Alhambra Theatre & Dining’s production of Come From Away is a moving, exhilarating reminder of the power of community in the face of tragedy. Now, even 24 years after the events of Sept. 11, the show still resonates with urgency and compassion, and this cast brings it to life with both precision and heart.

With a cast featuring many of Jacksonville’s brightest stars and Tony Award winner Cady Huffman, Theatre Jacksonville’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum In Concert lights up the Florida Theatre.

In this episode of The JaxPlays Green Room, Ray Hollister talks with playwright Sean Daniels about his semi-autobiographical play The White Chip, which comes to Players by the Sea August 22–31. Daniels reflects on how Jacksonville played a pivotal role in his own sobriety, the people and science that helped shape his recovery, and how he balances humor and vulnerability when telling such a personal story.

Actors and theatre companies from across Northeast Florida are preparing for the Fourth Annual First Coast Unified Auditions, set for Saturday, July 19 at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine.

If you think you know Willy Wonka, think again. At Alhambra Theatre & Dining, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a wild, whimsical ride that delivers the spectacle and charm you’d expect from Roald Dahl’s classic, but with its own fresh spin. Director Shain Stroff’s artistry shines in his leadership, guiding a team of creative minds that transforms Roald Dahl’s classic into a full-blown theatrical treat that is heartfelt, hilarious and delightfully off-kilter.

The 5 & Dime’s, The Baltimore Waltz opens with Kristen Walsh as Anna, an elementary school teacher blindsided by a devastating diagnosis that she is terminally ill. Instead of resignation, Anna decides she will seize every pleasure Europe has to offer. Her plan is to embrace life in the most hedonistic way possible, abandoning her old rules and letting desire set the itinerary. What unfolds is not a straightforward journey but a wild, hallucinatory romp: whimsical, raunchy and bursting with the kind of logic found only in dreams.