The 29th season of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF) of Miami, which runs July 10-27, showcases leading theater companies from across Latin America, Spain, and the United States. This year, the festival honors Argentina. It also features one Argentina’s most celebrated writers and theater companies — the eponymous Cibrián-Mahler…
The rest of the world may consider Bob Lind something of a legend. He’s the man who wrote and sang the top five worldwide hit “Elusive Butterfly” in 1966, and subsequently became somewhat elusive himself as he veered from the music business into a writing career that found him penning…
As one character in Bill Cain’s sobering, antiwar psychodrama 9 Circles puts it, “terrible things happen” in war. It’s the sort of indisputable, politely hollow phrase that says nothing — one of those euphemisms civilians use to accept the unspeakable. That old chestnut “mistakes were made,” with its general admission…
In its fifth year of Out in the Tropics — a performing art series that highlights contemporary LGBT artists and their work in poetry, dance, and theater — FUNDarte invited back San Francisco-based Sean Dorsey Dance to unveil new work, Uncovered: The Diary Project. Two years ago, Dorsey and company…
In the insular world of stand-up comedy, Jim Breuer is well known. Anywhere else (say, in sit-down comedy), you’d know him from Saturday Night Live or the movie Half Baked. But Breuer’s one busy dude. Besides regular touring, he has also managed to podcast, write a book, and make a…
Here in Miami, more than in any other city in America, an encounter with Cuban culture is akin to a return to the roots. No matter whether it’s dance or art, music or theater, it’s the heritage itself that seems to matter most, with the artistic and entertainment elements often…
Comedian Hannibal Buress has had a pretty excellent last few years. The Eric André Show, in which he co-stars, is a critical darling. Broad City, another of his shows, earned a devoted following after a successful first season. He just went viral after walking around Harlem in a suit made…
Rather than construct a standard-issue theater review for an evening of mirth and brevity that is always anything but standard-issue, I decided to trek through City Theatre’s 19th edition of Summer Shorts play by play, in the order in which they are presented. Liberated from the need to excavate overlapping…
Bourbon is on the rocks, and so, apparently, is a marriage in James McLure’s Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star, two interlocked one-act plays. Both include the same array of characters: two close companions and one intruder bearing a sordid secret. Both end in revelations, vomit, and toppled props. And…
On a recent afternoon, Carlota Pradera and Lazaro Godoy both peered at the empty, black performance space and pondered the narrative of the upcoming show, Bare Bones. Neither would reveal the show’s narrative, if it has one; only that every aspect of the production, from the tree trunks to the…
Bourbon is on the rocks, and so, apparently, is a marriage in James McLure’s Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star, two interlocked one-act plays. Both include the same array of characters: two close companions and one intruder bearing a sordid secret. Both end in revelations, vomit, and toppled props. And…
Rosie Herrera learned young that a show girl is never the star of the show. As a teenager working the cabaret at the Teatro Bellas Artes in Little Havana in the early aughts, she posed prettily on the side of the stage, jutting out her hip to display her costume,…
August Strindberg’s 1888 masterpiece chronicles an eventful Saturday night and Sunday morning in the servants’ quarters of the estate of a Swedish count. Miss Julie (Katherine Amadeo), a flighty noblewoman, escapes her upper-class trappings for a midsummer’s eve of frivolity with educated valet Jean (Matthew William Chizever). Their actions, fueled…
Hattie Mae Williams is a Miami-bred badass. After graduating from New World in Miami and then getting a degree with honors from Fordham/Alvin Ailey in New York — one of the single most respected contemporary dance programs in the country — Williams established her own modern dance corps, the Tattooed…
Anyone who’s unaware might find it easy to dismiss Evita as yet another musical that’s run its course — or worse, a one-hit stage show with a terrific title tune but an otherwise well-worn narrative. But the terrific touring version that opened at the Arscht Tuesday night proved nothing could…
Amy Herzog’s The Great God Pan borrows its name from a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning titled “A Musical Instrument.” It concerns the Greek god Pan, part-man and part-goat, ransacking a river to build a reed instrument. Intimations of hedonistic darkness, particularly regarding Pan’s specialty — sexuality — burble beneath…
Of the six plays in GableStage’s 2013-14 season, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike was its most anticipated production for hard-core theatergoers — and not just because the play won just about every award for which it was nominated in 2013, including the Tony for best play…
Of the six plays in GableStage’s 2013-14 season, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike was its most anticipated production for hard-core theatergoers — and not just because the play won just about every award for which it was nominated in 2013, including the Tony for best play…
By now, the Blue Man Group has become a reliable brand, much like Cirque du Soleil and its various offshoots. Like Cirque and its ilk, the Blue Man Group has yet to grow tiresome or overindulgent, even in spite of the constant exposure. Somehow, the sight of these oddly endearing…
Months in the making, Karen Peterson and Dancers’ latest work, GRIT, debuts in its entirety this Thursday and Friday at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. The defining piece touches on the human experience, and is intended to showcase the strength of the renowned mixed-abilities company, which is comprised of a host…
If you’ve been to a South Florida comedy club in recent history, you’ve likely seen Nery Saenz. He’s made you laugh, established a connection, and explained how to pronounce his name (near-ee sigh-enz). He hosts the weekly pop round-up What’s Up Bro?! Podcast, and recently toured with comic legend Dave…
Carlos Mencia has never been so uncontroversial. For years, the comedian navigated the seas of mainstream success with his show Mind of Mencia while being thrashed by storms of criticism for allegations of stealing material within the community. It’s rare for a comedian to experience soaring adoration or scathing hate,…
