Sarasota's Asolo Repertory Theatre finds itself centerstage in American theater this week, with positive reviews now in for its new production of Stephen Schwartz's 1978 musical, "Working."

Schwartz adapted his work from Stud Terkel's oral history on the subject, inviting other songwriters to join in. For this production, some of those songs have been updated, and two new ones have been added by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-nominated star and creator of "In The Heights," the musical that leads this year's Tony nominations.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune theater critic Jay Handelman, a good friend, calls the Asolo staging "invigorating" and writes that it "has the power to rejuvenate your appreciation of your own job, or at least make you realize that you don't have it so bad." Click here for the complete review. The show runs through June 8, a four-hour jaunt on I-75 across Alligator Alley and up to Sarasota (shave an hour from the central/northern Palm Beaches, via the Beeline/SR 70). Details are on the Asolo website.

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