"Perfect Arrangement" starts off like a zany sitcom from the 1950s. But as the comedy plays out, things become less "I Love Lucy" and more "Dragnet," if that show were about hunting undesirables in the [...]

Island City Stage Challenges With Gripping Octopus By Michelle F. Solomon Steve Yockey may be a modern day version of Jean Paul Sartre. Sartre? What does that mean? Yockey’s play Octopus gets quite an imaginative [...]

Fresh off the accolades for its world premiere of Michael McKeever’s Daniel’s Husband — which earned best production, best new work and best actor honors at this year’s Carbonell Awards — Island City Stage tackles another searing drama this [...]

When Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement bowed in 2013, the satirical indictment of homophobia, hypocrisy and a half-dozen other themes was a witty and insightful commentary. In the context of last week’s election, Island City Stage’s production is [...]

The First Step (Diary of a Sex Addict), which makes the rounds of video porn parlors, urinals, gay baths and sessions of a self-help group, sounds like the premise for a Saturday Night Live skit. [...]

WILTON MANORS, Fla. -- Sometimes, before you’re able to confront a problem, you must admit the problem exists. It can be easier said than done. That is what writer/director Michael Leeds conveys in his honest, [...]