Performing Arts

Alexander, Who’s Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move at Actors’ Playhouse through March 9

Very few comedians in this city can drop a joke better than the indubitable Ricky Cruz. The Miami native has been a staple of local standup comedy for years. His constantly evolving routine consistently possesses a sharp insight into our city’s multicultural mess. Miami’s downright funny, and Cruz is not…

Miami theater 2011: Best of the best

The “supergroup” is nothing new. From Cream to Temple of the Dog to Audioslave, we’ve seen big names from rock join forces — either to make some bad-ass music, or to fail miserably trying. (Velvet Revolver, anyone?)But December 4, 1956, at the renowned Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, saw the…

Hannibal Buress has a big year ahead of him. His one-hour stand-up special is scheduled to premiere on Comedy Central this spring. He is also developing his own sitcom for FOX, which will feature Jonah Hill as executive producer. And he’s kicking it all off with a headliner at the…

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…

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…