Miami New Drama Takes Over Historic Colony Theatre in Miami Beach

The historic Colony Theatre will now be operated by Miami New Drama, the City of Miami Beach announced this week. Miami Beach, which owns the historic theater, says that the company assumed operations at the resident theater company on October 1. Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann and Managing…

Comedian Josh Wolf, Split From CMT, Moves on to South Florida

Florida is an easy punchline. Thanks to the, ahem, colorful characters that populate the Sunshine State, whether it’s a man robbing a Taco Bell after paying for his meal or a woman hiding her weed in her niece’s lunchbox, this place gives everyone the giggles. But although comedian Josh Wolf has…

Louis C.K. Announces Four November Shows at the Arsht Center

Louis CK’s love for Miami is no secret — he devoted an entire episode of his FX show Louie to the Magic City. So it’s no surprise that he’s booked himself a long weekend stay here in November, complete with four stand-up shows on back-to-back nights. The comedian announced his…

The Ten Best DWNTWN Art Days 2016 Events

If you can finagle a day off so soon after Labor Day, you might want to do so — DWNTWN Art Days kicks off Friday, bringing a three-day schedule of more than 70 events to Downtown Miami’s museums, studios, theaters, streets, and waterfront. With exhibitions, live performances, outsize installations, social-issues…

Multimedia Dance Presentation Possible Impossible Celebrates U.S. Premiere

Cuba and Sweden have seemingly tenuous ties. The 5,000-mile differential makes no difference for Havana’s Retazos Dance Theater Company and Malmö’s Memory Wax dance and theater company, though. Tomorrow night, Possible Impossible, the biggest collaboration between these two production companies, will take place at Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Miami’s Copperbridge Foundation presents…

Stalking the Bogeyman at GableStage Spells Talent

David Holthouse, author of Stalking the Bogeyman, which premiered this past weekend at Gablestage and runs through August 28, is an extraordinary talent. He tells stories like few others — with imagination, drama, and a profound understanding of the twisted side of human existence. His play is a powerful retelling…

At GableStage, Stalking the Bogeyman Takes on Taboos

David Holthouse meticulously plotted just how he would approach the man who had raped him as a child. He would shoot him in the crotch before putting two slugs in the back of his head. “I was going to walk up to him,” Holthouse wrote of his plan, “reintroduce myself,…

Swing Your Partner at Rhythm Foundation’s Contradance Thursdays

It’s perhaps the most exotic dance music to hit Miami in recent memory: contradance. It’s Americana, the real thing, a far more sophisticated version of the square-dancing you may remember from gym dances in elementary school. A band called Cornbread and just as tasty is in the house each Thursday…