For the last six weeks, Wynwood has been alight with more art making than normal for the summer as Arts for Learning Miami has transformed the neighborhood into a creative campus for its fourth annual ArtWorks Internship program. It culminates with two performances this week featuring work from students in…
Sue Mengers represented dozens of eminent actors and directors during the New Hollywood era of the late ’60s and ’70s. The late talent agent possessed a scabrous wit untarnished by political correctness. About a certain famously gay singer/pianist, she said, “Elton’s the easiest dinner guest ever: He’ll eat anything but…
The Miami City Ballet announced several additions to their corps de ballet for its 30th season. Among the announcements are Ella Titus and Mayumi Enokibara, two recent graduates of the Miami City Ballet School and stars of the Teen Vogue web series Strictly Ballet. The web series chronicled the journey…
The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center will present The Chicago Repertory Ballet Company this coming Saturday night, the first chance for Miami audiences to see this company, just three years old, and already being heralded by the Chicago Tribune as “wonderfully dramatic.” One might add “mightily varied” as well. “I…
Peter London Global Dance Company takes the stage at Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center on July 18 with their annual Heat Wave summer showcase. Featuring a world premiere new work by Peter London, the program will also feature two pieces by choreographer Luis Alberto Cuevas. By fusing contemporary dance and…
When Lindsey Noel Whiting twice takes to the air in Lookingglass Alice, it’s easy to forget everything and lose yourself in the rhapsody. Dangling on silks and maneuvering through ropes suspended from the ceiling of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House, the young actress eschews all inhibitions, making…
Bite size portions of theater, fresh writing and some well known actors, all available at a reasonable price in an intimate, unusual setting has turned Micro Teatro Miami into one of the longest running, and perhaps most unlikely hits, in South Florida’s cultural scene. Using seven shipping containers parked on…
In 2004, before a sex scandal rendered him a candidate non grata, John Edwards distilled this country’s widening income gap and lack of upward mobility into a bumper-sticker meme: Two Americas. The division was between the privileged-from-birth and the perpetual strivers, the haves and the have-nots. By most accounts, this…
Dancer and choreographer Annabel Guérédrat, a native of the Caribbean island of Martinique, creates dance works that fuse her childhood background in dance with her experiences as professor of literature in Paris and as a Butoh dancer. Quite a combination. Deeply ritualistic, her work is a performance study investigating socio-political…
Twenty years ago, long before everybody else was doing it, Miami’s City Theatre launched a festival of ten-minute plays. Summer Shorts, theatergoers’ annual kickoff to the steamy season in South Florida, has withstood a handful of reboots in its two-decade run, experimenting with celebrity actors, adults-only programming, and unprofitable Broward…
Dance Now! Miami closes its 15th Anniversary season at the Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center this weekend on Saturday and Sunday, inviting audiences to get “Into the Heat” of summer by cooling down with the Florida Premiere of Winter’s Breath, one of several dances in the closing “Heat” program. Like…
When Casa Valentina premiered on Broadway last year, it garnered four Tony nominations and numerous critical accolades. Seeing its regional theater premiere at GableStage, it’s hard to comprehend why. Harvey Fierstein’s first play in nearly 30 years examines the laughter, drama and gender crises of a community of heterosexual male…
As both Artistic Director and resident director of Actors’ Playhouse, David Arisco can claim the one thing most denizens of the theater world only dream of: a steady gig. An opportunity that arose purely by chance has now stretched into a 27 year tenure at one of Miami’s most prominent…
From time to time, Betrayal has the balls to be boring. One of the great ironic treatises on infidelity, Harold Pinter’s semiautobiographical 1978 mood piece is a play of little action. There is a series of scenes that reveal their purposes gradually, like yellowed photographs slowly coming into focus. It’s…
Local choreographer Rosie Herrera, one of Miami’s notable creative offspring, is known for a particular style of snarky and darkly humorous dance theater. But for Cookie’s Kid, her newest project with Miami Light Project opening this weekend, Herrera is turning inward to a more vulnerable creative space. We had a…
While the performance season is coming to a close, Miami still has more to celebrate as Augusto Soledade’s Brazzdance turns 10 years old. “Wow,” he says. He hopes Miami audiences will say the same when Brazzdance honors this anniversary with a program called “Oduns” — stories of finding one’s path…
Since ballet and high fashion make quite the formidable duo, its only fitting that Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley marry the two art forms in Strictly Ballet, a web series that documents the lives of up-and-coming ballerinas vying for a coveted spot in a world-renowned ballet company. While the first…
In an interactive age of downloads and mobile devices that bring the world to any tiny cellphone screen, the idea of actually reading a book is rapidly become something of an anachronism. It’s little wonder then that the six characters that inhabit Karen Zacarias’ comedy The Book Club Play are…
Book clubs existed long before Oprah Winfrey started hers in 1996, but it’s fair to say the queen of television made them cool again. Reading novels used to be a solitary pastime, an experience shared by reader and author.
Karen Peterson and Dancers, one of Miami’s cultural treasures, is celebrating its 25th birthday this May. When the group was gathered together a quarter of a century ago, the idea of a “physically integrated” dance company — one comprised of both physically able and the so-called physically “disabled” — was…
When audiences see the two pieces Vladimir Issaev has planned for his Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida’s Spring Gala, it won’t be the first time the company has presented these ballets. However, the artistic director believes each time he and his company breathe new life into them. The traditional Spring…
Returning to her hometown after a 15 year stint in New York City, 34-year-old dancer/choreographer Hattie Mae Williams’ first year back in Miami has been marked with artistic achievements, including a grant from the Knight Foundation to develop site specific dance works at the Miami Marine Stadium and the Venetian…
