As has been the case with past Area Stage productions of the family musicals Annie, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, once again Area Stage Artistic Director Giancarlo Rodaz has immersed the audience into the stage in the company’s unique presentation of Oliver!, running now through February 25 at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.

The middle child is often considered the quiet one, and nothing special in the family.  Slow Burn Theatre Company’s mid-season blockbuster hit SISTER ACT – which comes on the heels of earning a Carbonell for programming and a record-breaking season – has turned “middle malaise” upside down by managing, once again, to make their exhilarated audiences feel this is their “best show ever!” Till they see the next one, of course. 

The Cancellation of Lauren Fein by Christopher Demos-Brown. A world premiere that on the surface, the title alone tells you what the play will be about – for those up to date on cancel culture and everything around it. There is no doubt that this topic is something that should be explored, a complicated subject that deserves to be talked about, dissected, and analyzed because it is a difficult one to understand and come to terms with. Christopher Demos-Brown has started an important conversation with this play… but maybe this wasn’t the way to go about it.

Ana Nogueira’s most recently celebrated dramedy, with songs, WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE, is a true New York original. With a plotline that shifts dramatically among the trials of fanatic Broadway autograph seekers, their deep passion for musical theater, the power and limits of close friendship, the search for love in unexpected places, and perhaps underlying it all, the struggles of young actors everywhere – but especially those trying to make it in the Big Apple.

Director Shari Upbin and producer Hy Juter teamed up for the fourth time in creating “To Life 4”, the fourth in the ‘To Life’ musical cabaret series that celebrates Jewish composers and singers from the 20th century that is running now through February 4 at the Willow Theater in Boca Raton.

Playwright David Rosenberg’s drama “Wicked Son”, which had its world premiere on January 12 and is running through January 29 at Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, centers on the tensions of a Jewish family over the war between Israel and Palestinian terrorists.

Can young newlyweds survive five flights of stairs and no heat in a frigid New York City winter? What if they also have opposing personalities and ideas on how to enjoy life … outside of the bedroom? 

The word “Boeing” is a well-known trademark — the nameplate of a famous airplane manufacturer known throughout the world, particularly for its “7”-class aircraft designations — 707, 737, 747 and so on.  (It’s also renowned for doors falling off in mid-flight, but that’s another issue).