Performing Arts

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Ring Theatre through April 15

Moscow at the Arsht Center Through April 15

Property Line at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center Through April 15

If you’re going to lend hundreds of thousands of dollars to someone, you think you’d at least keep a receipt.But disputes over who owes what to whom are the latest roadblock in the Coconut Grove Playhouse settlement, according to the Miami Herald. Development group Aries claims they’ve given over $2…

Most Miami Heat fans left last night’s losing game against the Boston Celtics in disappointment.But Lil Wayne isn’t most fans.The rapper watched most of the game quietly, looking away to text or talk to friends. He barely batted an eye when the Miami Heat dancers strutted across the court. He…

Last week, Miami City Ballet announced its new artistic director: Lourdes Lopez, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and current director of the New York-based dance company Morphoses, who will take the post on May 1, 2013. Following a five-month search, an 11-member committee chose Lopez from…

Last week Dancing With The Stars said goodbye to Jack Wagner, and not a moment too soon.You see, it’s Rock Week on our favorite celebrity dance competition, and you don’t want some old soap star dancing to the hottest rock groups of today, do you? Not with such up and…

It’s hard to talk about Magic City without discussing its place in the shadow of Mad Men. We watched the premiere of Magic City immediately after a new episode of Mad Men, which seemed counter-productive. Like eating a steak and then realizing you have to eat a cheeseburger as well…

Microtheater Miami: Speed Dating for Theater Lovers

You’d think that giving the job of the Miami City Ballet director to a Cuban-born, Miami-raised, seasoned dance pro would be just about the least controversial move a South Florida arts organization could make. But you’d be wrong.Miami City Ballet named Lourdes Lopez as the successor to Edward Villella, company…

Last week on Dancing With The Stars, Martina Navratilova was eliminated. We had a lot of fun making jokes that Martina would be the first eliminated, but… um… yeah, that’s pretty much it. Not to say she wasn’t memorable, but we almost submitted this recap before realizing we called her…

A cheer catchier than the material girl’s new song that chants MDNA rang through the streets of Coconut Grove last evening. Calls of “Give it back, give it back” could be heard reverberating off the facade of the Coconut Grove Playhouse, which was shuttered in 2006 and left to decline…

The 36th annual Carbonell Awards were handed out amid shrieks and thunderous applause from the audience at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Only one pair of presenters was impaired — or aided, you choose — by alcohol, and there was just the right amount of surprise in most…

I’m just going to come right out and say it: I am a wimp. A pansy. One of those girls who has to ask men to open jars and help get her luggage down from the overhead compartment. I’ve never been naturally gifted when it comes to sports, and I’ve…

Tonight, South Florida’s biggest names in theater will gather at the Carbonell Awards, our regional version of the Tonys.But in Coconut Grove, another theater-minded group of people will gather in an attempt to resuscitate a former venue for live performance: the Coconut Grove Playhouse.”Give It Back” has called for concerned…

A Cuban society woman turned inept American housekeeper drags a recalcitrant mop bucket across the patio between her awkwardly spread legs. A wide-eyed dilettante, her bird-like frame wrapped in tropical hues, reads a nuclear fallout shelter’s user manual — including bits about what to do with your radioactive hair –…

Last night’s launch of the Centro Cultural Español’s (CCE) Microteatro por Dinero felt a bit like speed dating for theater lovers. It even included some of the pitfalls of public courtship CCE could easily have avoided. It obliterated the concept of the fourth wall and placed viewers on stage along…

New Theater’s Property Line: War in the burbs

Apparently nobody got eliminated from Dancing With The Stars last week. Yawn. What’s the point of this show if it’s not to revel in everyone’s slow but gradual elimination?Not that the first star-booting will be much of a surprise. Face it, Martina Navratilova is going to be the first one…

Juan C. Sanchez’s Property Line, which had its world premier last night for New Theatre at the Roxy Performing Arts Center, is a funny, briskly structured, and character-driven tale of loss, culture clash, and possession set in Miami.Sanchez, who is a New World School of the Arts grad, and a…

Long before Julie “Catwoman” Newmar played a robot in the short-lived ’60s TV sitcom My Living Doll (episodes of which have just been released on DVD, if you’re into that sort of thing), another, different kind of mechanized gal was breaking somebody’s heart. Her name? Coppélia.She was the creation of…

Carpe diem: seize the day. You guys know that saying, right? That’s what we did when we found out the Wayans Bros. were going to be in town.Shawn and Marlon Wayans touched down for three days of stand-up shows at the Miami Improv. So naturally, Cultist scurried over, pulled all…