When She had WINGS at FAU’ Theatre Lab

Following 36 critically acclaimed productions and 20 Carbonell Awards, the 2017/18 lineup features four  plays from Miami’s own Zoetic Stage—including “Best Musical” Tony Award winner Fun Home—and the New York Times “Critics’ Pick” Off-Broadway hit, Small Mouth Sounds by Drama Desk Award winner Bess Wohl. This Season of Theater Up Close will include: Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Stuart Meltzer November … +

Area Stage Company in Coral Gables presents The Ballad of Janis Matthews and the Dodo Scouts, a world premiere musical written, directed, and designed by ASC’s own Giancarlo Rodaz, with music by Rachel Dean. This folk rock, coming-of-age musical story follows Janis Matthews, a young girl living in 1960’s Colorado. During the course of a summer, she is set on a rollicking … +

The Great Leap is acclaimed Bay Area playwright Lauren Yee’s comedic drama about a swaggering American basketball coach who brings his university team to Beijing for a 1989 exhibition game against a Chinese former protégé determined to prove himself. Their competition is upended by an ambitious Chinese-American high school star and the tragedy of the Tiananmen Square protests. Yee’s story of political … +

A world-premiere musical about jazz legend and singular American icon Louis Armstrong, with songs recorded and made popular by Armstrong, and original book by Aurin Squire, the multi-talented Opalocka-raised playwright and TV writer (This is Us, The Good Fight), and co-author of last season’s hit Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy.) A Wonderful World, traces Armstrong’s odyssey, the musical genre he helped define, … +

To save a life, would you sell your soul?Shakespeare’s searing drama exposes the dark heart of the moral elite and the courage of those who fight hypocrisy.A performance that’s selling out fast, with an age appropriateness of high school and up, with only 2 performances! By: William ShakespeareDirected By: Michael Yawney

By William Shakespeare Directed by Jason King Jones Banished from the only home she’s ever known, Rosalind escapes to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia and their fool Touchstone. While disguised as a man, Rosalind meets fellow outcasts in the forest, including the dashing and lovesick Orlando. Determined to woo him, Rosalind persuades Orlando in her male disguise to win … +