April 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref>
|-
| May 2019 || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpzLDGmxKw |title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2019 || ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and Disney Karaoke camps || Summer camp productions<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL16W0jCDTw |title=GREASE Summer Camp 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-05}}</ref>
|-
| September 2019 || ''Billy Elliot the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6LUGEkAfFc |title=BILLY ELLIOT The Musical - September 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/miami/article/Showtime-Performing-Arts-Theatre-Presents-BILLY-ELLIOT-20190913 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre Presents BILLY ELLIOT |website=BroadwayWorld |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| November 2019 || ''Shrek the Musical Jr.'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caOps4l7OiQ |title=Shrek the Musical Jr. Trailer - November 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-02}}</ref>
|-
| December 7–22, 2019 || ''Heathers'' (high school edition) || Produced by Marilyn Perry, directed by Emily Freeman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz, choreography by Nicole Perry, costumes by Stephanie LoVerde<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjQyye1MrnE |title=Heathers Trailer - High School Edition 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-27}}</ref><ref name="heathers" />
|-
| 2019–20* || ''Frozen Jr.''; ''Newsies'' (closing February 29, 2020, directed by Rome Saladino); ''My Funny Valentine'', a Michael Bublé tribute concert by Saladino with a five-piece band (February 15, 2020) || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0GRRXVr9MpVjYL8JQr6kNEd29dwR1mV26mLQh5gu4EadEj7ziin7KCH11XGThUQLul |title=My Funny Valentine |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-14}}</ref>
|-
| 2020 || ''Newsies'' || Trailer posted January 2020<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMjyhkRqNQ |title="Newsies" the Musical Trailer |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-01-15}}</ref>
|-
| Spring 2020 || ''13'' || Teen production; postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic and never staged<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMkhscJPe0 |title="13" the Musical TRAILER - Getting Ready |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref>
|-
| March 2020 || ''The Sound of Music'' || Scheduled to open March 7, 2020; run cut short by the pandemic
|}
<small>* Documented on Showtime's Facebook page (season announcements, posts, photos and events). Rows without an asterisk are documented by videos on Showtime's YouTube channel; their dates are the production dates given in the video titles where available, otherwise approximate, based on when the video was posted.</small>

Camps built around a show ran every winter, spring and summer, including ''Grease'' and ''Cats'' (2010–11), ''The Wiz'' and ''Grease'' (2013), ''West Side Story'' (2014), ''Annie'' (2015, sold out), ''Hamilton'' (2017–18 and 2019), ''Zombies'' (2018–19) and ''Stranger Things'' (2020).<ref name="fb" />

A local reviewer called the December 2019 ''Heathers'' a "must see", and said its final performance was so full that extra chairs had to be brought out.<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref> [[Luanda de Hilster]] appeared in ''Rent'', ''Billy Elliot'', ''Heathers'' (as Heather McNamara) and ''Newsies''. She was cast as Patrice in the cancelled ''13'', and also trained and worked as a camp counsellor at the theatre.<ref name="heathers" /><ref name="luanda13" />

Showtime students also competed outside the theatre. In 2019 [[Sarah Lash]], one of the three Heathers, won the Future Stars competition singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>

== Recognition ==
Showtime listed the following awards on its website:<ref name="awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |title=Awards & Articles |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref><ref name="staff2017" />
* '''Kids Crown Award''' from ''South Florida Parenting'' (2015 and 2016) for best arts/academic program in Palm Beach County
* "Best of Boca" Readers' Choice awards from the ''Sun-Sentinel'' / Forum Publishing Group: #1 Children's Activity/Entertainment in 2010 and again in 2012, and "Best Camp in Boca"<ref name="fbboca2010" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151055602743099 |title=Once again voted Best of Boca 2012 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-30}}</ref>
* Featured in ''Boca'' magazine via the "Modern Boca Mom" column<ref name="fb" />
* Official nominee for Best Theatre Group for Kids (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) in Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect "Parents' Picks" awards, 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/102157446502249 |title=ParentsConnect Parents' Picks nominee |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-06-16}}</ref>

In December 2012 the adult production ''[title of show]'' was reviewed by PBPulse (''The Palm Beach Post'') under the headline "Boca troupe kicks off with fresh-from-Broadway musical", and listed in ''Boca Raton'' magazine's "The Week Ahead".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/472319319474088 |title=PBPulse review of [title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/510036785683155 |title=Boca Raton magazine: The Week Ahead |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-04}}</ref>

== People ==
* [[Marilyn Perry]]: founder, executive director and producer
* Rebeca Diaz: voice teacher and musical director
* Stephanie LoVerde: instructor and costume designer
* Emily Freeman (Mittleman): director
* Sara Perry Trabin: artistic director (2007)
* Sara Sack Gass
* Rome Saladino: director of ''Newsies'' (2020) and performer
* Beverly Blanchette: former dean of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts; taught advanced acting from 2012 and directed ''[title of show]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/273317922772573 |title=Beverly Blanchette joins Showtime |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-10}}</ref>
* Andy Fiacco: director of ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (2011)
* Casey Casperson: improv teacher and host of Sick Puppies Comedy (2012)
* Anthony Francis: IMPROV University (2015)
* [[Steven Taliaferro]] (also credited as Stephen Gregory), performer
* Notable students include [[Luanda de Hilster]] and [[Sarah Lash]].

== Online presence ==
Showtime opened a Facebook page ("Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton") on January 25, 2010. It described the theatre as "Boca's Premier Performing Arts Theatre for Children" and had about 2,700 followers.<ref name="fb" /> Its YouTube channel, started on June 25, 2015, holds 55 videos of trailers, performances, showcases and season highlights, posted up to March 2020.<ref name="ytchannel" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxdDDE8QAsY |title=Welcome To Showtime |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-06-25}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/2017*/showtimeboca.com showtimeboca.com] (archived website, 2006–2023)
* [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on YouTube: 55 trailers and performance videos (2015–2020)
* [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton] on Facebook
* [https://www.instagram.com/showtimeperformingarts/ @showtimeperformingarts] on Instagram
* [https://stageagent.com/theatre-companies/21891/showtime-performing-arts-theatre Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on StageAgent

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Showtime Performing Arts Theatre

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David de Hilster: Merge Facebook seasons 2009–2020 into the productions table, marked with an asterisk

{{Infobox venue
| name = Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
| image = Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_logo.jpg
| caption = Showtime's marquee-style logo
| former_names = SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre; Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre (c. 2010)
| venue_type = Youth and community musical theatre · Performing arts school
| address = 503 SE Mizner Blvd., Suite 73<br />Royal Palm Place
| location = Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
| opened = c. 2005–06 (first season); website online by July 2006
| closed = c. 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic)
| founder = [[Marilyn Perry]]
| director = [[Marilyn Perry]] (executive director and producer)
| capacity = 100–125 seats
| stages = One theatre; 3 dance studios; recording studio; 5 instructional studios in total
| art_forms = Musical theatre, dance, acting, voice, instrumental music
| programs = Children's Broadway season; adult and teen series; ShowStoppers Broadway troupe; Kidz on Stage; classes and private lessons; holiday and summer camps
| productions = ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2007)<br />''Les Misérables''<br />''Nunsense''<br />''Matilda'' (2019)<br />''Rent'' (2019)<br />''Billy Elliot'' (2019)<br />''Heathers'' (2019)<br />''Newsies'' (2020)
| website = [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 YouTube] · [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Facebook]
| archived_website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/ showtimeboca.com] (Wayback Machine)
}}
'''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre''' (originally '''SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre''', often called '''Showtime Boca''') was a performing arts school and small musical theatre at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. Its founder, [[Marilyn Perry]], ran it as executive director and producer. From the mid-2000s until the COVID-19 pandemic it staged seasons of children's, teen and adult musicals and taught dance, acting, voice and instrumental music to students from age three to adult.<ref name="about2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.htm |title=About Us |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182925/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref><ref name="staff2017">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

== History ==
The theatre's website was online by July 2006 under the name '''SHOWTIME Dance and Performing Arts Theatre'''. At that time it described a 3,400-square-foot facility at Suite 73, 503 SE Mizner Boulevard, in the Royal Palm Place shopping district.<ref name="home2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Boca (home page) |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721212343/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/ |archive-date=2006-07-21}}</ref><ref name="contact2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_contactus.htm |title=Contact Us |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222090855/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_contactus.htm |archive-date=2007-02-22}}</ref> Its stated mission was "to provide a professional, yet fun and supportive atmosphere where students of all levels can succeed", teaching "not only 'how you do' but 'why you do'".<ref name="home2006" /> The facility had:<ref name="home2006" />
* three dance studios with sprung ("floating cushioned") floors
* a 24-track digital recording studio for voice and music classes
* a teaching and performance theatre with about 120 seats, stage lighting and a custom sound system

Later descriptions gave the size of the two-storey building's theatre as 100 seats (2010) and 125 seats (2014).<ref name="about2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.html |title=About Showtime |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423162609/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.html |archive-date=2010-04-23}}</ref><ref name="about2014" /> In early 2007 Sara Perry Trabin was listed as artistic director, Sergio Crego as acting program director and Scott Sutter as music director.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601175336/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_staff.htm |archive-date=2007-06-01}}</ref> In 2010 its Facebook posts called it '''Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/314203692994 |title=Spring break camp: High School Musical 3 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-01-26}}</ref> By the mid-2010s the name had changed to '''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref name="staff2017" />

Showtime called its 2013–14 season its "9th Season", which would place its first season in 2005–06.<ref name="fb9th">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151699201668099 |title="Help us kick off our 9th Season" |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-09-27}}</ref> Most shows played the theatre's own stage in Royal Palm Place, which it described as "our 100+ seat beautiful Showtime Performing Arts Theater". Some larger productions, such as ''The Story of the Nutcracker'' (2013–14) and the ''Return to Broadway'' revue (2014), moved to the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151885343213099 |title=Final performance on the Showtime mainstage before the Willow Theatre |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-12-27}}</ref><ref name="fbsummer2018">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid031Dma3jefuj3NeNbKnSMbGcKSEifkF3Lt1nNR3J92D6ZddY3v25cXba68iYGQbRhZl |title=Summer 2018 productions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-06-23}}</ref> In November 2012 Showtime was filmed for a television theatre channel, which recorded a dance company rehearsal, the ShowStoppers troupe, an improv class, interviews and a performance of ''The Little Mermaid''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid07hzwK8sVAdiKpLcJfpkfKX1SVbZpR772dY74rQAf87TkvU1WDC9B5WAeVhGcG8ysl |title=Filming for a TV theatre channel |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-11}}</ref> Hurricane Irma closed the theatre in September 2017. When classes resumed, it posted: "Power is back on, air is cold, music is lively!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0LrqECmhFq4jKU6XnGkfi7w9d7chSKmwZkEUjpN5MrM823fMkicgqRe9DztefktZel |title=Classes resume after Hurricane Irma |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-09-14}}</ref>

=== Closure ===
Showtime's 2019–2020 season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. ''The Sound of Music'' was scheduled to open on March 7, 2020, with Saturday performances from March 14 to April 11.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0MFmS2Zq2dB6YGQgkjkaFCffayCK7zAfxmDoRDFfhpEcD6dQHBZjXuAA9q7ErTnDLl |title=The Sound of Music |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-19}}</ref> The teen musical ''13'' was first set for weekends from March 14 to 29, and was then moved to April 4–19.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02sdDSNwQj2cNdZCXsjXtP3LJ5H3zDKkf7W79m7iWUPbmcr7eKHdCrsxW8NEYL18BWl |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02BZfKGDJrsd9CfhyPUBzP3sLNsnxTsMETUw15ffS5iovVFpu3oSKg57JmSZoB47Gdl |title=13 The Musical (new dates) |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-03}}</ref> On March 14, 2020 Perry posted the theatre's first coronavirus update: "News regarding the Coronavirus and it's potential threat to our community is rolling in every few hours."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid036TNaovB2wLoKWstbSo2t2VUmwbVpMvaXLvLaTASGdvNu3tYBJN46jEKWX8S53dccl |title=Coronavirus updates |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-14}}</ref> It is not clear whether ''The Sound of Music'' gave any performances before the shutdown; ''13'' was never staged.<ref name="fb">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="luanda13">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Lands Female Lead in the Musical "13" |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-30}}</ref> A "Stranger Things" spring-break camp (March 23–27, 2020) and the end-of-year Showcase awards on May 31, 2020 were also on the calendar. Showtime's YouTube channel posted its last video, a second trailer for ''13'', on March 13, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHCGpLFVhc |title="13" The Musical Trailer 2 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-13}}</ref>

On the day of the cancelled showcase the theatre posted: "Today would have been the day… our 14th annual Red-Carpet event. Years of great memories but so sad to be missing our favorite families today." Later in 2020 it shared news of a COVID-19 outbreak at a Broward County summer camp, commenting: "Not the best of times to be putting our young ones and families at risk.<ref name="fb" />

Showtime never publicly announced a permanent closure. After 2020 its Facebook page posted only occasional memories: in 2021 a clip from ''Annie Warbucks'' singing "Changes… oh so relevant!", and in 2024 a video of ''Rent''.<ref name="fb" /> The home page of its website, still online in 2023, read: "Please stay tuned for updated performance dates."<ref name="home2023">{{cite web |url=https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (home page) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |archive-date=2023-05-29}}</ref> Business directories now list the theatre as closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://startpage.mapquest.com/us/florida/showtime-performing-arts-theatre-22291950 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=MapQuest}}</ref>

[[File:Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_main_theatre.jpg|thumb|right|Showtime's main theatre and stage at Royal Palm Place]]

== Programs ==
Showtime presented a season of children's musical theatre each year from September to May, together with programs for teenagers and adults. Its classes and programs included:<ref name="about2014" />
* '''Theatre''' (age 3 to adult): acting, improvisation, audition preparation, musical theatre, "Broadway Babies" and "Kidz on Stage"
* '''Dance''': ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, acro, hip hop, ballroom and musical theatre jazz
* '''Music''': voice, piano, guitar and drums
* '''Private coaching''' for auditions to performing-arts magnet schools and college conservatory programs
* '''ShowStoppers''': an auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe with junior and senior divisions<ref name="home2023" />
* '''Youngest Performers / Kidz on Stage''': 12-week performance programs for small children, ending in a show. Titles included ''Moana'', ''Trolls'' and ''Mary Poppins''.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Camps''' during the winter, spring and summer school holidays, each built around a show, such as ''Cats'', ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and "Stranger Things"<ref name="fb" />
* '''Showcase''': an annual "Red-Carpet" awards event at the end of each season. The 2020 event would have been the 14th.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Musical Theatre Experience''': a Thursday performance program for kindergarten to grade 6, ending in a show such as ''Aladdin'' (2012), ''Annie'' (2013) or ''Seussical'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10154199301988099 |title=Thursday performance program |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-04}}</ref>
* '''Competition Dance Company''': formed in 2012, it competed at Dance America and CanDance events<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150980122833099 |title=Competition Dance Team auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-07-25}}</ref>
* '''Audition Prep Course''': a 10-week course preparing students for auditions at Bak Middle School of the Arts and the Dreyfoos School of the Arts<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151767104733099 |title=Audition Prep Course |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-11-01}}</ref>
* '''Adult Professional Series''': productions with paid, non-Equity adult casts, from 2010<ref name="fbseason1011">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=431123503098 |title=2010–2011 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-09-10}}</ref>
* '''Improv''': weekly shows by Sick Puppies Comedy, hosted by Casey Casperson (2012), and "IMPROV University" classes with Anthony Francis (2015)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151061837003099 |title=Sick Puppies Comedy |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153289214853099 |title=IMPROV University |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-11-09}}</ref>

Showtime casts also performed in the community. The ShowStoppers sang at a Miami Heat event. The ''Elf'' cast performed at the City of Boca Raton's holiday tree lighting at Mizner Park in November 2018. The theatre took part in the Arts Spark Kids Fest at Sugar Sand Park (2019 and 2020). On March 8, 2020 it hosted a free master class and auditions by the New York Broadway Artists Alliance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/videos/563917017406553/ |title=Elf cast at the Mizner Park tree lighting |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0QSDr9dwGoR3jGjRNy6jzk3naq3FsgMzVTziGXpJEQDMh7ETniexWmthWXUGCwMVpl |title=Broadway Artists Alliance master class |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-04}}</ref>

CBS Miami included Showtime in a list of the best theatre groups for children in South Florida. It highlighted the acting and dance programs, music lessons, the "Musical Test Drive" (a one-on-one session trying up to four instruments), holiday musical theatre camps and birthday parties.<ref name="cbs">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/best-theatre-groups-for-kids-in-south-florida/ |title=Best Theatre Groups for Kids in South Florida |website=CBS Miami}}</ref>

== Productions ==
Showtime staged a children's and young performers' "Broadway season" every year from at least 2007–08 to 2019–20, with adult and teen productions alongside it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/past-youth-productions |title=Past Youth Productions |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929182533/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/past-youth-productions |archive-date=2017-09-29}}</ref> Each season ended with Showtime's own "Tony Awards" ceremony for its students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK14JIC4lMM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2014 2015 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_ljwrVyUk |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2015-2016 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-19}}</ref>

=== Early years ===
Saturday matinées in 2007 included ''Alice in Wonderland – The Musical'' and ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''. That year an adult cabaret series presented ''An Evening with Richard Rodgers'', ''Rock 'Em Broadway'' and ''Broadway Rhythm''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_productions.htm |title=Productions |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209104419/http://showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_productions.htm |archive-date=2007-02-09}}</ref> Around 2014 the adult series included ''Nunsense'' and ''Les Misérables'', and the theatre hosted monthly shows by the improv troupe Sick Puppies Comedy. Other productions announced on Showtime's Facebook page include ''The Little Mermaid'' (2012, reopening after Hurricane Sandy), ''Legally Blonde'', ''Willy Wonka'', ''American Idiot'' and ''The Story of the Nutcracker'', which was performed at the Willow Theatre. There was also a cabaret series, ''The Golden Age of Broadway'', with wine and snacks.<ref name="fb" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/adultseries.htm |title=Adult Series |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182940/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/adultseries.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref>

