As Art Basel has grown into the biggest art fair in the world, Miami has become known as an international hub of the visual arts, on par with cultural nerve centers around the globe. In recent years, the Magic City has also begun to earn its due recognition for being home to a rich and burgeoning performing arts scene.
Nearly everyone can relate to a dysfunctional family. I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, a play written by Halley Feiffer and directed by GableStage’s producing artistic director, Joseph Adler, explores the consequences of an emotionally abusive relationship between an actress daughter and her playwright father…
Tennessee Williams’ play Summer and Smoke had its premiere on Broadway in 1948, and this weekend it will be reprised flamenco style, by Ballet Flamenco La Rosa – likely the first time a work by Williams has been translated into the language of flamenco. Summer and Smoke is set in…
Whitney White’s newest Shakespeare-meets-modern-music piece hits Miami May 25 through June 9.
A collaboration between dance troupes in Miami and Mexico City, the show communicates ideas about immigration through body language.
On a chilly day last fall, Miami-born artist Yara Travieso sat in a beach chair in her Brooklyn backyard while she talked about a performance she was planning for Miami’s YoungArts Plaza. “It’s very weird,” she said of her current location, “because it’s cold.” Though she no longer lives in Miami, Travieso said she feels like she still has an umbilical cord attached to the city. Hurricane Irma had just blown through, leaving downed trees and twisted street signs. She felt it from afar.
His standup material usually steers clear of politics, outside a sly jab or two, and focuses on personal stories told with real emotion and self-depreciating humor.
The harrowing effects of war are seen throughout the societies it touches. But families, especially mothers, often bear the burdens of loss and grief. This Friday and Saturday, the physically integrated company Karen Peterson and Dancers, in collaboration with visual artist Maria Lino and Warmamas oral history project creator Patricia Figueroa Sowers…
Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami has been on a meteoric trajectory. In its first 18 months, the troupe was a 2017 Knight Challenge Grant recipient, and in June, it will debut at New York’s Joyce Theater, followed by its first appearance at the storied Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. During that same…
Dance companies and student dance groups from around South Florida will participate in one iteration taking place at the Biscayne Nature Center in Crandon Park, and they’ll be part of a much larger network of troupes participating in communities across the United States. Three dance companies will also participate in the national performance in Puerto Rico.
From classic musicals to obscure dark comedies to movie adaptations, here’s all the best theater you can check on this month.
One of the undiagnosed ills of Miami is the tendency of its homegrown artists to leave for broader horizons. It has all of the cultural diversity, money, and institutional backing to expose young people to an amazing upbringing in the arts, but seems to fall short in distracting them from…
It’s not often that Florida’s musical theater fans get to make their counterparts in New York jealous. But this month, the Broadway geeks across the world will have their eyes on the BB&T Center — and their minds on Parkland. From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Parkland, USA…
Parkland Schools substitute teacher and Marjory Stoneman Douglas alum Joey Weisler wrote “Valentine’s Day Massacre” about his experience on the days before, during, and after the Stoneman Douglas shooting.
According to Jannelys Santos, Miami theater has a serious problem. “There have been too many idle theaters spewing out the same material constantly,” she begins, a little exasperated. “It doesn’t speak to our current political climate, to all the shit that’s happening these days.”
Pioneer Winter dances to the beat of his own drum. The local performer and activist is a third-generation South Floridian, with roots in New York, who became a choreographer after earning a master’s in public health from Florida International University. As a kid, he took dance classes at Miami City Ballet…
The ancient Japanese art of taiko drumming is coming to Miami with the group Tao: Drum Heart, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has gone on to tour internationally while getting an extra boost with an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Sponsored by Culture Shock Miami…
Mexico City-based theater collective Teatro Ojo’s works are constantly evolving. Nothing is ever really finished. That’s because they take direction during every performance. Whatever the audience experiences, observes, feels, and offers in feedback, which the performers highly encourage, is used in the evolution of the same piece or introduced into another work.
Here’s your monthly reminder that South Florida has a vibrant and thriving theater scene. From Broadway musicals to comedies to engrossing dramas, there’s never a shortage of great theater to catch at any given playhouse throughout Miami-Dade and Broward. And we’re not just talking about the Arsht Center or the Broward Center.
Come on, Miami, why don’t we paint the town? And all that jazz. The production coming to Miami this weekend is good — it’s grand, it’s great, it’s swell, and it’s fun. Ladies and gentlemen, coming to Villain Theater: It’s MissCellaneous, a monthly event that mixes cabaret and drag; and Sexcago…
It’s been a tough week in South Florida. We could all use some deep belly breaths and some quiet time to reflect and regain our balance. Bess Wohl’s play Small Mouth Sounds, which opened at the Arsht Center last weekend and runs through March 4, offers just that by giving audiences 100 uninterrupted minutes to immerse themselves in a play set in a silent retreat in the woods.
The politically incorrect comedian Jackie Mason can rest easy knowing there is no mention of him in ex-lover Ginger Reiter’s upcoming comedy musical 700 Wives. Reiter took a break from poking fun at her ten-year love affair with her baby daddy, whom she razzed in Both Sides of a Famous Love Affair: The Jackie Mason Musical and its previous incarnations, 702 Punchlines and Pregnant and Oh, Jackie, Oh.
