"We're not doing safe stuff, we're taking risks," says Deborah Sherman, founder-director of the region's current Cinderella theater company.

More importantly, she adds The Promethean Theatre is headed into its fifth season and "We didn't make it by not taking major risks.

"When we go, we're going to go big or we're going to go home."

Thus far, the Promethean - TPT for short - has managed to avoid that kind of finality. They've won on most counts and when they've lost, they've managed to recover. In the process, they've added what she calls a viable option to resident theater in Broward.

And now, Sherman and company are offering a truly engaging as well as eclectic collection of plays for the 2008-09 season. The centerpiece will be the March 6-23 regional premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's "hilarious and heartrending" play "Kimberly Akimbo," about a dysfunctional couple with a teenage daughter who has a rare condition that makes her body age like lightning.

The show was commissioned by California's South Coast Repertory and arrived off-Broadway via the Manhattan Theatre Club. Until now, this curious and tender story was something outside the ambition of South Florida theaters.

The season will open with "Still the River Runs" Oct. 17-Nov. 2, a bittersweet drama set in central Florida about estranged brothers reunited to bury their grandfather. Ken Clement stars in the title role of "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" Dec. 12-21, a backstage riff on Scrooge's version that's already been highlighted on National Public Radio. Following "Akimbo" in March will be "Cannibal: The Musical" in the summer of 2009 in NSU's larger black box space. That's a stage version of Trey Parker's 1995 indie film about a legendary incident in the Rocky Mountains in the 1870s.

Information on the company and its season is online at the TPT wehttp://www.theprometheantheatre.orgbsite at theprometheantheatre.org or by calling 786-317-7580.

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