Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. Next week marks the opening of The Doctor Is In!, C. David Frankel’s adaptation of Moliere’s 17th century French farce, The Doctor in Spite of Himself .
Written centuries apart, both poke fun at the gullible patients who swallow anything the good doctor shoves down their throats (useless pills and wild diagnoses included). This kick-off to TheatreUSF’s season promises a “contemporary American never-never land where anything can happen – including the transformation of a simple fishing-camp owner into a miraculous physician capable of curing…well, anything.” (Pictured: Nathan Juliano and Victoria Rae Sook in The Doctor Is In!) Oct. 1-11, 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., USF College of Visual and Performing Arts Theatre II, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, $12 in advance, $15 day of show; students and seniors $8 in advance, $10 day of show, arts.usf.edu. – Franki Weddington
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2009.