When Richard Wagner wrote Der Fliegende Holländer, or The Flying Dutchman, in 1843, he imagined the two-hour-plus opera performed with no intermission. Perhaps fortunately for some audience members, the Miami Music Festival and Miami Wagner Institute will not stay true to the great German composer’s original vision this Friday, July 19, at…
The crazy-talented John Leguizamo is bringing his crazy-hilarious Latin History for Morons to Miami for a special three-night engagement at the Arsht Center next week. Latin History for Morons, another tour de force one-man show written and directed by Leguizamo, delves deep into the unspoken and often expunged historical nuggets of how…
The filmmakers behind Respect the Light, the upcoming Miami-based comedy docuseries on Amazon Prime, admit they had issues with previous cinematic efforts at filming funny people. “A lot of these documentaries get into the nitty-gritty of a comedian’s life,” says Respect the Light codirector Gerard Clarke, one-third of the indie…
Hannibal Buress can’t stay away from Miami for too long. The comedian announced his return to the Magic City Tuesday night, a week after performing an intimate pop-up set for 80 lucky fans at Little Haiti’s Villain Theater. Buress will be filming his next comedy special August 10 at Olympia Theater…
Fresh off receiving the honor of Miami New Times’ best comedian of 2019, Rudy Wilson will be hosting a special standup showcase at the Improv in Doral. The show, titled “From Atlanta to Miami,” is set to feature performers from Wilson’s hometown of Atlanta as well as his…
Hannibal Buress must really love Miami. He’s performed in South Florida a bunch of times. He raised relief funds after Hurricane Irma. And now, it appears that even being arrested on questionable charges by a cop with a shady history hasn’t soured him on this town. He’ll perform a “Miami…
City Theatre’s Summer Shorts festival, the start to the less-crowded summer arts season, turns 24 this year. This year’s lineup of six short plays and two mini musicals is, of course, eclectic and playful. But beneath the summer fun, meaningful ideas and issues are afoot. A police trainee has to…
John Cameron Mitchell’s “The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig” isn’t exactly a reincarnation of the show. “I’m not really playing Hedwig,” Mitchell explains to New Times. “I’m playing myself in a Hedwig costume telling the story of its origin, talking about the people involved, the philosophies involved, and just creating a real love fest with our fans.”
Mexican singer, actress and performance artist Astrid Hadad takes the absurd seriously. Her surreal brand of cabaret lampoons the marketing of Mexico’s cultural icons and reframes received historical truths. Her costumes, often marvels of movable set design, unfold, billow and blink. At one moment, she’s a living Diego Rivera calla…
If you attended the inaugural Currents experience at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in March, you experienced some of the best culture Miami had to offer. In addition to the art on view throughout the PAMM, attendees also witnessed pop-up performances by Juggerknot Theatre and got to rock out to…
John Leguizamo headlines a 2019 summer theater season in South Florida stacked with diverse stories, drama, musical triumphs, and laughs galore. The prolific Tony Award-winning character actor is bringing his Broadway hit Latin History for Morons to the Ziff Ballet Opera House in July, joining a crazy-good lineup of…
Ben Bailey sees himself as a comedian first and the host of Cash Cab second. Many of his fans, on the other hand, are bigger fans of his Cash Cab work — if they’re even aware of his 25-year standup-comedy career. But Bailey doesn’t seem too bitter about…
The work of three Miami choreographers, each with radically distinct visions of movement and dance, will be presented this Thursday and Friday, May 9-10, at Miami Dade College’s Live Arts Lab. Each choreographer, all of them women, explores the relationship between performers and audiences. Or, as choreographer Rosie Herrera puts…
If you think almost dying would hold Whoopi Goldberg down, think again. The comedian drew from her recent life-threatening illness for her newest standup comedy show, which debuts at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood April 26.
A Lorne Michaels impression is kind of like a class ring for Saturday Night Live alumni. Former cast member and University of Miami alumnus Finesse Mitchell uses his own impression to recall some advice given to him by the show’s longtime executive producer.
On the corner of NE Second Avenue and 17th Street in downtown Miami stands an old villa enclosed by wrought-iron gates. On one side, there’s a hardware store, and on the other there’s a modern-day fast food joint. But step inside the villa, and you’re no longer in 2019 Miami…
They say laughter is the best medicine, and comedian Kyle Grooms has generated arena-sized doses of it. Now his fans and fellow stand ups are returning the favor, funding real medical treatment for the local comic. After Grooms was rushed to the hospital due to a severe emergency, doctors made…
Juggerknot Theater Company is back again with another iteration of its popular Miami Motel Stories series. Only this time, there’s no motel. Juggerknot’s Executive Artistic Director, Tanya Bravo, explains that its next production will tell the story of one of Miami’s most swiftly developed neighborhoods: Wynwood. Since there’s no physical…
When filmmaker Billy Corben was putting together the 2006 crime documentary “Cocaine Cowboys,” he came across an epic document. It was a deposition from Jorge “Rivi” Ayala, a former hitman for Miami drug queen Griselda Blanco. At a whopping 1,300 pages, Ayala’s testimony walked authorities through the bloodshed of…
Though the themes in “/peh-LO-tah/” touch upon the issues America is reckoning with at a heightened state at the moment, Joseph wrote the play during the waning period of the Obama era, and it premiered just ten days after Trump was elected.
When I tell you I moved down to Miami for the weather, I really mean I moved to South Florida to escape my depression. I’m not alone. Many people believe the Magic City, with its brilliant sunsets and never-ending attractions, will redeem them from darkness. The…
Jayme Gershen is thinking of the perfect anecdote to describe her friend. After a long pause, she’s got it. “She’s forces me to sing this song with her in Creole, that’s like, one line,” Gershen says about Ajhanou Uneek, a Haitian-American drummer-performer known throughout the Miami music scene for her…
