Miami’s four must-see stage shows in 2010

FGO’s Pagliacci and Suor Angelica: Two operas about the perils of sex

Macon City: A Comic Book Play at the Naked Stage

The sexual perversity showcased in Sexual Perversity in Chicago is neither very Chicagoan nor very perverse. That is, if you judge perversity by things done rather than things thought about. But like most people in Chicago and elsewhere, Deborah, Danny, Joan, and Bernie — the denizens of this David Mamet…

Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty at GableStage

In Development premieres at New Theatre in Coral Gables

The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell and Trevor Rhone. Through September 13. Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.orgThe Harder They Come is based on the 1972 movie of the same name, which is itself loosely based on the true-life career of Ivanhoe “Rhygin” Martin — a…

Off the Cliff: The Harder They Come hits the Arsht Center

The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell and Trevor Rhone. Through September 13. Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org See this week’s full theater review, “Off the Cliff.” ———- Speed-the-Plow By David Mamet. Through September 13. GableStage at the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.com…

The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell and Trevor Rhone. Through September 13. Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org The Harder They Come is based on the 1972 movie of the same name, which is itself (loosely) based on the true-life career of Ivanhoe “Rhygin” Martin —…

Temps in the Jungle: David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow at GableStage

Speed-the-Plow By David Mamet. Through September 13. GableStage at the Biltmore, 1300 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-446-1116; gablestage.com An early Mamet masterpiece that once almost made a Broadway star out of Madonna, Speed-the-Plow hits the Biltmore this weekend, featuring Greg Wiener and Paul Tei. No critic has seen this production…

Viva Bourgeois By Molière. Adapted by Paul Tei. Through August 22. Mad Cat Theatre at the Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Tickets cost $30. myspace.com/madcatcompany Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, first performed in 1670, was about a man struggling to cope with wealth, obscure his piss-poor origins, and achieve classiness…

Mad Cat Theatre Unearths Elvis and Moliere Via Viva Bourgeois

I Just Stopped by to See the Man By Stephen Jeffreys. Through July 19. The M Ensemble, 12320 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami. General admission tickets cost $25. 305-899-2217; themensemble.com The M Ensemble’s latest production plumbs the depths of the blues — what they give, what they take away, and…

Fuerza Bruta By Diqui James and Alejandro Garcia. Through August 2. Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. General admission tickets cost $63.75 and $73.75. 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org Fuerza is a plotless little effusion of the avant-garde playing inside a loading bay at the Arsht Center. It doesn’t contain enough good ideas,…

Fuerza Bruta By Diqui James and Alejandro Garcia. Through August 2. Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. General admission tickets cost $63.75 and $73.75. 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org Fuerza is a plotless little effusion of the avant-garde playing inside a loading bay at the Arsht Center. It doesn’t contain enough good ideas,…

The New Century will be a gay one, or so Paul Rudnick seems to suggest. His play’s three central characters — a Jewish mother of three sodomites, the self-proclaimed Gayest Man In The World, and a crafts-obsessed woman from Decatur whose gay son died of AIDS — are old-century in…

Beautiful Savages at Fuerza Bruta

City Theatre’s Summer Shorts Festival Is Filthy and Fabulous

Havana Bourgeois is an import from Los Angeles, with a mixed cast of local actors and gifted carpetbaggers (including the hunky Danny Pino, from television’s Cold Case). But spiritually and emotionally, this is a Miami show. Some of the most extreme audience reactions I’ve ever witnessed in a theater were…