To revive an axiom that President Obama directed at the ideas of a certain failed vice presidential candidate from Alaska: Actors’ Playhouse’s production of The Fox on the Fairway is, at best, lipstick on a pig. As pretty as the company presents it, it’s still an ugly, desperate, virtually witless…
Stage hypnotist Rich Guzzi has learned to expect the unexpected. In one memorable performance, he instructed 15 hypnotized audience volunteers to compose and perform a rap song onstage — in Chinese. One by one, they shed their inhibitions and freestyled vaguely Oriental gibberish, at the cultural expense of any unfortunate…
Rudi Goblen started breakdancing 19 years ago. Since then he has become a dancer, actor, performing artist, and writer, performing with Teo Castellanos’ D-Projects and becoming a founding member of Octavio Campos’ Camposition Hybrid Theater Works and Rosie Herrera’s Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre. A highly acclaimed b-boy, Goblen and his…
Mark your calendars: There will be swordfighting on Miami Beach this summer. Well, not on the beach, exactly, but in a small theater steps away from the sand. Storycrafter Studio, Miami’s latest addition to its thriving theater community, will open its first full-length production not with a bang but with…
Anne and Emmett at AAPACT Through May 12
The Miami City Ballet Company (MCB) will close its 2012-2013 season this weekend at the Arsht Center with Broadway and Ballet, a valentine to Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. No surprise there, since the MCB has been acclaimed far and wide for its devotion to the masters, especially Balanchine. What…
In a single weekend, we will be able to see two of this country’s reputable dance companies, both selecting ballets made in the United States and in a variety of American styles, in one Broward setting. The Broward Center for the Performing Arts is offering a ticket deal — $99…
In his award-winning play Jeffrey, first produced off-Broadway in 1993, playwright Paul Rudnick (who wrote the screenplay to Hollywood’s In & Out) dipped his sifter into that veritable comic goldmine, the AIDS crisis. HIV might not be the cause for national panic it once was — a controversial “functional cure”…
Glengarry Glen Ross at Main Street Playhouse Through May 19
Some of the best comedians infuse truth and intellect into their act, which can put off those looking for a night of laughter without thinking. (Ahem, Seth MacFarlane fans.) For those expecting Sarah Silverman’s stage act to replicate that of her absurdist (yet hilarious) television program, The Sarah Silverman Show,…
During the South Beach Comedy Festival, while headlining the Fillmore Miami Beach, Tracy Morgan addressed the protesters who had decried his “misogynistic” performances in Australia earlier this week. But first, he strutted onto the stage with his arms spread wide and announced, “I gotta shit.” Nothing about Morgan’s bright white…
As part of the South Beach Comedy Festival, taking place on South Beach now through April 21, the smart, silly, sassy, and somewhat controversial Sarah Silverman will take the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach on the highly appropriate date, 4/20. She may do some partying while she’s in the…
Tracy Morgan will headline the Fillmore Miami Beach tomorrow night as part of this year’s South Beach Comedy Festival. If you’re unable to get a ticket, don’t sweat it; you can recreate the experience by standing by the nearest shirtless man dry humping an invisible lover, and whipping your brain…
The line between real-life comedian Tracy Morgan and his 30 Rock character “Tracy Jordan” has always been thin. And at his show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, just a week before Morgan takes the stage in Miami for the South Beach Comedy Festival, that line got a little bit…
As The Dissident, J.J. Colagrande turns his critical eye on Miami culture. This week: Should the Miami Improv do more for local comics? The South Beach Comedy Festival is in town, bringing big names like Sarah Silverman and Seth Meyers to perform here in Miami. It’s the one time of…
Zoetic Stage’s The Savannah Disputation: Holy War in Georgia
When Miami City Ballet announced that baseball great and onetime Florida Marlin Mike Piazza would take the stage during the company’s performance at the Arsht Center next month, they made one thing very clear: Piazza would not be dancing. Turns out, they were wrong. MCB called our attention yesterday to…
Hey there, Cultist reader. Wanna go to the South Beach Comedy Festival? Sure do, Cultist! But I can’t decide which hilarious comedian I’d like to see. Sarah Silverman? Seth Meyers? Tracy Morgan? Which should I choose? Don’t choose, Cultist reader. Go see them all — for free. See, we’re giving…
When Seth Meyers joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2001, he thought he’d landed the greatest gig in television. But after 12 seasons on NBC, he’s confident that his job (30) rocks. “I don’t know that there’s a better job [than mine],” Meyers says, speaking with New Times…
Bill Burr is a name that might sound familiar to you. Perhaps you’ve seen one of his three comedy specials: Why Do I Do This?, Let It Go, and You People Are All The Same. Maybe you know him from his appearances on Chapelle Show, his role in Date Night,…
First produced in 2007, Evan Smith’s The Savannah Disputation is a holy war in microcosm – an acerbic verbal brawl on a single suburban property, currently receiving an exceptional production from Zoetic Stage at the Arsht Center.Barbara Bradshaw and Laura Turnbull play Mary and Margaret, Roman Catholic sisters cohabitating on…
Dial Rebecca “Butterfly” Vaughns, and on the other end of the receiver, the phone rings enough times to suggest the call is going to voicemail. Instead of the expected robotic answering service, a deep but delicate voice croons, “Somewhere there’s a love just for me, and I’m going to find…
