Chekhov in Repertory: Actors engage in a battle of egos as they struggle through an ill-fated production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters; presented in rotating repertory with The Cherry Orchard. Through February 28. University of Miami Ring Theatre, 1312 Miller Dr., Coral Gables. 305-284-3355. The Drawer Boy: Watching Florida Stage’s…
Miami Art Central, known as MAC, is a project shaped and funded by Ella Fontanals Cisneros, the Venezuelan philanthropist who last year purchased a two-story building at 5960 Red Rd. and asked architect Alessandro Fiorentino to remodel it. MAC now stands as a handsome arthouse with two levels of exhibition…
(Making Up) Carolyn: Ever daydreamed of what Jacques Derrida would do with a Home Depot gift certificate? Then survey this site-specific installation by Shane Aslan Selzer. The sculptor poetically invigorates sundry building materials while deconstructing the history of the Carolyn Apartments, now teetering on the brink of extinction before the…
This Jew has spent several hours in the past week reading all four Gospels, as well as various supplementary (and often inflammatory) texts, upon which Mel Gibson based his The Passion of the Christ. I’ve read the interpretations of scholars, the apologias of popes, and the damnations of zealots. I’ve…
This is not a good movie. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is, in fact, a bad movie. The script bleeds one cliché after another, the female lead can’t fire up the heat necessary for her role, and the plot resolves nearly every conflict it introduces within minutes. Worse, even as the…
God is coming. Put away your prayer books and slip on your boogie shoes because he’s gonna scoop you up with a chunky bass line, heavenly vocals, and phat-phat glam. In case you didn’t know, God is Nile Rodgers, the prolific producer of disco megahits and the man responsible for…
There’s an apocryphal tale, or “urban legend” as such fables are now known, that New York’s Waldorf Astoria prepared a red velvet cake for some diners back in the Thirties or Forties — and then presented a $100 charge for the dessert. Back then $100 was big bucks, but even…
We barely had time to scream our tits off. We bitched when we heard that the Cactus Bar and Grill, Miami’s longest-running gay bar and home to Biscayne Boulevard rough trade, was closing. We lamented the passing of glam and grift, once hallmarks of the gay underworld and fodder for…
SUN 2/29 At last, a wrestling outfit that knows that fighting is all about the mask. Along with a range of over-the-top identities, many of the fighters who participate in Lucha Xtreme Wrestling possess some of the most compelling costumes in the sport. The Mark of the Mask tour, which…
FRI 2/27 In Sidney Lumet’s 1976 film Network, Peter Finch plays a washed-up television anchorman who begins to lose his sanity. When in a rage he encourages his audience on live television to stick their heads out their windows and shout at the top of their lungs “I’m mad as…
FRI 2/27 Now that Sex and the City is off the air, actor/dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov is screwed. He has to find something else to do besides playing a moody artist who beds Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie Bradshaw and whisks her away to Paris. Well, it seems the 55-year-old Russian…
Thursday 2/26 Don’t count on hearing gripping stories about the Titanic or the Andrea Doria or even the S.S. Minnow from Gilligan’s Island when you pay a visit to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida’s (101 W. Flagler St.) latest exhibition, “Shipwrecks and Rescues: 1550-2000.” The disasters and heroic events…
Watching Florida Stage’s new production of The Drawer Boy is a bit like observing a bumblebee in flight. Based on the evidence, it shouldn’t fly, but there it goes. Michael Healey’s 1999 script is riddled with implausibilities and secondhand ideas. Nevertheless it offers some gentle humor and soul, and both…
Beauty of the Father: There is much to savor and even more to contemplate in Nilo Cruz’s new play, now receiving a visually compelling world premiere at the New Theatre. The production offers several pleasures, first and foremost of which is Cruz’s poetic, luxuriant language. Listening to Beauty is like…
When considering the work created by male artists, tag lines or descriptive phrases such as malenist, phalloist, masculist — or any equivalent of “feminist” — do not exist. Male artists create or interpret their personal experiences and the world around them from very individual perspectives. A female artist’s work, on…
Capsule reviews below by Carlos Suarez de Jesus and Alfredo Triff. ART+ haiku: If Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ isn’t your cup of tea, try Sting on a Crucifix at ART+ during a retrospective of fashion icon Francesco Scavullo’s work, on display through March 10. The dean of the A-list lensmen,…
It is by now clear that Meg Ryan, the bubbling sweetheart of half a dozen romantic comedies, means to bring new substance and seriousness to the latest phase of her career. Witness the lonely New York English teacher she played in last year’s brainy slasher flick, In the Cut: In…
It is so very nice when a movie completely outstrips the expectations conjured by its trailer, as is the case with The Dreamers. At first blush, this tale of three passionate youths caught up in the Parisian counterculture revolution of the Sixties looked downright trite. Never mind that esteemed veteran…
You hear it in contemporary pop songs like Missy Elliott’s “Work It” and Iconz’s “Get Crunked Up.” You see it in modern dance steps: the swirling movement of the torso, the stomping of the feet. It’s the clave, “a pa-pa-pa that comes from the Afro-Cuban rhythms, which [have] been more…
Late on a February morning from Seattle, Erik Larson is discussing death over breakfast. Washington State might be home to the infamous Green River Killer, but Larson isn’t an assassin plotting his next move. He’s an acclaimed author who last year wrote of a murderer and an architect; his number-one…
NOW 24/7 Getting naked in public and running like hell. It was a fad among college students in the early 1970s, its crowning moment occurring in 1974 when a streaker bounded across the stage of the Academy Awards telecast right under the nose of prim Brit actor David Niven. Back…
SAT 2/21 Modelizers, you better be ready. Among the requirements for the nearly 300 models participating in the 11th Annual Volleypalooza Model Volleyball Tournament is that they will be scantily clad. Can they serve the ball, bump, or set? Who cares? All that’s important in this fundraising event for PETA…
