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While COVID-19 has been challenging on the performing arts community, The J’s Cultural Arts Theatre (JCAT) has taken this opportunity to reimagine and evolve. JCAT was established in 2007 as the resident theatre company of the Michael-Ann Russel JCC in North Miami Beach. It is now housed in the newly built Alan and Diane Lieberman Theater and offers professional theatre programming.
JCAT, along with the rest of the theatre community, was forced to shut its doors in March of 2020 due to COVID-19. But, JCAT has regrouped and is ready to begin offering live performances again—with some new safety precautions in place, of course. For example, the 230-seat Alan and Diane Lieberman Theater that JCAT now calls home operates at 30% capacity. Another precaution, new artistic director Stephen Kaiser is swapping traditional large cast play titles from JCAT’s past for exciting new plays that feature smaller casts and more opportunity for social distancing.
JCAT’s first professional production since the theater closed is “A Class Act” by New Jersey playwright Norman Shabel with performances from April 22–May 2, 2021.
Originally produced Off-Broadway at New World Stages, “A Class Act” is a sophisticated thrill ride that exposes our legal system’s startling inner workings. Described as “engrossing and gripping,” this show examines a world in which greed pervades, the loyal suffer, and morality is always relative.
The “A Class Act” performance schedule is unique in that it adheres to Jewish religious observation. Thursday night shows begin at 7:30 p.m. There are no performances on Friday nights. Saturday night shows begin with a complimentary Kosher wine and cheese reception at 8:30 p.m. with the performance beginning at 9:30 p.m. Sunday performances begin at 5:00 p.m. Tickets are available at https://marjcc.org/buy-tickets.
About the Playwright of “A Class Act:” Norman Shabel graduated from Rutgers University Law School in 1969. For over forty years, Mr. Shabel vigorously pursued his clients’ rights on major legal issues involving murder, fraud, and national class actions, representing thousands of ordinary people all over the United States. A longtime resident of New Jersey, Mr. Shabel has taken his forty-six years of experience as a trial and class action lawyer and transformed it into an exciting, dramatic production entitled, A Class Act. Mr. Shabel has also written five other plays and nine novels. His plays have been produced in Florida, Philadelphia, and Off-Broadway.