According to Carol Burnett’s oft-quoted epigram, comedy is tragedy plus time. That witticism has held up for more than 20 years, though today I would excise the “plus time” part. In the age of Twitter, tragedy instantaneously becomes comedy. “Too soon” is too quaint a complaint: Comedy and tragedy always…
Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet is billed as a “comedy about human suffering” — an ostensible paradox that showcases the playwright’s propensity to find wit and warmth even in the blackest of circumstances. GableStage (1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables) will close its season with the Southeast premiere of this…
The Pelican Playhouse has made a point to single out its current production as a “PG-rated” play — a lurch toward somewhat adult material for a family-friendly community theater that prides itself on its all-ages productions. The work in question is a caustically funny satire of backward culture that has…
Like Michael Apted’s series of 7 Up documentaries — in which the director revisits the same people every seven years — Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries captures the maturation (or lack thereof) of two people from age 8 to 38, jumping forward (or backward) in time. Only in this case,…
The name might not be familiar to circus laymen, but Mexican’s Vazquez brothers are like the Ringlings of Mexico, founding a circus in 1969 with nothing but a handmade tarp and rented equipment and emerging as one of the most powerful entertainment brands in their country. After nearly four decades…
The name might not be familiar to circus laymen, but the Vazquez brothers are like the Ringlings of Mexico, founding a circus in 1969 with nothing but a handmade tarp and rented equipment and emerging as one of the most powerful entertainment brands in their country. After nearly four decades…
The Pelican Playhouse has made a point to single out its upcoming production as a “PG-rated” play — a lurch toward somewhat adult material for a family-friendly community theater that prides itself on all-ages productions. For the Pelican diehards, this might seem like Dylan going electric, a blasphemous break with…
In Mad Cat Theatre Company’s new bio-play about late British fashion muse Isabella Blow, all the world’s a stage, but not a very glamorous one. The intimate theater-in-the-round set design is a harsh runway that juts out from tattered curtains. It’s framed by an antlered mannequin, a worn speaker, and…
This past April, South Beach Comedy Festival-goers were treated to an eccentric tragicomedy about an eccentric celebrity, Isabella Blow, the British fashion muse and magazine editor known for her keen eye (she discovered Alexander McQueen) and ostentatious headwear. Exploring Issi’s wit, style, and death wish – she attempted suicide six…
This past April, South Beach Comedy Festival-goers were treated to an eccentric tragicomedy about an eccentric celebrity: Isabella Blow, the British fashion muse and magazine editor known for her keen eye (she discovered Alexander McQueen) and ostentatious headwear. Exploring Issi’s wit, style, and death wish — she attempted suicide six…
Flesh and Blooders is a new play about puppets, but it’s more Being John Malkovich than Avenue Q — an eccentric love triangle where egos clash, mad puppets attack, and amnesiacs and runaway brides find common ground. Written by local theater entrepreneur Cynthia Joyce Clay and recently opened as the…
Flesh and Blooders is a new play about puppets, but it’s more Being John Malkovich than Avenue Q — an eccentric love triangle in which egos clash, mad puppets attack, and amnesiacs and runaway brides find common ground. Written by Cynthia Joyce Clay and recently opened as the first full-scale…
Is there a bigger demographic than parents? Like the undead in a zombie apocalypse, there are more of them every day, every hour, every minute, every second. Normal people become parents just like that. If you’ve become one of them or know anyone who is, you’re part of the ever-expanding…
In this Pulitzer Prize winner, the story’s leading actors have to emotionally conjure the most unthinkable type of mourning: the death of a child. Howie and Becky, parents in their late 30s, lose their 4-year-old son Denny after he is accidentally struck by a 17-year-old’s car. The play’s drama focuses…
When he’s not performing, Slava Polunin looks like an off-season Santa Claus or an aging wizard from a fantasy-movie franchise. Onstage, in his yellow parka, oversize red shoes, giant strawberry nose, and electrified white hair, he is no less fantastical. A versatile performance artist who once organized a street march…
In his career with World Wrestling Entertainment, Mick Foley has been thrown from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage, where he crashed through a broadcasting booth; hit by a steel chair, which dislocated his jaw and dislodged a tooth; nailed with a removable stairwell wielded as a weapon by his…
In his career with World Wrestling Entertainment, Mick Foley has been thrown from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage, where he crashed through a broadcasting booth; hit by a steel chair, which dislocated his jaw and dislodged a tooth; nailed with a removable stairwell wielded as a weapon by his…
When he’s not performing, Slava Polunin looks like an offseason Santa Claus or an aging wizard from a fantasy-movie franchise. Onstage, in his yellow parka, oversized red shoes, giant strawberry nose, and electrified white hair, he is no less fantastical. A versatile performance artist who once organized a street march…
In David Lindsay-Abaire’s sensitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole, opening Friday at Main Street Playhouse (6766 Main St., Miami Lakes), the story’s leading actors have to emotionally conjure the most unthinkable type of mourning: the death of a child. Howie and Becky, parents in their late 30s, lose their 4-year-old…
When he’s not performing, Slava Palunin looks like an off-season Santa Claus or an aging wizard from a fantasy-movie franchise. Onstage, in his yellow parka, oversized red shoes, giant strawberry nose and electrified white hair, he is no less fantastical. A versatile performance artist who once organized a street march…
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is accustomed to finding the humor in gloomy, unusual, and uncomfortable situations. From his mind has sprouted the grief of parents who have lost a child in the show Rabbit Hole, and the drama unfolding from characters’ bizarre medical conditions in shows including Kimberly Akimbo and Fuddy…
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is accustomed to finding the humor in gloomy, unusual, and uncomfortable situations, from the grief of parents who have lost a child (Rabbit Hole) to the drama unfolding from characters’ bizarre medical conditions (Kimberly Akimbo, Fuddy Meers). Expect his latest hit, Good People, to strike a few…
