Performing Arts

South Florida-raised dancer/choreographer Jon Boogz has always wanted to use dance to tell stories that matter.

Feeling joyous is not so easy these days in light of the nation’s toxic politics, global climate change, potential pandemics, and, well, pick your anxiety-producing crisis. But at least temporarily, joy can be experienced for the price of a theater ticket.

The interactive stage show and Miami history lesson is turning its attention to North Beach for its newest iteration.

Whether it’s his science-centric podcast Here We Are or his live Stand Up Science, comedian Shane Mauss has built up a dedicated audience that digs his brand of trippy, unusually informative comedy. Luckily for Miami comedy connoseurs who enjoy gaining a little knowledge between their belly laughs, he’s bringing his…

Soprano Sandra Lopez – who is returning to South Florida in the Florida Grand Opera’s Madama Butterfly – has a story not many performers can tell. She was one of the first singers on the second-largest performing arts stage in the United States: the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the…

Like many contemporary plays, Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son is a small-cast drama, one that unfolds in a taut 84 minutes. But those minutes hold a story of uncommon depth, one that is straightforward yet layered, observant, achingly real and ultimately devastating. Demos-Brown’s finest play to date was created in Miami and…

Playwright Michael Leon’s collaboration with director Victoria Collado is set to open at the Colony Theatre January 23 and run through February 16.

The standup comic is set to open for The Daily Show host Trevor Noah at Hard Rock Live Saturday, January 18.

Miami City Ballet will show the wonders that dancers can weave in pairs when it presents Program Two: I’m Old Fashioned this month at three South Florida venues.

Actor Seth Trucks has been living with Macbeth and Macbeth – one of William Shakespeare’s great roles in one of his great tragedies – for much of the current theater season. In August, Trucks played the ruthlessly pragmatic Scottish king in an intimate New City Players production at The Vanguard…

The room buzzed with activity as members of the Peter London Global Dance Company spent time preparing for Crossing, which will be performed between December 27 and 29 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.   Founder and artistic director Peter London uses local dancers…

The comedian has organized a holiday show at the Miami Improv on Sunday, December 29, to raise funds for the Julia Rubio Colon Cancer Foundation. Named in honor of her mother, the organization works to provide colon cancer screenings for women across South Florida.

Wearing black tops and skirts, four dancers walk the diagonal in the Little Haiti Cultural Complex’s bright studio. Allyn Ginns Ayers, Benicka Grant, Isabelle Luu Li Haas, and Renee Roberts are accompanied by five 12-year-old girls in jeans and brightly colored shirts from Miami’s Conchita Espinosa Academy. Soon the ensemble…

Jim Gaffigan is a rarity in contemporary standup comedy: a clean, family-friendly comic who’s able to sell out venues both stateside and internationally without working blue. He’s also one of the only comedians who won’t take Florida to task for being an godless, politically mismanaged state. “Florida is so special…

America’s culture wars get an illuminating skirmish in The Cake, Bekah Brunstetter’s play about a white North Carolina woman named Jen, who returns to her hometown from Brooklyn to plan the traditional wedding of her dreams.

Yuval Ofir, the founder of the arts incubator Yo Miami, decided to deep-dive into the local comedy scene seven years ago. Though not a comedian himself, he was inspired by the underground scene, which included funny folks who have since left the 305 such as Daniel Reskin, Jessica Gross (now Anderson), and Irene Morales.

Playwright Joseph McDonough, artistic director William Hayes, and actor David Kwiat had something in common when they began working on Ordinary Americans, the play that’s enjoying an extended run at Palm Beach Dramaworks before moving on to a series of shows at GableStage in mid-January.

The loveliest and most expensive cake most of us will ever buy is, without doubt, a wedding cake. A focus on one of the most special days in a couple’s life, the cake is a sweet, beautifully decorated symbol of good fortune and marital happiness. But in recent years, as…

Thomas J. Watson Sr., the founding chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM), was a brilliantly successful salesman and celebrated businessman for the vast majority of his life. But as James Grippando’s new play, Watson, would have it, the one person Watson could never seem to sell on his…

The Hialeah native is staging what she calls a Cuban cabaret, the solo performance “Oye: Starring Marcela Paguaga.”

The Tony-winning show is coming to South Florida for a string of performances in early 2020. Here’s how to get seats to the most talked-about musical in recent memory.

Choreographer and dancer Marissa Alma Nick says her provocative new show, Rebel in Venus, is meant to inspire a dialogue with audiences on rape culture and coping with sexual trauma.