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2000 Stories by Mia Leonin

• Found at Sea

  published December 28, 2000

  When American poet Adrienne Rich wrote, "The personal is political," she reminded us that political acts cannot be separated from the... More >>

• Scenes from the Edge

  published December 21, 2000

  The word juggernaut means "an overpowering force," and appropriately the artistic director of Juggerknot Theatre Company, Tanya... More >>

• The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

  published December 14, 2000

  In a starkly furnished Paris apartment, spectator Marc (Judd Hirsch) circles a white canvas with the wary step of a big-game hunter while Serge... More >>

• TV Dinner

  published December 7, 2000

  Works that penetrate the façade of normalcy in marriage are nothing new to American theater audiences. In the 1938 classic Our Town,... More >>

• Reality Sort of Bites

  published November 30, 2000

  Some would say it's a guy thing: crushed cans of Schlitz strewn across the floor of a Motel 6 room, belching as an alternative to conversation,... More >>

• Viva the Evolution!

  published November 30, 2000

  To create a real change we must strive not for revolution, but for evolution," says painter Rafael Lopez Ramos, who looks to Asian mystics for... More >>

• "Moms" Said Knock You Out

  published November 23, 2000

  Adapted for the stage by TG Cooper, the late founder of the M Ensemble Company, Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Live! is a tribute to the... More >>

• Rap Exchange

  published November 23, 2000

  Asked how he feels about his first trip to the United States, 24-year-old Yotuel of the Paris-based Cuban hip-hop group Orishas says it will be... More >>

• A Cuban Son Comes Home

  published November 16, 2000

  Nilo Cruz's A Park in Our House is a record of the human spirit when the human body exists in a totalitarian state and survives on a... More >>

• The Jig of Life

  published November 9, 2000

  In a dingy sixth-floor room, two lonely souls join hands, seeking an escape from their solitude and isolation through the medium of dance. They... More >>

• Diva Unplugged

  published November 2, 2000

  Art is domination. It's making people think for one moment in time, there's only one art, one voice, and that's yours,” declares opera star Mari... More >>

• Death Warmed Over

  published October 26, 2000

  We enjoy a classic whodunit in the same way we enjoy Christmas carolers: with a certain amused detachment. We are not seeking new insight into the... More >>

• Stage Fright

  published October 19, 2000

  When you walk into the Miami Light Project's theater space, you will find yourself momentarily onstage. The space is set up so the stage has its... More >>

• Wedding Belles

  published October 12, 2000

  Five Southern women, some hard liquor, and about two and a half bolts of lilac-color taffeta. If we threw in Julia Roberts and a walk-on by Tommy... More >>

• Staid in Japan

  published October 5, 2000

  Junior officers quickly become disoriented in the Orient,” navy wife Julia Anderson warns newly arrived officer “Sparky” Watts in A.R. Gurne... More >>

• New Roots to Travel

  published September 28, 2000

  The literary canon is spinning, the hyphen that binds so-called multicultural fiction -- Asian-American, Hispanic-American, African-American... More >>

• We Don't Aim to Please, Part 2

  published September 21, 2000

  The logistic, aesthetic, and emotional challenges of keeping a small arts organization afloat would flummox the savviest CEO. Why do artistic... More >>

• We Don't Aim to Please

  published September 14, 2000

  Live theater has never been a big draw in South Florida, an area not usually recognized as a center for first-class theatrical performances.... More >>

• The Revolution Will Be Staged

  published September 7, 2000

  You could say Shirley Richardson has a theatrical heritage. Growing up in Miami in the Fifties and Sixties, her entire family worked for the... More >>

• Presidential Follies

  published August 31, 2000

  Paper elephants and donkeys; red, white, and blue banners; and two video screens -- one posted in each of the far corners of the space -- set the... More >>

• Not Waving but Drowning

  published August 24, 2000

  I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. -- Stevie Smith In Douglas Carter Beane's... More >>

• Natural Born Theater

  published August 17, 2000

  It's no myth that one of the first constitutional rights U.S. settlers fought for after freedom of speech, was the right to bear arms. Americans... More >>

• All the World's a Dance

  published August 10, 2000

  The forms of entertainment competing with live theater seem to grow every year, from IMAXes to e-books to women's basketball. And now there's even... More >>

• Short and Sweet

  published August 3, 2000

  As the house lights go up at the end of Brief Encounters, the Lake Worth Playhouse's second annual one-act festival, the cast shuffles... More >>

• The Unbearable Bardness of Being

  published July 27, 2000

  Remember that instantly evaporating pop hit from the early Eighties, “Video Killed the Radio Star”? If ever there were a comparable anthem for t... More >>