To the frustration of those of us looking to attend shows where we don’t have to check our brains at the box office, summer in America has been deemed the season for lighter theatrical fare — the farces and trifles, the storyless composer revues, and the old chestnut musicals. For…
Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, a documentary by Miami-based filmmaker Brad Bernstein, opens in theaters across the country this summer. But Miami got to see the film months in advance when it screened at the Miami International Film Festival earlier this year. We spoke to Bernstein…
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…
If Bridesmaids is the female Hangover, what is Bachelorette? It would be an insult to call it the female Hangover Part II, but it’s certainly cut from the same fold of cloth as the boozy, profane, cliquey comedies that have overtaken Hollywood and, sometimes, the stage. Before it became a…
Red at Miami Theater Center June 28 Through July 13
For a gay elf at Christmastime, falling in love with your boss is a fruitless occupational hazard. Santa is straight, and though the beard might be sexy, he’s off the market. In Matt Hoverman’s short play The Student, the best piece at City Theatre’s inconsistent Summer Shorts festival at the…
In 2011, while training for a marathon on the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Riverwalk, Bianca Ramirez was brutally assaulted. The rest of her morning is a hazy memory. “It was so abrupt,” she recalls. “Being attacked came out of nowhere. I literally thought I died, waking up in bushes not…
For a gay elf at Christmastime, falling in love with your boss is a fruitless occupational hazard. Santa is straight, and though the beard might be sexy, he’s off the market. In Matt Hoverman’s short play The Student, the best piece at City Theatre’s inconsistent Summer Shorts festival at the…
Gay-themed parades, film festivals, and men’s choirs are nice and important, but for LGBTQ audiences who prefer entertainment that’s a little less polite and a little more provocative and confrontational, FUNDarte’s Out in the Tropics Festival has been cutting edges for the past four years. The fest returns this weekend…
Taylor Mac likes pop music. And he’s pretty indiscriminate about the pop music he likes, from primitive folk songs of the 1770s to the Auto-Tuned, focus-grouped hits of today. The actor and gender-bending diva, recognized in New York City and beyond for his politically conscious, impossible-to-reproduce theatrical spectacles, is channeling…
The short plays composing the 2013 edition of Summer Shorts ask all the hard questions: How do you handle a ridiculously offensive anti-gay bigot? What happens to a teacher if he loses his passion? What do you do if you’re riding a subway and get stuck in the middle of…
For storytellers in the theater, film, and literature worlds, the Holocaust continues to be a source of inspiration through tragedy — a perennial catalogue of unspeakable suffering, heroic escapes, devastating memories, and therapeutic healing. It’s a rock for which no amount of turning could reveal its innumerable surfaces. In Holocaust:…
Road Through Heaven at New Theatre Through June 2
GableStage’s production of Cock contains what might go down (pun intended) as the most arousing sex scene you’ll see onstage all year. Except you won’t actually see it. Contrary to the expectations of its saucy title, Cock is chaste as can be. Physical contact is limited to the occasional embrace…
GableStage’s production of Cock contains what might go down (pun intended) as the most arousing sex scene you’ll see onstage all year. Except you won’t actually see it. Contrary to the expectations of its saucy title, Cock is chaste as can be. Physical contact is limited to the occasional embrace…
Not since The Motherfucker With the Hat has GableStage (1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables) mounted a play with a title as controversial as Cock. It’s right up there with previous GableStage provocations such as Fat Pig and Smut. And no, Cock has nothing to do with a rooster: It’s about…
You can’t say that playwright and New Theatre artistic director Ricky J. Martinez avoids deep themes in his work. In Road Through Heaven, his latest effort, he explores morality, life and death, and the realization of our deepest desires, all in the context of a lyrical love triangle on a…
To revive an axiom that President Obama directed at the ideas of a certain failed vice presidential candidate from Alaska: Actors’ Playhouse’s production of The Fox on the Fairway is, at best, lipstick on a pig. As pretty as the company presents it, it’s still an ugly, desperate, virtually witless…
To revive an axiom that President Obama directed at the ideas of a certain failed vice presidential candidate from Alaska: Actors’ Playhouse’s production of The Fox on the Fairway is, at best, lipstick on a pig. As pretty as the company presents it, it’s still an ugly, desperate, virtually witless…
Free Cock?! Yeah, it’s a cheap ploy to grab your attention. But it’s also true: We’re giving away free tickets to GableStage’s upcoming performance of the show titled — no, really — Cock. Not since The Motherfucker With the Hat has GableStage mounted a play with a title as controversial…
Just because The Laramie Project is a frequent choice among college and high school theaters does not make it an easy play. With eight actors portraying more than 60 characters over three acts, it’s a challenge for the most seasoned of thespians and a worthy closer to the New World…
Stage hypnotist Rich Guzzi has learned to expect the unexpected. In one memorable performance, he instructed 15 hypnotized audience volunteers to compose and perform a rap song onstage — in Chinese. One by one, they shed their inhibitions and freestyled vaguely Oriental gibberish, at the cultural expense of any unfortunate…