=== Productions by season ===
The table lists Showtime's productions from 2009 to 2020. Facebook rows (*) list the main productions of each season; YouTube rows list productions with videos.<ref name="ytchannel">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594/videos |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre – Videos |website=YouTube |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Date !! Production !! Notes
|-
| 2009–10* || ''Pocahontas''; ''High School Musical 3'' (spring break camp); ''Stage to Screen'' (ShowStoppers revue, May 2010) || <ref name="fbboca2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=386888578098 |title=Stage to Screen; Best of Boca 2010 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-04-27}}</ref>
|-
| 2010–11* || ''Alice in Wonderland''; ''A Christmas Carol''; ''Hercules''; ''Peter Pan''; ''13'' (April 2011); ''On Broadway'' (ShowStoppers revue); ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'', "for the first time ever" with an all-adult cast || <ref name="fbseason1011" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150114180628099 |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-03-14}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2011* || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''; ''Annie''; ''All Shook Up'' (camp) ||
|-
| 2011–12* || ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (adult, December 2011, directed by Andy Fiacco); ''Snow White''; ''Aladdin''; ''Rent''; ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''; ''Broadway Rocks!'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150269023708099 |title=Ruthless! The Musical auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-08-15}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2012* || ''Legally Blonde''; ''Cinderella''; ''Godspell'' ||
|-
| 2012–13* || ''The Little Mermaid''; ''The Wizard of Oz''; ''[title of show]'' (adult, December 2012, directed by Beverly Blanchette); ''Tarzan''; ''In the Heights'' (teen production); ''Mulan Jr.''; a ''Rock of Ages'' spring break camp || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151078898238099 |title=2012–2013 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151155759498099 |title=[title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-15}}</ref>
|-
| 2013–14* || ''Shrek the Musical''; ''The Story of the Nutcracker''; ''Nunsense'' (adult series); ''Pocahontas''; ''Les Misérables'' (teen and young adult production, January–February 2014); ''Sleeping Beauty''; ''Return to Broadway'' at the Willow Theatre || The "the "9th Season"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10151760412548099 |title=2013–2014 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-10-30}}</ref>
|-
| 2014–15* || ''A Very Muppet Musical''; ''The Wedding Singer''; ''Willy Wonka'' (sold out); ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Rent''; ''Oh What a Night!'' (a tribute to ''Jersey Boys'', adult professional cast); ''Cinderella'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152508806368099 |title=Auditions: Rent, Oh What a Night!, Cinderella |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152607589138099 |title=Willy Wonka |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-12-27}}</ref>
|-
| 2015–16* || ''The Wizard of Oz''; Green Day's ''American Idiot'' (adult professional series, October 2015, billed as a regional premiere); ''Hairspray''; ''Elf Jr.'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153223135798099 |title=American Idiot |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-09-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153379520988099 |title=Elf Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-12-30}}</ref>
|-
| 2016 || ''Les Misérables'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuP4x7Rwos8 |title=Les Miserables - "Bring Him Home" 2016 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-06}}</ref>
|-
| 2016–17 season || ''The Addams Family''; ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''; ''The Lion King''; ''Mulan''; ''School of Rock''; ''Hercules'' || Previews posted July 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ERmvTMH_c |title=Showtime 2016-2017 Season |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-11}}</ref>
|-
| 2016–17* || ''Annie Jr.''; ''The Lion King Jr.'' (October 2016); ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' (December 2016 – January 2017) || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154071871653099 |title=The Lion King Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154219792778099 |title=A Charlie Brown Christmas |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-10}}</ref>
|-
| 2017–18 season || ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''Into the Woods''; ''Shrek the Musical''; ''School of Rock''; ''Les Misérables''; ''Hairspray''; ''Frozen'' || Performance videos posted June–August 2018<ref name="ytchannel" />
|-
| 2017–18* || ''Into the Woods Jr.''; ''Les Misérables'' (school edition, October–December 2017); ''Shrek the Musical Jr.''; ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''In the Heights'' (adults, teens and children, May 2018) || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10155235276378099 |title=Les Misérables final performance |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/180663475902081/ |title=In the Heights |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-05-19}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2018* || ''Hairspray Jr.''; ''Bye Bye Birdie''; ''The Greatest Showman'' || <ref name="fbsummer2018" />
|-
| 2018 || ''Elf'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMG0OW1o5OM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre - Elf 2018 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| 2018–19* || ''Once on This Island Jr.''; ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Matilda'' (billed as the "South Florida Regional Premiere") || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid05B184LzqajYqPfTxuDoEvonJcA4FUKrgdwo53UcTodReJwWukzwvAYyM32Kjobdsl |title=Once on This Island Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/2182047115172986/ |title=Matilda The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-02-23}}</ref>
|-
| February 2019 || ''Matilda the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtfMYCSn_dM |title=Matilda The Musical "Revolting Children" - February 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-18}}</ref>
|-
| March 2019 || ''Annie Warbucks'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKhvaDOGdw |title=Annie Warbucks "Annie Ain't Just Annie Anymore" - March 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-07}}</ref>
|-
| March 30 – April 14, 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Teen and adult cast; directed by Emily Mittleman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VlysuPMsqM |title=Rent The Musical - April 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref>
|-
| May 2019 || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpzLDGmxKw |title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2019 || ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and Disney Karaoke camps || Summer camp productions<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL16W0jCDTw |title=GREASE Summer Camp 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-05}}</ref>
|-
| September 2019 || ''Billy Elliot the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6LUGEkAfFc |title=BILLY ELLIOT The Musical - September 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/miami/article/Showtime-Performing-Arts-Theatre-Presents-BILLY-ELLIOT-20190913 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre Presents BILLY ELLIOT |website=BroadwayWorld |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| November 2019 || ''Shrek the Musical Jr.'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caOps4l7OiQ |title=Shrek the Musical Jr. Trailer - November 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-02}}</ref>
|-
| December 7–22, 2019 || ''Heathers'' (high school edition) || Produced by Marilyn Perry, directed by Emily Freeman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz, choreography by Nicole Perry, costumes by Stephanie LoVerde<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjQyye1MrnE |title=Heathers Trailer - High School Edition 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-27}}</ref><ref name="heathers" />
|-
| 2019–20* || ''Frozen Jr.''; ''Newsies'' (closing February 29, 2020, directed by Rome Saladino); ''My Funny Valentine'', a Michael Bublé tribute concert by Saladino with a five-piece band (February 15, 2020) || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0GRRXVr9MpVjYL8JQr6kNEd29dwR1mV26mLQh5gu4EadEj7ziin7KCH11XGThUQLul |title=My Funny Valentine |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-14}}</ref>
|-
| 2020 || ''Newsies'' || Trailer posted January 2020<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMjyhkRqNQ |title="Newsies" the Musical Trailer |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-01-15}}</ref>
|-
| Spring 2020 || ''13'' || Teen production; postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic and never staged<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMkhscJPe0 |title="13" the Musical TRAILER - Getting Ready |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref>
|-
| March 2020 || ''The Sound of Music'' || Scheduled to open March 7, 2020; run cut short by the pandemic
|}
<small>* Documented on Showtime's Facebook page (season announcements, posts, photos and events). Rows without an asterisk are documented by videos on Showtime's YouTube channel; their dates are the production dates given in the video titles where available, otherwise approximate, based on when the video was posted.</small>

Camps built around a show ran every winter, spring and summer, including ''Grease'' and ''Cats'' (2010–11), ''The Wiz'' and ''Grease'' (2013), ''West Side Story'' (2014), ''Annie'' (2015, sold out), ''Hamilton'' (2017–18 and 2019), ''Zombies'' (2018–19) and ''Stranger Things'' (2020).<ref name="fb" />

A local reviewer called the December 2019 ''Heathers'' a "must see", and said its final performance was so full that extra chairs had to be brought out.<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref> [[Luanda de Hilster]] appeared in ''Rent'', ''Billy Elliot'', ''Heathers'' (as Heather McNamara) and ''Newsies''. She was cast as Patrice in the cancelled ''13'', and also trained and worked as a camp counsellor at the theatre.<ref name="heathers" /><ref name="luanda13" />

Showtime students also competed outside the theatre. In 2019 [[Sarah Lash]], one of the three Heathers, won the Future Stars competition singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>

== Recognition ==
Showtime listed the following awards on its website:<ref name="awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |title=Awards & Articles |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref><ref name="staff2017" />
* '''Kids Crown Award''' from ''South Florida Parenting'' (2015 and 2016) for best arts/academic program in Palm Beach County
* "Best of Boca" Readers' Choice awards from the ''Sun-Sentinel'' / Forum Publishing Group: #1 Children's Activity/Entertainment in 2010 and again in 2012, and "Best Camp in Boca"<ref name="fbboca2010" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151055602743099 |title=Once again voted Best of Boca 2012 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-30}}</ref>
* Featured in ''Boca'' magazine via the "Modern Boca Mom" column<ref name="fb" />
* Official nominee for Best Theatre Group for Kids (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) in Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect "Parents' Picks" awards, 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/102157446502249 |title=ParentsConnect Parents' Picks nominee |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-06-16}}</ref>

In December 2012 the adult production ''[title of show]'' was reviewed by PBPulse (''The Palm Beach Post'') under the headline "Boca troupe kicks off with fresh-from-Broadway musical", and listed in ''Boca Raton'' magazine's "The Week Ahead".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/472319319474088 |title=PBPulse review of [title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/510036785683155 |title=Boca Raton magazine: The Week Ahead |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-04}}</ref>

== People ==
* [[Marilyn Perry]]: founder, executive director and producer
* Rebeca Diaz: voice teacher and musical director
* Stephanie LoVerde: instructor and costume designer
* Emily Freeman (Mittleman): director
* Sara Perry Trabin: artistic director (2007)
* Sara Sack Gass
* Rome Saladino: director of ''Newsies'' (2020) and performer
* Beverly Blanchette: former dean of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts; taught advanced acting from 2012 and directed ''[title of show]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/273317922772573 |title=Beverly Blanchette joins Showtime |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-10}}</ref>
* Andy Fiacco: director of ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (2011)
* Casey Casperson: improv teacher and host of Sick Puppies Comedy (2012)
* Anthony Francis: IMPROV University (2015)
* [[Steven Taliaferro]] (also credited as Stephen Gregory), performer
* Notable students include [[Luanda de Hilster]] and [[Sarah Lash]].

== Online presence ==
Showtime opened a Facebook page ("Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton") on January 25, 2010. It described the theatre as "Boca's Premier Performing Arts Theatre for Children" and had about 2,700 followers.<ref name="fb" /> Its YouTube channel, started on June 25, 2015, holds 55 videos of trailers, performances, showcases and season highlights, posted up to March 2020.<ref name="ytchannel" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxdDDE8QAsY |title=Welcome To Showtime |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-06-25}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/2017*/showtimeboca.com showtimeboca.com] (archived website, 2006–2023)
* [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on YouTube: 55 trailers and performance videos (2015–2020)
* [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton] on Facebook
* [https://www.instagram.com/showtimeperformingarts/ @showtimeperformingarts] on Instagram
* [https://stageagent.com/theatre-companies/21891/showtime-performing-arts-theatre Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on StageAgent

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David de Hilster

2026-11-07T16:18:57Z

David de Hilster: New infobox photo (January 2026)

{{Infobox artist
| name = David de Hilster
| image = David_de_Hilster_2026.jpg
| caption = De Hilster with his paintings, January 2026
| disciplines = Painter · Draftsman · Digital artist · Documentary filmmaker · Samba musician
| born = {{birth date and age|1959|11|13}}<br />Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
| nationality = American
| based_in = Delray Beach, Florida
| spouse = [[Doris de Hilster]] (m. 1989)
| children = [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]]
| education = Ohio State University<br />New College, Oxford (summer program, 1980)<br />Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (c. 1987–1990)
| degree = Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Ohio State University<br />Master of Arts (M.A.) in Linguistics, Ohio State University
| years_active = 1973–present
| known_for = "Intellectual Graffiti"; ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year''; SambaLá Samba School
| medium = Pencil, crayon, acrylic and oil, finger painting, assemblage, digital art
| notable_works = ''Figure in Space'' (1989)<br />''Rio Graffiti'' (1993)<br />''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013)<br />''Northeastern Walls'' (2026)
| instruments = Surdo, vocals; earlier piano and trumpet
| associated_acts = SambaLá Samba School; Unidos do Mundo
| books = ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021, with Bob de Hilster)
| other_work = Computational linguist; co-creator of NLP++ and VisualText
| website = [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com]
}}
'''David de Hilster''' (born November 13, 1959) is an American visual artist, documentary filmmaker, samba musician and computer scientist. His visual art covers pencil and crayon drawing, painting, assemblage and digital work, including a style he calls "Intellectual Graffiti". He directed the documentary ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013), and in 1994 he co-founded the SambaLá Samba School in Long Beach, California, with his wife, designer [[Doris de Hilster]].<ref name="home">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/ |title=David de Hilster |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="artist">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artist/ |title=Artist |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Early life ==
De Hilster was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<ref name="npwiki">{{cite web |url=https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster |title=David de Hilster |website=Natural Philosophy Wiki |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He grew up in Galion, Ohio, and his family moved to Worthington, Ohio, in 1970. He started drawing at age three. He took his first art class at age eight in Galion, where his teacher recognized his skill. At thirteen he took summer art lessons in Worthington, and his teacher there said he was working at a college level. In those lessons he painted his first canvas, the acrylic ''Geometry''.<ref name="artist" /> He studied piano from age eight and trumpet from age nine, and played trumpet in his high school marching band and pit orchestra.<ref name="sambista">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/sambista/ |title=Sambista |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Education ==
* '''Worthington, Ohio''' high school: trumpet in the marching band and pit orchestra
* '''Ohio State University''', Columbus, Ohio: '''Bachelor's degree in Mathematics'''; '''Master of Arts in Linguistics''' (computational linguistics). He also studied architecture.
* '''New College, Oxford''', England: summer program (1980)
* '''Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage''', Rio de Janeiro (c. 1987–1990): life drawing

At Ohio State University he studied architecture, mathematics and linguistics. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a Master of Arts in linguistics.<ref name="artist" /><ref name="npwiki" /> In 1980 he attended a summer program at New College, Oxford, where he drew the college's cloisters and rooftops.<ref name="artist" /> From about 1987 to 1990 he lived in Rio de Janeiro and studied life drawing at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. According to de Hilster, a teacher there pushed him from black-and-white realism into colour.<ref name="artist" />

== Visual art ==
De Hilster's Rio period produced pencil sketches of the city and crayon works, including ''Figure in Space'' (1989), which he considers the most important work of his career, and ''Doris' Eyes'' (1990).<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/gallery/ |title=Gallery |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> Back in the United States, he says he was accepted into the young-artist rental and sales gallery of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the early 1990s.<ref name="artist" />

Around 1992 he and Doris moved into an artist's loft in Long Beach, California, where he held his first show. He worked in artificial intelligence by day and painted at night. Work from 1991 to 1993 includes:<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery" />
* acrylic and oil paintings, some painted live to jazz piano: ''Insect'', ''Troubadour'', ''Don Quixote'', ''Jazz Black and White''
* drawings scratched into wet paint with a coat hanger: ''Corner Kick'', ''Remote Control''
* finger paintings: ''Three Faces of Eve'', ''Three Faces of Adam''
* assemblages built from electronic parts: ''Hippo'', ''Computer Hand''

Some of these were shown and sold in Doris de Hilster's clothing store in Long Beach.<ref name="artist" />

After his daughter was born in 2005 he made art less often, mostly pencil portraits of family members.<ref name="artist" /> In 2024 he returned to '''Intellectual Graffiti''', a style he first tried in ''Rio Graffiti'' (1993). It overlays figurative portraits with computer code, words, digital graffiti and code-generated particles, with hidden "easter eggs" for the viewer to find.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/intellectual-graffiti/ |title=Intellectual Graffiti |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> His 2026 project '''''Northeastern Walls''''' places digital portraits of people from Northeastern University's Miami campus onto photographs of the murals in Miami's Wynwood district.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/northeastern-walls-david-de-hilster-brings-the-husky-community-to-wynwood/ |title=Northeastern Walls: David de Hilster Brings the Husky Community to Wynwood |website=dehilster.com |date=2026-03}}</ref> His online gallery lists about fifty works from 1973 to 2026, and he takes portrait commissions.<ref name="gallery" />

== Film ==
In 2004 de Hilster began work on a documentary for the 2005 centenary of Albert Einstein's "miracle year". It starred his mother, Patricia de Hilster, and her challenge to relativity.<ref name="physorg">{{cite web |url=https://phys.org/news/2005-09-documentary-highlights-physic-miracle-year.html |title=Documentary highlights physics' 'miracle year' |website=phys.org |date=2005-09-22}}</ref> The finished 91-minute film, ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'', which he produced, directed and edited, premiered on December 7, 2013, at the Arts Theater in Long Beach.<ref name="film">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/film-maker/ |title=Film Maker |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://d-word.com/documentary/674-Einstein-Wrong-The-Miracle-Year |title=Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year |website=The D-Word}}</ref> The film also records the birth of his daughter, Luanda.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/bio/ |title=Bio |website=luanda.dehilster.com}}</ref> Since 2017 he has also run the ''Dissident Science'' YouTube channel.<ref name="npwiki" />

== Samba ==
De Hilster learned samba while living in Brazil and speaks fluent Portuguese. In March 1994 he and Doris founded the '''SambaLá Samba School''' in Long Beach. He served as its president, music director, lead singer (''puxador'') and ''surdo'' drummer.<ref name="sambista" /> His other samba work includes:<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" />
* creating the World Samba web pages (1997)
* co-producing '''Unidos do Mundo''' (2000–2001), an international samba school that paraded in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome. In 2000 he sang there with Neguinho da Beija-Flor.
* producing the Brazilian Street Carnaval of Long Beach
* producing Brazilian Day Los Angeles with Doris and the Brazilian consulate

After the family moved to South Florida, SambaLá paraded in Boca Raton and Pompano Beach.<ref name="sambista" />

== Other work ==
Outside the arts, de Hilster has worked in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence since the 1980s, at Battelle, McDonnell Douglas, TRW and LexisNexis. With Amnon Meyers he co-created the '''NLP++''' programming language and the '''VisualText''' development environment, which were released as open source.<ref name="ai">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artificial-intelligence/ |title=Artificial Intelligence |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/VisualText |title=VisualText |website=GitHub}}</ref> He is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University's Miami campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/teacher/ |title=Teacher |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He also co-founded and is president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. With his father, Bob de Hilster, he wrote ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021).<ref name="npwiki" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/author/ |title=Author |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
De Hilster met his wife, the Brazilian designer [[Doris de Hilster]], in Rio de Janeiro, and they married in 1989. Their daughter, [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]] (born 2005), is a musical theatre performer.<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" /> The family moved from California to South Florida in the mid-2010s.<ref name="artist" />

== Selected works ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Medium
|-
| c. 1973 || ''Geometry'' || Acrylic on canvas
|-
| 1980 || ''New College Rooftops'' || Pencil
|-
| 1987 || ''Bonde'' || Pencil
|-
| 1989 || ''Figure in Space'' || Crayon
|-
| 1990 || ''Doris' Eyes'' || Crayon
|-
| 1991–93 || ''Insect''; ''Troubadour''; ''Don Quixote'' || Acrylic/oil, painted live to jazz
|-
| 1993 || ''Three Faces of Eve''; ''Three Faces of Adam'' || Finger painting
|-
| 1993 || ''Hippo'' || Assemblage
|-
| 1993 || ''Rio Graffiti'' || Mixed media; first "Intellectual Graffiti"
|-
| 2013 || ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' || Documentary film (91 min)
|-
| 2025 || ''Luanda as Adelaide'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''de Hilster Self Portrait 2026'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''Northeastern Walls'' || Digital series
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com] – official website and [https://dehilster.com/gallery/ gallery]
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2031289/ David de Hilster] on IMDb
* [https://www.youtube.com/@DissidentScience Dissident Science] on YouTube
* [https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster David de Hilster] on the Natural Philosophy Wiki

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File:David de Hilster 2026.jpg

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David de Hilster: New photo of David de Hilster (January 2026)

== Summary ==
David de Hilster seated in front of his abstract paintings, January 2026.

== Licence ==
Photo supplied by David de Hilster for use on the Artists Wiki.

