The best choreographers are prodigious ministers, sealing holy unions between movement and sound. To great effect, Balanchine made it his gospel to “see the music, hear the dance,” the inspiration for Miami City Ballet’s second program of the season, which kicks off this Friday. MCB’s offerings are diverse while representing…
On Monday, organizers of the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series announced that they had chosen Justin Peck’s Heatscape for inclusion in the prestigious series. The Guggenheim’s series offers audiences’ insight into both the creators and performers of forthcoming works. It’s also is meant to preview what insiders believe to…
Fifteen Cuban actors took to a Havana stage Wednesday night and belted out some familiar songs: One Song Glory, La Vie Bohème, and Seasons of Love. The songs are probably familiar to any Broadway enthusiast, they’re all from the Pulitzer-winning musical Rent. Staging a performance of Rent might not seem…
It says a lot that Tarell Alvin McCraney’s radical reinterpretation of Antony and Cleopatra — a GableStage coproduction with New York’s Public Theater and the UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company, and a play anticipated for more than a year — wasn’t the best or second-best or even third-best work GableStage produced…
Most performers will agree that a show never really feels like it is complete until close to the closing night of a run. This sentiment was true for Teo Castellanos when he premiered Fat Boy at Miami Light Project’s Light Box at Goldman Warehouse in 2011. He’s back with a…
On the second day of eighth grade in 1975, Teo Castellanos, a runty Puerto Rican kid in shiny new Pro-Keds, nervously scanned the hallways of Carol City Junior High between classes, on the lookout for his nemesis. The year before, a much bigger kid had approached from behind in drama…
Actors’ Playhouse has an identity crisis. How else do you explain the emotional whiplash induced by its programming every year? This is a theater torn between cutting-edge drama and milquetoast comedy, between shows that push its audience in new directions and ones that reward passive complacency. Two seasons ago, it…
No comedian has done it like Tom Rhodes. After proving himself as a top tier American club comic, life and love took Tom elsewhere. He established a fierce international presence and for decades maintained relevance in both spheres. He is simultaneously both relaxed and hungry to conquer. He’s sharp, newly-sober,…
The December holidays are approaching and along with them, as sure as thicker waists and thinner wallets, The Nutcracker. Big-scaled or modest, all-local or propped up by imported talent, there’s a production of America’s most popular ballet to suit any taste. But please don’t take the predictable assortment for granted…
Ronen Koresh, long a distinguished dancer and since 1991 artistic director of his own company, is fearless in his defiance of borders. Appearing at the Arsht Center this week, the choreography of this Israeli native, now established in Philadelphia, draws from ballet, folk, modern and jazz dance and uses music…
The Knight Foundation announced its Arts Challenge winners this week, awarding 47 projects that will share in $2.29 million. To qualify, the projects must be about art, must take place in or benefit Miami, and the winners must find funds to match the Knight grant within a year. Out of…
Jonathan Larson’s beloved musical Rent is headed to Cuba. Deadspin reports the Spanish-language production will be produced by Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment in partnership with the Cuban National Council of Performing Arts. Nederlander says it’s the first Broadway musical with a full cast, musicians and first-class production elements produced in Cuba…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Dance, the most primal, universal form of self-expression, often takes a back seat in Miami. In a…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. These days it’s entirely fair to call Nathalie Zarate a belly-dance superstar. She runs the popular Dreams…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Nery Saenz is a funny guy. Everybody around him can sense it. In fact, his friends and…
Playwright Joshua Harmon may or may not have been thinking of No Exit when he wrote his acrid dramedy Bad Jews. But after seeing the riveting new production of Harmon’s play at GableStage, Sartre’s metaphysical masterpiece seems like a touchstone in at least one sense: It depicts a handful of…
In a city where couples break out stellar salsa in dive bars and backyards, it’s obvious that Miami is rhythmically gifted. For those of you breaking down at clubs and parties, now’s your chance to snatch some real recognition for your remarkable moves. The InterContinental Miami is once again searching…
Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, was not well-received on its premiere in Milan’s legendary La Scala in 1904 — the reasons being far too numerous and open to debate to strangle our flow here — but Puccini, a man director Marc Astafan…
Pamela Z has been performing solo voice concerts for over three decades, but she rarely sounds alone on stage. Instead, she creates a rich multimedia experience using electronics to multiply her voice and trigger sampled sounds and video. Although the term “processed voice” applies — much as it does for…
Mike Birbiglia is a joke. No, really. He’s better known as a comedian, actor, screenwriter, author, and performer, of course. But when he steps onstage next Thursday at the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall, he says, he wants the audience to laugh not only with him but also at him…
TU Dance, a 12-member dance company, will be performing for one night only on Saturday at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. It’s a highly collaborative dance initiative, a company that routinely mixes up the idioms of classical ballet, African dance, modern dance and urban vernacular. Perhaps not surprising then,…
Some say laughter is the safest alternative to tears, while others say it has the power to keep sickness at bay. But really, laughing is just fun and it’s most fun when you get to laugh at someone who’s totally OK with you doing so. Take Joe Gatto, for instance,…
