Last night, Kathy Griffin brought her special brand of expletive-ridden, Hollywood mockery to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino for a two-hour packed show. Yeah, so we called her an unfunny asshole for giving her one local interview to the Miami Herald. Did you really think we wouldn’t go?Anyway, last night,…
Back in the ’70s, Paul Mooney dug up nuggets of comedy genius as a writer for shows like The Richard Pryor Show, Sanford and Son, and Saturday Night Live. In 1987, he opened for Eddie Murphy’s Raw tour. He invented In Living Color’s Homey D. Clown, and played both Negrodamus…
The fine folks and dirty jokers over at the Comedy Inn have discovered a previously unknown permutation of the Perfect Friday Night. And it’s surprisingly simple: Pack a bunch of fun junkies into a cozy Quality Inn ballroom, get them really drunk on beer and booze from the open bar,…
Without fail, every time we’re getting down at a club, there’s always a hard-core group of dancers, that get up in each other faces until a giant dance battle breaks out. We try to hold back our boyfriend, but he’s all “Naw, I can’t let them disrespect.” Next thing we…
OK, we know she isn’t an unfunny asshole. In fact, no matter how much we want to call her nasty names, Kathy Griffin seems pretty goddamn delightful. But we’re hurt. The Emmy-winning comedian will be in town this Wednesday at Hard Rock Live and we had been giddy with excitement at…
It was the full-bodied movements of those bare-breasted women that first lit Njeri Plato-Dioubate’s long-term love affair with West African dance. And it was enough to convince the Trinidad-born performer, who had previously focused on Caribbean folklore dancing, to permanently change course. “It just captured me,” says Plato-Dioubate. She remembers…
Rolling with the big boys — there are a few ladies who not only do it, but do it well. Meet Sheryl Underwood. She’s kind of a BFD (big fucking deal) in the comedy world. No, she’s not Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin, but she’s on her way. Originally breaking…
Remember Area Stage? Miami critics fawned all over this little theater company on Lincoln Road until it closed in 1999. They recently reopened in Coral Gables, complete with a conservatory for young actors. This weekend, they stage Jonathan Larson’s Rent. We spoke with Area Stage’s directors about their role in…
Nietzsche declared, “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” It’s doubtful that the existential philosopher anticipated chaos giving birth to Dancing With the Stars, where B-listers tango for more fame. It’s more likely that he would have been down with…
Every family has its version of the outcast: the crazy aunt, the crazy half-brother’s ex-wife’s cousin. But would it change things if you learned that your deranged family member also happened to be crazy-rich? Would you seek them out for a donation to your backpacking-Europe-for-personal-enlightenment fund?Before you drive down that…
Somewhere right now, an engagement is being hatched over the sound of gunfire, a baby is taking its first breathe amidst rubble, and a marriage is testing its limit as massive riots rage outside. They didn’t think to add “in peace and in violence” to the list of marriage vows,…
The Pillowman is hard to watch. But it’s not the result of the acting, which is spot-on and emotionally charged. And it’s not because of the Little Stage Theater, whose squeaky seats stacked on plywood risers don’t make for the most comfortable theater experience. Rather, it’s the content of the…
The future looks dangerously bright for Drew Spears. Right now, the 21-year-old standup comic is chasing a double major in Motion Pictures and English Literature at UM. Translation: He can look forward to near-certain unemployment, probable starvation, and an almost 50-percent chance of homelessness. “The school of communications makes you…
There’s a very different type of big top in town at La Fee Verte, and we aren’t talking about the tent variety. (Although there’ll probably be enough wood in there to pitch one, har har.). Tonight, Thursday, Rainbow Circus is bringing its Sexy Circus Sideshow to the burlesque club. And…
You’d expect a play titled The Pillowman to involve a terrifying character who inflicts nightmares upon a poor victim’s sleeping mind. On the contrary, the eponymous entity’s purpose is to save children from the nightmares of their real lives. Is this an act of self-righteousness or the work of a…
Two years before Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were born, the city of Madrid spawned Lope de Vega, one of the most prolific dramatists in theater history. Vega penned 1,800 plays and 3,000 sonnets, and sure, they weren’t all gems. (It’s hard to imagine anyone writing so many plays without…
Recently, the White House took historic first steps to end travel restrictions to Cuba. But until an epic Capitol Hill battle, which will likely end in blood, tears, and airline tickets, lifts the travel ban entirely, you’ll have to settle for swaying your hips to the conga drumbeat at the…
It was a very strange thing when Louis CK scored a family sitcom on HBO called Lucky Louie. Why? Well, here was a guy who’d made his name telling the dirtiest, most depraved jokes about his wife and two little daughters — crotch smell, toddler masturbation, borderline coprophilia — and…
After Jerome Allen “Jerry” Seinfeld finally wrapped his nine-season stint as the crank-ass king of network TV, he got married, gained some weight, bred a couple of rug rats, and stopped pretending to be a nice guy. Basically, the Brooklyn-bred comic let loose. He was rich, powerful, and famous enough…
Ramón del Valle-Inclán was a scraggly-bearded, one-armed, bohemian playwright from Spain, who penned sordid tales that were a slap in the face to bourgeois sentimentality. This weekend, Miami’s International Hispanic Theatre Festival presents his play, Divinas Palabras. It’s about a preyed-upon midget whose mother forces him to travel from carnival…
This week in theater: Tap Dogs and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival
International Hispanic Theatre Festival and Tap Dogs take Miami