Showtime Performing Arts Theatre

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David de Hilster: Fix bracketed title in citations

{{Infobox venue
| name = Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
| image = Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_logo.jpg
| caption = Showtime's marquee-style logo
| former_names = SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre; Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre (c. 2010)
| venue_type = Youth and community musical theatre · Performing arts school
| address = 503 SE Mizner Blvd., Suite 73<br />Royal Palm Place
| location = Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
| opened = c. 2005–06 (first season); website online by July 2006
| closed = c. 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic)
| founder = [[Marilyn Perry]]
| director = [[Marilyn Perry]] (executive director and producer)
| capacity = 100–125 seats
| stages = One theatre; 3 dance studios; recording studio; 5 instructional studios in total
| art_forms = Musical theatre, dance, acting, voice, instrumental music
| programs = Children's Broadway season; adult and teen series; ShowStoppers Broadway troupe; Kidz on Stage; classes and private lessons; holiday and summer camps
| productions = ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2007)<br />''Les Misérables''<br />''Nunsense''<br />''Matilda'' (2019)<br />''Rent'' (2019)<br />''Billy Elliot'' (2019)<br />''Heathers'' (2019)<br />''Newsies'' (2020)
| website = [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 YouTube] · [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Facebook]
| archived_website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/ showtimeboca.com] (Wayback Machine)
}}
'''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre''' (originally '''SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre''', often called '''Showtime Boca''') was a performing arts school and small musical theatre at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. Its founder, [[Marilyn Perry]], ran it as executive director and producer. From the mid-2000s until the COVID-19 pandemic it staged seasons of children's, teen and adult musicals and taught dance, acting, voice and instrumental music to students from age three to adult.<ref name="about2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.htm |title=About Us |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182925/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref><ref name="staff2017">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

== History ==
The theatre's website was online by July 2006 under the name '''SHOWTIME Dance and Performing Arts Theatre'''. At that time it described a 3,400-square-foot facility at Suite 73, 503 SE Mizner Boulevard, in the Royal Palm Place shopping district.<ref name="home2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Boca (home page) |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721212343/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/ |archive-date=2006-07-21}}</ref><ref name="contact2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_contactus.htm |title=Contact Us |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222090855/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_contactus.htm |archive-date=2007-02-22}}</ref> Its stated mission was "to provide a professional, yet fun and supportive atmosphere where students of all levels can succeed", teaching "not only 'how you do' but 'why you do'".<ref name="home2006" /> The facility had:<ref name="home2006" />
* three dance studios with sprung ("floating cushioned") floors
* a 24-track digital recording studio for voice and music classes
* a teaching and performance theatre with about 120 seats, stage lighting and a custom sound system

Later descriptions gave the size of the two-storey building's theatre as 100 seats (2010) and 125 seats (2014).<ref name="about2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.html |title=About Showtime |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423162609/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.html |archive-date=2010-04-23}}</ref><ref name="about2014" /> In early 2007 Sara Perry Trabin was listed as artistic director, Sergio Crego as acting program director and Scott Sutter as music director.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601175336/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_staff.htm |archive-date=2007-06-01}}</ref> In 2010 its Facebook posts called it '''Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/314203692994 |title=Spring break camp: High School Musical 3 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-01-26}}</ref> By the mid-2010s the name had changed to '''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref name="staff2017" />

Showtime called its 2013–14 season its "9th Season", which would place its first season in 2005–06.<ref name="fb9th">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151699201668099 |title="Help us kick off our 9th Season" |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-09-27}}</ref> Most shows played the theatre's own stage in Royal Palm Place, which it described as "our 100+ seat beautiful Showtime Performing Arts Theater". Some larger productions, such as ''The Story of the Nutcracker'' (2013–14) and the ''Return to Broadway'' revue (2014), moved to the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151885343213099 |title=Final performance on the Showtime mainstage before the Willow Theatre |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-12-27}}</ref><ref name="fbsummer2018">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid031Dma3jefuj3NeNbKnSMbGcKSEifkF3Lt1nNR3J92D6ZddY3v25cXba68iYGQbRhZl |title=Summer 2018 productions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-06-23}}</ref> In November 2012 Showtime was filmed for a television theatre channel, which recorded a dance company rehearsal, the ShowStoppers troupe, an improv class, interviews and a performance of ''The Little Mermaid''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid07hzwK8sVAdiKpLcJfpkfKX1SVbZpR772dY74rQAf87TkvU1WDC9B5WAeVhGcG8ysl |title=Filming for a TV theatre channel |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-11}}</ref> Hurricane Irma closed the theatre in September 2017. When classes resumed, it posted: "Power is back on, air is cold, music is lively!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0LrqECmhFq4jKU6XnGkfi7w9d7chSKmwZkEUjpN5MrM823fMkicgqRe9DztefktZel |title=Classes resume after Hurricane Irma |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-09-14}}</ref>

=== Closure ===
Showtime's 2019–2020 season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. ''The Sound of Music'' was scheduled to open on March 7, 2020, with Saturday performances from March 14 to April 11.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0MFmS2Zq2dB6YGQgkjkaFCffayCK7zAfxmDoRDFfhpEcD6dQHBZjXuAA9q7ErTnDLl |title=The Sound of Music |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-19}}</ref> The teen musical ''13'' was first set for weekends from March 14 to 29, and was then moved to April 4–19.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02sdDSNwQj2cNdZCXsjXtP3LJ5H3zDKkf7W79m7iWUPbmcr7eKHdCrsxW8NEYL18BWl |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02BZfKGDJrsd9CfhyPUBzP3sLNsnxTsMETUw15ffS5iovVFpu3oSKg57JmSZoB47Gdl |title=13 The Musical (new dates) |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-03}}</ref> On March 14, 2020 Perry posted the theatre's first coronavirus update: "News regarding the Coronavirus and it's potential threat to our community is rolling in every few hours."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid036TNaovB2wLoKWstbSo2t2VUmwbVpMvaXLvLaTASGdvNu3tYBJN46jEKWX8S53dccl |title=Coronavirus updates |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-14}}</ref> It is not clear whether ''The Sound of Music'' gave any performances before the shutdown; ''13'' was never staged.<ref name="fb">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="luanda13">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Lands Female Lead in the Musical "13" |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-30}}</ref> A "Stranger Things" spring-break camp (March 23–27, 2020) and the end-of-year Showcase awards on May 31, 2020 were also on the calendar. Showtime's YouTube channel posted its last video, a second trailer for ''13'', on March 13, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHCGpLFVhc |title="13" The Musical Trailer 2 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-13}}</ref>

On the day of the cancelled showcase the theatre posted: "Today would have been the day… our 14th annual Red-Carpet event. Years of great memories but so sad to be missing our favorite families today." Later in 2020 it shared news of a COVID-19 outbreak at a Broward County summer camp, commenting: "Not the best of times to be putting our young ones and families at risk.<ref name="fb" />

Showtime never publicly announced a permanent closure. After 2020 its Facebook page posted only occasional memories: in 2021 a clip from ''Annie Warbucks'' singing "Changes… oh so relevant!", and in 2024 a video of ''Rent''.<ref name="fb" /> The home page of its website, still online in 2023, read: "Please stay tuned for updated performance dates."<ref name="home2023">{{cite web |url=https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (home page) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |archive-date=2023-05-29}}</ref> Business directories now list the theatre as closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://startpage.mapquest.com/us/florida/showtime-performing-arts-theatre-22291950 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=MapQuest}}</ref>

[[File:Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_main_theatre.jpg|thumb|right|Showtime's main theatre and stage at Royal Palm Place]]

== Programs ==
Showtime presented a season of children's musical theatre each year from September to May, together with programs for teenagers and adults. Its classes and programs included:<ref name="about2014" />
* '''Theatre''' (age 3 to adult): acting, improvisation, audition preparation, musical theatre, "Broadway Babies" and "Kidz on Stage"
* '''Dance''': ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, acro, hip hop, ballroom and musical theatre jazz
* '''Music''': voice, piano, guitar and drums
* '''Private coaching''' for auditions to performing-arts magnet schools and college conservatory programs
* '''ShowStoppers''': an auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe with junior and senior divisions<ref name="home2023" />
* '''Youngest Performers / Kidz on Stage''': 12-week performance programs for small children, ending in a show. Titles included ''Moana'', ''Trolls'' and ''Mary Poppins''.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Camps''' during the winter, spring and summer school holidays, each built around a show, such as ''Cats'', ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and "Stranger Things"<ref name="fb" />
* '''Showcase''': an annual "Red-Carpet" awards event at the end of each season. The 2020 event would have been the 14th.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Musical Theatre Experience''': a Thursday performance program for kindergarten to grade 6, ending in a show such as ''Aladdin'' (2012), ''Annie'' (2013) or ''Seussical'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10154199301988099 |title=Thursday performance program |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-04}}</ref>
* '''Competition Dance Company''': formed in 2012, it competed at Dance America and CanDance events<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150980122833099 |title=Competition Dance Team auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-07-25}}</ref>
* '''Audition Prep Course''': a 10-week course preparing students for auditions at Bak Middle School of the Arts and the Dreyfoos School of the Arts<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151767104733099 |title=Audition Prep Course |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-11-01}}</ref>
* '''Adult Professional Series''': productions with paid, non-Equity adult casts, from 2010<ref name="fbseason1011">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=431123503098 |title=2010–2011 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-09-10}}</ref>
* '''Improv''': weekly shows by Sick Puppies Comedy, hosted by Casey Casperson (2012), and "IMPROV University" classes with Anthony Francis (2015)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151061837003099 |title=Sick Puppies Comedy |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153289214853099 |title=IMPROV University |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-11-09}}</ref>

Showtime casts also performed in the community. The ShowStoppers sang at a Miami Heat event. The ''Elf'' cast performed at the City of Boca Raton's holiday tree lighting at Mizner Park in November 2018. The theatre took part in the Arts Spark Kids Fest at Sugar Sand Park (2019 and 2020). On March 8, 2020 it hosted a free master class and auditions by the New York Broadway Artists Alliance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/videos/563917017406553/ |title=Elf cast at the Mizner Park tree lighting |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0QSDr9dwGoR3jGjRNy6jzk3naq3FsgMzVTziGXpJEQDMh7ETniexWmthWXUGCwMVpl |title=Broadway Artists Alliance master class |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-04}}</ref>

CBS Miami included Showtime in a list of the best theatre groups for children in South Florida. It highlighted the acting and dance programs, music lessons, the "Musical Test Drive" (a one-on-one session trying up to four instruments), holiday musical theatre camps and birthday parties.<ref name="cbs">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/best-theatre-groups-for-kids-in-south-florida/ |title=Best Theatre Groups for Kids in South Florida |website=CBS Miami}}</ref>

== Productions ==
Showtime staged a children's and young performers' "Broadway season" every year from at least 2007–08 to 2019–20, with adult and teen productions alongside it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/past-youth-productions |title=Past Youth Productions |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929182533/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/past-youth-productions |archive-date=2017-09-29}}</ref> Each season ended with Showtime's own "Tony Awards" ceremony for its students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK14JIC4lMM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2014 2015 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_ljwrVyUk |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2015-2016 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-19}}</ref>

=== Early years ===
Saturday matinées in 2007 included ''Alice in Wonderland – The Musical'' and ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''. That year an adult cabaret series presented ''An Evening with Richard Rodgers'', ''Rock 'Em Broadway'' and ''Broadway Rhythm''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_productions.htm |title=Productions |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209104419/http://showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_productions.htm |archive-date=2007-02-09}}</ref> Around 2014 the adult series included ''Nunsense'' and ''Les Misérables'', and the theatre hosted monthly shows by the improv troupe Sick Puppies Comedy. Other productions announced on Showtime's Facebook page include ''The Little Mermaid'' (2012, reopening after Hurricane Sandy), ''Legally Blonde'', ''Willy Wonka'', ''American Idiot'' and ''The Story of the Nutcracker'', which was performed at the Willow Theatre. There was also a cabaret series, ''The Golden Age of Broadway'', with wine and snacks.<ref name="fb" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/adultseries.htm |title=Adult Series |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182940/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/adultseries.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref>

=== Seasons 2009–2016 ===
Showtime's Facebook page, which began in January 2010, documents its seasons in detail. Its main productions included:
* '''2009–10''': ''Pocahontas''; ''High School Musical 3'' (spring break camp); ''Stage to Screen'' (ShowStoppers revue, May 2010)<ref name="fbboca2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=386888578098 |title=Stage to Screen; Best of Boca 2010 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-04-27}}</ref>
* '''2010–11''': ''Alice in Wonderland''; ''A Christmas Carol''; ''Hercules''; ''Peter Pan''; ''13'' (April 2011); ''On Broadway'' (ShowStoppers revue); and ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'', "for the first time ever" with an all-adult cast<ref name="fbseason1011" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150114180628099 |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-03-14}}</ref>
* '''Summer 2011''': ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''; ''Annie''; ''All Shook Up'' (camp)
* '''2011–12''': ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (adult, December 2011, directed by Andy Fiacco); ''Snow White''; ''Aladdin''; ''Rent''; ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''; ''Broadway Rocks!''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150269023708099 |title=Ruthless! The Musical auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-08-15}}</ref>
* '''Summer 2012''': ''Legally Blonde''; ''Cinderella''; ''Godspell''
* '''2012–13''': ''The Little Mermaid''; ''The Wizard of Oz''; ''[title of show]'' (adult, December 2012, directed by Beverly Blanchette); ''Tarzan''; ''In the Heights'' (teen production); ''Mulan Jr.''; and a ''Rock of Ages'' spring break camp<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151078898238099 |title=2012–2013 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151155759498099 |title=[title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-15}}</ref>
* '''2013–14''' (the "9th Season"): ''Shrek the Musical''; ''The Story of the Nutcracker''; ''Nunsense'' (adult series); ''Pocahontas''; ''Les Misérables'' (teen and young adult production, January–February 2014); ''Sleeping Beauty''; and ''Return to Broadway'' at the Willow Theatre<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10151760412548099 |title=2013–2014 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-10-30}}</ref>
* '''2014–15''': ''A Very Muppet Musical''; ''The Wedding Singer''; ''Willy Wonka'' (sold out); ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Rent''; ''Oh What a Night!'' (a tribute to ''Jersey Boys'', adult professional cast); ''Cinderella''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152508806368099 |title=Auditions: Rent, Oh What a Night!, Cinderella |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152607589138099 |title=Willy Wonka |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-12-27}}</ref>
* '''2015–16''': ''The Wizard of Oz''; Green Day's ''American Idiot'' (adult professional series, October 2015, billed as a regional premiere); ''Hairspray''; ''Elf Jr.''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153223135798099 |title=American Idiot |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-09-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153379520988099 |title=Elf Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-12-30}}</ref>

Camps built around a show ran every winter, spring and summer, including ''Grease'' and ''Cats'' (2010–11), ''The Wiz'' and ''Grease'' (2013), ''West Side Story'' (2014), ''Annie'' (2015, sold out), ''Hamilton'' (2017–18 and 2019), ''Zombies'' (2018–19) and ''Stranger Things'' (2020).<ref name="fb" />

=== 2016–2020 ===
The table below lists productions documented by videos on Showtime's YouTube channel. Dates are the production dates given in the video titles where available; otherwise they are approximate, based on when the video was posted.<ref name="ytchannel">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594/videos |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre – Videos |website=YouTube |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date !! Production !! Notes
|-
| 2016 || ''Les Misérables'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuP4x7Rwos8 |title=Les Miserables - "Bring Him Home" 2016 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-06}}</ref>
|-
| 2016–17 season || ''The Addams Family''; ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''; ''The Lion King''; ''Mulan''; ''School of Rock''; ''Hercules'' || Previews posted July 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ERmvTMH_c |title=Showtime 2016-2017 Season |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-11}}</ref>
|-
| 2017–18 season || ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''Into the Woods''; ''Shrek the Musical''; ''School of Rock''; ''Les Misérables''; ''Hairspray''; ''Frozen'' || Performance videos posted June–August 2018<ref name="ytchannel" />
|-
| 2018 || ''Elf'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMG0OW1o5OM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre - Elf 2018 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| February 2019 || ''Matilda the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtfMYCSn_dM |title=Matilda The Musical "Revolting Children" - February 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-18}}</ref>
|-
| March 2019 || ''Annie Warbucks'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKhvaDOGdw |title=Annie Warbucks "Annie Ain't Just Annie Anymore" - March 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-07}}</ref>
|-
| March 30 – April 14, 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Teen and adult cast; directed by Emily Mittleman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VlysuPMsqM |title=Rent The Musical - April 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref>
|-
| May 2019 || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpzLDGmxKw |title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2019 || ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and Disney Karaoke camps || Summer camp productions<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL16W0jCDTw |title=GREASE Summer Camp 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-05}}</ref>
|-
| September 2019 || ''Billy Elliot the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6LUGEkAfFc |title=BILLY ELLIOT The Musical - September 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/miami/article/Showtime-Performing-Arts-Theatre-Presents-BILLY-ELLIOT-20190913 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre Presents BILLY ELLIOT |website=BroadwayWorld |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| November 2019 || ''Shrek the Musical Jr.'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caOps4l7OiQ |title=Shrek the Musical Jr. Trailer - November 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-02}}</ref>
|-
| December 7–22, 2019 || ''Heathers'' (high school edition) || Produced by Marilyn Perry, directed by Emily Freeman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz, choreography by Nicole Perry, costumes by Stephanie LoVerde<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjQyye1MrnE |title=Heathers Trailer - High School Edition 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-27}}</ref><ref name="heathers" />
|-
| 2020 || ''Newsies'' || Trailer posted January 2020<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMjyhkRqNQ |title="Newsies" the Musical Trailer |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-01-15}}</ref>
|-
| Spring 2020 || ''13'' || Teen production; postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic and never staged<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMkhscJPe0 |title="13" the Musical TRAILER - Getting Ready |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref>
|-
| March 2020 || ''The Sound of Music'' || Scheduled to open March 7, 2020; run cut short by the pandemic
|}

Showtime's Facebook page records further productions in these years:
* '''2016–17''': ''Annie Jr.''; ''The Lion King Jr.'' (October 2016); ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' (December 2016 – January 2017)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154071871653099 |title=The Lion King Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154219792778099 |title=A Charlie Brown Christmas |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-10}}</ref>
* '''2017–18''': ''Into the Woods Jr.''; ''Les Misérables'' (school edition, October–December 2017); ''Shrek the Musical Jr.''; ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''In the Heights'' (adults, teens and children, May 2018)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10155235276378099 |title=Les Misérables final performance |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/180663475902081/ |title=In the Heights |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-05-19}}</ref>
* '''Summer 2018''': ''Hairspray Jr.''; ''Bye Bye Birdie''; ''The Greatest Showman''<ref name="fbsummer2018" />
* '''2018–19''': ''Once on This Island Jr.''; ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Matilda'' (billed as the "South Florida Regional Premiere")<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid05B184LzqajYqPfTxuDoEvonJcA4FUKrgdwo53UcTodReJwWukzwvAYyM32Kjobdsl |title=Once on This Island Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/2182047115172986/ |title=Matilda The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-02-23}}</ref>
* '''2019–20''': ''Frozen Jr.''; ''Newsies'' (closing February 29, 2020, directed by Rome Saladino); ''My Funny Valentine'', a Michael Bublé tribute concert by Saladino with a five-piece band (February 15, 2020)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0GRRXVr9MpVjYL8JQr6kNEd29dwR1mV26mLQh5gu4EadEj7ziin7KCH11XGThUQLul |title=My Funny Valentine |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-14}}</ref>

A local reviewer called the December 2019 ''Heathers'' a "must see", and said its final performance was so full that extra chairs had to be brought out.<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref> [[Luanda de Hilster]] appeared in ''Rent'', ''Billy Elliot'', ''Heathers'' (as Heather McNamara) and ''Newsies''. She was cast as Patrice in the cancelled ''13'', and also trained and worked as a camp counsellor at the theatre.<ref name="heathers" /><ref name="luanda13" />

Showtime students also competed outside the theatre. In 2019 [[Sarah Lash]], one of the three Heathers, won the Future Stars competition singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>

== Recognition ==
Showtime listed the following awards on its website:<ref name="awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |title=Awards & Articles |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref><ref name="staff2017" />
* '''Kids Crown Award''' from ''South Florida Parenting'' (2015 and 2016) for best arts/academic program in Palm Beach County
* "Best of Boca" Readers' Choice awards from the ''Sun-Sentinel'' / Forum Publishing Group: #1 Children's Activity/Entertainment in 2010 and again in 2012, and "Best Camp in Boca"<ref name="fbboca2010" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151055602743099 |title=Once again voted Best of Boca 2012 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-30}}</ref>
* Featured in ''Boca'' magazine via the "Modern Boca Mom" column<ref name="fb" />
* Official nominee for Best Theatre Group for Kids (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) in Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect "Parents' Picks" awards, 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/102157446502249 |title=ParentsConnect Parents' Picks nominee |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-06-16}}</ref>

In December 2012 the adult production ''[title of show]'' was reviewed by PBPulse (''The Palm Beach Post'') under the headline "Boca troupe kicks off with fresh-from-Broadway musical", and listed in ''Boca Raton'' magazine's "The Week Ahead".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/472319319474088 |title=PBPulse review of [title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/510036785683155 |title=Boca Raton magazine: The Week Ahead |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-04}}</ref>

== People ==
* [[Marilyn Perry]]: founder, executive director and producer
* Rebeca Diaz: voice teacher and musical director
* Stephanie LoVerde: instructor and costume designer
* Emily Freeman (Mittleman): director
* Sara Perry Trabin: artistic director (2007)
* Sara Sack Gass
* Rome Saladino: director of ''Newsies'' (2020) and performer
* Beverly Blanchette: former dean of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts; taught advanced acting from 2012 and directed ''[title of show]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/273317922772573 |title=Beverly Blanchette joins Showtime |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-10}}</ref>
* Andy Fiacco: director of ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (2011)
* Casey Casperson: improv teacher and host of Sick Puppies Comedy (2012)
* Anthony Francis: IMPROV University (2015)
* [[Steven Taliaferro]] (also credited as Stephen Gregory), performer
* Notable students include [[Luanda de Hilster]] and [[Sarah Lash]].

