Gilbert Gottfried is a Jewish-American institution. He’s not just any Jew, but the self-proclaimed “most obnoxious” one in the world, a role Gottfried says he’s “fighting to keep” after more than 30 years in the industry.”Oh dammit, I was trying to keep the fact that I was Jewish secret all…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
Jacob Marley’s Christmas at Actors’ Playhouse through January 1
Guys and Dolls at Miami Stage Door through January 8
Best and Worst lists are so arbitrary and subjective. But we do them anyway, because it’s a fine way to recap the year while celebrating the good and pissing on the bad. As a theatre critic, though, it’s tough to write about productions that suck. I prefer to criticize shitty…
The holiday season has officially begun, with the opening performance of The Nutcracker by Miami City Ballet. The company has been dancing George Balanchine’s dream of militant rats and dancing snowflakes every holiday season since 1990. Just like a seat in Santa’s lap, the setting is always the same, but…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
The Santaland Diaries: David Sedaris’s hilarious, scathing look at the holiday shopping season
The Santaland Diaries, which opened last night at the Arsht Center, is the perfect antidote for the saccharin-filled Holiday themed cheeriness that bombards our every day existence in movies, television, plays, parks and, most of all, the cathedral of mawkish X-Mas merriment — the shopping mall.Based on the collection of…
Miami City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is a mainstay to Miami’s holiday season. MCB first produced The Nutcracker on Nov. 23, 1990, at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts. Since then the company has performed the Christmastime classic annually throughout Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade Counties…
Twain versus Shaw at New Theatre
Miami is nothing short of party central, and with all that partying comes a lot of fun to be had — and money to be made. The party scene is brimming with opportunities for clever entrepreneurs with something to offer, like Kyle Head, aka Antic Icon, head of the Illuminautians…
Like your drunk uncle slurring “Jingle Bells” and your nieces and nephews whining over whose turn it is to mess around with the new Wii games, Ebenezer Scrooge’s iconic humbugging is an irreplaceable sound bite from many Americans’ Christmases.But what would Scrooge’s tale of rebirth be without the ominous haunting…
Toward the end of the drive out to the New Theatre’s new location inside the Roxy Performing Arts Center in a strip mall in West Kendall, we half expected to see cow pastures crop up on either side of the road. Dramatic? Yes. But hell, we’re writers, and if there’s anything…
While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy’s in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on…
Carried by Gregg Weiner’s grounded yet forceful performance, Red is a semibiographical drama based on the life of Mark Rothko, the Russian-born American painter whose expressionist works rival those of Jackson Pollock on the abstract-genius scale. At its core, the play is a series of snapshots of the artist’s mind…
Taking inspiration from a Chinese folktale called The Magical Embroidery, the PlayGround Theatre, which prides itself on staging unique and innovative stories for all ages, presents an encore performance of The Red Thread, a moving and fun journey into myth and fantasy, for the holiday season. It’s a tale steeped…
You might know the amiable and charming Madeline from Ludwig Bemelmans’s popular children’s book series about an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Paris. Actors’ Playhouse, which did such a splendid job with Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, is bringing one of the precocious little redhead’s…
Chambers Stevens just sounds like a guy who’d write a play about Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw sitting down to lunch. In fact, it sounds like a guy who might have attended such a lunch. Truth is, the playwright of the show making its world premier December 2 at…
About a month ago, the Fillmore Miami Beach announced that our favorite comedian, Tracy Morgan, would be gracing their stage on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Our heart went aflutter and we shot our Miami New Times editor an email begging asking to cover the show. Luckily for us she obliged,…
Gosh, were we excited for the Dancing with the Stars Grand Finale. And boy did ABC go all out for us! Instead of the usual flippant DWTS introduction, we get a very serious Explosions in the Sky-scored, grainy film-effect montage of Ricki, Rob, and J.R. We are reminded that Ricki…
