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2003 Stories by Mia Leonin

• Mixed Movement

  published December 4, 2003

  Out of the cage came Eve, escaping, escaping. She was clothed in her skin like the sun and her ankles were not for... More >>

• Something Queer in the Florida Straits

  published November 27, 2003

  The beginning of Bill Yule and Barry Ball's The Boys of Mariel is evocative. Pedro (played by Ricky J. Martinez), a dancer who's... More >>

• Top of the World

  published November 27, 2003

  Two years ago when vocalist Lila Downs performed for 430 people at ArtSouth Sanctuary in Homestead, who could have guessed that she'd soon be... More >>

• The Infinite Uterus

  published October 30, 2003

  The Design District's striking yet desolate Buena Vista building is the perfect site for Cuban director and playwright Victor Varela's first... More >>

• Show Some Love

  published October 30, 2003

  When it comes to defining love (romantic, brotherly, erotic, platonic), no one has come up with a term to describe the complex emotions that arise... More >>

• The Song is You

  published October 23, 2003

  While instruments may vary from culture to culture, the human voice is music's common denominator. It's the only instrument that we carry within... More >>

• Staging La Lupe

  published October 2, 2003

  One-woman shows that resurrect the spirits of female icons like Janice Joplin and Billie Holiday rely on the communal memory of the public and the... More >>

• Existential Kitty

  published July 24, 2003

  An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. -- Henry Miller At first glance it would be easy to think the most recent production... More >>

• Ninety Miles and Counting

  published July 24, 2003

  "I went out to protest the traitors to the Revolution. Little did I know I was about to become one of them." Juan Carlos Zaldivar's words... More >>

• What's Love Got to Do with It?

  published July 17, 2003

  Bar trivia: What Miami watering hole boasts a bed center stage instead of a band? Forget the prissy canopies of South Beach. We're talking stained... More >>

• Moving On

  published July 3, 2003

  It's fitting that the final play of Teatro Abanico's 2002-2003 season is about endings. El Celador del Desierto (The Guardian of the... More >>

• Wings of Desire

  published June 26, 2003

  A regular feature of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival, which is now in its eighteenth year, Miami-Dade Community College's... More >>

• Imagine Nations

  published June 5, 2003

  Just think: the country's largest Hispanic theater festival existing in a state that cuts major funding for the arts in one fell swoop. Seven... More >>

• Our Town?

  published May 15, 2003

  A spotlight shines on the darkened stage alternately illuminating five characters: Arlin Jasper, Dodie and Ed MacDonald, Tom Hawkins, and Denny... More >>

• Dramatic Descarga

  published May 8, 2003

  Actor, writer, and director Larry Villanueva calls his play Allá Afuera Hay Fresco "una descarga." The term... More >>

• New Oyster Cult

  published May 1, 2003

  "What's the best performance you've seen in the last five years?" asked Michelle Heffner Hayes of her creative colleagues at a national conference... More >>

• Cole Porter En Pointe

  published April 17, 2003

  There's never been a shortage of Cole Porter (1891-1964) tunes on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional shows around the country, but... More >>

• Teatro Bicultural

  published April 3, 2003

  Lili Renteria believes the stage doesn't exist just to present theater. The stage exists to present possibilities. Hence the choice of an elegant... More >>

• Luna Stage

  published March 13, 2003

  Could Dylan Thomas, boisterous Welsh poet and advocate of public readings, have predicted today's open-mike nights? Siamese twins reciting rhymed... More >>

• Modern Movement

  published February 27, 2003

  With a dance department that offers training in forms as diverse as tap and vodou, one can expect a performance titled FIU Dance: Celebrates... More >>

• Latin Quarter

  published January 9, 2003

  Although a Spanish-language version of playwright Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot helped inaugurate Little Havana's new... More >>