Some might call actor/writer/director Zach Braff the voice of our angsty, noncommittal generation. With Garden State, he tapped into the inner sanctum of the perpetually immature, and his newest effort, All New People, has been called “the defining play of a generation.” The show centers around depressed protagonist Charlie, who’s…
Where does Cirque du Soleil keep finding these people? The company’s highly stylized circus shows employ dozens of performers with talents ranging from the merely impressive to the seemingly impossible, and right now no fewer than 19 of these spectacles are being staged in cities around the world. How can…
What did we learn during the holidays? Politics and turkey certainly do not mix, especially in the wake of a divisive presidential election. However, opposing political viewpoints and holiday ham work remarkably well onstage, particularly in Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities. Set in Palm Springs, California, Baitz’s critically acclaimed 2011…
Did you think you’d seen the last revision of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark? Think again. New World School of the Arts graduate Tarell Alvin McCraney, the emerging writer-director whose previous play, 2011’s The Brothers Size, was one of the best productions of that or any…
If you’re the kind of art deviant with a hankering for the pictorially perverse, don’t miss Agustín Fernández’s exhibit of psycho-sexually charged works at the Frost Art Museum (10975 SW 17th St., Miami). The artist (1928-2006) was universally hailed as a master of modern Cuban art and traveled from his…
Avant-garde painter and experimental film producer Hans Richter had a complicated relationship with art. His first exhibition took place in 1916 in Munich, but less than three years later, he began experimenting with film and eventually spent most of artistic career working with that medium. “The cinema can fulfill certain…
Like a show opening with a band’s greatest hit, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s radical edit of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins with the master’s most famous phrase of his most famous soliloquy: “To be or not to be.” And off we go, into a 90-minute, one-act version that gets right to the…
As Downton Abbey season three mania sweeps across South Florida — and the nation — we’re all starry-eyed imagining the ins and outs of life at the turn of the century. And with the introduction of Cora’s sassy American mother, more of that attention is aimed at our own shores…
The Bravo network is good at many things: making irrelevant people famous, teaching us how to cook, and making housewivery the most desirable job in the country. But if we had to find the network’s strongest skill, it would be padding 15 minutes of actual entertainment into a full-blown hour-long…
Richard Blanco is living the dream. The American dream, that is. An immigrant from Spain and son of Cuban exiles, Blanco began his career as a poet in Miami, the city where he was raised. Now, President Barack Obama has chosen him as the poet for his inauguration this month,…
Sunday night, Gleeks across America were simultaneously zapped. Or so it seemed as girl Gleeks in attendance at O Cinema fawned over Chris Colfer during the live webcast that followed the preview screening of his film, Struck By Lightning.Twenty-six theaters across the country previewed the film before its official release…
Like a show opening with a band’s greatest hit, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s radical edit of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins with the master’s most famous phrase of his most famous soliloquy: “To be or not to be.” And off we go, into a 90-minute, one-act version that gets right to the…
If you’re like most of us here at New Times, your bank account could really use a boost. The ever-tightening purse strings of the publishing industry has left plenty of our journalists and bloggers with just about the same quality of life as your average starving artist in Wynwood. Those…
The wunderkind is back in Miami with yet another world debut. Liam Scarlett, that is. He who at age 26 has been appointed artist-in-residence at London’s Royal Ballet Company. He who was also the choreographer of “Viscera,” a ballet commissioned for the Miami City Ballet in 2012, which was received…
“Miami, the Kardashians are here!” It’s a warning, a threat, a declaration of citywide takeover, another step in the reality tv family’s march to worldwide domination. But it’s also the line that opens E!’s new preview of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, shouted by chipmunk-voiced new baby mama Kim Kardashian…
Some artists dream of performing on stage. Others dream of carrying their craft beyond the stage to blur the line between art and everyday life. Dancers Gabriel Forestieri and Marla Phelan of ProjectLIMB fall into the latter category, and they’ll be showing Miami Beach how to make a more expressive…
“In Miami’s Wynwood district, the party has overtaken the art,” complains the headline to Rene Rodriguez’s story in Saturday’s Miami Herald. The piece reports that drunken partiers have “hijacked” the arts scene on Second Saturday Art Walks, with boozed-up kids stumbling into art spaces, damaging the works on display, and…
It’s been seven long months since we last saw Ike Evans and Ben Diamond battle it out over the business of high-end hotels and mob dealings on Magic City on TV. But if you were in South Beach or downtown during December, there’s a good chance you got to see…
Cynics will think they know everything about Texas Chainsaw 3D solely from its title. To that, we say, “Maybe, but do you know which three dimensions it’s in?” (Okay, fine. Unless you’re Buckaroo Banzai, it’s probably the three you were suspecting.) Which isn’t to say there aren’t surprises in the…
For most people, wrestling deadly swamp-dwellers is the stuff nightmares are made of, but for the Gator Boys, it’s all in a day’s work. These South Florida-based wranglers are famous for capturing nuisance alligators in the Everglades, and last year the antics of Paul Bedard, Jimmy Riffle and team became…
January is the red-headed stepchild of the calendar year. The festive soirees are finito, we’re cranky from our deprivation diets, and the only time off we have to look forward to is Martin Luther King Jr. Day — if we’re lucky. But at least we don’t have to hibernate in…
Cat Lady may be the first show from Mad Cat Theatre Company to showcase an actual mad cat. This pussy is positively vehement: Played by Ken Clement in a black feline costume, Oliver the cat rails against his owner, Kristina (played by the show’s creator, Kristina Wong). He’s fed up…
