Amazingly and infuriatingly, the Miami Dolphins have come tromping out of the depths of a shitty season like a reanimated zombie and have suddenly started kicking opponents asses and eating their brains.The Dolphins defense stabbed the Raiders in the face with their ferociousness, while the offense — led by the…
You might know the amiable and charming Madeline from Ludwig Bemelmans’s popular children’s book series about an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Paris. Actors’ Playhouse, which did such a splendid job with Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, is bringing one of the precocious little redhead’s…
Taking inspiration from a Chinese folktale called The Magical Embroidery, the PlayGround Theatre, which prides itself on staging unique and innovative stories for all ages, presents an encore performance of The Red Thread, a moving and fun journey into myth and fantasy, for the holiday season. It’s a tale steeped…
Carried by Gregg Weiner’s grounded yet forceful performance, Red is a semibiographical drama based on the life of Mark Rothko, the Russian-born American painter whose expressionist works rival those of Jackson Pollock on the abstract-genius scale. At its core, the play is a series of snapshots of the artist’s mind…
Your Miami Dolphins played in yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys and lost, ending their three-game winning streak and putting their playoff hopes on life support with someone standing by ready to smother it with a pillow. The Dolphins defense did what it could, intercepting Tony Romo twice…
The Miami Dolphins beat the struggling Buffalo Bills yesterday 35-8, with help from a defense that hasn’t allowed a touchdown in 12 consecutive quarters. Miami’s defense created turnovers, set up touchdowns for the offense, and scored a special teams touchdown, suddenly making the Dolphins the hottest team in football outside of Green…
Taking inspiration from a Chinese folktale called The Magical Embroidery, the PlayGround Theatre, which prides itself on staging unique and innovative stories for all ages, presents an encore performance of The Red Thread, a moving and fun journey into myth and fantasy, for the holiday season. It’s a tale steeped…
The infamous Nevin Shapiro scandal threatened to take down the University of Miami and even had some critics crying “death penalty” for the once-great football program. But head coach Al Golden vowed to clean up the mess, get his players focused, and keep them from accepting gifts of any kind…
Red at GableStage through December 4
The Red Thread at the PlayGround Theatre through December 18
Luisa Fernanda at the Ziff Ballet Opera House through November 26
Well that about wraps it up for the first overall pick. The Miami Dolphins were able to both grab an early lead and then not vomit all over it by taking down the vaunted indomitable unconquerable mostly shitty Washington Redskins 20-9 yesterday at Sun Life Stadium.The win snaps a seven-game…
Believe it or not, there once was a time when the Miami Dolphins ruled all the football-playing land. And there was no bitterer rival than those damn Buffalo Bills. It was a time when Dan Marino and Jim Kelly would smash the other’s defense with their awesomeness. It was back…
Red at GableStage: Rothko’s ornery genius
No one quite captures the true neurotic inadequate essence of the classic American schlub better than playwright Neil Simon. His plays were filled with gobs of schlubs. All of them down-on-their-luck, trying desperately to get by while walking a tightrope between sanity and crazy, all while we laugh and laugh…
Finally, just when it mattered the least, when a win couldn’t possibly do anything to change the fortunes of this season, this coaching staff, or this fan base’s hopes, the Dolphins FINALLY pulled off a victory.Somehow, someway, led by one of the marionette puppets from Team America QB Matt Moore,…
Red, which opened last night at the GableStage, is a venerable one-act play that hurls symbolism, existentialism, and Fredrick Nietzsche all up in your face like an abstract expressionist dousing flecks of paint on a canvas. Loosely based on the life of Mark Rothko, the brilliant Russian-born American painter whose expressionist…
A down-on-his-luck schlub tries to get by while walking a tightrope between sanity and craziness, all while we laugh at his slowly crumbling life. Oh, the hilarity! This pretty much sums up all of Neil Simon’s plays. But that doesn’t mean the story isn’t funny or clever. And it doesn’t…
In 2007, the Miami Dolphins brain trust used its second-round draft pick to select unknown QB John Beck out of that perennial quarterback factory, Brigham Young University. Undersize, weak-armed, and Mormon, Beck was expected to be the franchise savior and become the quarterback to finally step into Dan Marino’s immense…
Captiva at the Arsht Center through November 20
Hairspray at Actors’ Playhouse through November 13
There’s nothing worse than having a holiday dinner — or a funeral, or a wedding — to force you to spend an extended and unnecessary amount of time with your family. Unless you happen to be forced to do that by a hurricane, which, in turn, forces you to confront…
