Here & Now Fest Returns With Shiva, Shamans, and Sex Reassignment

Ritualistic writing, interdisciplinary theater, phosphorescent paintings, and sexual reassignment surgery come together to form the backbone for the 15th annual Here & Now: 2014, A Knight Emerging Artist Series. Here & Now is where and when the Miami Light Project commissions new performance work by innovative South Florida artists. The…

Secrets of the La Croix World Premiere at Main Street Playhouse

The Main Street Players, Miami Lakes’ resident community theater company, departs from its tradition of producing Broadway or off-Broadway hits to mount the world premiere of an early work by one of South Florida’s best playwrights, David Michael Sirois. A two-time Carbonell Award nominee for his plays Brothers Beckett and…

Arts Ballet’s Season Finale Stays on Pointe

To close its 16th season, the Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida is dedicating its finale performance to ballet’s Russian forefathers and to Venezuela, which has heavily influenced the company’s neo-classical repertoire. The shows will be held Saturday, May 3, at the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center and Sunday, May 4,…

Rose and the Rime Soars at the Arsht Center

The House Theatre of Chicago has little interest in producing traditional plays. The previous productions it has taken to the Adrienne Arsht Center — such as The Sparrow, about a girl who develops special powers after surviving a tragic bus accident, and the sold-out engagements of Death and Harry Houdini,…

PAN Celebrates Its Rise from the Ashes During Miami Dance Festival

Shaping Miami into the artistic hub that it’s become couldn’t have been done without the steady, decades-long priming by The Performing Arts Network (PAN) in North Miami. PAN’s founders have been on the frontlines of Miami’s dance and performance scene since the 1980s. Nestled in a narrow commercial strip along…

Rose and the Rime Soars at the Arsht Center

The House Theatre of Chicago has little interest in producing traditional plays. The previous productions it has taken to the Adrienne Arsht Center — such as The Sparrow, about a girl who develops special powers after surviving a tragic bus accident, and the sold-out engagements of Death and Harry Houdini,…

Not Ready for Primetime at New Theatre Is a Fail

One of the first lines in Not Ready for Primetime, a patchy chronicle of the tumultuous inception of Saturday Night Live, is a pithy mission statement delivered by its creator, Lorne Michaels. He says his new variety show will be “absurd, young, and hip — and if you don’t like…

Cocktales: Nymphomania in Midtown Miami

Little Eve is taking a bath with her father and playing with her rubber ducky. She sees something in the water that looks odd. “Daddy, Daddy, is that your rubber ducky?” she asks, eyes wide, in her baby voice. Then she tugs on it. “It becomes a moment of oops,”…

Not Ready for Primetime at New Theatre Is a Fail

One of the first lines in Not Ready for Primetime, a patchy chronicle of the tumultuous inception of Saturday Night Live, is a pithy mission statement delivered by its creator, Lorne Michaels. He says his new variety show will be “absurd, young, and hip — and if you don’t like…