Actor David Rosenberg stars in playwright Michele Lowe’s dramatic one man, one act play “Moses”, running now through Sunday, May 17 at Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami.

Sadly, Stephen Sondheim is no longer with us, but his body of work lives on. If anything, the prolific, groundbreaking American lyricist and composer – often credited with reinventing the 20th century musical – is enjoying a resurgence of interest since his death in 2021 at age 91. I was excited to see an excellent production of his early “flop” Merrily We Roll Along at Delray Beach Playhouse two years ago, mere months before the Broadway version won a Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. And swore if any more Sondheim came to our area (I was especially interested in his inaugural revue of Side by Side by Sondheim), I’d make it my business to attend.

If you missed the spectacular THE CHER SHOW on Broadway a few years back, or even the popular two-year national tour that followed, fret not. Because now you can see it all, complete with legendary Bob Mackie costumes (for which the new musical won a Tony) and original stage design, right in our hometown!

The title of Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why comes from the idea, eventually articulated by one of its characters, that every scientific phenomenon is explainable from both perspectives. And though much of the piece revolves around the two main characters’ careers as evolutionary biologists, the most engaging “how” and “why” questions the script poses have less to do with their competing theories than with the unexpected evolution of the complex relationship between them.

Even if you don’t know the love story that Noah reads Allie from his trusty, timeworn notebook by heart, you’ve surely heard of it before. After all, The Notebook has reached audiences for decades in many different forms: a bestselling novel by Nicholas Sparks, a hit romance film starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Most recently, it’s taken on new life on a national tour, with the latest stop being here in South Florida, at the Kravis Center. I have no shortage of memories tied to this classic story—from when the movie made my friends and me cry at countless sleepovers in middle school, to a decade later, when I found myself tearing up all the same, this time watching it on Broadway. Now it’s your turn to reach for the tissue box and engage yourself in this stunning story that asks its viewers, can love really transcend anything? Differences, distance, memory…and even time?

What happens when one decides to make a parody of a long-established and beloved mockumentary by turning it even further on its head into a full-blown musical comedy? If you’re the famously industrious writing team of Bob and Tobly McSmith (co-creators of 10 musical parodies of popular TV series in 15 years) and now featuring Assaf Gleizner music and orchestrations, what happens is you’ve got another major hit on your hands!

When a Jewish family of parents and grown up children gather for a vacation together in the Caribbean resort in Turks and Caicos, the beautiful sunny skies soon change into a dark, wet and windy storm that is escalating into a hurricane.

The setting is the principle scene of playwright S. Asher Gelman’s two act drama “The Zionists: A Family Storm”, a Miami New Drama world premiere production that is running now through May 10 at Colony Theatre in Miami Beach.

As a new play making its East Coast premiere in Island City Stage’s current can’t-miss production, Everything Beautiful Happens At Night isn’t a piece that I went into with any real knowledge or notions about. And it’s an unusual compliment to the show that the first thing that I have to say about it is that this Sunday’s matinee confidently disproved its own otherwise striking title.