The Broward Stage Door Theatre company etched a name for itself on stages in Coral Springs and Wilton Manors by tackling some of Broadway’s bigger, more lavish productions and winning a 2011 Carbonell for best musical (Mack & Mabel).Now Stage Door is taking its talents to North Beach with the…
Once, while watching a basketball game, Richard Schechner, a Tisch professor and artistic director of East Coast Artists, had an idea. If players could go from total calm on the bench, to completely in the game once on the court, then why couldn’t performers? Schechner devised RasaBoxes as a way…
Many of Miami’s creatives are transient, showing up on our shores and disappearing as quickly as the tides. The Art on the Street series will document this overlooked and ever-changing element of South Beach culture.The actual distance between South Beach and Opa Locka may be only about 15 miles, but…
When we previewed the comedy show at Zo’s Summer Grove for the calendar three weeks ago, the headliner was slated to be D.L. Hughley. On Friday, however, we learned that none other than comedy god Dave Chappelle had joined the line-up. His glory days in Half Baked and the Chappelle…
Think the cast of Cirque du Soleil battles urban street dancers and you have Cirque Éloize iD. Contemporary cirque director Jeannot Painchaud brings the production to the Ziff Ballet Opera House starting Tuesday for an unusually long run that lasts until September 4. Sixteen artists hailing from seven different countries…
El Malentendido, the International Hispanic Theatre Festival’s Spanish-language version of Albert Camus’s dipped-in-irony-titled play The Misunderstanding, opened last night at the Arsht Center. The production, translated into Spanish and directed by Mario Ernesto Sanchez, is awash in melodrama and overwrought performances. But that’s a good thing. Led by the electric Neher Jacqueline…
El Malentendido at the Arsht Center through July 24
Masked at GableStage through August 7
See Jane Run at Actors’ Playhouse through August 14
The International Hispanic Theatre Festival consistently thumbs its figurative nose at all the Debbie Downers who say that Miami has no culture. Starting today and playing throughout the weekend, El Malentendido , based on the Albert Camus play, The Misunderstanding, will make you ponder self, desperation, the repercussions of war,…
If you’ve never heard the word zarzuela you probably aren’t alone. But in Spain, it’s a popular (typically satirical) form of opera that alternates between speaking and singing. For the first time in it’s 71 year history, the Florida Grand Opera is performing a zarzuela called Luisa Fernanda to kick…
Cuerdas (Strings), which opened last night at the Arsht Center as part of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival, is a tightly acted play that wants to tug at its audience’s heart, but ultimately misses the mark. That’s no fault of the fine cast, led by the fiery Richard Viquiera (who also…
There are a few things that can really make us squirm. One of them is three mom-like ladies smilingly singing songs about their menstrual cycles, which we witnessed last night at the Actors’ Playhouse production See Jane Run!.Okay, so the opening song to the musical was actually about the multifarious…
Stories of escaping Cuba are a dime una dozena in the Magic City. But it isn’t every day that you hear about the struggles of a Jamaican immigrant. Jamaica Farewell is a real-life account of leaving for America in a time of political unrest in ’70s Jamaica, written and performed…
Decir Lluvia Y Que Llueva (To Say Rain and Have It Rain), which opened last night at the Arsht Center, is like a Pink Floyd album cover come to life. With visually arresting set pieces and opulent sound and imagery, Decir Lluvia, which is part of the month long International Hispanic Theatre…
Last night a clothes-line of plastic mustaches lined the windows of Lester’s as an eclectic, all-ages group of about 60 buckled up for the the Moustache Comedy Ride. This special inaugural showcase featured a motley crew of up-and-coming comedians from all three South Florida counties. The event was not an…
Ilan Hatsor’s Masked, at GableStage, deftly explores complex issues
Those who grew up in the Magic City in the ’70s and ’80s may remember the Byron Carlyle Theatre as the place to be to catch the latest flicks and blockbuster movies. That’s right, kids. Before all your fancy 500-screen theaters with your surround sound and $80-a-ticket IMAX 3-D multiplexes,…
Hey, dudes, ever wonder what it’s like to be a woman? Sure you can put on heels, a skirt, and a bit of blush, but then you’re just a man in women’s clothing. Living as a woman is a different tale, one that involves an intricate number of things from…
The explosive and provocative stage play Masked — which opened last night at the GableStage — skillfully manages to plumb the depths of the raw emotions of the divisive Israeli-Palestinian issue with honest story telling and aggressive, brooding and sobering performances from its three stars.Written in 1990, three years after…
International Hispanic Theatre Festival 2011 showcases diversity and honors Chile
Drunkenly eating a cheeseburger got The Hoff one, dating Sly Stalone’s ex got Foofy-Foo one, and doing a blond brigade of future ex wives got Huge Hefner one, so, why wouldn’t tiger blood and goddesses get Charlie Sheen one?Today Comedy Central announced that the next celebrity roastee to be verbally-stoned…
