In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. These days it’s entirely fair to call Nathalie Zarate a belly-dance superstar. She runs the popular Dreams…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Nery Saenz is a funny guy. Everybody around him can sense it. In fact, his friends and…
Playwright Joshua Harmon may or may not have been thinking of No Exit when he wrote his acrid dramedy Bad Jews. But after seeing the riveting new production of Harmon’s play at GableStage, Sartre’s metaphysical masterpiece seems like a touchstone in at least one sense: It depicts a handful of…
In a city where couples break out stellar salsa in dive bars and backyards, it’s obvious that Miami is rhythmically gifted. For those of you breaking down at clubs and parties, now’s your chance to snatch some real recognition for your remarkable moves. The InterContinental Miami is once again searching…
Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, was not well-received on its premiere in Milan’s legendary La Scala in 1904 — the reasons being far too numerous and open to debate to strangle our flow here — but Puccini, a man director Marc Astafan…
Pamela Z has been performing solo voice concerts for over three decades, but she rarely sounds alone on stage. Instead, she creates a rich multimedia experience using electronics to multiply her voice and trigger sampled sounds and video. Although the term “processed voice” applies — much as it does for…
Mike Birbiglia is a joke. No, really. He’s better known as a comedian, actor, screenwriter, author, and performer, of course. But when he steps onstage next Thursday at the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall, he says, he wants the audience to laugh not only with him but also at him…
TU Dance, a 12-member dance company, will be performing for one night only on Saturday at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. It’s a highly collaborative dance initiative, a company that routinely mixes up the idioms of classical ballet, African dance, modern dance and urban vernacular. Perhaps not surprising then,…
Some say laughter is the safest alternative to tears, while others say it has the power to keep sickness at bay. But really, laughing is just fun and it’s most fun when you get to laugh at someone who’s totally OK with you doing so. Take Joe Gatto, for instance,…
Americans are right that the bonds of our communities have withered, and we are right to fear that this transformation has very real costs.” — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone In 21st-century America, we don’t know who our neighbors are. Property lines loom large, tenants and homeowners are more reclusive than…
Who’s been drinking from the Jim Jones “party mix?” Proving the indelible mark upon the realities and imaginations of the American public, the mass-suicide/murder of 909 folks from the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Jonestown, Guyana refuses to fade away into the annals of the “dark past” of American history,…
“I just wish I was doing something more important with my life.” No, that’s not something our ex said. That’s the very first thing Prince Charming says in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, now performing at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Quite obviously, this is not the Disney princess story of memory…
Miami Theater Center’s Hedda Gabler opens in a way no other versions of Henrik Ibsen’s 19th-century classic ever have. In a wordless prologue, with semitranslucent curtains shrouding the audience’s view, the title character (Jessica Farr) slinks down the elegant staircase of her new home, a strikingly modern, antiseptically white villa…
The acclaimed and crowd-pleasing Tel Aviv-based Batsheva Dance Company, celebrating its 50th Jubilee, returns for an adapted version of Deca Dance, the company’s montage of signature past repertory pieces. The dance will be performed exclusively in Miami — which will also be the company’s opening city during its 2014 U.S…
The Knight Arts Challenge South Florida 2014 People’s Choice Awards nominees are live. The community can vote now through November 17 via text message for one of six selected Knight Arts Challenge finalists to receive $20,000 to fund their projects. It’s a text-to-vote campaign: Choose your favorite group and text…
Romeo was drenched in sweat, but Juliet didn’t seem to mind as she clung to him. In fact, she’d gotten a bit dewy herself going through love’s demanding paces. Within little more than an hour, the couple had circled each other at a ball, shared intimacies under a balcony, and…
It’s that time of the year. South Florida’s dance scene is revving up and the annual Daniel Lewis Miami Dance Sampler returns once more to give the community a glimpse into just how varied and rich an array of dancing is available to us to choose from this season. The…
III Points kicks off today, and shit in Wynwood is about to get all sorts of weird. But the three-day festival, boasting a gnarly lineup of artists, isn’t the only place to get-down at this weekend. This Saturday, Wynwood’s savior of hair care, Junior & Hatter, is hosting a feted…
The time is the 1930s. The place is the wintry mountains of the Alps. You are part of a journalism team investigating a promising lead when BAM! Attack! Your lead is gone — but a bigger story is looming. You’re trapped! Now you are on the run, the literal fate…
Inspired by his family’s saga, Teo Castellanos weaves a tale of betrayal and fraternal bonds that spans three decades, three brothers, and 23 characters. If tragedy comes in threes then Third Trinity delivers with murder, drugs, violence, car chases, and explosions. The story’s backdrop seems more appropriate for a film…
In the Arsht Center’s production of Peter and the Starcatcher, University of Miami senior Joshua Jacobson doesn’t just fill the title role, an orphaned boy who becomes Peter Pan. He also plays a pirate, a sailor, a British seaman, and a door — yes, the kind that other characters open…
Everyone has a story, but some of us are blessed with the ability to convey it beautifully. Edwin Sheppard, founder of Blooming Rose Promotions and Entertainment, and business partner Jerris “Quickthepoet” Evans, invite you to lend an ear to some of the world’s most articulate poets, including three-time Poetry Slam…
