Comedian Pam Bruno has a particularly quirky way of delivering jokes: a little awkward, with not too much enthusiasm, like she’s telling a story at the dinner table. But her stand up is solid, and she knows how to get the audience right where she wants them.As her tagline says,…
It’s fitting that the Broward Stage Door launched its new Miami home at the Byron Carlyle with the musical Suds. The old theatre is a monolith of nostalgia. It’s a large block of granite with tight theatre seating and pseudo art deco architecture that once served as a movie house…
It’s been almost a year since Cultist first wrote about Tony Tango, that locally shot indie comedy about a dancing fool by the same name, and the project is still struggling to waltz its way into the popular consciousness. But it’s not for lack of trying. There’s a several new…
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when walking through the double glass doors that lead into the studio where the Area Stage Company calls home in Coral Gables. It’s a conservatory, after all. That means young people singing and dancing and being theatrical.Was I going to walk into a…
Extremities at Main Street Playhouse through August 14
Miami and salsa are almost interchangeable – there’s hardly an ad or commentary about Miami that doesn’t include a salsa soundtrack, with exclamations of “caliente!” It’s a cliché, but also true: the heart of the salsa sound — Cuban son and its Afro-Caribbean rhythmic roots — makes Miami move to…
Extremities, which opened last night at the Main Street Playhouse, is a play that sheds a light on the perils of the crime of rape. Is the victim partly responsible and inviting violence because of the way she’s dressed? Does the victim have a right to exercise her own brand…
It’s time to get serious about locking, popping, hip hop, house, and b-boy/b-girl moves at the 2011 Illadelph Legends Hip Hop Festival, from this Sunday to August 7. Founded by hip-hop choreography star Rennie Harris, this festival has been taking place for a dozen years in his hometown of Philadelphia…
This isn’t your mother’s community theater. Unless, your mother is a victim turned torturer, that is. The Main Street Players are aiming to stray away from the norm when it comes to traditional community theater with their inclusion of William Mastrosimone’s Extremities as a part of the 2011 season. Skye…
Masked at GableStage through August 7
Extremities at Main Street Playhouse through August 14
See Jane Run at Actors’ Playhouse through August 14
The Broward Stage Door Theatre company etched a name for itself on stages in Coral Springs and Wilton Manors by tackling some of Broadway’s bigger, more lavish productions and winning a 2011 Carbonell for best musical (Mack & Mabel).Now Stage Door is taking its talents to North Beach with the…
Once, while watching a basketball game, Richard Schechner, a Tisch professor and artistic director of East Coast Artists, had an idea. If players could go from total calm on the bench, to completely in the game once on the court, then why couldn’t performers? Schechner devised RasaBoxes as a way…
Many of Miami’s creatives are transient, showing up on our shores and disappearing as quickly as the tides. The Art on the Street series will document this overlooked and ever-changing element of South Beach culture.The actual distance between South Beach and Opa Locka may be only about 15 miles, but…
When we previewed the comedy show at Zo’s Summer Grove for the calendar three weeks ago, the headliner was slated to be D.L. Hughley. On Friday, however, we learned that none other than comedy god Dave Chappelle had joined the line-up. His glory days in Half Baked and the Chappelle…
Think the cast of Cirque du Soleil battles urban street dancers and you have Cirque Éloize iD. Contemporary cirque director Jeannot Painchaud brings the production to the Ziff Ballet Opera House starting Tuesday for an unusually long run that lasts until September 4. Sixteen artists hailing from seven different countries…
El Malentendido, the International Hispanic Theatre Festival’s Spanish-language version of Albert Camus’s dipped-in-irony-titled play The Misunderstanding, opened last night at the Arsht Center. The production, translated into Spanish and directed by Mario Ernesto Sanchez, is awash in melodrama and overwrought performances. But that’s a good thing. Led by the electric Neher Jacqueline…
El Malentendido at the Arsht Center through July 24
Masked at GableStage through August 7
See Jane Run at Actors’ Playhouse through August 14
The International Hispanic Theatre Festival consistently thumbs its figurative nose at all the Debbie Downers who say that Miami has no culture. Starting today and playing throughout the weekend, El Malentendido , based on the Albert Camus play, The Misunderstanding, will make you ponder self, desperation, the repercussions of war,…
