Miami and Lisbon Dance Companies Unite for a Special Two-Day Performance

Miami’s Karen Peterson and Dancers company brings its 26th season to a close this weekend with a series of premieres as well as collaborations with two of Portugal’s leading dance companies, Amalgama Companhia de Danca and Plural. These groups, like Peterson’s, are committed to exploring what physicality and mixed-ability are…

Actors’ Playhouse’s The Tin Woman Takes on a Heart Transplant

Whenever a character in popular fiction is named “Joy,” you should assume there’s some irony involved. She’s probably destitute or depressed or mentally unstable or otherwise joyless. Such is the case with the lead character of Sean Grennan’s recent play, The Tin Woman, a probing affair from this accessible chronicler…

Meet Chris Silio, The 20-Year-Old Blind Miami Comic

Twenty-year-old Chris Silio grew up in Miami and has lived in Kendall all his life. He remembers wanting to be a professional comedian from a very young age. “I would tell my elementary school teachers I wanted to be a standup comic and be on Comedy Central,” says Silio. “My…

Miami New Drama Returns with A Special Day

A Special Day is definitively multicultural. The play is based on an Italian text, performed by Mexican actors, and spoken in English. Two stage companies — New York’s The Play Company and Mexico City’s Por Piedad Teatro — co-present the work. It’s set to take place in Miami Beach, one…

David Sedaris Brings His Hilarious Storytelling to the Parker Playhouse

The world is filled with long-winded storytellers and boring status updates about babies and dinner. Unless you’re Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne, Richard Branson, or some other filthy-rich British person, there’s a good chance your life is pretty mundane. Still, there are the rare few who can take a seemingly unexceptional…

Cabaret Revival Casts Queer as Folk‘s Randy Harrison as the Emcee

In the early 2000s, Randy Harrison starred in one of the most addictive, engaging, and subversive comi-dramas on American television. Eleven years after Showtime’s Queer as Folk ended, the actor is back to revealing the lives of complex individuals and complicated ideals. This time, however, he’s onstage. And singing. And wearing very, very…

Lewis Black Gets Naked for Miami Audiences

“In my act, for a long time, I used to say that Copenhagen was considered the nicest place in the world to live and it’s a Socialist country,” says comedian Lewis Black. “It gets a certain kind of backlash with Facebook crap and stuff, I mean nothing major, but just enough…

Rudi Goblen’s PET at the Light Box Explores Heartbreak

For Michael Yawney, director of the one-man show PET at Miami Light Box at Goldman Warehouse this weekend, the most difficult question to answer is the most elemental: What is the show? “I think of it as a big cornucopia of stuff,” Yawney says. “There’s dance, there’s music, it’s funny,…

Momentum Dance Hails Spring With Celebratory Work

After 34 years of creating modern dance in Miami, Momentum Dance Company’s artistic director and founder, Delma Iles, shows no sign of slowing. The company celebrates its anniversary this week at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre with two performances featuring three new dance works from Iles herself. Leading Momentum Dance has…

Comic Cure Brings Comedy Festival to Coral Gables

To say that the local organization Comic Cure cares is an understatement. Over the last year or so, the group has made important progress across South Florida, supporting both local comics and the community at large. Founded by brothers Benjamin and Richy Leis, Comic Cure organizes events year round, with…

George Bernard Shaw Gets a Musical Treatment at GableStage

For a play set in the 19th century, George Bernard Shaw’s Candida is frighteningly still relevant. Throughout his life, the Irish playwright and critic harbored allegiances to Marxism, gradualism, and eventually, Fabien Socialism. And in his writing career, Shaw often wrote versions of himself or interpretations of his ideals into…