Director Michael Leeds and an artful cast deliver a richer take on a Neil Simon classic.

Robert Caisley’s new play focuses on battling, self-absorbed twins.

Playwright Robert Caisley concocts a witty family feud in ‘Winter,’ which gets its New Theatre world premiere this weekend. Annemaria Rajala and Scott Douglas Wilson (center) play fraternal twins who have grave problems with their late mother’s assistant as they’re trying to arrange the funeral service. Barbara Sloan (left) and Nicole Quintana (right) are also featured in the play, which runs through Feb. 19 at the Roxy Performing Arts Center, 1645 SW 107th Ave., Miami. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday (additional 5:30 p.m. shows Feb. 12 and Feb. 19). Tickets are $40 ($35 Thursday and Sunday evenings, $15 student rush tickets). Call 305-443-5909 or visit www.new-theatre.org.

Life after dark links the theater offerings of the free lineup at the Arsht Center.

In Donald Margulies’ ‘Brooklyn Boy,’ Avi Hoffman (seated at center) plays a suddenly famous novelist whose life is upended. Also featured in the cast of this inaugural show from Parade Productions are (from left) Sy Fish, Candace Caplin, Ryan Didato, Blaze Powers, Michael Gioia and Jacqueline Laggy. The moving comedy opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday at The Studio at Mizner Park, 201 Plaza Real, Second Floor, Boca Raton. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Feb. 12. Tickets are $30. For info, call 561-291-9678 or visit www.paradeproductions.org.

The musical satire in west Boca Raton takes on corporate greed, politics and theater itself.

Actors’ Playhouse crafts a production that belongs among the finest in its long history.

An award-winning solo show at the Arsht reflects life in multicultural Miami.

A wife and mother struggles with bipolar disorder in the hotly anticipated Next to Normal, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical opening this weekend at Actors’ Playhouse. Jodie Langel plays the mom, Eddy Rioseco her son in the haunting, thrilling rock musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Performances at Actors’ Playhouse, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, are at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday (additional matinee this Wednesday only), through Feb. 12. Tickets are $48 Friday-Saturday, $40 other shows (10 percent senior discount and $15 student rush tickets except Saturday-Sunday). For information, call 305-444-9293 or visit www.actorsplayhouse.org.

The Peanuts gang resurfaces in a production staged by original director Arthur Whitelaw.

The Promethean Theatre’s version of a Tony-winning Broadway revival fails to take off.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre scores 25 nominations for South Florida’s top stage honor.

Celebrity actresses bring the Ephron sisters’ poignant, funny play to life.

The best of the jukebox musicals brings the Four Seasons’ story back to the Broward Center.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical illuminates the highs and lows of manic depression.

Kristopher Diaz’s play at the Caldwell skewers both wrestling and political stereotyping.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s revival features a strong cast of quadruple-threat actors.

GableStage crafts a hit from Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play with the unprintable title.

Laura Turnbull shines in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ revival of a Pulitzer-winning play.

Fort Lauderdale’s Infinite Abyss twists a fairy-tale into a raunchy, messy parody.

Florida Stage went bankrupt, the Coconut Grove Playhouse is still closed, and several companies moved to new quarters.

Michael McKeever plays a wry-but-merry elf in Zoetic Stage’s gleefully irreverent show.

<span class="italic">Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol</span> takes Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic and considers it from another perspective. Like Stephen King’s hefty new novel <span class="italic">11/22/63</span>, Tom Mula’s one-man play takes something familiar (for King, John F. Kennedy’s assassination; for Mula, Dickens’ story of a redeemed Ebenezer Scrooge) and comes at it from fresh directions. So while the work is resonant and easy to grasp, it’s never boring.

Two solo shows offer fresh views of the Christmas spirit

New Theatre launches its new space with a fact-inspired world premiere about Twain and Shaw.

A Colombian actor-director reinterprets a German tragedy, with an assist from the music of Tom Waits.

The Coral Gables company is moving to Miami, partnering with a thriving kids’ arts organization.

Thinking Cap Theatre’s world premiere doesn’t take down the genre it explores.

Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Lobby Hero’ was first staged in South Florida a decade ago, but the play’s stew of pithy comedy and moral dilemmas hasn’t aged one bit. In a crisp new Alliance Theatre lab production, Mark Della Ventura expertly a chatty apartment building security guard stuck on the overnight shift, a guy with constantly shifting life plans and way too much time on his hands. Della Ventura’s costars — David Sirois, Mcley Lafrance and Anne Chamberlain — are just as good. Catch this terrific production through Nov. 27 at the Main Street Playhouse, 6766 Main St., Miami Lakes. Performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, 5 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $25 ($15 for seniors, $10 for students). Call 305-259-0418 or visit www.thealliancetheatrelab.com.

A plucky Belle and goofy Beast charm as the Disney stage classic returns to South Florida.