With Mike Piazza, Miami City Ballet Jazzes Up Its Step

The Miami City Ballet Company (MCB) will close its 2012-2013 season this weekend at the Arsht Center with Broadway and Ballet, a valentine to Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. No surprise there, since the MCB has been acclaimed far and wide for its devotion to the masters, especially Balanchine. What…

Jeffrey at Miami Beach Stage Door Through May 5

In his award-winning play Jeffrey, first produced off-Broadway in 1993, playwright Paul Rudnick (who wrote the screenplay to Hollywood’s In & Out) dipped his sifter into that veritable comic goldmine, the AIDS crisis. HIV might not be the cause for national panic it once was — a controversial “functional cure”…

Win a South Beach Comedy Festival VIP Pass Worth $1,000

Hey there, Cultist reader. Wanna go to the South Beach Comedy Festival? Sure do, Cultist! But I can’t decide which hilarious comedian I’d like to see. Sarah Silverman? Seth Meyers? Tracy Morgan? Which should I choose? Don’t choose, Cultist reader. Go see them all — for free. See, we’re giving…

The Savannah Disputation at Arsht Center: A Holy War in Suburban Georgia

First produced in 2007, Evan Smith’s The Savannah Disputation is a holy war in microcosm – an acerbic verbal brawl on a single suburban property, currently receiving an exceptional production from Zoetic Stage at the Arsht Center.Barbara Bradshaw and Laura Turnbull play Mary and Margaret, Roman Catholic sisters cohabitating on…

Alison Chase’s Red Weather: A Dynamic Dance Forecast

The lovely weather in Miami these days, the vibrant cultural scene, the ethnically diverse food options — all are reasons for Alison Chase to jump for joy. After all, it is pretty cold in Maine, where she lives. But more important than all that: the modern dance giant — sh’s…