“Miami makes me insane,” Lewis Black says over the phone after the conclusion of our 20-minute interview. “Down there, I felt like I had a weight problem. In New York, I feel like my weight is normal. When I get to Miami, I think, Jesus, I’m a fat pig.” We…
Last month, we reported that comedian Chelsea Handler was bringing her latest comedy tour to the South Beach Comedy Festival in April. The unfortunate name of said tour? “Uganda Be Kidding Me.” We’re guessing at least one of the newly announced names on the SBCF 2014 lineup will have something…
It’s way too easy not to grow up. Given the explosion of the video game industry, comic book movies, cosplay, and comicons the age of the manchild is officially here – and it’s only just begun. Get ready for Marvel Universe LIVE!, a massive arena production based on all your…
Last month local coffee shop/bar Lester’s closed down, effectively ending the monthly Mustache Ride Comedy Show run by local comedian Irene Morales. As the tides roll in and out, a new bar opened, the Wynwood Brewing Company, and so has another stand-up show helmed by Irene. The rebranded Last Call…
Brazilian American stand-up comedian Eric DaSilva is recording his live CD/DVD Jan 25… again. After technical complications, Eric embraced chaos to include footage from multiple shows at multiple venues, weaving them together similar to Chris Rock’s Kill the Messenger. The recently-closed PAX will re-open for one night to support the…
There’s a new theater in town. No, really. New Theatre just moved into the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, and the multi-cultural, progressively-minded camp is more than ready for the inaugural production in its new home, David Caudle’s Visiting Hours. Not actually “new” at all, the theater has entertained Miami…
By George Fishman, artburstmiami.com People have told choreographer Nora Chipaumire that they found her dance-theater performance Miriam too dark. “It’s so black,” they complained. “What am I looking at?” they asked about this performance based on the life and music of South African legend Miriam Makeba. “At first, I was…
When you think of self-destructive entertainers who died before their time, which names come to mind? Jim Morrison? Jimi Hendrix? Kurt Cobain? Amy Winehouse? We don’t really think of Judy Garland in this capacity — at least I never did — because she lived 20 years longer than these fatalistic…
When you think of self-destructive entertainers who died before their time, which names come to mind? Jim Morrison? Jimi Hendrix? Kurt Cobain? Amy Winehouse? We don’t really think of Judy Garland in this capacity — at least I never did — because she lived 20 years longer than these fatalistic…
By Mia Leonin, artburstmiami.com In the first few minutes of Gabri Christi’s film Quarantined, you can’t see dancer Kyle Abraham’s sculptured torso or his rhythmic leaps or the fact he’s wearing a long white skirt made of tulle. The camera, however, reveals glimpses of a jawline and a closely shaved…
After years of uncertainty, blame-throwing, and political maneuvering, one of the most dramatic real estate stories in recent Miami history has entered its conclusion. The Coconut Grove Playhouse narrowly escaped being sold by the state of Florida to the highest bidder this week when Miami-Dade officials, with just hours to…
Of all the historic masterworks in the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra might be the least likely play to appear in a given company’s season, for a simple reason: It’s really hard to do. The play, written in 1606, dramatizes nothing less than the collapse of Rome’s triumvirate and the…
Of all the historic masterworks in the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra might be the least likely play to appear in a given company’s season, for a simple reason: It’s really hard to do. The play, written in 1606, dramatizes nothing less than the collapse of Rome’s triumvirate and the…
There are many reasons to rejoice in Miami City Ballet’s second program of the season, called “See the Music,” but chief among them is this: the company premiere of Nacho Duato’s Jardí Tancat. It is a gem, a major addition to the company repertory, and above all it is beautiful…
Near the beginning of GableStage’s Antony and Cleopatra, which debuted last night at the Colony Theater, the audience is treated to a view of Marc Antony’s (Jonathan Cake) nude buttocks. It’s an offbeat beginning to a Shakespeare play and, in several ways, sets the stage for one of the most…
After last week’s article on Miami’s comedy venues closing en masse, New Times thought the scene needed some comic’s relief. But just as both of Miami’s comedy clubs closed, a new one emerged: Jokes on the Beach, located inside Trio on the Bay on the 79th Street Causeway. Was this…
The elasticity of William Shakespeare’s words — the way they can be stretched to anywhere, anytime, and still resonate universal truths — will be put to the test this Friday by GableStage and wunderkind Tarell Alvin McCraney. A year after McCraney and the area’s premier theater company put together a…
The elasticity of William Shakespeare’s words — the way they can be stretched to anywhere, anytime, and still resonate universal truths — will be put to the test this Friday by GableStage and wunderkind Tarell Alvin McCraney. A year after McCraney and the area’s premier theater company put together a…
Get ready, bitches. Spring in South Beach just got a lot more sassy. And a lot more drunk. The South Beach Comedy Festival announced its 2014 dates today, as well as its first headlining act — none other than the brash, deadpan, unapologetically booze-hungry Chelsea Handler…
Mad Cat Theatre’s latest production lives up to its title, though perhaps not entirely as intended. Mixtape 2 is a presentation of several short film and theater works, and much like an audio mixtape inspired by situational events — such as a breakup — only certain “tracks” appeal to its…
Janeane Garofalo said it best in The Truth About Cats and Dogs: “We can love our pets. We just can’t looooove our pets.” (In the sexy way, she means.) For most people, the same is true of our college football teams. But don’t tell that to Miami comedian Dave Williamson,…
If Miami’s streets could talk, they would have enough unique stories to create a lifetime’s worth of plays and films. Consider Teo Castellanos, an actor, playwright, and director, as the personified voice of Miami. He has dreamed up Third Trinity, a one-act play and film he produced with fellow artist…
