When the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre returns to the Arsht Center this month, Miami will welcome home the company’s Artistic Director Robert Battle. “It’s wonderful,” says Battle. “Home represents something very special.” The company will perform at the Arsht Center from Feb. 21 to 24, as part of its…
Hate! at Miami Theater Center: Solo Show Breaks Down Bigotry
An appreciation for dance has always required some form of discipline. Whether it’s attendance by the observer or practice by the performer, it takes a certain degree of dedication to commit to a work made up entirely of energy and movement. In the words of Sweet Brown, “Ain’t nobody got time…
A couple of years ago, an interracial couple told Miami actress Christina Alexander that several churches had refused to marry them. This sparked an idea — for a one-woman show about equality told from multiple points of view, connecting the historical and emotional dots between interracial and gay marriage. The…
If you’re not an “opera person,” the word opera probably calls to mind visions of shrieking, busty women in blonde braided pigtails and horned Viking hats. Here are some things it probably does not call to mind: cults, Helena Bonham Carter, Octomom, “Gangnam Style,” an acid trip at the zoo…
Last weekend, New Theatre began its run of a play that explores the line between devout religious faith and utter insanity. As a show that presents questions about the mental health of the saints and other deeply religious people, Agnes of God is a good fit for the New Theatre, whose…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…
The fate of the Coconut Grove Playhouse, the historic theater that’s been shuttered for six years and that’s now facing foreclosure, may be uncertain. But the fate of its former contents — historic Playbills, costumes, video recordings, and other historic memorabilia — has been secured. Actors’ Playhouse and the University…
To dance on a stage, most people would probably say that one must not only be well-trained, but able to do just that: dance. The training part should be a given, of course, but the ability of who can dance and how to dance is always much more complex, rewarding,…
In Living Color’s Tommy Davidson is hard at work on Deconstructing Sammy, a biopic about Sammy Davis Jr. The film would follow other castmate turns like Jamie Foxx in Ray and Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon. That’s great and all, but how much longer must…
The Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s prestigious regional honors for live theater, announced its nominations this afternoon. And though Palm Beach County rules the list with 45 nods, Miami-Dade’s growing theater scene is creeping up on the competition, earning 43. Maltz Jupiter Theater earned the most nominations out of any theater,…
If the standard selection of overpriced jukeboxes, off-key cover bands, and Jimmy Buffett wannabes at your local bar is getting a little old, there’s a new game in town — the opera. Once the domain solely of the rich (and Richard Gere), the opera’s modern-day makeover is coming to Midtown’s…
Other Desert Cities at Actors’ Playhouse: Ideology Trumps Family
In the fall of 2012, for Coconut Grove activists, everything seemed to be going according to plan. The scenario they backed, in which the state of Florida makes good on its promise to reclaim the decrepit and shuttered Coconut Grove Playhouse because it’s not meeting its requirement to show live…
Latex, birdcages, nude bodies, eggs, holy water. No, it’s not a list of items used in some bizarre demon-summoning ritual. They’re just a few of the props used by the artists in last year’s Miami Performance International Festival, curated by Edge Zones. Now in its second year, MPIF has artists…
All New People at Arsht Center: Zach Braff’s Play Is Full of Quirky Characters
At 37, actor Zach Braff can identify with the Millennials. But as a creative type, his persona is pure Generation X: neurotic, psychically wounded, emotionally adrift, numb to the malaise of adulthood. That said, he’s not averse to wacky meet-cutes, nimble verbal patter, and puns so bad they’re good, often…
If one of your resolutions for 2013 was to sit your ass in more theater seats and on fewer bar stools, PAX Miami is about to launch an event that will make your transition into “cultured-ness” a lot less jarring. Starting this Friday and repeating every third weekend of the…
If you sat through all 242 minutes of Kenneth Branagh’s unabridged Hamlet movie, masterly as it may have been, chances are there were times when you just wished Shakespeare would get to the damn point already. In Miami wunderkind Tarell Alvin McCraney’s condensed edit of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy, which he…
On Friday, The Miami City Ballet presented the world preview of “Euphotic,” the most recent work of Liam Scarlett, artist-in-residence at London’s Royal Ballet. Scarlett has an intimate relation with the Miami City Ballet as well as Miami audiences. Almost exactly a year ago, Miami City Ballet presented another world…
Like a show opening with a band’s greatest hit, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s radical edit of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins with the master’s most famous phrase of his most famous soliloquy: “To be or not to be.” And off we go, into a 90-minute, one-act version that gets right to the…
Like a show opening with a band’s greatest hit, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s radical edit of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins with the master’s most famous phrase of his most famous soliloquy: “To be or not to be.” And off we go, into a 90-minute, one-act version that gets right to the…
