City Theatre will kick-off its 10th Anniversary Summer Shorts Festival with a special preview performance on Friday, June 3 at the Ring Theatre, Coral Gables featuring a 6:30 p.m. Happy Hour catered by Café Tu Tu Tango followed by a 7:30 performance of Program B. City Theatre is delighted to offer Key Biscayne residents a special rate of $25 for the happy hour and performance, and will be honoring the Key Biscayne Community Foundation at this event.

Commenting on the Key Biscayne Community Foundation’s recognition, City Theatre Co-Founder and Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Norman comments, "The Key Biscayne Community Foundation has taken a leadership role in enriching the lives of Key Biscayne residents and the South Florida community. City Theatre was honored to bring its educational outreach Senior Shorts and Short Cuts to the Key Biscayne Community Center this spring. On behalf of my founding partner, Susi Westfall, and our board chair, Alan Fein, we are delighted to welcome Ana Gloria Rivas-Vasquez, Jorge Mendia, Anne Rothe and the foundation board and Key Biscayne community to our 10th anniversary celebration."

Seventeen playwrights will be represented in City Theatre’s 10th Anniversary Summer Shorts Festival, known nationally as America’s preeminent "short" play festival, performing June 2 – 26 at the Ring Theatre in Coral Gables and July 7 – 10 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. The Festival includes a City Theatre record number of 10 World Premiere plays along with 7 Southeastern Premieres penned by 16 regional and national talents.

The Carbonell Award-winning festival has become a nationally recognized event and something of a must-see/must-be seen-there social event for South Florida audiences with a breezy Hawaiian-shirtand-sandals style of festival happy hours and picnic dinners matched by some of the smartest writing and sharpest theatrical ensembles to hit the stages each season.

Divided into two alternating programs, A & B, Summer Shorts attendees can see one program or see them both combined with festival dining packages catered by Café Tu Tu Tango at the Ring Theatre and by the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale.

Producing over 180 "short" plays in the matter of a decade, City Theatre solidified its reputation as one of the nation’s premiere forums for original work by announcing an artistic partnership with the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s (ATL) Humana Festival of New American Plays, one of the largest and most prestigious new play festivals in the country. City Theatre will join ATL as co-sponsors of the National Ten-Minute Play Contest, a well-known competition entering its 16th year dedicated to the development of outstanding 10-minute plays by the nation’s established and emerging playwrights.

More information: 305-365-5400, www.citytheatre.com