Performing Arts

The Sparrow at the Arsht Center through May 1

Take Stephen King’s Carrie, Edward Scissorhands, and add a dash of ancient mythology, and what you have is one of the more original and unique productions to hit  theatres in some time. The Sparrow, a musical play conceived and originally performed by the House Theatre of Chicago, opens this week…

Chances are if you’re between the ages of 28 to 38 you were a fan of Seattle band Nirvana. So it’s likely that your teenage reality was significantly shaken when you heard that frontman Kurt Cobain put a shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger on April 5, 1994…

O, Miami, my Miami! Okay, so we’re no Walt Whitman. But the poets who are taking their words to the streets during the month of April for O, Miami might be.One of the poets regaling us Miami folk with her wit and wisdom is New Orleans artist Sunni Patterson. She’s…

Miami theater this week: Brotherly love, family dysfunction, and tasty pastries

Malibu’s most wanted, Jamie Kennedy, loves the 305. And on Friday, the veteran comic kicks off a three-day, five-show engagement at the Miami Improv. He’s out supporting his latest Showtime comedy special, Jamie Kennedy’s Uncomfortable, but promises fans at the Miami shows will get to hear new material. “(The special’s)…

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,…