Balé Folclórico da Bahia aims to give an authentic taste of Afro-Brazilian history and culture with every high kick and undulation that unfolds onstage. Using drumming and religious chanting as part of its soundtrack, the company’s repertoire explodes with high-energy folkloric movement, electric sambas and lightning-fast capoeira moves exchanged between…
You guys, we’re so jealous of Nature right now! Sure, getting fracked is totally lame, but how awesome would it be to have Nikki Glaser as one of your besties? “I would say I’ve been friends with Nature since, god, since I bought a Gap shirt that said ‘Save the…
Coconut Grove’s long-standing comedy club, Miami Improv, is no more. The spot is shuttered and all future shows are cancelled, a representative told Cultist. The spot, tucked away at 3390 Mary St., wasn’t doing well financially, according to the rep, so the owners decided to shut the doors. “We are…
The opening scene of Fear Up Harsh may be the closest a theater audience can get to the bowels of a war zone. It’s set in Muqdadiyah, a hellhole that American soldiers affectionately called “the nastiest town in Iraq” during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Marines and Army corporals are battling a…
Inspired by sources as far flung as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and the women’s quarters of India’s Hawa Mahal (a royal palace in Jaipur), The Manganiyar Seduction promises to plunge concertgoers into the music and song of an ancient musical tradition and Sufi poetry. The Manganiyar are an all-male caste…
The opening scene of Fear Up Harsh may be the closest a theater audience can get to the bowels of a war zone. It’s set in Muqdadiyah, a hellhole that American soldiers affectionately called “the nastiest town in Iraq” during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Marines and Army corporals are battling a…
When former Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac headlines the Friends of Nature music and comedy festival on November 9 and 10, it will be because of a called-in favor for an old pal. “I would say that Nature and I have been friends probably ever since we both fell out…
For the past quarter-century, when Martyn Jacques and his band, the Tiger Lillies, have passed through airports, onlookers have reacted with some variation of “I hope you don’t mind, but are you part of a religious cult?” “I usually manage to look away and leave it to the drummer, who…
For the past quarter-century, when Martyn Jacques and his band, the Tiger Lillies, have passed through airports, onlookers have reacted with some variation of “I hope you don’t mind, but are you part of a religious cult?” “I usually manage to look away and leave it to the drummer, who…
The cultural arts have become a thriving industry in Miami. And the city owes much of its creative success to the local dance community that’s helped place the region on the map as an artistic hub. From classical, modern, African and flamenco, to mixed-ability and old-school hip hop, there’s an…
By many accounts, Troy Maxson, the 53-year-old protagonist of August Wilson’s Fences, is a loser. He’s the bitter breadwinner of a small Pittsburgh family who lives in the thwarted pipe dreams of his past as a once-promising baseball player. And he operates with such blinding resentment — brought on, in…
It’s been touted as the Coachella of comedy. LOLapalooza. WitStock. But this wasn’t just any music and comedy festival. This was Festival Supreme. The title of the Santa Monica, California, comedy and music festival was befitting of the event’s hosts, the once self-proclaimed but now widely accepted greatest band in…
Many are those who refer to dance as “magic.” But the dance group Pilobolus takes the reference one step further. Pilobolus, the season opener of the Knight Masterworks/Ziff Dance Series at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, will quite literally blur dance and magic in homage to escape artist…
Some of Hollywood’s finest are from Waco, Texas. Steve Martin, for instance, calls it his hometown. Not to mention Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ashlee Simpson and also, Lea Black. OK, maybe they’re not all the best. But hey, kind of famous is still famous, right? See also: Real Housewives of Miami,…
Pilobolus — the acrobatic international dance troupe — has been a huge crowd pleaser here in Miami. When they return to the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this Friday and Saturday nights, they will bring with them five new performances, just in case…
It took some coaxing, but Lourdes López has finally moved into Edward Villella’s impressive old corner office at the Miami City Ballet studios in South Beach. “It’s nice, isn’t it,” says the company’s new artistic director with a shy smile, “and I can grow my gardenias out in the terrace.”…
Some of the pictures show beautiful, half-naked people wearing billowing white togas while lounging around Greek columns or descending stone steps. Other images depict the same crew positioned underwater, frolicking in an aquamarine paradise, like performers in a mermaid show without the fins. These promotional photos for the Adrienne Arsht…
Some of the pictures show beautiful, half-naked people wearing billowing white togas while lounging around Greek columns or descending stone steps. Other images depict the same crew positioned underwater, frolicking in an aquamarine paradise, like performers in a mermaid show without the fins. These promotional photos for the Adrienne Arsht…
Paley, the writer and lyricist of this 1992 off-Broadway comedy, could not have foreseen YouTube, Toddlers & Tiaras, or Here Comes Honey Boo Boo more than a decade later. Or maybe he could — that would explain the uncanny prescience of his durable showbiz satire about an 8-year-old diva who…
Vladimir Issaev’s dance company, the Arts Ballet Theater of Florida, is about to begin its 2013-2014 season, and “there will be surprises,” Issaev says. He is referring as much to the digital animation woven through his “Firebird,” as the presentation of “Pentimento,” a work by Vicente Nebrada, a legendary Venezuelan…
The Marvelous Wonderettes at Main Street Playhouse Through October 27
According to Carol Burnett’s oft-quoted epigram, comedy is tragedy plus time. That witticism has held up for more than 20 years, though today I would excise the “plus time” part. In the age of Twitter, tragedy instantaneously becomes comedy. “Too soon” is too quaint a complaint: Comedy and tragedy always…
