Performing Arts

Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them at New Theatre through October 30

The Miami City Ballet will perform George Balanchine’s Square Dance as part of its upcoming Program I, kicking off the 2011-2012 season. It’s a beautifully symmetric choice: Edward Villella, the founder and director of MCB, was a star protégée of Balanchine. The MCB first performed this quintessentially American dance in…

​Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, which opened Thursday at the New Theatre as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, is the latest proof that there are infinite variations on how parents can fuck up their kids. The play, as directed by Ricky J. Martinez,…

The Mark Morris Dance Group made a long-awaited return to Miami in front of a spirited and chatty crowd. Not that the audience was distracted. There were frequent outbursts on the beauty of the performance. Like when dancer Michelle Yard, back turned toward the audience, squatted above her partner, who…

[jump] Matthew Ragas, who played Link Larkin, Tracy’s love interest, seemed to have been born to play the delicious crooner heartthrob. Handsome and coordinated, he came pretty close to actually making us swoon when he strutted out in his sexy fitted silver-gray polyester suit, electric guitar slung over his shoulder…

‘s execution in the Spanish Civil War. Lorca was a man comprised equally of progressive social values and untameable passion. And accordingly, one of his greatest tragedies is not only a harsh critique of custom, decorum and values, but also a raw depiction of the intense emotional responses produced by…

Most love stories follow a familiar narrative. Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, then boys wins or loses girl. Samuel Beckett however, was known for turning common situations on their head. In First Love, Beckett writes a tale about a homeless man in love with a prostitute, and MDC Live!…

The House of Bernarda Alba at the Arsht Center through October 30

Hairspray at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre through November 13

Kenny and his little sister have to fend for themselves after their mother dies and their asshole father abandons them for his job and his girlfriend. Most of us would probably just become deviant little snots if fate dealt us that card. But in playwright A. Rey Pamatmat’s heartrending and…

We don’t have a problem with hair-hoppers, unless of course they’re sitting in front of us during the Actors’ Playhouse production of Hairspray, the musical, at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Set in 1962 Baltimore during the height of the segregation/integration conflicts, Hairspray tells the story of racism through the eyes…

Miami’s got a lot of catching up to do. It’s been 15 years since the Mark Morris Dance Group last appeared here. That’s a whole half-life for this esteemed company, which celebrates 30 seasons this year. So why is MMDG returning now? “We only go where we’re hired,” deadpans artistic…

​Bras can be sexy and they can be cute, painful, or the wrong size. Bras. They’re usually pretty uncomfortable, but western women wear them almost everyday of their lives. Each bra speaks to a stage in our lives. The tiniest were usually first, the largest when we’re pregnant. They’re more…

Spring Awakening is a misleadingly cheery title for the Tony Award-winning musical New World School of the Arts premiered last night at the Colony Theater. Teen suicide, incest, and abortion make us think the original play’s alternate title, A Children’s Tragedy, might have been a better fit. But it did…

Ever catch yourself watching Sesame Street and think, Cookie Monster is funny, but he needs more dick jokes? Well, don’t fret. Because Stuffed & Unstrung is what happens when Jim Henson’s puppets stop teaching kids the alphabet and start letting the expletives and adult-content humor fly. Boasting more than 80…

Tall heels and red jeans, or Christian Dior boutique evening gown? Yes, figuring out what to wear to Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Symphony for the Dance Floor might be tricky. The Margate native has created an art piece that melds the multisensory nightclub scene with classical symphonic elements. The show mingles choreography,…

Alma en Boca at the Colony Theatre October 1 (one night only)

Swimming in the Shallows at FIU’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center through October 2

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at Actors’ Playhous through November 19

What’s better than diverse and subversive stage readings presented by young, hungry driven actors? Nothing. Except when those stage readings are boundary busting, thought-provoking plays, have the actors interacting and discussing said play with the audience, and when it’s cheap. Cheap is good!Ground Up & Rising, the award-winning theatre and film…

You can hardly blame Chris Tucker for being a little distracted during his show Saturday night at the Fillmore Miami Beach. If we owed the IRS $11 million, we’d probably be preoccupied too. But unlike Tucker, we don’t have huge hilarious bulging eyeballs to effortlessly smooth over glitches in our…

Over the years, certain catch phrases have become a part of pop culture. But nothing has caught on for the 21st century like those from a show that left us too soon, Chappelle’s Show. A few that stand out are “F*** yo couch” and “Charlie Murphy!” We’ll never have the…