Pam Bruno Is a Grown Woman, Going to Make You Laugh at Lester’s

​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,…

Stage Door’s Suds is Awash in Campy Goodness

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…

Extra Saucy Miami Salsa Congress Starts Tonight

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…

Main Street Players Gets Controversial With Extremities

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…

Philly Hip-Hop Dance Festival Gets a Miami Makeover

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…

Miami Stage Door Theatre Kicks Off with Campy Musical Suds

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…

RasaBoxes Classes Start Tonight at the PlayGround Theatre

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…

Art on the Street: Hype Elite Dance Company

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…

Circus Meets Street in Cirque Éloize iD at the Artsht Center

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 Gets Existential at the Arsht

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…

No Misunderstanding Here, El Malentendido Will Make You Self Reflect

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,…