The area near Valencia, Spain is rich in wine heritage. For over 2,500 years wines have been made. Due to the overpowering grape of Boba it has turned this region into a wine area that wine lovers appreciate.

In award winner Tony Padilla's latest comedy “Lovesport”, now performing on the Pearl McManus Theatre stage at the Palm Springs Woman’s Club, Padilla takes a look at gay marriage from the point of view of one couple who took the marriage plunge and one couple that didn’t.

Spill makes clear its theatrical origins in the first minutes. The wife of one of the men killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowup is being interviewed. Slowly characters appear on stage and speak in bits and pieces about the events she describes. The cacophonous chorus crescendos and then bursts into flames.

At some two hours and forty five minutes Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 at Chicago's Theatre Wit is a tad too long. But the real time tedium replicates the point of this play which reveals how a play takes its final form through a technical rehearsal. Equity rules limit actors to working for twelve hours with a two hour break for dinner. If you see a lot of theatre this may be a fascinating experience. If not , those looking for an evening of casual entertainment, then caveat emptor.

With thousands of Roses on the market and with spring in the air, isn't it time to find a fitting Rose for summer and year round entertaining? I have.

"Something Rotten!," the Broadway hit, is on tour with a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

The enchantments of a Kneehigh Production directed by Emma Rice are so various, unusual and satisfying that we suggest you high tail it to Dumbo and catch the show.

The morality play, inspired by Hogarth, was turned into an overlong, prolix opera by Stravinsky and his collaborators W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. An attractive young cast does its best but can barely bring this dud to life. Special shout-outs to set and costume designers who made the production hip and racy.

Lauren Yee wins award for Emerging Female Playwrights. ATCA/ Primus Foundation recognizes playwright for her use of language. Yee was selected from 26 applicants by critics.

Actors triumphantly illustrate and perform in stage version of award-winning Italian film. Chalk up another success to South Florida's Miami New Drama company.

The play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, is 105 minutes of fast-paced Brechtian dialogue and gangland-style murders. It is a brutal and not always subtle satire laced with literary and dramatic references, and performed in a highly physical way.

What qualities would you guess are incubators of a talent like Robert LePage's? His Dad was a cab driver. He shared a room with two sisters when his grandmother moved into the already crowded apartment to die with Alzheimer's. Memory obsesses LePage. He struggles to memorize "Speak White", a radical poem which details great class divides. Yet this is LePage and you often find yourself smiling and even laughing out loud as his art takes over his pain.

“Disgraced”, staged and insightfully directed by Joanne Gordon, at CV REP, first premiered in 2011 in Chicago, then transferred to New York’s Lincoln Center, then on to Broadway capturing a Pulitzer Prize for Akhtar. The play was the most produced play in America in 2015.

Joe Rosen, n crucial patron of the arts in New York City, often introduces the work of a composer who should be better known, James Cohn. Like Bartok and Dvorak, Cohn has plucked melodies from America’s folk music, adding distinctly modern disharmony, and yet capturing the rhythms, for instance, of the West.

Cast Shines in Electric Production of "Big River." Ft. Lauderdale Theater Company is Performing "Huck Finn" Stage Adaptation Through April 2. This South Florida production of "Big River" is a winning combination of strong singing and acting

“Ah, Wilderness”, O’Neill’s paean to the youth he never experienced, is a sweet, nostalgic, coming of age comedy that had the good fortune to land in the capable and caring hands of director Steven Robman, and a cast of exceptional performers.

Mark Morris does not leave not-well-enough alone. He enlivens Benjamin Britten's Curlew River with instruments on stage as they would be in the Noh drama on which this opera is based. He places the singers in the pit for Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. On stage, dancers enact the roles to entrance and also enhance the music. Morris conducts, directs, conceives and pleases along the way.

On a dark and stormy night when many shows were cancelled in New York, young artists who had been prize winners in competitions held by the almost seventy-year-old Concert Artists Guild, performed in the jewel like concert hall, Weill Recital Hall. Their performances radiated warmth and style.

The one-man-play by and starring Geoff Sobelle is about demented hoarding. Not surptrisinglty it appealed to Ed Rubin, a known packrat, who writes that "I also thought about my 82 boxes in storage and all of the hundreds of objects that inhabit every shelf, table top, and drawer in my apartment, each one harboring past memories that I have collected over the years."

Two-time Tony Award-nominee Jayne Atkinson and Cote de Pablo will appear in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House; Tony Award-nominee Micah Stock will appear in Jason Kim’s The Model American and Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow; Christopher Livingston, LeRoy McClain and Joniece Abbott-Pratt will perform in Harrison David Rivers’ Where Storms are Born; and Rebecca Henderson will perform in Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow.

In the current North Coast Repertory Theatre production Tony Kushner translates and adapts 17th century French playwright Pierre Corneille’s “L’IIlusion Comique” into a delicious and superbly acted French soufflé of a comedy/farce called “The Illusion”.

John Adams has close ties to the New York Philharmonic. He was in David Gefffen Hall to hear two works performed. In Absolute Jest a quartet formed by the principal performers of the Philharmonic was embedded, an alien force in their own home.

Kirk Jackson has succinctly directed a production of The Book Club by Karen Zacarias.

The Irish Repertory Theatre knows how to produce terrific plays with stunning actors and telling sets, costumes and lights. The Emperor Jones returns with a new Brutus Jones, Obi Abili. It is a smashing success.

Kings & Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago sets 16 working vintage pinball machines in several galleries with about 30 pieces of art by the pioneers of 1960s and ‘70s Chicago Imagists: Ed Paschke, Karl Wirsum, Suellen Rocca, Ed Flood, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Christine Ramberg, Roger Brown and Ray Yoshida. The connection, of course, is that the artists were influenced in childhood and adolescence by the art of pinball machines and comic books.