== Online presence ==
Showtime opened a Facebook page ("Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton") on January 25, 2010. It described the theatre as "Boca's Premier Performing Arts Theatre for Children" and had about 2,700 followers.<ref name="fb" /> Its YouTube channel, started on June 25, 2015, holds 55 videos of trailers, performances, showcases and season highlights, posted up to March 2020.<ref name="ytchannel" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxdDDE8QAsY |title=Welcome To Showtime |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-06-25}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/2017*/showtimeboca.com showtimeboca.com] (archived website, 2006–2023)
* [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on YouTube: 55 trailers and performance videos (2015–2020)
* [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton] on Facebook
* [https://www.instagram.com/showtimeperformingarts/ @showtimeperformingarts] on Instagram
* [https://stageagent.com/theatre-companies/21891/showtime-performing-arts-theatre Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on StageAgent

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Showtime Performing Arts Theatre

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David de Hilster: Add seasons 2009-2020, programs, awards, press, staff and closure detail from Facebook research

{{Infobox venue
| name = Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
| image = Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_logo.jpg
| caption = Showtime's marquee-style logo
| former_names = SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre; Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre (c. 2010)
| venue_type = Youth and community musical theatre · Performing arts school
| address = 503 SE Mizner Blvd., Suite 73<br />Royal Palm Place
| location = Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
| opened = c. 2005–06 (first season); website online by July 2006
| closed = c. 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic)
| founder = [[Marilyn Perry]]
| director = [[Marilyn Perry]] (executive director and producer)
| capacity = 100–125 seats
| stages = One theatre; 3 dance studios; recording studio; 5 instructional studios in total
| art_forms = Musical theatre, dance, acting, voice, instrumental music
| programs = Children's Broadway season; adult and teen series; ShowStoppers Broadway troupe; Kidz on Stage; classes and private lessons; holiday and summer camps
| productions = ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2007)<br />''Les Misérables''<br />''Nunsense''<br />''Matilda'' (2019)<br />''Rent'' (2019)<br />''Billy Elliot'' (2019)<br />''Heathers'' (2019)<br />''Newsies'' (2020)
| website = [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 YouTube] · [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Facebook]
| archived_website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/ showtimeboca.com] (Wayback Machine)
}}
'''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre''' (originally '''SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre''', often called '''Showtime Boca''') was a performing arts school and small musical theatre at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. Its founder, [[Marilyn Perry]], ran it as executive director and producer. From the mid-2000s until the COVID-19 pandemic it staged seasons of children's, teen and adult musicals and taught dance, acting, voice and instrumental music to students from age three to adult.<ref name="about2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.htm |title=About Us |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182925/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref><ref name="staff2017">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

== History ==
The theatre's website was online by July 2006 under the name '''SHOWTIME Dance and Performing Arts Theatre'''. At that time it described a 3,400-square-foot facility at Suite 73, 503 SE Mizner Boulevard, in the Royal Palm Place shopping district.<ref name="home2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Boca (home page) |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721212343/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/ |archive-date=2006-07-21}}</ref><ref name="contact2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_contactus.htm |title=Contact Us |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222090855/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_contactus.htm |archive-date=2007-02-22}}</ref> Its stated mission was "to provide a professional, yet fun and supportive atmosphere where students of all levels can succeed", teaching "not only 'how you do' but 'why you do'".<ref name="home2006" /> The facility had:<ref name="home2006" />
* three dance studios with sprung ("floating cushioned") floors
* a 24-track digital recording studio for voice and music classes
* a teaching and performance theatre with about 120 seats, stage lighting and a custom sound system

Later descriptions gave the size of the two-storey building's theatre as 100 seats (2010) and 125 seats (2014).<ref name="about2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.html |title=About Showtime |website=Showtime Dance and Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423162609/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.html |archive-date=2010-04-23}}</ref><ref name="about2014" /> In early 2007 Sara Perry Trabin was listed as artistic director, Sergio Crego as acting program director and Scott Sutter as music director.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601175336/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_staff.htm |archive-date=2007-06-01}}</ref> In 2010 its Facebook posts called it '''Showtime Children's Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/314203692994 |title=Spring break camp: High School Musical 3 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-01-26}}</ref> By the mid-2010s the name had changed to '''Showtime Performing Arts Theatre'''.<ref name="staff2017" />

Showtime called its 2013–14 season its "9th Season", which would place its first season in 2005–06.<ref name="fb9th">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151699201668099 |title="Help us kick off our 9th Season" |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-09-27}}</ref> Most shows played the theatre's own stage in Royal Palm Place, which it described as "our 100+ seat beautiful Showtime Performing Arts Theater". Some larger productions, such as ''The Story of the Nutcracker'' (2013–14) and the ''Return to Broadway'' revue (2014), moved to the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151885343213099 |title=Final performance on the Showtime mainstage before the Willow Theatre |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-12-27}}</ref><ref name="fbsummer2018">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid031Dma3jefuj3NeNbKnSMbGcKSEifkF3Lt1nNR3J92D6ZddY3v25cXba68iYGQbRhZl |title=Summer 2018 productions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-06-23}}</ref> In November 2012 Showtime was filmed for a television theatre channel, which recorded a dance company rehearsal, the ShowStoppers troupe, an improv class, interviews and a performance of ''The Little Mermaid''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid07hzwK8sVAdiKpLcJfpkfKX1SVbZpR772dY74rQAf87TkvU1WDC9B5WAeVhGcG8ysl |title=Filming for a TV theatre channel |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-11}}</ref> Hurricane Irma closed the theatre in September 2017. When classes resumed, it posted: "Power is back on, air is cold, music is lively!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0LrqECmhFq4jKU6XnGkfi7w9d7chSKmwZkEUjpN5MrM823fMkicgqRe9DztefktZel |title=Classes resume after Hurricane Irma |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-09-14}}</ref>

=== Closure ===
Showtime's 2019–2020 season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. ''The Sound of Music'' was scheduled to open on March 7, 2020, with Saturday performances from March 14 to April 11.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0MFmS2Zq2dB6YGQgkjkaFCffayCK7zAfxmDoRDFfhpEcD6dQHBZjXuAA9q7ErTnDLl |title=The Sound of Music |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-19}}</ref> The teen musical ''13'' was first set for weekends from March 14 to 29, and was then moved to April 4–19.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02sdDSNwQj2cNdZCXsjXtP3LJ5H3zDKkf7W79m7iWUPbmcr7eKHdCrsxW8NEYL18BWl |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid02BZfKGDJrsd9CfhyPUBzP3sLNsnxTsMETUw15ffS5iovVFpu3oSKg57JmSZoB47Gdl |title=13 The Musical (new dates) |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-03}}</ref> On March 14, 2020 Perry posted the theatre's first coronavirus update: "News regarding the Coronavirus and it's potential threat to our community is rolling in every few hours."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid036TNaovB2wLoKWstbSo2t2VUmwbVpMvaXLvLaTASGdvNu3tYBJN46jEKWX8S53dccl |title=Coronavirus updates |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-14}}</ref> It is not clear whether ''The Sound of Music'' gave any performances before the shutdown; ''13'' was never staged.<ref name="fb">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="luanda13">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Lands Female Lead in the Musical "13" |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-30}}</ref> A "Stranger Things" spring-break camp (March 23–27, 2020) and the end-of-year Showcase awards on May 31, 2020 were also on the calendar. Showtime's YouTube channel posted its last video, a second trailer for ''13'', on March 13, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHCGpLFVhc |title="13" The Musical Trailer 2 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-13}}</ref>

On the day of the cancelled showcase the theatre posted: "Today would have been the day… our 14th annual Red-Carpet event. Years of great memories but so sad to be missing our favorite families today." Later in 2020 it shared news of a COVID-19 outbreak at a Broward County summer camp, commenting: "Not the best of times to be putting our young ones and families at risk.<ref name="fb" />

Showtime never publicly announced a permanent closure. After 2020 its Facebook page posted only occasional memories: in 2021 a clip from ''Annie Warbucks'' singing "Changes… oh so relevant!", and in 2024 a video of ''Rent''.<ref name="fb" /> The home page of its website, still online in 2023, read: "Please stay tuned for updated performance dates."<ref name="home2023">{{cite web |url=https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (home page) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |archive-date=2023-05-29}}</ref> Business directories now list the theatre as closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://startpage.mapquest.com/us/florida/showtime-performing-arts-theatre-22291950 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=MapQuest}}</ref>

[[File:Showtime_Performing_Arts_Theatre_main_theatre.jpg|thumb|right|Showtime's main theatre and stage at Royal Palm Place]]

== Programs ==
Showtime presented a season of children's musical theatre each year from September to May, together with programs for teenagers and adults. Its classes and programs included:<ref name="about2014" />
* '''Theatre''' (age 3 to adult): acting, improvisation, audition preparation, musical theatre, "Broadway Babies" and "Kidz on Stage"
* '''Dance''': ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, acro, hip hop, ballroom and musical theatre jazz
* '''Music''': voice, piano, guitar and drums
* '''Private coaching''' for auditions to performing-arts magnet schools and college conservatory programs
* '''ShowStoppers''': an auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe with junior and senior divisions<ref name="home2023" />
* '''Youngest Performers / Kidz on Stage''': 12-week performance programs for small children, ending in a show. Titles included ''Moana'', ''Trolls'' and ''Mary Poppins''.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Camps''' during the winter, spring and summer school holidays, each built around a show, such as ''Cats'', ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and "Stranger Things"<ref name="fb" />
* '''Showcase''': an annual "Red-Carpet" awards event at the end of each season. The 2020 event would have been the 14th.<ref name="fb" />
* '''Musical Theatre Experience''': a Thursday performance program for kindergarten to grade 6, ending in a show such as ''Aladdin'' (2012), ''Annie'' (2013) or ''Seussical'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10154199301988099 |title=Thursday performance program |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-04}}</ref>
* '''Competition Dance Company''': formed in 2012, it competed at Dance America and CanDance events<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150980122833099 |title=Competition Dance Team auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-07-25}}</ref>
* '''Audition Prep Course''': a 10-week course preparing students for auditions at Bak Middle School of the Arts and the Dreyfoos School of the Arts<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151767104733099 |title=Audition Prep Course |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-11-01}}</ref>
* '''Adult Professional Series''': productions with paid, non-Equity adult casts, from 2010<ref name="fbseason1011">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=431123503098 |title=2010–2011 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-09-10}}</ref>
* '''Improv''': weekly shows by Sick Puppies Comedy, hosted by Casey Casperson (2012), and "IMPROV University" classes with Anthony Francis (2015)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151061837003099 |title=Sick Puppies Comedy |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153289214853099 |title=IMPROV University |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-11-09}}</ref>

Showtime casts also performed in the community. The ShowStoppers sang at a Miami Heat event. The ''Elf'' cast performed at the City of Boca Raton's holiday tree lighting at Mizner Park in November 2018. The theatre took part in the Arts Spark Kids Fest at Sugar Sand Park (2019 and 2020). On March 8, 2020 it hosted a free master class and auditions by the New York Broadway Artists Alliance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/videos/563917017406553/ |title=Elf cast at the Mizner Park tree lighting |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0QSDr9dwGoR3jGjRNy6jzk3naq3FsgMzVTziGXpJEQDMh7ETniexWmthWXUGCwMVpl |title=Broadway Artists Alliance master class |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-03-04}}</ref>

CBS Miami included Showtime in a list of the best theatre groups for children in South Florida. It highlighted the acting and dance programs, music lessons, the "Musical Test Drive" (a one-on-one session trying up to four instruments), holiday musical theatre camps and birthday parties.<ref name="cbs">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/best-theatre-groups-for-kids-in-south-florida/ |title=Best Theatre Groups for Kids in South Florida |website=CBS Miami}}</ref>

== Productions ==
Showtime staged a children's and young performers' "Broadway season" every year from at least 2007–08 to 2019–20, with adult and teen productions alongside it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/past-youth-productions |title=Past Youth Productions |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929182533/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/past-youth-productions |archive-date=2017-09-29}}</ref> Each season ended with Showtime's own "Tony Awards" ceremony for its students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK14JIC4lMM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2014 2015 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_ljwrVyUk |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre 2015-2016 Season Tony Awards |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-19}}</ref>

=== Early years ===
Saturday matinées in 2007 included ''Alice in Wonderland – The Musical'' and ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''. That year an adult cabaret series presented ''An Evening with Richard Rodgers'', ''Rock 'Em Broadway'' and ''Broadway Rhythm''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/showtime_productions.htm |title=Productions |website=Showtime Dance & Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209104419/http://showtimeboca.com:80/showtime_productions.htm |archive-date=2007-02-09}}</ref> Around 2014 the adult series included ''Nunsense'' and ''Les Misérables'', and the theatre hosted monthly shows by the improv troupe Sick Puppies Comedy. Other productions announced on Showtime's Facebook page include ''The Little Mermaid'' (2012, reopening after Hurricane Sandy), ''Legally Blonde'', ''Willy Wonka'', ''American Idiot'' and ''The Story of the Nutcracker'', which was performed at the Willow Theatre. There was also a cabaret series, ''The Golden Age of Broadway'', with wine and snacks.<ref name="fb" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/adultseries.htm |title=Adult Series |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182940/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/adultseries.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref>

=== Seasons 2009–2016 ===
Showtime's Facebook page, which began in January 2010, documents its seasons in detail. Its main productions included:
* '''2009–10''': ''Pocahontas''; ''High School Musical 3'' (spring break camp); ''Stage to Screen'' (ShowStoppers revue, May 2010)<ref name="fbboca2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=386888578098 |title=Stage to Screen; Best of Boca 2010 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-04-27}}</ref>
* '''2010–11''': ''Alice in Wonderland''; ''A Christmas Carol''; ''Hercules''; ''Peter Pan''; ''13'' (April 2011); ''On Broadway'' (ShowStoppers revue); and ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'', "for the first time ever" with an all-adult cast<ref name="fbseason1011" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150114180628099 |title=13 The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-03-14}}</ref>
* '''Summer 2011''': ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''; ''Annie''; ''All Shook Up'' (camp)
* '''2011–12''': ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (adult, December 2011, directed by Andy Fiacco); ''Snow White''; ''Aladdin''; ''Rent''; ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''; ''Broadway Rocks!''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150269023708099 |title=Ruthless! The Musical auditions |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2011-08-15}}</ref>
* '''Summer 2012''': ''Legally Blonde''; ''Cinderella''; ''Godspell''
* '''2012–13''': ''The Little Mermaid''; ''The Wizard of Oz''; ''[title of show]'' (adult, December 2012, directed by Beverly Blanchette); ''Tarzan''; ''In the Heights'' (teen production); ''Mulan Jr.''; and a ''Rock of Ages'' spring break camp<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151078898238099 |title=2012–2013 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151155759498099 |title=[title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-11-15}}</ref>
* '''2013–14''' (the "9th Season"): ''Shrek the Musical''; ''The Story of the Nutcracker''; ''Nunsense'' (adult series); ''Pocahontas''; ''Les Misérables'' (teen and young adult production, January–February 2014); ''Sleeping Beauty''; and ''Return to Broadway'' at the Willow Theatre<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/10151760412548099 |title=2013–2014 season |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-10-30}}</ref>
* '''2014–15''': ''A Very Muppet Musical''; ''The Wedding Singer''; ''Willy Wonka'' (sold out); ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Rent''; ''Oh What a Night!'' (a tribute to ''Jersey Boys'', adult professional cast); ''Cinderella''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152508806368099 |title=Auditions: Rent, Oh What a Night!, Cinderella |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152607589138099 |title=Willy Wonka |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2014-12-27}}</ref>
* '''2015–16''': ''The Wizard of Oz''; Green Day's ''American Idiot'' (adult professional series, October 2015, billed as a regional premiere); ''Hairspray''; ''Elf Jr.''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153223135798099 |title=American Idiot |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-09-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153379520988099 |title=Elf Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-12-30}}</ref>

Camps built around a show ran every winter, spring and summer, including ''Grease'' and ''Cats'' (2010–11), ''The Wiz'' and ''Grease'' (2013), ''West Side Story'' (2014), ''Annie'' (2015, sold out), ''Hamilton'' (2017–18 and 2019), ''Zombies'' (2018–19) and ''Stranger Things'' (2020).<ref name="fb" />

=== 2016–2020 ===
The table below lists productions documented by videos on Showtime's YouTube channel. Dates are the production dates given in the video titles where available; otherwise they are approximate, based on when the video was posted.<ref name="ytchannel">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594/videos |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre – Videos |website=YouTube |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date !! Production !! Notes
|-
| 2016 || ''Les Misérables'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuP4x7Rwos8 |title=Les Miserables - "Bring Him Home" 2016 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-06}}</ref>
|-
| 2016–17 season || ''The Addams Family''; ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''; ''The Lion King''; ''Mulan''; ''School of Rock''; ''Hercules'' || Previews posted July 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ERmvTMH_c |title=Showtime 2016-2017 Season |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-07-11}}</ref>
|-
| 2017–18 season || ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''Into the Woods''; ''Shrek the Musical''; ''School of Rock''; ''Les Misérables''; ''Hairspray''; ''Frozen'' || Performance videos posted June–August 2018<ref name="ytchannel" />
|-
| 2018 || ''Elf'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMG0OW1o5OM |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre - Elf 2018 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| February 2019 || ''Matilda the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtfMYCSn_dM |title=Matilda The Musical "Revolting Children" - February 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-18}}</ref>
|-
| March 2019 || ''Annie Warbucks'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKhvaDOGdw |title=Annie Warbucks "Annie Ain't Just Annie Anymore" - March 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-07}}</ref>
|-
| March 30 – April 14, 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Teen and adult cast; directed by Emily Mittleman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VlysuPMsqM |title=Rent The Musical - April 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref>
|-
| May 2019 || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpzLDGmxKw |title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref>
|-
| Summer 2019 || ''Grease'', ''Mamma Mia'' and Disney Karaoke camps || Summer camp productions<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL16W0jCDTw |title=GREASE Summer Camp 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-08-05}}</ref>
|-
| September 2019 || ''Billy Elliot the Musical'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6LUGEkAfFc |title=BILLY ELLIOT The Musical - September 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/miami/article/Showtime-Performing-Arts-Theatre-Presents-BILLY-ELLIOT-20190913 |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre Presents BILLY ELLIOT |website=BroadwayWorld |date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
| November 2019 || ''Shrek the Musical Jr.'' || <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caOps4l7OiQ |title=Shrek the Musical Jr. Trailer - November 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-02}}</ref>
|-
| December 7–22, 2019 || ''Heathers'' (high school edition) || Produced by Marilyn Perry, directed by Emily Freeman, musical direction by Rebeca Diaz, choreography by Nicole Perry, costumes by Stephanie LoVerde<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjQyye1MrnE |title=Heathers Trailer - High School Edition 2019 |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-11-27}}</ref><ref name="heathers" />
|-
| 2020 || ''Newsies'' || Trailer posted January 2020<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMjyhkRqNQ |title="Newsies" the Musical Trailer |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-01-15}}</ref>
|-
| Spring 2020 || ''13'' || Teen production; postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic and never staged<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMkhscJPe0 |title="13" the Musical TRAILER - Getting Ready |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-16}}</ref>
|-
| March 2020 || ''The Sound of Music'' || Scheduled to open March 7, 2020; run cut short by the pandemic
|}

