When Ifé-Ile dancers transition from contemporary to traditional Afro-Cuban motion on stage and petition the Yoruba gods for protection in a foreign land, choreographer Neri Torres will have revealed yet another poignant element of the emotional trials, triumphs and cultural evolution that is Cuban immigrant life — and dance. “The…
Inside Grand Central nightclub, the lights are dim, and the music is throbbing. On the dance floor, beat freaks jump, bounce, and flail around to the rhythms of the live DJ on the decks. In the corners of the room, onlookers belly up the the bar and sip their drinks…
When he’s not performing, Slava Polunin looks like an off-season Santa Claus or an aging wizard from a fantasy-movie franchise. Onstage, in his yellow parka, oversize red shoes, giant strawberry nose, and electrified white hair, he is no less fantastical. A versatile performance artist who once organized a street march…
In this Pulitzer Prize winner, the story’s leading actors have to emotionally conjure the most unthinkable type of mourning: the death of a child. Howie and Becky, parents in their late 30s, lose their 4-year-old son Denny after he is accidentally struck by a 17-year-old’s car. The play’s drama focuses…
Is there a bigger demographic than parents? Like the undead in a zombie apocalypse, there are more of them every day, every hour, every minute, every second. Normal people become parents just like that. If you’ve become one of them or know anyone who is, you’re part of the ever-expanding…
It’s summertime in Miami, and everybody hates everything. The weather’s either searingly humid or fun-cancelingly rainy. The Zimmerman verdict has most people rightly pissed off. The Marlins are a joke. Local weirdos keep doing crazy shit like stealing money from dying people and having sex with housepets. It’s so bad,…
Looking for a long, strange trip? Set your GPS to the Arsht Center. That’s where Slava’s Snowshow opened last night, returning to Miami to greet a crowded house filled with children and adults alike. It was decidedly a family affair. The kids around us giggled with glee, high on youth,…
In his career with World Wrestling Entertainment, Mick Foley has been thrown from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage, where he crashed through a broadcasting booth; hit by a steel chair, which dislocated his jaw and dislodged a tooth; nailed with a removable stairwell wielded as a weapon by his…
In his career with World Wrestling Entertainment, Mick Foley has been thrown from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage, where he crashed through a broadcasting booth; hit by a steel chair, which dislocated his jaw and dislodged a tooth; nailed with a removable stairwell wielded as a weapon by his…
Send in the motherfucking clowns. We’ll take comedians any day over writers, poets, thespians, musicians, models, photographers, visual artists, or filmmakers. Comedians, in their own unique way, are artists, too — self-deprecating, ironic, intelligent, sensitive, neurotic yet brave, humble yet egotistical, damaged goods but mostly just awesome. Luckily, we have…
One of the most sublime pleasures of this Miami summer comes just before the intermission in GableStage’s new production of Good People, when Jean, a track-suited Bostonian played by Elizabeth Dimon, takes to her feet in a bingo hall and bellows, “Cocksucker!” It’s delivered in a choleric “pahk the cahk…
When he’s not performing, Slava Palunin looks like an off-season Santa Claus or an aging wizard from a fantasy-movie franchise. Onstage, in his yellow parka, oversized red shoes, giant strawberry nose and electrified white hair, he is no less fantastical. A versatile performance artist who once organized a street march…
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is accustomed to finding the humor in gloomy, unusual, and uncomfortable situations. From his mind has sprouted the grief of parents who have lost a child in the show Rabbit Hole, and the drama unfolding from characters’ bizarre medical conditions in shows including Kimberly Akimbo and Fuddy…
Reese Witherspoon didn’t get to be America’s sweetheart by accident. Long before her Oscar win for Walk the Line and her short-lived romance with Jake Gyllenhall, she won the hearts of the nation in a little film called Legally Blonde. That a story about a ditzy sorority girl who’s secretly…
Up a narrow stairway off Coral Way, in a windowless backroom on the second floor, a young man screams, “I don’t know which medications I’m taking anymore! I want to be me, but I don’t know who that is!” Sweat gathers on his wide sideburns. He hasn’t yet changed out…
It’s been a good week for voting on historic properties. On Thursday, Miami City Commissioners voted to approve plans to restore the long-neglected Miami Marine Stadium. And yesterday, commissioners approved another deal, this one to save the Coconut Grove Playhouse, which has fallen into ruin after closing its doors in…
Up a narrow stairway off Coral Way, in a windowless backroom on the second floor, a young man screams, “I don’t know which medications I’m taking anymore! I want to be me, but I don’t know who that is!” Sweat gathers on his wide sideburns. He hasn’t yet changed out…
We’re well into summer, but it’s “snowtime” in Miami. No, Hell hasn’t frozen over… yet. It’s the return of Slava’s Snowshow to the Magic City. After a record-breaking run at the Ziff Ballet Opera House five years ago, the production is back following sold-out engagements in Buenos Aires, Mexico City,…
Star Trek‘s George Takei at Florida Supercon 2013
The iconic painting of six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrating a school in New Orleans deeply resonated with local dancer and choreographer Afua Hall. Her upcoming performance titled Red will explain why. The theatrical dance presentation will be showcased on three weekends, from June 28 through July 13, as part of the…
If there’s one word that sums up Cirque du Soleil, it’s surprising. The world-famous entertainment company has been wowing audiences with seemingly impossible feats on global stages for decades. And while most shows involve larger-than-life playgrounds and fanciful characters, their Quidam incarnation is a bit different in that it tackles…
8cho: Tango Takes Flight! at Arsht Center Through June 30
