Like some of the most iconic figures in sports and performing arts history before him, Edward Villella, founder and director of Miami City Ballet, announced Thursday that he was leaving the company just as it had reached the pinnacle of success in its more than quarter century of existence. First…
Night Train to Bolina at the Ring Theatre through September 24
The Fantasticks at the Pelican Playhouse September 25
Moon Over Buffalo at JCat Community Theatre through September 25
‘Night, Mother at the Pelican Theatre through September 25
Jelly Belly at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center through October 2
If you still relish the memory of that middle school dance where your classmates crowned you ruler of the dance floor based on your unusually low limbo or stellar steps on the conga line, you may not want to attend the “So You Think You Can Dance” live show. Watching…
“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” Maybe Rick Ross wasn’t singing about the everyday grind of paying bills. But there once was a young Rick Ross, who struggled to find a way to balance his creative ambitions and cash flow. In “Everyday Hustlin’,” we talk with…
“So we’re just gonna sit here and talk for a couple of hours, and then you’re going to kill yourself.” Actress Sally Bondi, who plays Mama Thelma in the Alliance Theatre Lab’s production of ‘Night Mother, sums up the plot of this play by Marsha Norman (which was also made…
The Brothers Size at GableStage through October 2
Is anyone else feeling freaked out by East Coast earthquakes and hurricanes the size of Europe that reach all the way to Canada? Not to be alarmists or anything, but maybe it’s time to stuff our belongings into our hybrids, pack a year’s supply of organic trail mix, and navigate…
If you’ve been putting off taking in a show at Coral Gables’s New Theatre under the assumption that the venue ain’t going anywhere, you may want to bump your night at the theater up on your priority list. The theatre is going somewhere — namely, to pieces.The Laguna Street location…
Every now and then, a play with a fantastic script comes along and is utterly wrecked by stiff acting and shitty phoned-in directing that makes you want to jam a dental drill into your eye socket. GableStage’s production of The Brothers Size, which opened last night at the Biltmore, is…
Say what you want about the great city of Miami: we all chose, or are forced, to live here and don’t lie, you know you love it. Tourist and celebrities come from around the world to our beaches and even MTV thought a whole season of their moneymaker Jersey Shore…
Tarell McCraney’s The Brothers Size grows at GableStage
From Cain and Abel to the dudes from Oasis, brothers have a long history of fighting and generally acting like pricks with one another. Sometimes it’s jealousy. Other times it’s because they simply have nothing in common. In The Brothers Size, which opens this weekend at GableStage, two male siblings…
Just to be clear, the best theater news we could get would be if The Book of Mormon swooped into the Arsht Center in the next couples of months. But no, the new musical from the creators of South Park (and winner of nine Tony awards) is not (yet) coming…
Djenaba Gregory-Faal wants to school kids in African folklore. To achieve this, she is trying to raise money to produce Sundiata, a theatrical piece about Maghan Mari Djata Keita (AKA Sundiata Keita) — a crippled youth who overcame adversity in order to rule the 13th century Mali Empire.Her goal is…
In the second half of New Theatre’s Henry V, we found ourselves staring at Sipiwe Moyo, the actress who played the king, her expressive and round, dewey-skinned face framed by a hood of fluid metal. Wonder if it’s expensive to buy chainmail headdresses, we thought. They sure are cool. Bet…
Like many South Florida residents, we try not to travel without Y100. And Michael Yo and his crew really does make any ride home from work just a little bit easier. A couple of weeks ago, he happened to mention that he was hosting a night the Miami Improv. We…
”This is the full package,” observes Andy Pita of the upcoming comedic extravaganza Laffgasm taking place at the former Riviera Cinema. With music, standup and sketch comedy, and videos screening, it certainly sounds like no media is left behind. The marriage of the Have Nots comedy troupe and musician and comedian Pita…
So My Grandmother Died, Blah Blah Blah is Paul Tei’s funny, trippy mind blast