Showtime's Facebook page records further productions in these years:
* '''2016–17''': ''Annie Jr.''; ''The Lion King Jr.'' (October 2016); ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' (December 2016 – January 2017)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154071871653099 |title=The Lion King Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154219792778099 |title=A Charlie Brown Christmas |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2016-12-10}}</ref>
* '''2017–18''': ''Into the Woods Jr.''; ''Les Misérables'' (school edition, October–December 2017); ''Shrek the Musical Jr.''; ''Aladdin Jr.''; ''In the Heights'' (adults, teens and children, May 2018)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10155235276378099 |title=Les Misérables final performance |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/180663475902081/ |title=In the Heights |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-05-19}}</ref>
* '''Summer 2018''': ''Hairspray Jr.''; ''Bye Bye Birdie''; ''The Greatest Showman''<ref name="fbsummer2018" />
* '''2018–19''': ''Once on This Island Jr.''; ''Beauty and the Beast''; ''Matilda'' (billed as the "South Florida Regional Premiere")<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid05B184LzqajYqPfTxuDoEvonJcA4FUKrgdwo53UcTodReJwWukzwvAYyM32Kjobdsl |title=Once on This Island Jr. |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/2182047115172986/ |title=Matilda The Musical |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-02-23}}</ref>
* '''2019–20''': ''Frozen Jr.''; ''Newsies'' (closing February 29, 2020, directed by Rome Saladino); ''My Funny Valentine'', a Michael Bublé tribute concert by Saladino with a five-piece band (February 15, 2020)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0GRRXVr9MpVjYL8JQr6kNEd29dwR1mV26mLQh5gu4EadEj7ziin7KCH11XGThUQLul |title=My Funny Valentine |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-02-14}}</ref>

A local reviewer called the December 2019 ''Heathers'' a "must see", and said its final performance was so full that extra chairs had to be brought out.<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref> [[Luanda de Hilster]] appeared in ''Rent'', ''Billy Elliot'', ''Heathers'' (as Heather McNamara) and ''Newsies''. She was cast as Patrice in the cancelled ''13'', and also trained and worked as a camp counsellor at the theatre.<ref name="heathers" /><ref name="luanda13" />

Showtime students also competed outside the theatre. In 2019 [[Sarah Lash]], one of the three Heathers, won the Future Stars competition singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>

== Recognition ==
Showtime listed the following awards on its website:<ref name="awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |title=Awards & Articles |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref><ref name="staff2017" />
* '''Kids Crown Award''' from ''South Florida Parenting'' (2015 and 2016) for best arts/academic program in Palm Beach County
* "Best of Boca" Readers' Choice awards from the ''Sun-Sentinel'' / Forum Publishing Group: #1 Children's Activity/Entertainment in 2010 and again in 2012, and "Best Camp in Boca"<ref name="fbboca2010" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151055602743099 |title=Once again voted Best of Boca 2012 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-30}}</ref>
* Featured in ''Boca'' magazine via the "Modern Boca Mom" column<ref name="fb" />
* Official nominee for Best Theatre Group for Kids (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) in Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect "Parents' Picks" awards, 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/102157446502249 |title=ParentsConnect Parents' Picks nominee |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-06-16}}</ref>

In December 2012 the adult production ''[title of show]'' was reviewed by PBPulse (''The Palm Beach Post'') under the headline "Boca troupe kicks off with fresh-from-Broadway musical", and listed in ''Boca Raton'' magazine's "The Week Ahead".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/472319319474088 |title=PBPulse review of [title of show] |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/510036785683155 |title=Boca Raton magazine: The Week Ahead |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-12-04}}</ref>

== People ==
* [[Marilyn Perry]]: founder, executive director and producer
* Rebeca Diaz: voice teacher and musical director
* Stephanie LoVerde: instructor and costume designer
* Emily Freeman (Mittleman): director
* Sara Perry Trabin: artistic director (2007)
* Sara Sack Gass
* Rome Saladino: director of ''Newsies'' (2020) and performer
* Beverly Blanchette: former dean of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts; taught advanced acting from 2012 and directed ''[title of show]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/273317922772573 |title=Beverly Blanchette joins Showtime |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-10}}</ref>
* Andy Fiacco: director of ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (2011)
* Casey Casperson: improv teacher and host of Sick Puppies Comedy (2012)
* Anthony Francis: IMPROV University (2015)
* [[Steven Taliaferro]] (also credited as Stephen Gregory), performer
* Notable students include [[Luanda de Hilster]] and [[Sarah Lash]].

== Online presence ==
Showtime opened a Facebook page ("Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton") on January 25, 2010. It described the theatre as "Boca's Premier Performing Arts Theatre for Children" and had about 2,700 followers.<ref name="fb" /> Its YouTube channel, started on June 25, 2015, holds 55 videos of trailers, performances, showcases and season highlights, posted up to March 2020.<ref name="ytchannel" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxdDDE8QAsY |title=Welcome To Showtime |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-06-25}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/2017*/showtimeboca.com showtimeboca.com] (archived website, 2006–2023)
* [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on YouTube: 55 trailers and performance videos (2015–2020)
* [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton] on Facebook
* [https://www.instagram.com/showtimeperformingarts/ @showtimeperformingarts] on Instagram
* [https://stageagent.com/theatre-companies/21891/showtime-performing-arts-theatre Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on StageAgent

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Steven Taliaferro

2026-11-07T16:13:05Z

David de Hilster: Add education, early Connecticut work, TAP Shorts, OnStage Blog from Facebook research

{{Infobox artist
| name = Steven Taliaferro
| image = Steven_Taliaferro.jpg
| caption = Taliaferro in 2025 (photo: Landmark Community Theatre)
| disciplines = Actor · Singer · Scare actor · Theatre writer
| birth_name = Steven Gregory Taliaferro
| also_known_as = Stephen Gregory; Steven Gregory
| based_in = Bethel, Connecticut (in Boca Raton, Florida, c. 2018–2020)
| education = Norwalk Community College (Media Communications, 2008)<br />Southern Connecticut State University (Communication, 2011)
| years_active = c. 2012–present
| notable_roles = Shrek (''Shrek the Musical'', Landmark Community Theatre, 2025)<br />Miss Trunchbull (''Matilda'', Showtime, 2019)<br />Big Bud Dean and Kurt's Dad (''Heathers'', Showtime, 2019)<br />Tito Merelli (''Lend Me a Tenor'', Lake Worth Playhouse)<br />Franz Liebkind (''The Producers'', Brookfield Theatre)
| companies = [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]; Lake Worth Playhouse; Landmark Community Theatre; Musicals at Richter; Brookfield Theatre; Town Players of Newtown; The Brewster Theater; City Youth Theater / City Stage Company
| website = [https://www.facebook.com/steven.taliaferro.5 Facebook] · [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11539267/ IMDb]
}}
'''Steven Gregory Taliaferro''' is an American actor and singer, known for comic and character roles in community and regional theatre in South Florida and Connecticut. He was a regular performer at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] in Boca Raton, where his roles included Miss Trunchbull in ''Matilda'' and the fathers in ''Heathers''. He has since appeared with theatre companies in Connecticut, including as Shrek in Landmark Community Theatre's ''Shrek the Musical'' (2025). He has also been credited as Stephen Gregory.<ref name="lct">{{cite web |url=https://audienceaccess.co/bio/LCT-108692 |title=Steven Taliaferro – Shrek the Musical |website=Landmark Community Theatre (AudienceAccess) |date=2025}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Taliaferro is from Bethel, Connecticut. He studied media communications at Norwalk Community College (class of 2008) and communication at Southern Connecticut State University (class of 2011).<ref name="fbedu">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/steven.taliaferro.5/directory_education |title=Steven Gregory: Education |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

== Career ==
=== Early work in Connecticut ===
In the summers of 2012 and 2013 he was drama specialist for the Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut in Brookfield, teaching acting to children from pre-kindergarten to grade 8. He described his approach as teaching them "how acting is not just an art form, it's a way of life." From 2013 to 2015 he was a volunteer staff member at The Palace Danbury.<ref name="fbwork">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/steven.taliaferro.5/directory_work |title=Steven Gregory: Work |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

=== South Florida ===
Taliaferro lists himself as an actor at Showtime from December 2018 to March 2020, when the pandemic closed it.<ref name="fbwork" /> He was a regular in the teen and adult productions at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]], the musical theatre school and theatre at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton run by [[Marilyn Perry]].<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=376 |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref> In February 2019 he played the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull in Showtime's ''Matilda'', which he later named among his favourite roles.<ref name="lct" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtfMYCSn_dM |title=Matilda The Musical "Revolting Children" - February 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-18}}</ref>

In ''Rent'' (March 30 – April 14, 2019), directed by Emily Mittleman, he played the landlord Benjamin Coffin III, credited as Stephen Gregory. A reviewer wrote that he "was the perfect villain and 'person who cared' while sternly showing his affection for this difficult band of characters all the while belting and acting his way out of and into the audience's hearts."<ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=340 |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref>

In ''Heathers'' (December 7–22, 2019), directed by Emily Freeman, he played two fathers: Big Bud Dean, the "very twisted dad" of the lead character Jason Dean, and Kurt's Dad. The reviewer praised his "two dads-gone-wrong", and said his "hippy-like, totally demented character revealed his versatile acting skills". In the second-act opener, "I Love My Dead Gay Son", he and Zaylin Yates, as Ram's Dad, "go through an entire transformation – several times over – during one rip-roaring song which had the audience rolling on the floor with laughter". The reviewer called it "the most lively and hilarious number of the entire musical".<ref name="heathers" />

During the last weekend of ''Heathers'' he also appeared in the short play ''A Moment of Clarity'' by Philip Middleton Williams, directed by his ''Heathers'' castmate Zaylin Yates, at the TAP Shorts Festival at The Standing Ovation Theater on December 28, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/steven.taliaferro.5/posts/pfbid024tqbw8Q2kUiEXg8ePxLME3sBjivATH8zB3jXNCf8CqRGrCVecmYNfqqshrzPFFXXl |title="A Moment of Clarity" at the TAP Shorts Festival |website=Facebook |date=2019-12-27}}</ref>

In Lake Worth Beach he played the opera star Tito Merelli in the farce ''Lend Me a Tenor'' at the Lake Worth Playhouse.<ref name="lct" /> He also appeared in the 2020 films ''Lock-In'' and ''Seasons Screenings''.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11539267/ |title=Steven Taliaferro |website=IMDb}}</ref>

=== Connecticut ===
Taliaferro returned to Connecticut, where he has worked with several community theatre companies. His roles there include:<ref name="lct" />
* Franz Liebkind, the Nazi playwright, in ''The Producers'' (Brookfield Theatre)
* Marcellus Washburn in ''The Music Man'' (Musicals at Richter, Danbury)
* the Fifth Juror in ''12 Angry Men'' (Town Players of Newtown)

He has also appeared with The Brewster Theater in New York.<ref name="lct" /> In summer 2025 he played the title role in Landmark Community Theatre's ''Shrek the Musical'' at the Thomaston Opera House. His program biography said that Shrek was "'ogre' the moon to be spending the summer with Landmark Community Theater… playing one of his favorite characters".<ref name="lct" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thomastonct.gov/events/shrek-the-musical-8902a |title=Shrek the Musical |website=Town of Thomaston, Connecticut |date=2025-07}}</ref>

Outside the stage, he has worked since 2021 as a scare actor at "Legends of Fear", the Halloween attraction at Fairview Tree Farm in Shelton, Connecticut.<ref name="lct" /><ref name="fbwork" /> Since September 2020 he has also written guest editorials and human-interest stories for the theatre website OnStage Blog.<ref name="fbwork" /> He has also worked with City Youth Theater / City Stage Company, a nonprofit youth and community theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/steventaliaferro/ |title=Steven Taliaferro |website=LinkedIn}}</ref>

== Selected credits ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Production !! Role !! Venue / company
|-
| 2019 || ''Matilda the Musical'' || Miss Trunchbull || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]], Boca Raton
|-
| 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Benjamin Coffin III || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]], Boca Raton
|-
| 2019 || ''Heathers'' || Big Bud Dean; Kurt's Dad || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]], Boca Raton
|-
| 2019 || ''A Moment of Clarity'' (short play) || || TAP Shorts Festival, The Standing Ovation Theater
|-
| || ''Lend Me a Tenor'' || Tito Merelli || Lake Worth Playhouse, Lake Worth Beach, Florida
|-
| 2020 || ''Lock-In'' (film) || ||
|-
| 2020 || ''Seasons Screenings'' (film) || ||
|-
| || ''The Producers'' || Franz Liebkind || Brookfield Theatre, Connecticut
|-
| || ''The Music Man'' || Marcellus Washburn || Musicals at Richter, Danbury, Connecticut
|-
| || ''12 Angry Men'' || Fifth Juror || Town Players of Newtown, Connecticut
|-
| 2025 || ''Shrek the Musical'' || Shrek || Landmark Community Theatre, Thomaston Opera House, Connecticut
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/steven.taliaferro.5 Steven Taliaferro] on Facebook
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11539267/ Steven Taliaferro] on IMDb

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Marilyn Perry

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David de Hilster: Add background, adult series, awards and quotes from Facebook research

{{Infobox artist
| name = Marilyn Perry
| image = Marilyn_Perry.jpg
| caption = Perry (photo: Showtime Performing Arts Theatre)
| disciplines = Theatre producer · Arts educator
| birth_name = Marilyn Irene Perry
| based_in = Boca Raton, Florida (from Baltimore, Maryland)
| education = University of Maryland, College Park
| occupation = Executive director and producer
| years_active = c. 2005–2020
| known_for = Founding and running [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
| productions = ''Heathers'' (2019, producer)<br />''Rent'' (2019)<br />''Annie Warbucks'' (2019)<br />Children's Broadway seasons (2007–2020)
| companies = [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
| website = [https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime Facebook]
| awards = For Showtime: "Best of Boca" #1 children's activity (2010, 2012); Kids Crown Award (South Florida Parenting), 2015, 2016
}}
'''Marilyn Irene Perry''' is an American theatre producer and arts educator. She founded '''[[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]''' in Boca Raton, Florida, and was its executive director and producer for its whole history, from about 2006 until the COVID-19 pandemic ended its 2019–2020 season. Under her direction Showtime held 13 annual Red-Carpet showcases; the 14th was cancelled in 2020.<ref name="staff2017">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref><ref name="lbio">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/bio/ |title=Bio |website=luanda.dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Perry is from Baltimore, Maryland, and studied at the University of Maryland, College Park.<ref name="fbabout">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime/about |title=Marilyn Perry: About |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

== Showtime Performing Arts Theatre ==
Perry describes herself as Showtime's "Founder, Executive Director and Producer" from 2006.<ref name="fbwork">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime/directory_work |title=Marilyn Perry: Work |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> Showtime called its 2013–14 season its ninth, which would place the first season in 2005–06.<ref name="fb9th">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151699201668099 |title="Help us kick off our 9th Season" |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2013-09-27}}</ref> She ran Showtime, first called SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre, from a studio and theatre complex at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton. The school taught dance, acting, voice and instrumental music from age three to adult, and the theatre staged a season of children's musicals every year as well as teen and adult productions.<ref name="about2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.htm |title=About Us |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182925/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref> According to the theatre's staff page, Perry "with her talented staff, has created a successful school and theatre for all ages". Its teachers offered training in the "true Triple Threat – Singing, Acting and Dancing", and it was "her pleasure to produce and bring award winning Children's Theatre to South Florida".<ref name="staff2017" /> She described her teachers as "college degreed theatre professionals".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0oPpagmRJQvbe9qcLXkA47SNLzThiPiCWbuCQx9eeVT4z6BH5JTx5o56bMnuQJKGbl |title=Post by Marilyn Perry |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2018-09-27}}</ref>

As well as the children's seasons, Perry produced an adult series with paid, non-Equity casts. It included ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'' (2010–11, Showtime's first all-adult cast), ''Ruthless!'' (2011), ''[title of show]'' (2012), ''Nunsense'' (2013), ''Oh What a Night!'', a tribute to ''Jersey Boys'' (2015), and the regional premiere of Green Day's ''American Idiot'' (2015).<ref name="fbseason1011">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=431123503098 |title=2010–2011 season announcement |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2010-09-10}}</ref><ref name="fbidiot">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10153223135798099 |title=American Idiot |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2015-09-29}}</ref> For ''In the Heights'' she advertised the adult roles of Usnavi and Abuela Claudia as paid parts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime/posts/pfbid02GVFBrxJQiuYdhR6cNeEkn18rDPc26r9RCWzejdnKni8o41ti2X3jJqEC4zUB39s9l |title=In the Heights casting call (memory re-shared) |website=Facebook |date=2026-03-03}}</ref>

Under her leadership, Showtime was voted the #1 children's activity in the ''Sun-Sentinel''/Forum Publishing Group "Best of Boca" readers' choice awards in 2010 and again in 2012, and received the ''South Florida Parenting'' Kids Crown Award in 2015 and 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151055602743099 |title=Once again voted Best of Boca 2012 |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2012-08-30}}</ref><ref name="staff2017" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |title=Awards & Articles |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

In 2019 Showtime presented ''Rent'' and ''Heathers'' with teen and adult casts. Perry produced ''Heathers'', which a local reviewer called "Off-Broadway at its very best in downtown Boca". Writing about the cast chemistry in ''Rent'', the same reviewer said "it seems to happen a lot at the downtown off-broadway theatre Showtime run by Marilyn Perry".<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref> In March 2020, with ''The Sound of Music'' and ''13'' about to open, the COVID-19 pandemic shut the theatre, and Showtime did not reopen.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (home page) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |archive-date=2023-05-29}}</ref>

== In her own words ==
Perry posted regularly on Showtime's Facebook page about its students and shows. In March 2019 she wrote of ''Annie Warbucks'': "So proud of this talented cast. one show down five more to go…" She also praised the theatre's "beautiful and handsome MOANA Youngest Performers" and congratulated "all of our exceptional CATS campers and … my very amazing and talented staff".<ref name="fb">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> After Hurricane Irma in September 2017 the page reported: "Power is back on, air is cold, music is lively! … I'm happy to report that all of our friends and families and staff are safe and have been in my prayers all week."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0LrqECmhFq4jKU6XnGkfi7w9d7chSKmwZkEUjpN5MrM823fMkicgqRe9DztefktZel |title=Classes resume after Hurricane Irma |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2017-09-14}}</ref>

