Theatre

Written by Michael Yawney | Directed by Maha McCain Father Chris is struggling to keep his crumbling parish alive as parishioners defect to a more glamorous church across the boulevard. Enter Angela—a wealthy, eccentric woman who claims to have once experienced Jesus as a literal lover. Hoping to get back into His good graces, she offers to donate—or perhaps invest—in the church. Desperate to stay afloat without compromising his beliefs, Father Chris finds himself entangled in Angela’s sensual spirituality, which stirs up far more than just church funds. As lines blur between salvation and scandal, he must confront his own insecurities, the realities of modern faith, and what it truly means to serve. A daring, laugh-out-loud exploration of power, grace, and just the right amount of holy blasphemy. Coconut Grove Theatre Festival is thrilled to be bringing theatre back to the Grove with a weekend of staged play readings, May 8-11, 2025, at the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove featuring South Florida playwrights, directors, and actors!

Written by Lolita Stewart-White | Directed by Hattie Mae Williams Faced with the threat of removal from the Pork N Beans Public Housing Projects, 14-year-old Liberty City Red and her tight-knit community band together to protect their roots and the place they've always called home. Told through a series of poetic vignettes, this coming-of-age story examines the impact of redlining, displacement, and redevelopment of Miami's historical black neighborhood, Liberty Square. Deeply rooted in rhythm, rich language, and real history, this powerful play-in-verse is a lyrical tribute to the joy, pain, and resilience of a community that refuses to be erased. Coconut Grove Theatre Festival is thrilled to be bringing theatre back to the Grove with a weekend of staged play readings, May 8-11, 2025, at the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove featuring South Florida playwrights, directors, and actors!

 

It’s 1976 and bell bottoms, shag rugs and disco are in all their groovy glory. As the country celebrates its Bicentennial, two very different women search for their own independence. Iconoclast artist Diana (Sara Morsey) looks down on faculty wife Alice (Patti Gardner), but their young daughters’ friendship forces them together. David Auburn’s twice-extended Broadway hit traces each woman’s growing disquiet with the compromises they’ve made, and the transformative power of a friendship at the right time. “Sharply observant... a story of profound connection and awakening disquiet.” – The New York Times Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes (no intermission) Presented by Roz & Charles Stuzin. This divinely intimate portrait of motherhood, ambition and independence is dedicated to Christine Dolen.

Step into the world of Arms Around America by Dan Froot & Company, a powerful and thought-provoking performance that opens a window into the lives of American families navigating their complex relationships with guns. Through a constellation of diverse stories, the show delves into how fear, love, power, identity, and entitlement intersect with gun culture, all set against the backdrop of socio-economic upheaval and cultural tensions. Staged as a live radio theater broadcast, this immersive evening-length performance features four actors voicing dozens of characters amidst a forest of microphones. Dan Froot creates captivating live foley sound effects using an eclectic array of everyday objects, adding an authentic auditory dimension to the storytelling. In a unique twist, eight audience members will join the performers on stage at a kitchen table, providing real-time commentary and becoming part of the dynamic dialogue. Don’t miss an unforgettable evening of performance, reflection, and conversation about the roles guns play in our society—beyond the weapons themselves.

Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. It’s almost in Canada. And it’s not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it almost doesn’t exist. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream.

GableStage and Jessie Wolfson & Dr. Lawrence Kron Present a Miami premiere of APPROPRIATE. Straight from Broadway, this darkly comic American drama by Pulitzer Finalist and Obie Award winner, Jacobs-Jenkins, invites audiences to one helluva family reunion! It’s summer in Arkansas and the cicadas are singing. When the Lafayette family returns to their late patriarch’s home to manage the remains of his estate, things take a turn. When an estranged brother appears late one night and mysterious objects are discovered among the clutter, long-hidden secrets and buried resentments can no longer be contained and the family is forced to face the ghosts of their past. Starring Rachel Burttram (A Doll’s House, Pt. 2) and Mark H. Dold (The Lehman Trilogy). “A brilliant, blistering, outrageous play…”– The New York Times

In The Comeuppance, an off-Broadway hit by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (“one of this country's most original and illuminating writers" according to The New York Times), a self-proclaimed "Multi-Ethnic Reject Group" reconvenes for their 20th high school reunion. Over alcohol and other substances, they try to reconnect who they once were with whom they've become as they reminisce about their teenage selves and reveal how their lives have unfolded since graduation. Brilliantly witty, theatrical and moving, The Comeuppance focuses on millennials and their reckoning with the world they will soon inherit. A New York Times Criticʼs Pick.

Artistic director Stuart Meltzer has a history of presenting fresh, bold interpretations of classics of the musical theater canon, focusing on the intimacy of performance and storytelling. In that tradition, Zoetic Stage will present Fiddler on the Roof, the brainchild of Broadway legends Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince, songwriters Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick and book writer Joseph Stein. Set in the village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters as he tries to protect them and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Fiddler on the Roof's universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion. With iconic and beloved songs such as "Sunrise, Sunset," "If I Were a Rich Man" and "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," Fiddler on the Roof is a story of humor, heart and honesty.

This all-female farce, a Broadway hit with three Tony nominations, is taking charge at the Arsht Center. Get ready to laugh out loud as seven women risk life, liberty and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander in chief out of trouble. A political moment you can finally laugh about.