Experience hometown thrills in the 2025-26 Theater Up Close season featuring five new-to-Miami productions. With powerful storytelling and captivating performances, Zoetic Stage and City Theatre present stories about family, friendship and faith. Find the heartbeat of the South Florida theater scene in the Carnival Studio Theater, where every seat feels like the front row.
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The Mother
Presented by Zoetic Stage and Adrienne Arsht Center
By Florian Zeller
Translated by Christopher Hampton
November 6-23, 2025
Anne’s adult children are off living their own lives, and her husband is busy with his career. So where does that leave Anne, who has built her identity around creating a family and being a good mother? On the night before her husband is set to leave on a business trip, her son comes home to sleep in his old room. Or does he? It’s impossible to know for certain in this riveting play about a woman whose inner life is constantly shifting.
The Inheritance, Part 1
Presented by Zoetic Stage and Adrienne Arsht Center
By Matthew López
January 8-25, 2026
The most honored American play in a generation won “Best Play” awards in London and New York, including Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards. The play reimagines E. M. Forster’s Howards End as “a wry portrait of New York’s gay community,” with gay men from different generations standing in for Forster’s straight people from different classes.
How to Break in a Glove
Presented by City Theatre and Adrienne Arsht Center
By Chris Anthony Ferrer
February 5-22, 2026
In 1999 Miami, an 11-year-old boy clings to the fractured pieces of his Cuban-American family: an iron-willed grandfather, a devoted but weary grandmother, a father fighting for relevance and a mother torn between rebellion and responsibility. When a night of crisis unearths buried tensions, love and survival collide in a battle for connection, legacy and the desperate need to belong. As with a new baseball glove, they must break in their bonds, stretching, softening and learning to hold on before it’s too late.
Merrily We Roll Along
Presented by Adrienne Arsht Center and Zoetic Stage
By Stephen Sondheim & George Furth
March 12 - April 5, 2026
Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of Frank Shepard, a famous songwriter and film producer, and his two closest friends. Moving backward across 20 years, the show details Frank’s rise from penniless, dreamy-eyed composer to wealthy, film-producing sellout and what he lost to get there.
Moses
Presented by Zoetic Stage and Adrienne Arsht Center
By Michele Lowe
April 30 - May 17, 2026
One night in the Bronx, Moses loses everyone and everything he loves. Filled with remorse, he begs God, “You forget about me, and I'll forget about you?” But God has other plans for Moses. This is a one-person play about love, faith and going it alone.
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