The “straw man” fallacy is pernicious, and it goes something like this: You say, for example, that drug laws ought to be relaxed. I accuse you of promoting the intoxication of children. “But that’s not what I’ve said!” you respond, and indeed it’s not — but I’d rather argue against…
The Bartered Bride By Bedrich Smetana. April 9 and 10. New World School of the Arts, College Opera Theatre, Gusman Center, 174 E. Flagler St., Miami; 305-374-2444; gusmancenter.org You probably haven’t seen The Bartered Bride before, and you probably shouldn’t let this opportunity slip by. Bedrich Smetana is an overlooked…
You probably haven’t seen The Bartered Bride before, and you probably shouldn’t let this opportunity slip by. Bedrich Smetana is an overlooked but wonderful composer whose music swoops and soars like the winds blowing off the Sudetes Mountains near his hometown of Litomysl, in the Czech Republic. The plot of…
A slapstick spoof of a propaganda film that’s slapstick to begin with — albeit unintentionally — Reefer Madness is a tricky little play. It’s also a very good one. Writers’ Studney and Murphy’s best idea was to allow their funny little musical to remain as scary to modern audiences as…
Alliance Theatre Lab’s Orphans gets loving treatment
SoBe Arts kills Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Horses, sexual angst, and first-rate acting in New Theatre’s thrilling Equus
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Through March 14. By Gabriel García Márquez; adapted by Nilo Cruz. The Playground Theatre, 9806 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores; 305-751-9556, theplaygroundtheatre.com Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the…
Sarah Kane’s Blasted at GableStage explores how power corrupts
Melt at Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables attempts to identify Miami
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Through March 14. By Gabriel García Márquez; adapted by Nilo Cruz. The Playground Theatre, 9806 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores; 305-751-9556, theplaygroundtheatre.com Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the…
Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the Playground Theatre, where sets are large and psychedelic and the old movie house is transformed, weekend after weekend, into a light- and music-filled wonderland of endless possibilities. In A…
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Through March 14. By Gabriel García Márquez; adapted by Nilo Cruz. The Playground Theatre, 9806 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores; 305-751-9556, theplaygroundtheatre.com Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the…
The Hour of the Tiger at New Theatre misses the mark on Japan and its geisha culture
The Great American Trailer Park Musical goes slumming at Actors’ Playhouse
Farragut North By Beau Willimon. Through January 24. GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.org GableStage’s obligatory annual politics play combines a stellar cast — David Hemphill! Nick Duckart! Deborah Sherman! The irrepressibly sexy Gregg Weiner! — with a plot that recalls Primary Colors. Witness how the camaraderie of…
The fast and frothy Farragut North hits Joseph Adler’s GableStage
Another Night Before Christmas By Sean Grennan and Leah Okimoto. Through December 27. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-444-9293; actorsplayhouse.org Creators of bantamweight AOR musical Married Alive return to reinvigorate a Christmas classic — only this iteration of the poem involves a large and…
South Florida superhero Captain Disillusion talks ghosts, superpowers, and skepticism
GableStage’s obligatory annual politics play combines a stellar cast — David Hemphill! Nick Duckart! Deborah Sherman! The irrepressibly sexy Gregg Weiner! — with more or less the plot of Primary Colors: A goodhearted young fellow joins a high-powered presidential campaign, witnesses those around him becoming soulless victory junkies, and realizes…
Playground Theatre’s Inanna and the Huluppu Tree resurrects ancient myths
Gem of the Ocean By August Wilson. Through December 20. The M Ensemble, 12320 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami; 305-899-2217; themensemble.com Gem of the Ocean was the penultimate play August Wilson wrote for his epic “Pittsburgh Cycle,” and it’s the weirdest and most visionary of the lot. Set in 1904,…
