Pablo Francisco is a hilarious comedian with more impersonations in his bag of tricks than there are rocks in the average ounce of crack.When we caught up with him, he exploded with a full-on rant filled with amazing quotes about drinking, fighting, and doin’ the nasty. He’s performing six shows…
GableStage’s Time Stands Still Surveys War’s Damage at Home
Last week, we had to say goodbye to Jaleel White on Dancing With The Stars. Don’t worry Jaleel, you’ve survived this long being a pop cultural footnote, you’re going to be fine! Nevertheless, it’s exciting times here on DWTS as the teams now perform two dances. Plus, this week the…
Quick criticism before we start this Magic City recap: if you’re watching the show for Danny Huston’s insane performance as the Butcher, this episode will be a let down. He’s pretty absent. And sure, all of the other Magic City touchstones are intact: gratuitous nudity, violence, and animal murder. But…
War is the backdrop in Donald Margulies’ stark tale of love and conflict, Time Stands Still, which opened last night at GableStage. The play is ostensibly a study in the impassive cruelty of war through the eyes of a couple drifting towards an uncertain future while fighting to avoid being…
When the Peter London Global Dance Theater presents its spring showcase this weekend in Little Haiti, it won’t be just a group of Miami dancers showing off their moves. It’ll be a reflection of the influence of styles from around the world, says founder Peter London.”Miami is very similar to…
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre Through May 20
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings at the PlayGround Theatre Through May 25
It was the pinnacle of suspense in an all-around suspenseful show. Dennis Watkins, as Harry Houdini, hung upside down from his feet, descending slowly into a tall glass box filled with water. The audience had been warned repeatedly that silence was paramount to the actor’s successful escape.But Death and Harry…
It was only a matter of time until Gladys Knight’s charming yet awkward run on Dancing With The Stars came to an end. Like an older relative on a social network, it started cute, then became sad, then morbidly fascinating, and finally unbearable until we hit the proverbial “hide posts”…
Forget the over-the-top spectacles of David Blaine and Criss Angel. The most effective illusions are the simplest: an ordinary subject, a distraction or two, and an incredibly skilled performer.That also happens to be Death and Harry Houdini’s recipe for its performance at the Arsht last night. The ordinary subject: Death…
Billy Gardell is a funny fat guy from Pittsburgh, and the star of Mike and Molly, one of TV’s most popular shows in which he plays a cop who meets his future wife at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.You might also know him from bit roles on King of Queens, Judging…
Dennis Watkins Defies Death as Harry Houdini at the Arsht
All the greatest comedic acts of our time have used one recipe for success: an innate sense of showmanship and a keen eye for social commentary. For if not comedians, safe behind the veneer of jokes, who would call Drake an effeminate gorilla? Or even a Puerto Rican tranny?Both of…
Gavin DeGraw is gone! Rejoice!This does mean we have nobody’s stupid hat fetish to mock anymore, unless Roshon wants to take it up. But we’re still counting this as a victory for humankind.It’s Motown week on Dancing With The Stars, which means you can take solace that for one week,…
Who’s sick enough to come up with the idea to insert “comemierda” into random movie titles for fun?And who has the Miami star power to turn that idea into a trending Twitter hashtag?Only Pepe Billete, Escoria Films’ puppet-in-chief whose mouth is dirtier than the entire cast of Avenue Q combined…
If we had to summarize the theme of this week’s episode of Magic City, it might be “the baggage of our past often impedes our ability to live in the present.” Or “even if the State Senator claims to be into European girls, give him a few Scotches and he’ll…
Last night, at its annual Reach for the Stars Gala Auction, Actors’ Playhouse raised over $150,000 to fund its operating costs for the upcoming 2012-13 season.Meanwhile, in the neighborhood next door, the Coconut Grove Playhouse sits empty, mired in debt that nobody wants to shoulder.The Coconut Grove community’s Give It…
We had a power outage for a few hours this morning and maybe it says more about us, but we really couldn’t have cared less about the stifling heat or the fear of all of our refrigerated food going bad.No, we were far more preoccupied in getting our sweet DWTS…
For most members of Generation X, or Y, or XY, or whatever they’re calling 20-somethings these days, the entirety of our opera experience was the 10-minute segment in Pretty Woman in which Richard Gere flies a jewel-bedecked Julia Roberts off in a private jet. But after seeing the Florida Grand…
Boy, things really are boiling over on Magic City! Ok, maybe not “boiling over.” But things definitely are at least at a moderate simmer.Remember that troublesome union leader in the pilot? He done went and disappeared, which we’re pretty sure is a euphemism for getting killed, but what do we…
You may think that there’s an appreciable difference in going to see a play at Actors Playhouse or GableStage and going to catch a ballgame at Marlins Park. But you’d be wrong. Mostly. A Miami Marlins game is every bit as much theatre as something written by Tracy Letts or…
