Written by award-winning playwright, Leslie Ayvazian, High Dive, which opened this past Saturday at New Theatre, is a light comedy about the indelible task of overcoming one’s greatest fears while finding the absurdity in them. The story tackles one woman’s fear of heights while she chronicles her misadventures of past…
Liony Garcia is a mess. He’s collapsed with his head down on a table, his eyes brimming with tears. The song “Cheer Up Charlie” from Willy Wonka taunts him. Standing behind him in an elegant suit, Octavio Campos pulls a roll of Scotch tape from his jacket pocket, yanks Garcia…
Atop a high dive in a hotel in Greece is a woman who is terrified of heights while her son and 34 other on-lookers goad her to jump. That’s the setting of High Dive, a charming one-person play that opens this Saturday night at New Theatre.Written by award-winning playwright, Leslie…
First, an obligatory reference to the old glory days of South Beach: Sandra Bernhard totally hung out there in the ’90s and — obligatory related reference to Ingrid Casares — totally dated Ingrid Casares! Okay, got that out of the way. Everyone involved in that era has moved on, but ribald…
“It’s like they’re all making dances for a fictional body that none of them have,” choreographer Jess Curtis remembers his colleague saying, describing a university dance program he’d just seen. A seed was planted for Curtis to begin Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies, a work of dance, theater, circus, and more,…
A Round-Heeled Woman By Jane Prowse. Through February 6 at GableStage at the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.org. Tickets cost $37.50 to $47.50 . A 66-year-old divorced schoolteacher who hasn’t had sex in 30 years thinks it’s about time she get some nooky. So she takes out…
Birthdays and funerals are more than just places to pick up dates. You get front row seats to the witness the polar opposites of human emotion. That’s what fascinates choreographer Rosie Herrera. Fitting then that at her new piece, Pity Party, “is about grief and loss.” But that doesn’t mean…
Earlier today, Michael Miller posted his thoughts on the new Frank Gehry campus of the New World Center. And we agree, those damn blue and white speckled seats are ugly and look more appropriate for an airport gate seating area than a performance hall. Thing is, though, during a performance…
Since 1985, you’ve seen this abrasive magic/comedy duo everywhere — from Fear Factor to their successful Showtime and Emmy-nominated show Penn & Teller: Bullshit! to the pilot episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. And now you don’t need to turn on your television or buy a ticket to Sin City…
A novelist, journalist, and blogger walk into a bar. The novelist asks for Johnny Walker Blue, neat. The journalist asks for a beer, a Heineken from the tap. Just as the blogger is about to order, he thinks about it and instead slaps the bartender, insults the novelist, and spits…
Cultist classed it up Saturday night at the Arsht Center for the Florida Grand Opera’s second production of the 2011 season, Jacques Offenbach’s three-act opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. And since it was this correspondent’s first operatic excursion, we took full advantage of FGO’s pre-show lecture conducted by Justin Moss,…
Wow. We never thought we’d be saying this (we really, really didn’t), but here it is: We have a completely new-found respect for strippers.After having frequented several strip clubs in our day, we had never really thought about the athleticism involved in riding a pole. Our lack of observational prowess…
Whenever you hear, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”, it’s rarely followed by “I’m in the lumberyard you crazy, Capulet.” But we do things a little differently in Miami. So when Shakespeare in Miami’s production of Romeo and Juliet was booted from Peacock Park in the Grove the company had…
Written and directed by Jane Prowse, A Round-Heeled Woman is based on Jane Juska’s 2003 memoir A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance. Sharon Gless, whom you might recognize as the neurotic chain-smoking mom in hit TV show Burn Notice, turns in a candid performance as Jane,…
Say you’re one of those people who gets dragged, kicking if not screaming, to dance events who would rather lie down on a bed of nails listening to a Sarah Palin speech than sit through an evening of contemporary dancing. Kate Weare might change your mind.Check out her New York-based…
The Tales of Hoffmann, presented by the Florida Grand Opera and opening at the Arsht Center Saturday night, is a 19th century, three-act opera by German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach. And, as it is with the best operas, the stirring tale involves forbidden love, ominous symbolism and, of course, tragic untimely…
What does a nun, a hyena, bartending aliens, and Ted Danson have in common? Whoopi Goldberg. Caryn Elaine Johnson — who revealed last Saturday night that her stage name is a result of the comedienne “having a lot of gas” — has had quite a career. It’s been 30 years…
Known as the “mob’s accountant,” Meyer Lansky was financier who worked with golden era gangsters like Charles “Lucky” Luciano and childhood friend “Bugsy” Siegel. Though often portrayed as a secondary character in Hollywood mob hits, Lansky might have been the most influential crime boss of the entire Twentieth Century, helping…
In A Round-Heeled Woman, Jane Juska is a 66-year old divorced schoolteacher who hasn’t had sex in 30-odd years and thinks it’s about time to get some nooky. So she puts out an ad in the New York Review of Books that gets straight to the point: “Before I turn…
Whether your comedy taste involves straight-up slapstick with a side of sledge-hammered watermelon à la Gallagher or dark, clever, awkwardness spiked by silliness like Andy Kaufman’s Foreign Man singing the Mighty Mouse theme, two community theaters in Coral Gables currently have performances sure to tickle (be it with a feather…
Have you always loved the play The Diary of Anne Frank but felt it was missing something — like a rubber chicken, whoopee cushion, or Hitler getting a pie in the face while Eva Braun slipped on a banana peel? Such was the thinking of performer Frannie Sheridan when she…
Miamian Annah Rondon used to manage a Christian church. Now she blogs full-time about sexperiments, the joy of eating ox tail, and duck boners. Maybe not the most intellectual or elegant topics, but definitely amusing and entertaining. Her blog, Red Means Go, is hypnotic with its simple stick figure cartoons…
