Astrid Hadad: Ludica Mujer Impudica: She's lude, she's crude, she's a bawdy one-woman show, and she's hitting Miami straight from Mexico City. Astrid Hadad delivers rumba, rock, jazz, and cabaret through the voice of a Mexican diva with a soulful ranchera voice. Her show, Ludica Mujer Impudica — meaning joy-loving, shameless woman — is the work of a swift social and political satirist. Hadad's mujer impudica sings out in a vernacular representative of what she calls "the Mexican soul and the universal soul." Picture Frida Kahlo wielding a shotgun and spitting out a social message you can't help but laugh at — replete with over-the-top costumery. It's like camp camping out on the side of an urban road, lighting a candle for the Virgin, and downing a bottle of tequila. — Vanessa Garcia October 20 and 21 at 8:30 p.m. Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach. General admission is $25; students/seniors $20. Purchase tickets online at www.tigertail.org or by phone at 305-545-8546.
Red Light Winter: Amsterdam ... a city of excess. Marijuana, spacecakes, magic mushrooms — and did I mention a plethora of prostitutes? The city is a veritable smorgasbord of sex and drugs, so, of course, what young guy in his right mind wouldn't want to travel to this uninhibited vacation destination? In Adam Rapp's 2005 drama, a nerdy playwright suffering from writer's block is first seen trying to hang himself with his belt. Not the best way to spend a holiday. His suicide attempt is averted, however, by an unexpected friend and a romantic connection. Playwright Rapp is not content to end his plays on a hopeful note, and delivers a finale that is sexually explosive and completely unforeseen. — Elias Stimac Through October 22. Mosaic Theatre, American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation, 954-577-8243; www.mosaictheatre.com.
