Mark your calendars: There will be swordfighting on Miami Beach this summer. Well, not on the beach, exactly, but in a small theater steps away from the sand. Storycrafter Studio, Miami’s latest addition to its thriving theater community, will open its first full-length production not with a bang but with…
What’s the only TV station beaming into Hell? The Golf Channel. It’s the only station that absolutely guarantees its inhabitants an eternity of televisual torture. The fact is, there is nothing more boring to watch than poorly dressed, well-postured white guys (OK, and one black man) trying to find the…
We’re long accustomed to seeing African-American musicians perform for audiences that are 80 percent white, but the reverse is still pretty unusual — and it was especially unusual, if not outlawed, in the segregated South of the 1950s. This is the setting of Memphis, the Tony-winning Broadway musical set in…
Anne and Emmett at AAPACT Through May 12
If Facebook were around in ancient Sumeria, the goddess Inanna’s relationship status would probably read, “It’s complicated.” The goddess of fertility, warfare, and sex, this powerful figure in Sumerian mythology was something of a trickster who prowled taverns for vulnerable men and banished her husband to the underworld. Heidi Rettig…
Glengarry Glen Ross at Main Street Playhouse Through May 19
In his award-winning play Jeffrey, first produced off-Broadway in 1993, playwright Paul Rudnick (who wrote the screenplay to Hollywood’s In & Out) dipped his sifter into that veritable comic goldmine, the AIDS crisis. HIV might not be the cause for national panic it once was — a controversial “functional cure”…
Zoetic Stage’s The Savannah Disputation: Holy War in Georgia
First produced in 2007, Evan Smith’s The Savannah Disputation is a holy war in microcosm – an acerbic verbal brawl on a single suburban property, currently receiving an exceptional production from Zoetic Stage at the Arsht Center.Barbara Bradshaw and Laura Turnbull play Mary and Margaret, Roman Catholic sisters cohabitating on…
In his award-winning play Jeffrey, first produced off-Broadway in 1993 and opening at Miami Beach Stage Door this week, playwright Paul Rudnick dipped his sifter into that veritable comic goldmine, the AIDS crisis. HIV might not be the cause for national panic it once was — a controversial “functional cure”…
For all of us Book of Mormon-praising, godless lefties in the American theater press, it’s all too easy to paint all Christians with the same derisive brush. But there are plenty of derisive brushes to go around, one for each sect. Playwright Evan Wood colors two of them, Catholicism and…
Charming Acts of Misery at the SoBe Comedy Fest
On the surface, British fashion muse Isabella Blow did not lead a very comical life. A fashion editor of the glossy magazine Tatler and the discoverer of acclaimed designer Alexander McQueen and milliner Philip Treacy, Blow — AKA “Issi” — was disowned by her parents and suffered from nearly lifelong…
In Happy Feet, all of those penguins could not have challenged their elders and found their grooves were it not for Savion Glover. But choreographing an adorable, animated cadre of flightless birds is, presumably, something this astronomically talented 39-year-old does just on weekends, in between touring the country with his…
Bird in the Handat New Theatre Through April 7
“I’ve wanted another one of these for so long,” a gracious Lela Elam said last night as she accepted the Carbonell Award for Best Actress in a Play for her work in GableStage’s Ruined. “I think they just look better as a set.”For Elam, who won a Carbonell in 2008 for GableStage’s…
The dressing room for the Broadway tour of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is probably bigger than many of our own regional theater spaces, to say nothing of the prop room. This is a show that houses some 500 Tony Award-winning costumes — sequined, feathered frocks of all shapes, sizes,…
Fela Kuti, the pioneering Nigerian Afrobeat musician, activist, presidential candidate and polygamist (at one point, he had 28 wives) seems an unlikely subject for an American musical. But that’s exactly why the show Fela!, based on a biography of Kuti’s tumultuous life, is so special. Like the musician himself, it’s…
Miami Filmmakers Represent at MIFF
“You know what I love about Miami? Everybody’s dirty. And if you want to make any money, you gotta get dirty too.” This line of dialogue, from Jokes Yanes’ screenplay to his intense Miami-shot directorial debut Eenie Meenie Miney Moe, may as well be the film’s thesis statement. At more…
Brothers Beckett at the Arsht: Sibling Rivalry and Revelry
Dark Blood: River Phoenix’s Last Movie Premieres in Miami 20 Years After His Death