When COVID-19 cancelled the theatre's 2020 season, the page marked the date of the cancelled showcase as what "would have been … our 14th annual Red-Carpet event", adding: "Years of great memories but so sad to be missing our favorite families today."<ref name="fb" /> On Mother's Day 2020 Perry wrote: "Missing my Showtime Performing Arts Theatre Moms so much, especially today. Be well, stay healthy, virtual hugs until we can meet again."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts/posts/pfbid0XVYNuEgaLB8PRDWDWuUbtQaWxhJxQFz9f4jbgdGX6vJUWz5njMiJ1aAiyFFUEjCAl |title=Post by Marilyn Perry |website=Facebook (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2020-05-10}}</ref> Of the ''Newsies'' cast, whose run ended just before the shutdown, she wrote: "Sweet memories of a really amazing cast and production! … until we meet again.....Ms. Marilyn".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime/posts/pfbid02P5UqgHsc1uRFc9SLfT9v4px8ksRKaJ4gg4unwQUMTJ9kFy5KcqV6zgAnBWZosJN9l |title=Post by Marilyn Perry |website=Facebook |date=2020-08-06}}</ref> She still shares memories of Showtime productions, such as ''Annie Warbucks'' in 2026: "Wonderful memories / so much talent on this stage".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime/posts/pfbid0tBemyb742HJL73QvLD9KpZcAEu7DguZmw9DBFZbH3LD8dKwcVd7YDUiXcJK2GBSul |title=Post by Marilyn Perry |website=Facebook |date=2026-03-03}}</ref>

== Students ==
Perry's students and performers included [[Luanda de Hilster]], who played Heather McNamara in Showtime's ''Heathers''. Her biography names Perry among her early mentors, and Perry came to see her play Sebastian in her middle school's ''The Little Mermaid'' (2019).<ref name="lbio" /><ref name="heathers" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime Marilyn Perry] on Facebook
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm Showtime staff page] (archived, 2017)
* [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on Facebook
* [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on YouTube

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{{Infobox venue
| name = Galion Community Theatre
| image = The_Galion_Theatre.jpg
| caption = The Galion's restored neon marquee at night (2016)
| former_names = Galion Theatre (cinema, 1949–1975)
| venue_type = Community theatre in a restored 1949 movie house
| address = 127 Harding Way West
| location = Galion, Ohio, U.S.
| opened = July 7, 1949 (as a cinema)<br />Theatre company formed 1984; moved into the building 1993
| operator = Galion Community Theatre, Inc. (non-profit)
| owner = Galion Community Theatre, Inc.
| capacity = 230 (originally about 1,100–1,200 as a cinema)
| art_forms = Musicals, plays, concerts, film
| programs = Annual season of four productions; Youth Board productions; concerts; free monthly family films ("Movies @ The Galion")
| productions = ''The Sound of Music'' (1984, 2024)<br />''Into the Woods'' (2015)<br />''The Jungle Book'' (2015)<br />''Clue: On Stage!'' (2024)<br />''The Addams Family'' (2024)<br />''It's a Wonderful Life'' (2024)
| website = [https://galiontheatre.org galiontheatre.org]
}}
'''Galion Community Theatre''' ('''GCT''') is a volunteer-run community theatre company in Galion, Ohio. Since 1993 it has owned and performed in '''the Galion''', a 1949 movie house on Harding Way West in uptown Galion. The company formed in 1984 and has restored the building, including its neon marquee, into a 230-seat theatre. It presents a season of musicals and plays each year, along with concerts, youth productions and free family films.<ref name="about">{{cite web |url=https://galiontheatre.org/about/ |title=About |website=Galion Community Theatre |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

== The Galion Theatre (1949–1993) ==
The Galion Theatre opened on July 7, 1949. It was the ninth cinema in the Modern Theatres circuit, run by P. E. Essick and Howard Reif, and was designed by the Cleveland theatre architects Matzinger & Grosel. As well as a screen, it had a 30-foot stage that could take touring road shows.<ref name="ct">{{cite web |url=https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/13065 |title=Galion Theatre |website=Cinema Treasures |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref name="ctc">{{cite web |url=https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/13065/comments |title=Galion Theatre: comments |website=Cinema Treasures |access-date=2026-11-07}} Quotes ''Boxoffice'', July 16, 1949.</ref> GCT describes it as "a state-of-the-art 1,200 seat movie theatre"; Cinema Treasures gives 1,100 seats.<ref name="about" /><ref name="ct" /> It was the second building in Galion to have air conditioning, after the hotel up the street.<ref name="ct" />

The theatre stopped showing films in the 1970s (1975, according to Cinema Treasures). The building then housed a restaurant and nightclub until 1983, and other businesses until 1993. By then it was in "a greatly deteriorated state".<ref name="about" /><ref name="ct" />

== Galion Community Theatre ==
=== Founding ===
Galion Community Theatre was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1984, and the IRS recognized it as tax-exempt in April 1985.<ref name="about" /><ref name="propublica">{{cite web |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/341443215 |title=Galion Community Theatre Inc |website=ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> Its first show was ''The Sound of Music''.<ref name="tf2024">{{cite web |url=https://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/story/news/2024/01/18/galion-community-theater-celebrating-its-40th-anniversary/72254280007/ |title=Galion Community Theater celebrates 40th anniversary with shows throughout the year |author=Oksana Kotkina |website=Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum |date=2024-01-18}}</ref> The company's stated purpose is to "develop a community appreciation for the performing arts", to support the performing arts department of the Galion schools, and to build "a working relationship between adults and youth".<ref name="home">{{cite web |url=https://galiontheatre.org/ |title=Galion Community Theatre |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

=== Restoring the Galion ===
In 1993 GCT took over the old Galion Theatre. The theatre credits '''Richard and Elaine Hottenroth''', who donated the building, for making this possible.<ref name="about" /> The first work installed emergency lighting and overhead canister lights and partly repaired the original marquee.<ref name="about" />

Since then volunteers have turned the cinema into a 230-seat live theatre. Improvements include professional lighting and sound, a larger stage, an art gallery, a restored front lobby and original ticket booth, remodelled restrooms, and dressing rooms, a make-up room and a green room backstage. The neon marquee, which GCT says is "reportedly one of the few remaining neon-lighted marquees in the state", has been fully restored.<ref name="about" /> The work has been paid for by members, community foundations, bequests, service clubs, businesses and individuals. By 2004 about $590,000 had been spent on the restoration.<ref name="ct" /> GCT now puts the total at more than $1,000,000 in purchased improvements, not counting donated materials and volunteer labour.<ref name="about" />

=== Organization ===
GCT is run entirely by volunteers. A board of trustees, which GCT calls "truly a 'working board'", maintains and repairs the building, raises money and produces the season.<ref name="about" /> The board had 18 members in 2015 and has 15 today.<ref name="inq2015">{{cite web |url=https://www.galioninquirer.com/2015/07/03/theatre-grateful-for-support/ |title=Theatre grateful for support |website=Galion Inquirer |date=2015-07-03}}</ref><ref name="about" /> Elaine Hottenroth was president of the board in the 2010s and is now an emeritus member. Tim Groth, described in 2015 as the theatre's director, was president for several years after her, and Amy Jarvis has been president since 2023.<ref name="propublica" /><ref name="inq2015" /><ref name="about" />

In 2015 the theatre had a little over 200 members.<ref name="inq2015" /> Members receive season tickets and the newsletter ''The Marquee''.<ref name="home" />

== Productions and programs ==
GCT presents a season of four productions each year, usually two or three musicals and one or two plays, with a comedy in the winter.<ref name="about" /><ref name="tf2024" /> Earlier seasons also included a children's workshop production.<ref name="inq2015" /> A '''Youth Board''' of high school students produces its own shows.<ref name="tf2024" /> The theatre also hosts concerts by professional musicians, a free monthly family film series ("Movies @ The Galion"), Christmas events and, from 2026, a TubaChristmas concert.<ref name="about" /><ref name="tickets">{{cite web |url=https://galiontheatre.org/tickets/ |title=Tickets |website=Galion Community Theatre |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref> Each November a membership celebration announces the next season.<ref name="tickets" />

Productions include:
* ''The Sound of Music'' (1984, the company's first show)<ref name="tf2024" />
* ''Into the Woods'' (June 2015), seen by about 620 people over two weekends<ref name="inq-woods">{{cite web |url=https://www.galioninquirer.com/2015/06/13/into-the-woods-premieres-at-gct-next-weekend/ |title=Into the Woods premieres at GCT next weekend |website=Galion Inquirer |date=2015-06-13}}</ref><ref name="inq2015" />
* ''The Jungle Book'' (2015)<ref name="inq2015" />
* ''Clue: On Stage!'' (February 2024), directed by Crystal Ebner<ref name="tf2024" />
* ''The Sound of Music'' (June 2024)<ref name="tf2024" />
* ''The Addams Family'' (summer 2024, Youth Board, with actors aged 10 to 20)<ref name="tf2024" />
* ''It's a Wonderful Life'' (December 2024)<ref name="tf2024" />
* ''Finding Neverland'' and ''The Little Mermaid'' (2026 season)<ref name="tickets" />

== 40th anniversary ==
GCT celebrated its 40th season in 2024.<ref name="tf2024" /> On June 1, 2024 it held an anniversary evening of songs from past productions, reunions and a silent auction, and honoured "those who worked so hard and were so instrumental in the founding of Galion Community Theatre".<ref name="gala">{{cite web |url=https://www.richlandsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GCT-40-years-press-release.pdf |title=Help Galion Community Theatre Celebrate 40 Years! |website=Richland Source |date=2024-05}}</ref>

== Notes ==
* The Wikipedia article on Galion, Ohio says the theatre company was founded in 1972. The company itself, the IRS record and the ''Telegraph-Forum'' all give 1984.<ref name="about" /><ref name="propublica" /><ref name="tf2024" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://galiontheatre.org Galion Community Theatre] (official website)
* [https://www.facebook.com/GalionTheatre/ Galion Community Theatre] on Facebook
* [https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/13065 Galion Theatre] on Cinema Treasures
* [https://stageagent.com/theatre-companies/4292/galion-community-theatre Galion Community Theatre] on StageAgent
* [https://events.humanitix.com/host/galion-community-theatre Tickets] on Humanitix

{{DEFAULTSORT:Galion Community Theatre}}
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File:The Galion Theatre.jpg

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David de Hilster: Photo of the Galion Theatre (Rowan Kempf, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons)

== Summary ==
The Galion Theatre, home of [[Galion Community Theatre]], on Harding Way West in Galion, Ohio, photographed at night on 17 October 2016.

== Source and licence ==
* '''Author:''' Rowan Kempf
* '''Source:''' [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Galion_Theatre.jpg Wikimedia Commons] (own work)
* '''Licence:''' [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)]

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| name = Marilyn Perry
| image = Marilyn_Perry.jpg
| caption = Perry (photo: Showtime Performing Arts Theatre)
| disciplines = Theatre producer · Arts educator
| birth_name = Marilyn Irene Perry
| based_in = Boca Raton, Florida
| occupation = Executive director and producer
| years_active = c. 2006–2020
| known_for = Founding and running [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
| productions = ''Heathers'' (2019, producer)<br />''Rent'' (2019)<br />''Annie Warbucks'' (2019)<br />Children's Broadway seasons (2007–2020)
| companies = [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
| website = [https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime Facebook]
| awards = Kids Crown Award (South Florida Parenting), 2015, 2016 (for Showtime)
}}
'''Marilyn Irene Perry''' is an American theatre producer and arts educator. She founded '''[[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]''' in Boca Raton, Florida, and was its executive director and producer for its whole history, from about 2006 until the COVID-19 pandemic ended its 2019–2020 season. Under her direction Showtime held 13 annual Red-Carpet showcases; the 14th was cancelled in 2020.<ref name="staff2017">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |title=Staff |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref><ref name="lbio">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/bio/ |title=Bio |website=luanda.dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>

== Showtime Performing Arts Theatre ==
Perry ran Showtime, first called SHOWTIME Dance & Performing Arts Theatre, from a studio and theatre complex at Royal Palm Place in downtown Boca Raton. The school taught dance, acting, voice and instrumental music from age three to adult, and the theatre staged a season of children's musicals every year as well as teen and adult productions.<ref name="about2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/aboutus.htm |title=About Us |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321182925/http://www.showtimeboca.com:80/aboutus.htm |archive-date=2014-03-21}}</ref> According to the theatre's staff page, Perry "with her talented staff, has created a successful school and theatre for all ages". Its teachers offered training in the "true Triple Threat – Singing, Acting and Dancing", and it was "her pleasure to produce and bring award winning Children's Theatre to South Florida".<ref name="staff2017" />

Under her leadership, Showtime received the ''South Florida Parenting'' Kids Crown Award (2015 and 2016) and "Best of Boca" readers' choice awards from the ''Sun-Sentinel''.<ref name="staff2017" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |title=Awards & Articles |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203172943/http://www.showtimeboca.com/awardsarticles.htm |archive-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

In 2019 Showtime presented ''Rent'' and ''Heathers'' with teen and adult casts. Perry produced ''Heathers'', which a local reviewer called "Off-Broadway at its very best in downtown Boca". Writing about the cast chemistry in ''Rent'', the same reviewer said "it seems to happen a lot at the downtown off-broadway theatre Showtime run by Marilyn Perry".<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref> The theatre's spring 2020 productions of ''13'' and ''The Sound of Music'' never opened because of the pandemic, and Showtime did not reopen.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (home page) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |archive-date=2023-05-29}}</ref>

== In her own words ==
Perry posted regularly on Showtime's Facebook page about its students and shows. In March 2019 she wrote of ''Annie Warbucks'': "So proud of this talented cast. one show down five more to go…" She also praised the theatre's "beautiful and handsome MOANA Youngest Performers" and congratulated "all of our exceptional CATS campers and … my very amazing and talented staff".<ref name="fb">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts |title=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton |website=Facebook |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> When COVID-19 cancelled the theatre's 2020 season, the page marked the date of the cancelled showcase as what "would have been … our 14th annual Red-Carpet event", adding: "Years of great memories but so sad to be missing our favorite families today."<ref name="fb" />

== Students ==
Perry's students and performers included [[Luanda de Hilster]], who played Heather McNamara in Showtime's ''Heathers''. Her biography names Perry among her early mentors, and Perry came to see her play Sebastian in her middle school's ''The Little Mermaid'' (2019).<ref name="lbio" /><ref name="heathers" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/marilynperryshowtime Marilyn Perry] on Facebook
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203174716/http://www.showtimeboca.com/staff.htm Showtime staff page] (archived, 2017)
* [https://www.facebook.com/ShowtimePerformingArts Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on Facebook
* [https://www.youtube.com/@showtimeperformingartsthea3594 Showtime Performing Arts Theatre] on YouTube

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perry, Marilyn}}
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* [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]: Boca Raton musical theatre and performing arts school (c. 2006–2020), run by [[Marilyn Perry]]
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* [[Sarah Lash]]: musical theatre actress and singer
* [[Elliana Herr]]: musical theatre performer
* [[Steven Taliaferro]]: actor and singer known for comic and character roles
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* [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]: Boca Raton musical theatre and performing arts school (c. 2006–2020), run by [[Marilyn Perry]]
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* [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]: Boca Raton musical theatre and performing arts school (c. 2006–2020), run by [[Marilyn Perry]]
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David de Hilster

2026-11-06T20:57:18Z

David de Hilster: Correct age to 13

{{Infobox artist
| name = David de Hilster
| image = David_de_Hilster_2025.jpg
| caption = De Hilster in 2025
| disciplines = Painter · Draftsman · Digital artist · Documentary filmmaker · Samba musician
| born = {{birth date and age|1959|11|13}}<br />Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
| nationality = American
| based_in = Delray Beach, Florida
| spouse = [[Doris de Hilster]] (m. 1989)
| children = [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]]
| education = Ohio State University (M.A. Linguistics)<br />Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
| years_active = 1973–present
| known_for = "Intellectual Graffiti"; ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year''; SambaLá Samba School
| medium = Pencil, crayon, acrylic and oil, finger painting, assemblage, digital art
| notable_works = ''Figure in Space'' (1989)<br />''Rio Graffiti'' (1993)<br />''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013)<br />''Northeastern Walls'' (2026)
| instruments = Surdo, vocals; earlier piano and trumpet
| associated_acts = SambaLá Samba School; Unidos do Mundo
| books = ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021, with Bob de Hilster)
| other_work = Computational linguist; co-creator of NLP++ and VisualText
| website = [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com]
}}
'''David de Hilster''' (born November 13, 1959) is an American visual artist, documentary filmmaker, samba musician and computer scientist. His visual art covers pencil and crayon drawing, painting, assemblage and digital work, including a style he calls "Intellectual Graffiti". He directed the documentary ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013), and in 1994 he co-founded the SambaLá Samba School in Long Beach, California, with his wife, designer [[Doris de Hilster]].<ref name="home">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/ |title=David de Hilster |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="artist">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artist/ |title=Artist |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
De Hilster was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<ref name="npwiki">{{cite web |url=https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster |title=David de Hilster |website=Natural Philosophy Wiki |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He grew up in Galion, Ohio, and his family moved to Worthington, Ohio, in 1970. He started drawing at age three. He took his first art class at age eight in Galion, where his teacher recognized his skill. At thirteen he took summer art lessons in Worthington, and his teacher there said he was working at a college level. In those lessons he painted his first canvas, the acrylic ''Geometry''.<ref name="artist" /> He studied piano from age eight and trumpet from age nine, and played trumpet in his high school marching band and pit orchestra.<ref name="sambista">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/sambista/ |title=Sambista |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

At Ohio State University he studied architecture, mathematics and linguistics, and earned a master's degree in linguistics.<ref name="artist" /><ref name="npwiki" /> In 1980 he attended a summer program at New College, Oxford, where he drew the college's cloisters and rooftops.<ref name="artist" /> From about 1987 to 1990 he lived in Rio de Janeiro and studied life drawing at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. According to de Hilster, a teacher there pushed him from black-and-white realism into colour.<ref name="artist" />

== Visual art ==
De Hilster's Rio period produced pencil sketches of the city and crayon works, including ''Figure in Space'' (1989), which he considers the most important work of his career, and ''Doris' Eyes'' (1990).<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/gallery/ |title=Gallery |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> Back in the United States, he says he was accepted into the young-artist rental and sales gallery of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the early 1990s.<ref name="artist" />

Around 1992 he and Doris moved into an artist's loft in Long Beach, California, where he held his first show. He worked in artificial intelligence by day and painted at night. Work from 1991 to 1993 includes:<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery" />
* acrylic and oil paintings, some painted live to jazz piano: ''Insect'', ''Troubadour'', ''Don Quixote'', ''Jazz Black and White''
* drawings scratched into wet paint with a coat hanger: ''Corner Kick'', ''Remote Control''
* finger paintings: ''Three Faces of Eve'', ''Three Faces of Adam''
* assemblages built from electronic parts: ''Hippo'', ''Computer Hand''

Some of these were shown and sold in Doris de Hilster's clothing store in Long Beach.<ref name="artist" />

