The new season of theatrical plays and adaptations has finally arrived. Local performing arts theaters have assembled a roster of productions, adaptations and premieres that audiences won’t want to miss. The Arsht Center presents “Historia de un jabalí (O algo de Ricardo III)” on Sept. 11. Fo llowing its premiere in Chile, one of the most emblematic pieces of the 2026 International Teatro a Mil Festival arrives in Miami. The threeday performance follows two actors who take on the challenge of portraying Richard III, the ruthless monarch from Shakespeare’s tragedy. After years in supporting roles, they believe they finally deserve their moment in the spotlight. As part of the 40th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, Pundonor comes to the Arsht Center for a threeday run beginning Sept. 18. The play follows university professor Claudia Pérez Espinosa as she returns to the classroom after several months of leave. Her lecture is repeatedly interrupted by her fragile emotional state. As she attempts to explain her behavior, her growing desperation makes her increasingly unpredictable and vulnerable. The Teatro de La Plaza’s Hamlet, which has toured Europe and Latin America, arrives at the Arsht Center on Sept. 24. A group of actors with Down syndrome take the stage to share their hopes and frustrations through a free adaptation of Hamlet. The play intertwines Shakespeare’s text with the performers’ own lives, beginning with the timeless question of existence. The season opener, God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, runs Nov. 3-22 at the Arsht Center. The play centers on two sets of welltodo parents who meet in a Brooklyn apartment to discuss a playground fight between their 11yearold sons – one of whom struck the other with a stick, knocking out two teeth. The Florida Grand Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor takes the Arsht Center stage on Nov. 14. The Gaetano Donizetti tragedy follows Lucia, trapped between her brother’s political ambitions and a love forbidden by a family feud. She secretly pledges herself to Edgardo, her family’s sworn enemy. The 40th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami continues at the Westchester Cultural Arts Center at 7930 SW 40th St., with Odd Man Out, an immersive sensory experience that awakens the imagination. Audiences take a flight like no other – in complete darkness aboard Pitch Black Airlines. The Sept. 17 performance tells the story of a blind musician whose life takes him from Buenos Aires to New York City. On Oct. 3, Hambre, a comedy inspired by the poetry and picaresque literature of Spain’s Golden Age, comes to the Westchester Cultural Arts Center. Drawing from works such as La Pícara Justina, Lazarillo de Tormes, Rinconete y Cortadillo, Don Quixote, and poems by Lope de Vega, Quevedo and Góngora, the play explores — with wit and humor – physical and spiritual hunger, the power of language and the resilience of those living on society’s margins. Running Oct. 6-22, The Wizard of Oz takes the stage at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. After a tornado whisks her to the magical land of Oz, Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale teams up with a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodsman and a Cowardly Lion to evade the Wicked Witch of the West and find the Wizard who can send her home. Broadway’s Gothic musical thriller Jekyll Hyde ignites the Actors’ Playhouse stage Oct. 7-Nov. 1. Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, the musical follows Dr. Henry Jekyll as he risks everything to separate good and evil in mankind – only to unleash a terrifying and uncontrollable alter ego. The Weather Girl by Brian Watkins makes its debut at GableStage at 1200 Anastasia Ave. from Sept. 25 to Oct. 18. Ella Olesen stars as a California weather reporter struggling to deliver forecasts about a climatestricken planet with unwavering optimism. True Art by Jessica Provenz comes to GableStage from Nov. 20 to Dec. 20. This suspenseful comedy follows a wideeyed art history major who lands a job at a prominent museum, where she is pulled into a fastmoving game of ambition, treachery and lies. Now in its 10th anniversary season, Miami New Drama premieres Gandhi and the Jew beginning Nov. 4 at the Colony Theatre at 1040 Lincoln Road. The company’s fifth collaboration with playwright Harley Elias – and its third commissioned premiere under the Jewish Play Initiative – the play uncovers the unlikely and profound bond between Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach, a Jewish architect shaped by exile and persecution. The post Theater season to offer a broad array of plays in Miami appeared first on Miami Today. ...read more read less