What happens when you get two of the most sarcastic and vulgar writers in television together, then sprinkle in a little music, some choreographed dancing, and organized religion? Hello, the most amazing musical is born: The Book of Mormon. This musical will change your life…
Nobody, apparently, is too big for Kickstarter. Public figures such as Spike Lee, Zach Braff, and Marina Abramovic have all taken to the crowdfunding website recently, where they’ve raised up to $3 million for their offbeat artistic ventures. But the site wasn’t exactly created with the whims of eccentric millionaires…
If GableStage’s production of My Name is Asher Lev is a triumph – and this weekend’s opening-night reaction seemed to suggest it is – then it’s a subtle victory, a slow creep toward transcendence. The atmosphere is often low-lit and lugubrious. There are occasional moments of levity, but the tone…
“The comedian I am now is not the comedian I started out being,” Eric DaSilva told me in the middle of a Starbucks in Kendall while reflecting on his career. “I thought I would be like a Bill Hicks… then I had my first kid and I started talking about…
The setting of John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo is a seedy bar in the Bronx, circa 1986. As interpreted by the Alliance Theatre Lab’s set designer, Adalberto Acevedo, we’ve all seen this bar before, usually when we’ve had nowhere else to go. It’s not a place of entertainment —…
The setting of John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo is a seedy bar in the Bronx, circa 1986. As interpreted by the Alliance Theatre Lab’s set designer, Dennis Lysniak, we’ve all seen this bar before, usually when we’ve had nowhere else to go. It’s not a place of entertainment –…
Balé Folclórico da Bahia aims to give an authentic taste of Afro-Brazilian history and culture with every high kick and undulation that unfolds onstage. Using drumming and religious chanting as part of its soundtrack, the company’s repertoire explodes with high-energy folkloric movement, electric sambas and lightning-fast capoeira moves exchanged between…
You guys, we’re so jealous of Nature right now! Sure, getting fracked is totally lame, but how awesome would it be to have Nikki Glaser as one of your besties? “I would say I’ve been friends with Nature since, god, since I bought a Gap shirt that said ‘Save the…
Coconut Grove’s long-standing comedy club, Miami Improv, is no more. The spot is shuttered and all future shows are cancelled, a representative told Cultist. The spot, tucked away at 3390 Mary St., wasn’t doing well financially, according to the rep, so the owners decided to shut the doors. “We are…
The opening scene of Fear Up Harsh may be the closest a theater audience can get to the bowels of a war zone. It’s set in Muqdadiyah, a hellhole that American soldiers affectionately called “the nastiest town in Iraq” during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Marines and Army corporals are battling a…
Inspired by sources as far flung as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and the women’s quarters of India’s Hawa Mahal (a royal palace in Jaipur), The Manganiyar Seduction promises to plunge concertgoers into the music and song of an ancient musical tradition and Sufi poetry. The Manganiyar are an all-male caste…
The opening scene of Fear Up Harsh may be the closest a theater audience can get to the bowels of a war zone. It’s set in Muqdadiyah, a hellhole that American soldiers affectionately called “the nastiest town in Iraq” during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Marines and Army corporals are battling a…
When former Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac headlines the Friends of Nature music and comedy festival on November 9 and 10, it will be because of a called-in favor for an old pal. “I would say that Nature and I have been friends probably ever since we both fell out…
For the past quarter-century, when Martyn Jacques and his band, the Tiger Lillies, have passed through airports, onlookers have reacted with some variation of “I hope you don’t mind, but are you part of a religious cult?” “I usually manage to look away and leave it to the drummer, who…
For the past quarter-century, when Martyn Jacques and his band, the Tiger Lillies, have passed through airports, onlookers have reacted with some variation of “I hope you don’t mind, but are you part of a religious cult?” “I usually manage to look away and leave it to the drummer, who…
The cultural arts have become a thriving industry in Miami. And the city owes much of its creative success to the local dance community that’s helped place the region on the map as an artistic hub. From classical, modern, African and flamenco, to mixed-ability and old-school hip hop, there’s an…
By many accounts, Troy Maxson, the 53-year-old protagonist of August Wilson’s Fences, is a loser. He’s the bitter breadwinner of a small Pittsburgh family who lives in the thwarted pipe dreams of his past as a once-promising baseball player. And he operates with such blinding resentment — brought on, in…
It’s been touted as the Coachella of comedy. LOLapalooza. WitStock. But this wasn’t just any music and comedy festival. This was Festival Supreme. The title of the Santa Monica, California, comedy and music festival was befitting of the event’s hosts, the once self-proclaimed but now widely accepted greatest band in…
Many are those who refer to dance as “magic.” But the dance group Pilobolus takes the reference one step further. Pilobolus, the season opener of the Knight Masterworks/Ziff Dance Series at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, will quite literally blur dance and magic in homage to escape artist…
Some of Hollywood’s finest are from Waco, Texas. Steve Martin, for instance, calls it his hometown. Not to mention Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ashlee Simpson and also, Lea Black. OK, maybe they’re not all the best. But hey, kind of famous is still famous, right? See also: Real Housewives of Miami,…
Pilobolus — the acrobatic international dance troupe — has been a huge crowd pleaser here in Miami. When they return to the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this Friday and Saturday nights, they will bring with them five new performances, just in case…
It took some coaxing, but Lourdes López has finally moved into Edward Villella’s impressive old corner office at the Miami City Ballet studios in South Beach. “It’s nice, isn’t it,” says the company’s new artistic director with a shy smile, “and I can grow my gardenias out in the terrace.”…
