When he announced Florida Studio Theatre’s 2025-26 season, Producing Artistic Director Richard Hopkins said he was focusing on shows that would help bring people together through stories about humanity and commonality.

The season’s second production, “A Tailor Near Me,” certainly fits that description. It’s a light-hearted, heartwarming and engaging comedy written by Michael Tucker, who is probably best known for playing attorney Stuart Markowitz on the hit NBC legal drama “L.A. Law.”

If you remember that series, you can actually picture Tucker playing the role of Sam, a writer who visits a tailor to have a long-neglected suit let out. David Cantor plays Sam in the FST production, playing a bit of the straight man to the more comical Paul Nicholas the tailor Alfredo, an Argentinian Jew who has a wonderfully sarcastic, world-weary, seen-it-all attitude.

Alfred urges Sam to scrap his plans to travel to Italy to buy a new suit and let him make it, thus beginning regular visits to the tailor shop and the development of a sort-of friendship that Sam hopes to extend with their spouses. It is fun to watch them interact each time Sam shows up.

I think I was expecting something deeper to develop or some greater truths to be revealed. That doesn't happen, but that's just fine because as directed by Kate Alexander (and a highly-detailed set by Isabel A. & Moriah Curley-Clay), "A Tailor Near Me" provides just enough to make for a fun evening with some good, hearty laughs.

“A Tailor Near Me” runs through Feb. 15 in FST’s Keating Theatre. floridastudiotheatre.org

Photos by Sorcha Augustine