This is the year of Brokeback Mountain, in more ways than one. On one hand, it has been proven that queer movies can be a hit in Middle America. On the other, yahoos are frothing at the mouth, and a place like the Bahamas has banned the picture because of…
This is one instance when the story behind the scenes upstages the action in the play. David Caudle’s family drama The Sunken Living Room, now receiving its world premiere at New Theatre, has been through quite a real-life saga. It was scheduled to open at the acclaimed Southern Rep in…
Educating Rita: With this tale of upper-crust English professor Frank mentoring lower-class literary wannabe Rita, Dramaworks’ director Nanique Gheridian sends us into a supposedly well-recognized Pygmalion paradigm. But for those of us who shied away from seeing the 1983 Michael Caine film version of the play, it is not as…
Mad Cat’s latest adventures in the wonderland of new plays have landed the scruffy Miami troupe in a good place. William Donnelly’s Painted Alice, now onstage at the Light Box, may not be especially profound, but it is very funny. And it also gives the Mad Catters a chance to…
Day of Reckoning: The sad and seamy underbelly of the mythical American dream is not a place of hope, though this production makes a scattered attempt at embracing quite a bit of America’s historical landscape: Ku Klux Klan rallies, slavery and its aftermath, burning crosses, forbidden love, shameless hate, interracial…
And Then She Moved the Furniture: The Public Theatre presents the first production of Miami playwright Manny Diez’s chilling tale of army base domestic abuse, a fictional telling of a true story out of Fort Bragg during the summer of 2002. Four soldiers murdered their wives, and two of them…
The sad and seamy underbelly of the mythical American dream is not a place of hope. Nor is it a world that is easily described, though New Theatre’s powerful production of Day of Reckoning makes a scattered attempt at embracing quite a bit of America’s historical landscape: Ku Klux Klan…
The mix is almost too much, but the mission is stunningly simple: The nation’s largest community college once again is producing one of the world’s most ambitious celebrations of the art of the motion picture, concentrating as much of the best as possible into what amounts to a glamorous orgy…
Julio Bocca is, simply put, one of the great dancers of our age. But the hunky American Ballet Theatre star is much more: a sometime Broadway baby who starred in the musical Fosse, a choreographer, a director, a persuasive ambassador for Argentine culture, and an electrifying showman with an eye…
Eclectic by design and multicultural with a vengeance, Miami Light Project’s Here & Now: 2006 is the riskiest and most ambitious edition yet. This innovative performance, multimedia, and film festival — produced in collaboration with the new Miami Performing Arts Center — is a hothouse for local talent. Through February…
The company’s name is a hybrid, with the original Maximum Dance still there, but the accent is definitely on the current artistic director’s work. The ever evolving Ballet Gamonet Maximum Dance returns to the Gusman Center with a trio of dances choreographed by Jimmy Gamonet De Los Heros — a…
The diversity is breathtaking. This year’s Miami Jewish Film Festival sprawls with four venues featuring a batch of motion pictures that seem to cover everything Jewish under the sun. Hitler and Stalin, the Holocaust and Heaven, klezmer and ska, ambitious masterpieces, family dramas, slapstick comedies, and earnest documentaries add up…
The diversity is breathtaking. This year’s Miami Jewish Film Festival sprawls with four venues featuring a batch of motion pictures that seem to cover everything Jewish under the sun. Hitler and Stalin, the Holocaust and Heaven, klezmer and ska, ambitious masterpieces, family dramas, slapstick comedies, and earnest documentaries add up…
The diversity is breathtaking. This year’s Miami Jewish Film Festival sprawls with four venues featuring a batch of motion pictures that seem to cover everything Jewish under the sun. Hitler and Stalin, the Holocaust and Heaven, klezmer and ska, ambitious masterpieces, family dramas, slapstick comedies, and earnest documentaries add up…
David Christopher has reason to gloat. The fourth edition of the Miami Improv Festival, presented through Sunday on two stages at the Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium, is “our biggest one … not just in terms of the number of shows and workshops, but also in stature,” says the…
Talk about ebony and ivory! Two very, very loud shows opening this weekend playfully redefine a couple of ethnic-cultural niches while shamelessly aiming for the masses. Presented by the Miami Light Project at the Byron Carlyle Theater in Miami Beach is Will Power’s Flow. Then, direct from the land of…
Now onstage at Coral Gables’ Miracle Theatre is Johnny Guitar: The Musical, which respins the tale of when the West was wild, the men were tough, and the women were Joan Crawford. Though the score is surprisingly gentle and its songs don’t match the transgressive thrills of the motion picture…
The Miami Beach Cinematheque is no stranger to all things weird and wonderful, but this time its coordinators have devised something completely different to coincide with the Art Basel festivities in South Beach. Guy Maddin’s “Cowards Bend the Knee Peepshow Installation” is a movie within a movie, featuring live performance…
Not many events at Art Basel Miami Beach — and possibly just as few exhibitions shown over the course of Art Basel Switzerland’s 36-year history — are as rambunctious as “Cars & Fish” promises to be. The Miami Performing Arts Center’s (MPAC) official opening is still more than a year…
Giacomo Puccini is often regarded as the world’s most beloved and most performed operatic composer, and a scene during the first act of Florida Grand Opera’s fall season opener, La Fanciulla del West, illuminates why. A moment early on in the recent opening-night performance at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium —…
You have to admit, it’s a tough act to follow. In her runaway international hit The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler was anything but shy about that most private of private parts — and her disarming, in-your-face, beaver-affirming, life-empowering activist candor has translated into a theatrical phenomenon with a life of…
Stranger things than Ethel exist in classical music, but not many. Then again, classical is not exactly the right word for this string quartet that plays nothing but decidedly new, often bizarre music. In the House of Ethel — a site-specific spectacle at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens — is…