After his daughter was born in 2005 he made art less often, mostly pencil portraits of family members.<ref name="artist" /> In 2024 he returned to '''Intellectual Graffiti''', a style he first tried in ''Rio Graffiti'' (1993). It overlays figurative portraits with computer code, words, digital graffiti and code-generated particles, with hidden "easter eggs" for the viewer to find.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/intellectual-graffiti/ |title=Intellectual Graffiti |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> His 2026 project '''''Northeastern Walls''''' places digital portraits of people from Northeastern University's Miami campus onto photographs of the murals in Miami's Wynwood district.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/northeastern-walls-david-de-hilster-brings-the-husky-community-to-wynwood/ |title=Northeastern Walls: David de Hilster Brings the Husky Community to Wynwood |website=dehilster.com |date=2026-03}}</ref> His online gallery lists about fifty works from 1973 to 2026, and he takes portrait commissions.<ref name="gallery" />

== Film ==
In 2004 de Hilster began work on a documentary for the 2005 centenary of Albert Einstein's "miracle year". It starred his mother, Patricia de Hilster, and her challenge to relativity.<ref name="physorg">{{cite web |url=https://phys.org/news/2005-09-documentary-highlights-physic-miracle-year.html |title=Documentary highlights physics' 'miracle year' |website=phys.org |date=2005-09-22}}</ref> The finished 91-minute film, ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'', which he produced, directed and edited, premiered on December 7, 2013, at the Arts Theater in Long Beach.<ref name="film">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/film-maker/ |title=Film Maker |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://d-word.com/documentary/674-Einstein-Wrong-The-Miracle-Year |title=Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year |website=The D-Word}}</ref> The film also records the birth of his daughter, Luanda.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/bio/ |title=Bio |website=luanda.dehilster.com}}</ref> Since 2017 he has also run the ''Dissident Science'' YouTube channel.<ref name="npwiki" />

== Samba ==
De Hilster learned samba while living in Brazil and speaks fluent Portuguese. In March 1994 he and Doris founded the '''SambaLá Samba School''' in Long Beach. He served as its president, music director, lead singer (''puxador'') and ''surdo'' drummer.<ref name="sambista" /> His other samba work includes:<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" />
* creating the World Samba web pages (1997)
* co-producing '''Unidos do Mundo''' (2000–2001), an international samba school that paraded in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome. In 2000 he sang there with Neguinho da Beija-Flor.
* producing the Brazilian Street Carnaval of Long Beach
* producing Brazilian Day Los Angeles with Doris and the Brazilian consulate

After the family moved to South Florida, SambaLá paraded in Boca Raton and Pompano Beach.<ref name="sambista" />

== Other work ==
Outside the arts, de Hilster has worked in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence since the 1980s, at Battelle, McDonnell Douglas, TRW and LexisNexis. With Amnon Meyers he co-created the '''NLP++''' programming language and the '''VisualText''' development environment, which were released as open source.<ref name="ai">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artificial-intelligence/ |title=Artificial Intelligence |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/VisualText |title=VisualText |website=GitHub}}</ref> He is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University's Miami campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/teacher/ |title=Teacher |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He also co-founded and is president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. With his father, Bob de Hilster, he wrote ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021).<ref name="npwiki" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/author/ |title=Author |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
De Hilster met his wife, the Brazilian designer [[Doris de Hilster]], in Rio de Janeiro, and they married in 1989. Their daughter, [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]] (born 2005), is a musical theatre performer.<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" /> The family moved from California to South Florida in the mid-2010s.<ref name="artist" />

== Selected works ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Medium
|-
| c. 1973 || ''Geometry'' || Acrylic on canvas
|-
| 1980 || ''New College Rooftops'' || Pencil
|-
| 1987 || ''Bonde'' || Pencil
|-
| 1989 || ''Figure in Space'' || Crayon
|-
| 1990 || ''Doris' Eyes'' || Crayon
|-
| 1991–93 || ''Insect''; ''Troubadour''; ''Don Quixote'' || Acrylic/oil, painted live to jazz
|-
| 1993 || ''Three Faces of Eve''; ''Three Faces of Adam'' || Finger painting
|-
| 1993 || ''Hippo'' || Assemblage
|-
| 1993 || ''Rio Graffiti'' || Mixed media; first "Intellectual Graffiti"
|-
| 2013 || ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' || Documentary film (91 min)
|-
| 2025 || ''Luanda as Adelaide'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''de Hilster Self Portrait 2026'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''Northeastern Walls'' || Digital series
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com] – official website and [https://dehilster.com/gallery/ gallery]
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2031289/ David de Hilster] on IMDb
* [https://www.youtube.com/@DissidentScience Dissident Science] on YouTube
* [https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster David de Hilster] on the Natural Philosophy Wiki

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David de Hilster

2026-11-06T20:56:50Z

David de Hilster: Early art training in Galion and Worthington

{{Infobox artist
| name = David de Hilster
| image = David_de_Hilster_2025.jpg
| caption = De Hilster in 2025
| disciplines = Painter · Draftsman · Digital artist · Documentary filmmaker · Samba musician
| born = {{birth date and age|1959|11|13}}<br />Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
| nationality = American
| based_in = Delray Beach, Florida
| spouse = [[Doris de Hilster]] (m. 1989)
| children = [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]]
| education = Ohio State University (M.A. Linguistics)<br />Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
| years_active = 1973–present
| known_for = "Intellectual Graffiti"; ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year''; SambaLá Samba School
| medium = Pencil, crayon, acrylic and oil, finger painting, assemblage, digital art
| notable_works = ''Figure in Space'' (1989)<br />''Rio Graffiti'' (1993)<br />''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013)<br />''Northeastern Walls'' (2026)
| instruments = Surdo, vocals; earlier piano and trumpet
| associated_acts = SambaLá Samba School; Unidos do Mundo
| books = ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021, with Bob de Hilster)
| other_work = Computational linguist; co-creator of NLP++ and VisualText
| website = [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com]
}}
'''David de Hilster''' (born November 13, 1959) is an American visual artist, documentary filmmaker, samba musician and computer scientist. His visual art covers pencil and crayon drawing, painting, assemblage and digital work, including a style he calls "Intellectual Graffiti". He directed the documentary ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013), and in 1994 he co-founded the SambaLá Samba School in Long Beach, California, with his wife, designer [[Doris de Hilster]].<ref name="home">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/ |title=David de Hilster |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="artist">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artist/ |title=Artist |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
De Hilster was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<ref name="npwiki">{{cite web |url=https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster |title=David de Hilster |website=Natural Philosophy Wiki |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He grew up in Galion, Ohio, and his family moved to Worthington, Ohio, in 1970. He started drawing at age three. He took his first art class at age eight in Galion, where his teacher recognized his skill. At twelve he took summer art lessons in Worthington, and his teacher there said he was working at a college level. In those lessons he painted his first canvas, the acrylic ''Geometry''.<ref name="artist" /> He studied piano from age eight and trumpet from age nine, and played trumpet in his high school marching band and pit orchestra.<ref name="sambista">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/sambista/ |title=Sambista |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

At Ohio State University he studied architecture, mathematics and linguistics, and earned a master's degree in linguistics.<ref name="artist" /><ref name="npwiki" /> In 1980 he attended a summer program at New College, Oxford, where he drew the college's cloisters and rooftops.<ref name="artist" /> From about 1987 to 1990 he lived in Rio de Janeiro and studied life drawing at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. According to de Hilster, a teacher there pushed him from black-and-white realism into colour.<ref name="artist" />

== Visual art ==
De Hilster's Rio period produced pencil sketches of the city and crayon works, including ''Figure in Space'' (1989), which he considers the most important work of his career, and ''Doris' Eyes'' (1990).<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/gallery/ |title=Gallery |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> Back in the United States, he says he was accepted into the young-artist rental and sales gallery of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the early 1990s.<ref name="artist" />

Around 1992 he and Doris moved into an artist's loft in Long Beach, California, where he held his first show. He worked in artificial intelligence by day and painted at night. Work from 1991 to 1993 includes:<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery" />
* acrylic and oil paintings, some painted live to jazz piano: ''Insect'', ''Troubadour'', ''Don Quixote'', ''Jazz Black and White''
* drawings scratched into wet paint with a coat hanger: ''Corner Kick'', ''Remote Control''
* finger paintings: ''Three Faces of Eve'', ''Three Faces of Adam''
* assemblages built from electronic parts: ''Hippo'', ''Computer Hand''

Some of these were shown and sold in Doris de Hilster's clothing store in Long Beach.<ref name="artist" />

After his daughter was born in 2005 he made art less often, mostly pencil portraits of family members.<ref name="artist" /> In 2024 he returned to '''Intellectual Graffiti''', a style he first tried in ''Rio Graffiti'' (1993). It overlays figurative portraits with computer code, words, digital graffiti and code-generated particles, with hidden "easter eggs" for the viewer to find.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/intellectual-graffiti/ |title=Intellectual Graffiti |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> His 2026 project '''''Northeastern Walls''''' places digital portraits of people from Northeastern University's Miami campus onto photographs of the murals in Miami's Wynwood district.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/northeastern-walls-david-de-hilster-brings-the-husky-community-to-wynwood/ |title=Northeastern Walls: David de Hilster Brings the Husky Community to Wynwood |website=dehilster.com |date=2026-03}}</ref> His online gallery lists about fifty works from 1973 to 2026, and he takes portrait commissions.<ref name="gallery" />

== Film ==
In 2004 de Hilster began work on a documentary for the 2005 centenary of Albert Einstein's "miracle year". It starred his mother, Patricia de Hilster, and her challenge to relativity.<ref name="physorg">{{cite web |url=https://phys.org/news/2005-09-documentary-highlights-physic-miracle-year.html |title=Documentary highlights physics' 'miracle year' |website=phys.org |date=2005-09-22}}</ref> The finished 91-minute film, ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'', which he produced, directed and edited, premiered on December 7, 2013, at the Arts Theater in Long Beach.<ref name="film">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/film-maker/ |title=Film Maker |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://d-word.com/documentary/674-Einstein-Wrong-The-Miracle-Year |title=Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year |website=The D-Word}}</ref> The film also records the birth of his daughter, Luanda.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/bio/ |title=Bio |website=luanda.dehilster.com}}</ref> Since 2017 he has also run the ''Dissident Science'' YouTube channel.<ref name="npwiki" />

== Samba ==
De Hilster learned samba while living in Brazil and speaks fluent Portuguese. In March 1994 he and Doris founded the '''SambaLá Samba School''' in Long Beach. He served as its president, music director, lead singer (''puxador'') and ''surdo'' drummer.<ref name="sambista" /> His other samba work includes:<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" />
* creating the World Samba web pages (1997)
* co-producing '''Unidos do Mundo''' (2000–2001), an international samba school that paraded in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome. In 2000 he sang there with Neguinho da Beija-Flor.
* producing the Brazilian Street Carnaval of Long Beach
* producing Brazilian Day Los Angeles with Doris and the Brazilian consulate

After the family moved to South Florida, SambaLá paraded in Boca Raton and Pompano Beach.<ref name="sambista" />

== Other work ==
Outside the arts, de Hilster has worked in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence since the 1980s, at Battelle, McDonnell Douglas, TRW and LexisNexis. With Amnon Meyers he co-created the '''NLP++''' programming language and the '''VisualText''' development environment, which were released as open source.<ref name="ai">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artificial-intelligence/ |title=Artificial Intelligence |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/VisualText |title=VisualText |website=GitHub}}</ref> He is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University's Miami campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/teacher/ |title=Teacher |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He also co-founded and is president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. With his father, Bob de Hilster, he wrote ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021).<ref name="npwiki" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/author/ |title=Author |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
De Hilster met his wife, the Brazilian designer [[Doris de Hilster]], in Rio de Janeiro, and they married in 1989. Their daughter, [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]] (born 2005), is a musical theatre performer.<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" /> The family moved from California to South Florida in the mid-2010s.<ref name="artist" />

== Selected works ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Medium
|-
| c. 1972 || ''Geometry'' || Acrylic on canvas
|-
| 1980 || ''New College Rooftops'' || Pencil
|-
| 1987 || ''Bonde'' || Pencil
|-
| 1989 || ''Figure in Space'' || Crayon
|-
| 1990 || ''Doris' Eyes'' || Crayon
|-
| 1991–93 || ''Insect''; ''Troubadour''; ''Don Quixote'' || Acrylic/oil, painted live to jazz
|-
| 1993 || ''Three Faces of Eve''; ''Three Faces of Adam'' || Finger painting
|-
| 1993 || ''Hippo'' || Assemblage
|-
| 1993 || ''Rio Graffiti'' || Mixed media; first "Intellectual Graffiti"
|-
| 2013 || ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' || Documentary film (91 min)
|-
| 2025 || ''Luanda as Adelaide'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''de Hilster Self Portrait 2026'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''Northeastern Walls'' || Digital series
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com] – official website and [https://dehilster.com/gallery/ gallery]
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2031289/ David de Hilster] on IMDb
* [https://www.youtube.com/@DissidentScience Dissident Science] on YouTube
* [https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster David de Hilster] on the Natural Philosophy Wiki

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Luanda de Hilster

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{{Infobox artist
| name = Luanda Lia de Hilster
| image = Luanda_Lia_headshot_2025.png
| caption = Luanda Lia in 2025
| disciplines = Musical theatre actress · Singer · Dancer · Choreographer
| birth_name = Luanda Lia de Hilster
| also_known_as = Luanda Lia; Luandalia; Luanda de Hilster
| born = {{birth date and age|2005|9|29}}<br />Torrance, California, U.S.
| nationality = American and Brazilian
| based_in = Edmond, Oklahoma
| relatives = [[David de Hilster]] (father)<br />[[Doris de Hilster]] (mother)
| education = Boca Raton Community High School (2023)<br />University of Central Oklahoma (B.M. Musical Theatre, expected 2027)
| training = Showtime Performing Arts Theatre; Taylor Made Dance & Theatre; Broadway Artist Intensive
| years_active = 2017–present
| notable_roles = Miss Adelaide (''Guys and Dolls'')<br />Reno Sweeney (''Anything Goes'')<br />Minnie Fay (''Hello, Dolly!'')<br />Heather McNamara (''Heathers'')
| dance_styles = Ballet, tap, jazz, modern, samba
| voice_type = Mezzo-soprano
| instruments = Ukulele
| awards = Dream Awards nominee, Best Supporting Actress (2022, 2023)
| website = [https://luandalia.com luandalia.com]<br />[https://luanda.dehilster.com luanda.dehilster.com]
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'''Luanda Lia de Hilster''' (born September 29, 2005), known professionally as '''Luanda Lia''', is a Brazilian-American musical theatre actress, singer and dancer. She is studying for a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre at the University of Central Oklahoma, where her roles have included Miss Adelaide in ''Guys and Dolls'' and Reno Sweeney in ''Anything Goes''.<ref name="luandalia">{{cite web |url=https://luandalia.com/ |title=Luanda Lia |website=luandalia.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="bio">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/bio/ |title=Bio |website=luanda.dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Name ==
"Luandalia" is her first and middle names run together. Since 2025 she has used '''Luanda Lia''' as her professional name, and it is also the name of her website (luandalia.com) and social media accounts.<ref name="luandalia" />

== Early life ==
Luanda was born in Torrance, California, to [[David de Hilster]] and his Brazilian wife, [[Doris de Hilster|Doris]]. Her birth is documented in her father's feature documentary ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year''.<ref name="bio" /> She grew up in the Los Angeles area and studied ballet and tap in Long Beach from the age of five. Her parents led a Brazilian samba school in California, so she grew up around samba music and dance.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="talent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Nurturing a Natural Talent |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-09-11}}</ref> She holds dual U.S. and Brazilian citizenship and speaks and sings in Portuguese.<ref name="bio" />

In 2014 the family moved to Boca Raton, Florida.<ref name="bio" />

== Education and training ==
At Boca Raton Community Middle School she was co-president of the Junior Thespian troupe. She attended Boca Raton Community High School from 2019 to 2023.<ref name="bio" /> Outside school she trained at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton and spent several years at Taylor Made Dance & Theatre. There she took part in its college-preparation conservatory and the College Audition Project, and in 2022 she received the studio's Dot Taylor Scholarship and was named Head Studio Captain.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Wins Taylor Made Scholarship & Named Head Studio Captain |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-05-30}}</ref> She also attended the Broadway Artist Intensive in 2022 and 2023.<ref name="resume">{{cite web |url=https://luandalia.com/resume-2/ |title=Resume |website=luandalia.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

In fall 2023 she entered the musical theatre program at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) in Edmond, Oklahoma, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre, expected in 2027.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/luanda-to-study-musical-theater-at-the-university-of-central-oklahoma/ |title=Luanda to Study Musical Theater at the University of Central Oklahoma |website=luanda.dehilster.com}}</ref><ref name="resume" />

== Career ==
=== Florida (2017–2023) ===
Luanda's early roles were in school and community musicals in Boca Raton. They included the Sour Kangaroo in ''Seussical'', Sebastian in ''The Little Mermaid'', and Alexi Darling in ''Rent'' with an adult cast at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre.<ref name="bio" /> In December 2019 she played Heather McNamara in ''Heathers'' at Showtime.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Lands Supporting Role in Heathers |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-08-23}}</ref>

At Boca Raton High School she played Kathryn Schaub in ''Radium Girls'' (2021), Mrs. Tottendale in ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' (2022) and Minnie Fay in ''Hello, Dolly!'' (2023). For the last two roles she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Dream Awards, the Palm Beach County high school musical theatre awards held at the Kravis Center.<ref name="dream22">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Nominated for Best Supporting Actress |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-05-16}}</ref><ref name="dream23">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/ |title=Luanda Earns Dream Awards Nomination for a Second Year |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2023-05-10}}</ref> She also won Superior ratings and perfect scores at Florida District and State Thespian competitions.<ref name="bio" />

=== Oklahoma (2023–present) ===
At UCO she has appeared in ''Legally Blonde'' (2024) and as a Merry Murderess and dance captain in ''Chicago'' (2026), directed by Nathan Peck.<ref name="resume" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://luandalia.com/luanda-lia-named-dance-captain-in-chicago-production-by-director-nathan-peck/ |title=Luanda Lia Named Dance Captain in Chicago Production by Director Nathan Peck |website=luandalia.com}}</ref> She was assistant director of ''City of Angels'' (2025).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luandalia.com/luanda-named-assistant-director-for-city-of-angels-at-uco/ |title=Luanda Named Assistant Director for City of Angels at UCO |website=luandalia.com}}</ref> Her first lead role at UCO was Miss Adelaide in ''Guys and Dolls'' at Mitchell Hall in September 2025.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/luanda-gets-first-lead-at-uco/ |title=Luanda Gets First Lead at UCO |website=luanda.dehilster.com}}</ref> In fall 2026 she was double-cast as Reno Sweeney in ''Anything Goes'', part of Mitchell Hall's centennial season.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luandalia.com/luanda-lia-cast-as-reno-sweeney-in-anything-goes/ |title=Luanda Lia Cast as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes |website=luandalia.com}}</ref>

Her professional work in Oklahoma includes:
* Bailey in ''The Polar Express Train Ride'' at the Oklahoma Railway Museum (2024)<ref name="resume" />
* Directing and choreographing a Christmas production for Hobby Lobby's creative division (2025)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luandalia.com/luanda-lia-tapped-to-direct-and-choreograph-hobby-lobby-christmas-number/ |title=Luanda Lia Tapped to Direct and Choreograph Hobby Lobby Christmas Number |website=luandalia.com}}</ref>
* Her debut with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, as a swing in ''Annie'' at the Civic Center Music Hall (June 2026)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luandalia.com/luanda-joins-the-cast-of-annie-at-the-okc-civic-center/ |title=Luanda Joins the Cast of Annie at the OKC Civic Center |website=luandalia.com}}</ref>

