Words & Wine, one of Miami’s strongest weekly poetry and artist gatherings, is back on at the American Legion following a two-week hiatus. Organizer and founding poet Nikki Rodriguez confirmed that the open microphone is staying put. “We considered other venues, but in the end, we really wanted to stay…
We l-o-v-e Kathy Griffin, we mean it. We have loved that tiny little ginger through it all. We loved Griffin pre-nose job when she was occasionally on Seinfield. Even Suddenly Susan, The Mole, Celebrity Mole and yep, even when she told Jesus to suck it, we adored her and even…
The Arsht Center was sold out for the Miami City Ballet premiere of Romeo and Juliet. Yet the dancers who play the star-crossed lovers — and who happen to be married in real life — shared a private moment. In the closing scene, Juliet (Jennifer Kronenberg) plunged an imaginary dagger…
William Shakespeare’s historic love story Romeo and Juliet makes its Miami City Ballet debut this weekend as the MCB’s 25th anniversary season comes to a close. Artistic Director Edward Villella wanted to finish with a major work and John Cranko’s 1962 ballet version of the classic surely fits the bill…
Superior Donuts at GableStage is a sweet treat
The U.S. is notorious for teaching its public school students American history at the expense of world history (which just might be slightly more important). The American education system sucks and Florida, always one to get left behind, consistently is consistently suckier than most – ranking in the bottom 25%…
Bringing some much needed culture to basically the worst place on earth – Miami International Airport – is among the reasons why Random Acts of Culture sponsored by the Knight Art Foundation continues to be one of our favorite movements of the past few years. The latest drive by enculturation…
During the course of his career, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez has been celebrated as both a performer and a choreographer. His recent work The Last Meadow has traveled around the country and the world, and this weekend Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People’s The Last Meadow will be landing at the…
Born to a Jewish father and a Puerto Rican mother, and raised in West Philly, playwright Quiara Hudes had plenty of sources to inspire her to write the Tony Award winning In the Heights, which opens March 29 at the Arsht Center for a limited six-day run. Showcasing hip-hop, salsa,…
Playing at the GableStage at the Biltmore, Superior Donuts is Tracy Lett’s enjoyable follow up to his Pulitzer Prize winning August: Osage County (currently playing at the Actors’ Playhouse). If August: Osage County is a cauldron of familial complexities and dizzying dysfunction, then Superior Donuts gives us quite the opposite. It’s…
Last night’s opening of Catwalk Confidential at the Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater proved, above all else, that its star, Robyn Peterson, is no dumb former model. The Miami native and creator of this one-woman show may have met plenty of those during her tenure on the international couture défilé,…
In part one, we introduced you to Robyn Peterson, the playwright and star of Catwalk Confidential, which opens tonight at the Arsht Center and runs through the weekend. The one-woman show explores Peterson’s teenage years in Miami Beach and her role in the tumultuous world of Parisian high-fashion in the…
August: Osage County at Actors’ Playhouse is a riveting study in family dysfunction
It’s easy to mock the world of professional modeling from behind the comfort of our laptop screens and the forgiving waistbands of PajamaJeans. (Pass that bag of Late Night All Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos, please.) But every day, professional clothes hangers, we mean models, must face grueling denial, physical fatigue, and…
Remember the show Quantum Leap? Probably not. In the show, there’s this physicist, Sam, who becomes lost in time following a time-travel experiment. A new Miami spoken word night, Words & Wine, is like a whole season of this show (in a good way), starting with the venue, the American…
Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-Tony Award winning play, August: Osage County, which opened last night at the Actors’ Playhouse, is a satisfyingly complex dramedy where dense family psychodrama takes center stage.The emotionally charged and darkly funny play, about a dysfunctional family forced to come together and deal with some thorny baggage,…
Jersey Boys at the Arsht: Goodfellas in a jukebox
Kevin Hart isn’t that cool. With four sold out shows at the Fillmore for the South Beach Comedy Festival, the man may be popular, but he’s definitely not that cool. He started his performance last night by grabbing the mic and pulling the stand down a good two feet to…
If you’ve been keeping up with Teo Castellanos, “zen” might not be the first word that comes to mind. His solo show NE Second Avenue had nine characters, each a distinct representation of the funky rhythm that is Miami. His last ensemble work, “Scratch and Burn” featured explosive b-boys who…
A recent graduate of New World School of the Arts, Liony Garcia is a young choreographer with decadent, old-world obsessions. Like Italian giallo cinema, that sexy, creepy genre where masked men wield knives in gloved hand to bloody beautiful young women in black lace. “Giallo is the equivalent of slasher…
Adam Carolla is an entertaining radio and talk show host. His professional past, from Loveline, through The Man Show, and all the way up to his current, enormously popular podcast, is testament to that. In all of these projects, he’s shown serious on-the-fly wit, doing his best when paired with…
You might catch Summer Hill Seven bobbing his head to some hip-hop track one second and reciting a Shakespearean monologue the next. He keeps his urban sensibilities intact while expanding his mind and his repertoire. “All those plays that we lovingly refer to as the ‘dead white men plays –…
