Performing Arts

A Bicycle Country at the Roxy Performing Arts Center Through June 24

Deathtrap at Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre Through July 1

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz’s A Bicycle Country, being performed by New Theatre until this weekend at the Roxy Performing Arts Center, tells the tale of three Cuban exiles and their harrowing and treacherous journeys to Miami from their oppressed island nation. The play debuted at Florida Stage in…

Father’s Day is this weekend, which means you should probably start prepping yourself for the same, awkwardly stilted conversation with your dad you always have — the one where he thanks you for getting him The Best of Bob Seger and then you discuss the weather.But don’t just honor your…

This week, New Times released its annual Best Of Miami issue, highlighting its editors’ opinions on the best Miami has to offer. For the second year in a row, I’m the proud winner of the reader’s choice for Best Twitter, yet somehow, the guy responsible for choosing it officially for…

On Friday, June 15, the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery will be hosting the Miami debut of Simone Sobers Dance and their newest work, Rogue. Company director Sobers, who trained here in Miami and is now based in New York, describes the 45-minute installation piece as an exploration of the “wild, rebellious,…

Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, the retro-chic women of Mad Men — the pin-up girl aesthetic has clearly made a comeback. The wholesome, all-American girl showing off just enough skin is on the rise after staying quiet for decades.The pin-up girls of the mid-20th century fell into obscurity in later…

Summer Shorts: Sex, Presidents, and More Sex

City Theatre sifts through hundreds of plays every year to find a handful of scripts that are just the right amount of fun and hilarity for Summer Shorts, their annual short play festival, which opened last night at the Arsht Center. The aim is to be Saturday Night Live with…

Last week, I urged all Miamians participating in Urban Beach Weekend to be careful not to make us look like a herd of comemierdas to the rest of the country. I was hoping I could write this week’s article about how great Memorial Day weekend ended up this year, pero…

Summer Shorts: Funny Goes Arsht

Kids these days, with their iPods and their Xboxes and their Angry Birds. As modern technology evolves, what will become of its predecessors? Where’s the nostalgia for, say, the clacking and clicking of a typewriter? Turns out, it’s alive and well. Omni Zona Franca, a performance group from Havana, mash…

It always feels good to do a selfless charitable act. But it feels pretty darn awesome when that philanthropic act of kindness involves food, drink, and an all-night dance party.So in an act of not-quite-complete-selflessness, an expectant 300 patrons of the arts will be coming out to party with Miami…

Port-au-Prince based Ayikodans returned to Miami this weekend for the second year in a row. And choreographer Jean Guy Saintus, with his unrivaled corps of dancers, proved once again that Haiti is home to immense and sophisticated culture worthy of the world’s stage. Ayikodans is an ideal of global artistic…

Memorial Day is just around the corner, and as usual, Miami looks more like it’s preparing for a category five hurricane than a holiday celebration. The mass exodus of island residents is well underway, and it’s making the Mariel Boatlift look as puny as an Occupy Miami rally. But it…

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings at the PlayGround Theatre Through May 25

Let’s get the results out of the way up top: Donald Driver and Peta are your Dancing with the Stars Season 14 champions. In many ways it should have been obvious; athletes have now won seven out of the 14 seasons (that’s 50 percent, for all of you statistics junkies…

Last week we had to bid farewell to Maria Menunous and Derek, and with them, the last shred of drama on Dancing With The Stars. William Levy, Katherine Jenkins and Donald Driver are all very accomplished dancers, for celebrities at the very least. But they also seem to be nice…

When last night’s Lion King audience returned to their seats after the show’s intermission, they probably expected some more tribal music, some more freaky human-animal costuming, and a nice tidy Disney ending to their night at the theater.What they got was a downpour all over the imagined Pride Lands.The ceiling…

There are a lot of wheels spinning on this week’s Magic City, which means the show has a lot of ground to cover, plot-wise, and little room for some of its other signature flair. Like non-stop nudity and banging. Oh sure, there’s a moderate amount of nudity in this episode…

Miami’s Syndee Winters in The Lion King at the Arsht Center May 17 Through June 10

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!In case you’ve been living under a rock, the Broadway version of Disney’s The Lion King starts its run at the Adrienne Arsht Center today. And while you might be tempted to scoff at its plebeian origins, it stands as one of the longest-running Broadway productions and…