== Selected credits ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Production !! Role !! Venue / company
|-
| 2017 || ''Seussical'' || Sour Kangaroo || Boca Raton Community Middle School
|-
| 2018 || ''Bye Bye Birdie'' || Mrs. McAfee || Boca Raton Community Middle School
|-
| 2019 || ''The Little Mermaid'' || Sebastian || Boca Raton Community Middle School
|-
| 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Alexi Darling / ensemble || Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
|-
| 2019 || ''Heathers'' || Heather McNamara || Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
|-
| 2021 || ''Jekyll & Hyde'' || Red Rat Dancer || Boca Raton High School (streamed)
|-
| 2021 || ''Radium Girls'' || Kathryn Schaub || Boca Raton High School
|-
| 2022 || ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' || Mrs. Tottendale || Boca Raton High School
|-
| 2023 || ''Hello, Dolly!'' || Minnie Fay || Boca Raton High School
|-
| 2024 || ''Legally Blonde'' || Kate / Kiki / Judge || University of Central Oklahoma
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| 2024 || ''The Polar Express Train Ride'' || Bailey || Oklahoma Railway Museum
|-
| 2025 || ''City of Angels'' || Assistant director || University of Central Oklahoma
|-
| 2025 || ''Guys and Dolls'' || Miss Adelaide || University of Central Oklahoma
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| 2026 || ''Chicago'' || Merry Murderess; dance captain || University of Central Oklahoma
|-
| 2026 || ''Annie'' || Swing || Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma
|-
| 2026 || ''Anything Goes'' || Reno Sweeney || University of Central Oklahoma
|}

== Honors ==
* Dream Awards nominee, Best Supporting Actress: 2022 (''The Drowsy Chaperone'') and 2023 (''Hello, Dolly!'')<ref name="dream22" /><ref name="dream23" />
* Dot Taylor Scholarship, Taylor Made Dance & Theatre (2022)
* Superior ratings at Florida District and State Thespian festivals (2019–2022)<ref name="bio" />

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://luandalia.com Luanda Lia] – official website
* [https://luanda.dehilster.com luanda.dehilster.com] – earlier website and news archive (2017–2025)

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{{Infobox artist
| name = Doris de Hilster
| native_name = Dóris de Hilster
| image = Doris_de_Hilster_studio.jpg
| caption = De Hilster in her studio
| disciplines = Clothing designer · Carnival costume designer · Show director
| born = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| nationality = Brazilian
| based_in = Delray Beach, Florida
| spouse = [[David de Hilster]] (m. 1989)
| children = [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]]
| years_active = 1990–present
| known_for = Samba Collection; costumes for SambaLá Samba School and the 2010 Rose Parade
| style = Brazilian fashion; Carnaval costume (''fantasia'')
| medium = Textiles, feathers, beading, headpieces and backpieces
| brand = Samba Collection (founded 1992)
| companies = SambaLá Samba School (costume designer, show director)
| exhibitions = UCLA Fowler Museum, "Carnival on the Catwalk" (2006)<br />Macy's South Coast Plaza (2012)<br />Long Beach Fashion Week (2014)
| website = [https://doris.dehilster.com doris.dehilster.com]
}}
'''Dóris de Hilster''' is a Brazilian clothing and carnival costume designer based in the United States. She founded the label and boutique '''Samba Collection''' in Long Beach, California, in 1992, and was costume designer and show director of the SambaLá Samba School. Her costumes have appeared in the Rio de Janeiro Sambadrome and in the 2010 Rose Parade.<ref name="designer">{{cite web |url=http://sambacollection.com/html/the_designer.html |title=The Designer |website=Samba Collection |date=2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030207072446/http://sambacollection.com:80/html/the_designer.html |archive-date=2003-02-07}}</ref><ref name="about2013">{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/about-the-designer/ |title=About the Designer |website=Samba Collection |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118044824/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/about-the-designer/ |archive-date=2013-01-18}}</ref>

== Early life ==
De Hilster was born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Macaé, about three hours north of the city. She returned to Rio at the age of eight and went to school and university there.<ref name="dorisabout">{{cite web |url=https://doris.dehilster.com/about/ |title=About |website=doris.dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> Her fashion career began in a small boutique in Copacabana. According to Samba Collection, she was so good at spotting trends that the owner relied on her for major purchasing decisions.<ref name="designer" />

In 1988 she met the American [[David de Hilster]] through a climbing club in Rio. They married in 1989 and moved to the Los Angeles area.<ref name="dorisabout" /><ref name="designer" />

== Samba Collection ==
Samba Collection began informally in 1990, when de Hilster made her first shirt. In 1992 it opened formally as her first store and label, in an artist's loft on Daisy Avenue in Long Beach.<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://sambacollection.com/html/history.html |title=History |website=Samba Collection |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030207060702/http://sambacollection.com:80/html/history.html |archive-date=2003-02-07}}</ref> The store later moved to Pine Avenue in downtown Long Beach and then to the Long Beach Mall. Samba Collection described her clothes as combining "the unique style of Brazil with the sophistication of Europe".<ref name="designer" /> She went online in the mid-1990s, which brought her international customers. In 1998 the shop's catalogue offered clothing, carnival costumes, headpieces, backpieces and percussion instruments.<ref name="designer" /><ref name="people">{{cite web |url=http://sambacollection.com/People.html |title=People |website=Samba Collection |date=1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980110120902/http://sambacollection.com:80/People.html |archive-date=1998-01-10}}</ref> After the last physical store closed in the late 1990s, she worked from a studio, taking custom orders.<ref name="history" /> According to the company, by 2013 more than half of her clients lived outside the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2013/08/doris-carnaval-collection/ |title=Doris' Carnaval Collection |website=Samba Collection |date=2013-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815220217/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2013/08/doris-carnaval-collection/}}</ref>

== Carnival costume design ==
De Hilster started designing costumes for the SambaLá Samba School, which she and her husband founded in Long Beach in 1994. She went on to serve as its costume designer, show director and promoter, and also danced with the school as a ''passista''.<ref name="people" /><ref name="dorisabout" /> Samba Collection reported that her ''mestre-sala'' and ''porta-bandeira'' (master of ceremonies and flag-bearer) costume appeared in the Rio de Janeiro Sambadrome during Carnaval 2000.<ref name="about2013" />

Other projects reported by Samba Collection include:
* "Carnival on the Catwalk", a fashion show at the UCLA Fowler Museum in January 2006, held with its touring exhibition ''CARNAVAL!''. SambaLá dancers modelled her ''passista'' bikinis and headdresses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2006/01/doris-honored-at-ucla-fowler-museum/ |title=Doris Honored at UCLA Fowler Museum |website=Samba Collection |date=2006-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118094240/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2006/01/doris-honored-at-ucla-fowler-museum/}}</ref>
* Costumes for the hostesses at a pre-Grammy party at the Montage Beverly Hills in February 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2009/02/samba-collection-costumes-shines-at-grammy-party/ |title=Samba Collection Costumes Shines at Grammy Party |website=Samba Collection |date=2009-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118094129/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2009/02/samba-collection-costumes-shines-at-grammy-party/}}</ref>
* An outfit for Rio Carnaval 2009 for Thatiana Pagung, ''rainha da bateria'' (queen of the drum section) of the Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel samba school.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2009/09/doris-is-tapped-by-mocidade-queen-to-design-2009-outfit/ |title=Doris Is Tapped by Mocidade Queen to Design 2009 Outfit |website=Samba Collection |date=2009-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118094250/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2009/09/doris-is-tapped-by-mocidade-queen-to-design-2009-outfit/}}</ref>
* 65 costumes for the Jack in the Box float in the 121st Rose Parade in Pasadena on January 1, 2010: 45 new and 20 modified. She worked with float designer John Ramirez and producer Ron Miziker.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2009/10/samba-collection-to-provide-65-costumes-for-2010-rose-parade/ |title=Samba Collection to Provide 65 Costumes for 2010 Rose Parade |website=Samba Collection |date=2009-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118094256/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2009/10/samba-collection-to-provide-65-costumes-for-2010-rose-parade/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2010/01/doris-displays-her-costumes-to-a-world-wide-audience-of-40-million/ |title=Doris Displays Her Costumes to a World-wide Audience of 40 Million |website=Samba Collection |date=2010-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118094301/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2010/01/doris-displays-her-costumes-to-a-world-wide-audience-of-40-million/}}</ref>
* A costume in a Honda television commercial (2011).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2011/04/doris-costume-in-a-honda-commericial/ |title=Doris' Costume in a Honda Commercial |website=Samba Collection |date=2011-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118044809/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2011/04/doris-costume-in-a-honda-commericial/}}</ref>
* A month-long display at Macy's South Coast Plaza in spring 2012, part of a Brazilian designers theme.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2012/05/doris-displays-costumes-in-macys-spring-2012/ |title=Doris Displays Costumes in Macy's Spring 2012 |website=Samba Collection |date=2012-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118044814/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2012/05/doris-displays-costumes-in-macys-spring-2012/}}</ref>
* A show at Long Beach Fashion Week in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/2014/08/fashion-show-with-samba-collection-in-long-beach/ |title=Fashion Show with Samba Collection in Long Beach |website=Samba Collection |date=2014-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107191450/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/2014/08/fashion-show-with-samba-collection-in-long-beach/}}</ref>

Samba Collection also says her designs have appeared on ''Dancing with the Stars'' and at the Latin Grammys.<ref name="about2013" /> The costume guide LoveToKnow recommends her as a designer whose samba costumes "can be purchased or rented".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://costumes.lovetoknow.com/Samba_Dancers_Costumes |title=Samba Dancers Costumes |author=Amy Finley |website=LoveToKnow}}</ref>

[[File:Samba_Collection_Rose_Parade_2010.jpg|thumb|left|Samba Collection costumes in the 2010 Rose Parade]]

== Other work ==
With her husband, de Hilster helped produce the Brazilian Street Carnaval in Long Beach and Brazilian Day Los Angeles, the latter with the Brazilian consulate.<ref name="dorisabout" /> From 2002 to 2004 the couple owned a Long Beach restaurant, Tony's Famous French Dips and Grill from Ipanema. It served Brazilian food, hosted a weekly samba show, and was SambaLá's home base.<ref name="designer" /><ref name="dorisabout" />

== Florida ==
In 2014 the family moved to Boca Raton, Florida. De Hilster kept designing and shipping costumes, and in 2016 she opened a studio in Pompano Beach, shared with SambaLá, where she also did alterations and tailoring.<ref name="dorisabout" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sambacollection.com/site/alterations/ |title=Alterations |website=Samba Collection |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824170046/http://www.sambacollection.com:80/site/alterations/ |archive-date=2017-08-24}}</ref> She lives in Delray Beach.<ref name="dorisabout" />

== Personal life ==
De Hilster is married to the artist and computer scientist [[David de Hilster]]. Their daughter, [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]], is a musical theatre performer.<ref name="dorisabout" />

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== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [https://doris.dehilster.com doris.dehilster.com] – official website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/2013*/sambacollection.com Samba Collection] (archived website)

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Photo of Doris de Hilster / Samba Collection work. Source: https://doris.dehilster.com/ — uploaded with the family's permission.

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== Summary ==
Photo of Doris de Hilster / Samba Collection work. Source: https://doris.dehilster.com/ — uploaded with the family's permission.

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{{Infobox artist
| name = David de Hilster
| image = David_de_Hilster_2025.jpg
| caption = De Hilster in 2025
| disciplines = Painter · Draftsman · Digital artist · Documentary filmmaker · Samba musician
| born = {{birth date and age|1959|11|13}}<br />Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
| nationality = American
| based_in = Delray Beach, Florida
| spouse = [[Doris de Hilster]] (m. 1989)
| children = [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]]
| education = Ohio State University (M.A. Linguistics)<br />Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
| years_active = 1973–present
| known_for = "Intellectual Graffiti"; ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year''; SambaLá Samba School
| medium = Pencil, crayon, acrylic and oil, finger painting, assemblage, digital art
| notable_works = ''Figure in Space'' (1989)<br />''Rio Graffiti'' (1993)<br />''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013)<br />''Northeastern Walls'' (2026)
| instruments = Surdo, vocals; earlier piano and trumpet
| associated_acts = SambaLá Samba School; Unidos do Mundo
| books = ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021, with Bob de Hilster)
| other_work = Computational linguist; co-creator of NLP++ and VisualText
| website = [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com]
}}
'''David de Hilster''' (born November 13, 1959) is an American visual artist, documentary filmmaker, samba musician and computer scientist. His visual art covers pencil and crayon drawing, painting, assemblage and digital work, including a style he calls "Intellectual Graffiti". He directed the documentary ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' (2013), and in 1994 he co-founded the SambaLá Samba School in Long Beach, California, with his wife, designer [[Doris de Hilster]].<ref name="home">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/ |title=David de Hilster |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref name="artist">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artist/ |title=Artist |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
De Hilster was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<ref name="npwiki">{{cite web |url=https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster |title=David de Hilster |website=Natural Philosophy Wiki |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He grew up in Galion, Ohio, and his family moved to Worthington, Ohio, in 1970. He started drawing at age three, took his first art class at eight, and painted his first canvas, ''Geometry'' (acrylic), at about thirteen.<ref name="artist" /> He studied piano from age eight and trumpet from age nine, and played trumpet in his high school marching band and pit orchestra.<ref name="sambista">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/sambista/ |title=Sambista |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

At Ohio State University he studied architecture, mathematics and linguistics, and earned a master's degree in linguistics.<ref name="artist" /><ref name="npwiki" /> In 1980 he attended a summer program at New College, Oxford, where he drew the college's cloisters and rooftops.<ref name="artist" /> From about 1987 to 1990 he lived in Rio de Janeiro and studied life drawing at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. According to de Hilster, a teacher there pushed him from black-and-white realism into colour.<ref name="artist" />

== Visual art ==
De Hilster's Rio period produced pencil sketches of the city and crayon works, including ''Figure in Space'' (1989), which he considers the most important work of his career, and ''Doris' Eyes'' (1990).<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/gallery/ |title=Gallery |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> Back in the United States, he says he was accepted into the young-artist rental and sales gallery of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the early 1990s.<ref name="artist" />

Around 1992 he and Doris moved into an artist's loft in Long Beach, California, where he held his first show. He worked in artificial intelligence by day and painted at night. Work from 1991 to 1993 includes:<ref name="artist" /><ref name="gallery" />
* acrylic and oil paintings, some painted live to jazz piano: ''Insect'', ''Troubadour'', ''Don Quixote'', ''Jazz Black and White''
* drawings scratched into wet paint with a coat hanger: ''Corner Kick'', ''Remote Control''
* finger paintings: ''Three Faces of Eve'', ''Three Faces of Adam''
* assemblages built from electronic parts: ''Hippo'', ''Computer Hand''

Some of these were shown and sold in Doris de Hilster's clothing store in Long Beach.<ref name="artist" />

After his daughter was born in 2005 he made art less often, mostly pencil portraits of family members.<ref name="artist" /> In 2024 he returned to '''Intellectual Graffiti''', a style he first tried in ''Rio Graffiti'' (1993). It overlays figurative portraits with computer code, words, digital graffiti and code-generated particles, with hidden "easter eggs" for the viewer to find.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/intellectual-graffiti/ |title=Intellectual Graffiti |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> His 2026 project '''''Northeastern Walls''''' places digital portraits of people from Northeastern University's Miami campus onto photographs of the murals in Miami's Wynwood district.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/northeastern-walls-david-de-hilster-brings-the-husky-community-to-wynwood/ |title=Northeastern Walls: David de Hilster Brings the Husky Community to Wynwood |website=dehilster.com |date=2026-03}}</ref> His online gallery lists about fifty works from 1973 to 2026, and he takes portrait commissions.<ref name="gallery" />

== Film ==
In 2004 de Hilster began work on a documentary for the 2005 centenary of Albert Einstein's "miracle year". It starred his mother, Patricia de Hilster, and her challenge to relativity.<ref name="physorg">{{cite web |url=https://phys.org/news/2005-09-documentary-highlights-physic-miracle-year.html |title=Documentary highlights physics' 'miracle year' |website=phys.org |date=2005-09-22}}</ref> The finished 91-minute film, ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'', which he produced, directed and edited, premiered on December 7, 2013, at the Arts Theater in Long Beach.<ref name="film">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/film-maker/ |title=Film Maker |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://d-word.com/documentary/674-Einstein-Wrong-The-Miracle-Year |title=Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year |website=The D-Word}}</ref> The film also records the birth of his daughter, Luanda.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/bio/ |title=Bio |website=luanda.dehilster.com}}</ref> Since 2017 he has also run the ''Dissident Science'' YouTube channel.<ref name="npwiki" />

== Samba ==
De Hilster learned samba while living in Brazil and speaks fluent Portuguese. In March 1994 he and Doris founded the '''SambaLá Samba School''' in Long Beach. He served as its president, music director, lead singer (''puxador'') and ''surdo'' drummer.<ref name="sambista" /> His other samba work includes:<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" />
* creating the World Samba web pages (1997)
* co-producing '''Unidos do Mundo''' (2000–2001), an international samba school that paraded in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome. In 2000 he sang there with Neguinho da Beija-Flor.
* producing the Brazilian Street Carnaval of Long Beach
* producing Brazilian Day Los Angeles with Doris and the Brazilian consulate

After the family moved to South Florida, SambaLá paraded in Boca Raton and Pompano Beach.<ref name="sambista" />

== Other work ==
Outside the arts, de Hilster has worked in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence since the 1980s, at Battelle, McDonnell Douglas, TRW and LexisNexis. With Amnon Meyers he co-created the '''NLP++''' programming language and the '''VisualText''' development environment, which were released as open source.<ref name="ai">{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/artificial-intelligence/ |title=Artificial Intelligence |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/VisualText |title=VisualText |website=GitHub}}</ref> He is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University's Miami campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/teacher/ |title=Teacher |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref> He also co-founded and is president of the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. With his father, Bob de Hilster, he wrote ''Principia Mathematica 2'' (2021).<ref name="npwiki" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dehilster.com/author/ |title=Author |website=dehilster.com |access-date=2026-11-06}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
De Hilster met his wife, the Brazilian designer [[Doris de Hilster]], in Rio de Janeiro, and they married in 1989. Their daughter, [[Luanda de Hilster|Luanda Lia de Hilster]] (born 2005), is a musical theatre performer.<ref name="sambista" /><ref name="npwiki" /> The family moved from California to South Florida in the mid-2010s.<ref name="artist" />

== Selected works ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Medium
|-
| c. 1973 || ''Geometry'' || Acrylic on canvas
|-
| 1980 || ''New College Rooftops'' || Pencil
|-
| 1987 || ''Bonde'' || Pencil
|-
| 1989 || ''Figure in Space'' || Crayon
|-
| 1990 || ''Doris' Eyes'' || Crayon
|-
| 1991–93 || ''Insect''; ''Troubadour''; ''Don Quixote'' || Acrylic/oil, painted live to jazz
|-
| 1993 || ''Three Faces of Eve''; ''Three Faces of Adam'' || Finger painting
|-
| 1993 || ''Hippo'' || Assemblage
|-
| 1993 || ''Rio Graffiti'' || Mixed media; first "Intellectual Graffiti"
|-
| 2013 || ''Einstein Wrong – The Miracle Year'' || Documentary film (91 min)
|-
| 2025 || ''Luanda as Adelaide'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''de Hilster Self Portrait 2026'' || Digital (Intellectual Graffiti)
|-
| 2026 || ''Northeastern Walls'' || Digital series
|}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://dehilster.com dehilster.com] – official website and [https://dehilster.com/gallery/ gallery]
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2031289/ David de Hilster] on IMDb
* [https://www.youtube.com/@DissidentScience Dissident Science] on YouTube
* [https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=David_de_Hilster David de Hilster] on the Natural Philosophy Wiki

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