“Murder for Two” fulfills the summer mission of Actors’ Playhouse: Don’t think too hard; just enjoy.

When Richard Wagner wrote Der Fliegende Holländer, or The Flying Dutchman, in 1843, he imagined the two-hour-plus opera performed with no intermission. Perhaps fortunately for some audience members, the Miami Music Festival and Miami Wagner Institute will not stay true to the great German composer’s original vision this Friday, July 19, at…

City Theatre’s Summer Shorts festival, the start to the less-crowded summer arts season, turns 24 this year. This year’s lineup of six short plays and two mini musicals is, of course, eclectic and playful. But beneath the summer fun, meaningful ideas and issues are afoot. A police trainee has to…

Mexican singer, actress and performance artist Astrid Hadad takes the absurd seriously. Her surreal brand of cabaret lampoons the marketing of Mexico’s cultural icons and reframes received historical truths. Her costumes, often marvels of movable set design, unfold, billow and blink. At one moment, she’s a living Diego Rivera calla…

The work of three Miami choreographers, each with radically distinct visions of movement and dance, will be presented this Thursday and Friday, May 9-10, at Miami Dade College’s Live Arts Lab. Each choreographer, all of them women, explores the relationship between performers and audiences. Or, as choreographer Rosie Herrera puts…

Choreographer Paul Taylor, a colossus of modern dance eagerly embraced by classical companies, died in August at age 88. Now Miami City Ballet will resurrect his expansive spirit in a work that lends its name to the season’s first program. Company B, featuring nine quicken-the-heart songs by the Andrews Sisters,…

Tennessee Williams’ play Summer and Smoke had its premiere on Broadway in 1948, and this weekend it will be reprised flamenco style, by Ballet Flamenco La Rosa – likely the first time a work by Williams has been translated into the language of flamenco. Summer and Smoke is set in…

On a chilly day last fall, Miami-born artist Yara Travieso sat in a beach chair in her Brooklyn backyard while she talked about a performance she was planning for Miami’s YoungArts Plaza. “It’s very weird,” she said of her current location, “because it’s cold.” Though she no longer lives in Miami, Travieso said she feels like she still has an umbilical cord attached to the city. Hurricane Irma had just blown through, leaving downed trees and twisted street signs. She felt it from afar.

Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami has been on a meteoric trajectory. In its first 18 months, the troupe was a 2017 Knight Challenge Grant recipient, and in June, it will debut at New York’s Joyce Theater, followed by its first appearance at the storied Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. During that same…

The ancient Japanese art of taiko drumming is coming to Miami with the group Tao: Drum Heart, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has gone on to tour internationally while getting an extra boost with an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Sponsored by Culture Shock Miami…

Mexico City-based theater collective Teatro Ojo’s works are constantly evolving. Nothing is ever really finished. That’s because they take direction during every performance. Whatever the audience experiences, observes, feels, and offers in feedback, which the performers highly encourage, is used in the evolution of the same piece or introduced into another work.

He says his dance comes from his dreams. French-Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi’s most recent work, “What the Day Owes the Night,” combines Sufi rhythms with cutting-edge b-boy moves, classical ballet, and capoeira in a work as fluid and full of grace as it is wildly athletic. One reviewer at…

People often imagine that new artwork is the product of the solitary artistic genius slaving away in a lonely studio. The South Florida Symphony’s 20th-anniversary program foregrounds a different vision of the artistic process: the kind of innovation that occurs when artists surrender their single vision in their encounters with other artists and the greater community.

The time seems right for Karen Finley to visit Miami, to perform in the black-box space of the Miami Light Project at the Goldman Warehouse, and to present her latest performance-art manifesto about the current political landscape, Unicorn Gratitude Mystery. In the show, which she began developing…

At the age of 65, choreographer Bill T. Jones speaks about dance with intellectual curiosity and the confidence of experience. Since his beginning in New York’s experimental 1970s dance scene, he has earned a place in the high tiers of dance history. Now, as a mature artist with a full resumé, he is in position to look back, not only at his own career but also at the shape a life might take and how to tell it.

Here’s a trivia question: Name the 1892 box office flop panned by critics for lack of seriousness and for casting too many kids, one that is now a force of nature timed to occur yearly around the winter solstice. The answer, of course, is The Nutcracker…

Miami choreographer Marissa Alma Nick’s Alma Dance Theater is preparing to add its distinctive voice to Miami Art Week. The troupe is rehearsing for the upcoming performance of Flowers at the Colony Theatre December 2.