MAINSTAGES

INFERNA by Joanna Castle Miller

A World Premiere

Directed by Margaret M. Ledford

One night, on the mostly empty stage of a theater, a young playwright (Castle Miller) and a male actor who has agreed to assist her, take a deep dive into her childhood - specifically how church activities and school plays both provided “scripts” she faithfully followed each step of the way. Over the course of the evening, through comedic re-enactments, music, and sharing of stories, they begin to unravel and more fully understand the unstated and pervasive lessons learned from the texts passed down to her and that the mentors she adored aren’t who they appeared to be. 

Developed in residency with New York Stage and Film and workshopped through the Valdez Theatre Conference, Inferna, echoes award-winning autobiographical plays like What the Constitution Means to Me and How I Learned to Drive in its explorations of trauma, forgiveness, and the often absurd comedy of being a child.

April 11-26, 2026

Performances Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 3pm

No Saturday matinee on opening (4/4)

By Any Other Name 

Book & Lyrics by Deborah Zoe Laufer

Music & Lyrics by Daniel Green 

A new musical

Directed by Matt Stabile

Double, double, toil and trouble! After four hundred years of Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Three Witches decide to spice up their recipe by throwing nine of the Bard’s characters from other plays into the cauldron - most of them heroines destined for a tragic end. What ensues is a mash-up of epic proportions as characters like Juliet, Ophelia, Rosalind, and more find themselves magically transported to the same forest, where together they grapple with love, loss, identity, and the constraints of gender roles. Is their destiny in the stars or in themselves?

Deborah Zoe Laufer, winner of the 2025 Carbonell Award for Outstanding New Work for her play The Last Yiddish Speaker, returns to Boca - this time with a new musical! During the summer of 2018, Ms. Laufer spent a week in residency at Theatre Lab where she worked with students in the MFA Acting program to develop a short one act, originally written for the O’Neill Center, into a full-length play. A few years later, with the addition of composer & lyricist Daniel Green, a new musical was ready for further development with the Department of Theatre & Dance. This April, a multi-year process comes to a conclusion when this exciting new musical returns home for a full production!

April 17-26, 2026

Performances: Friday, 4/17, 7pm, Saturday, 4/18, 7pm, Sunday, 4/19, 2pm, Special “Industry Night” Tuesday, 4/21, 7pm, Friday, 4/24, 7pm, Saturday, 4/25, 2pm, Sunday, 4/26, 2pm