Performing Arts

Melt at Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables attempts to identify Miami

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Through March 14. By Gabriel García Márquez; adapted by Nilo Cruz. The Playground Theatre, 9806 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores; 305-751-9556, theplaygroundtheatre.com Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the…

The Hour of the Tiger at New Theatre misses the mark on Japan and its geisha culture

The Great American Trailer Park Musical goes slumming at Actors’ Playhouse

Farragut North By Beau Willimon. Through January 24. GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.org GableStage’s obligatory annual politics play combines a stellar cast — David Hemphill! Nick Duckart! Deborah Sherman! The irrepressibly sexy Gregg Weiner! — with a plot that recalls Primary Colors. Witness how the camaraderie of…

The fast and frothy Farragut North hits Joseph Adler’s GableStage

Another Night Before Christmas By Sean Grennan and Leah Okimoto. Through December 27. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-444-9293; actorsplayhouse.org Creators of bantamweight AOR musical Married Alive return to reinvigorate a Christmas classic — only this iteration of the poem involves a large and…

Playground Theatre’s Inanna and the Huluppu Tree resurrects ancient myths

Gem of the Ocean By August Wilson. Through December 20. The M Ensemble, 12320 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami; 305-899-2217; themensemble.com Gem of the Ocean was the penultimate play August Wilson wrote for his epic “Pittsburgh Cycle,” and it’s the weirdest and most visionary of the lot. Set in 1904,…

Miami’s four must-see stage shows in 2010

FGO’s Pagliacci and Suor Angelica: Two operas about the perils of sex

Macon City: A Comic Book Play at the Naked Stage

The sexual perversity showcased in Sexual Perversity in Chicago is neither very Chicagoan nor very perverse. That is, if you judge perversity by things done rather than things thought about. But like most people in Chicago and elsewhere, Deborah, Danny, Joan, and Bernie — the denizens of this David Mamet…

Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty at GableStage

In Development premieres at New Theatre in Coral Gables

The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell and Trevor Rhone. Through September 13. Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.orgThe Harder They Come is based on the 1972 movie of the same name, which is itself loosely based on the true-life career of Ivanhoe “Rhygin” Martin — a…

The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell and Trevor Rhone. Through September 13. Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org See this week’s full theater review, “Off the Cliff.” ———- Speed-the-Plow By David Mamet. Through September 13. GableStage at the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-445-1119; gablestage.com…

Off the Cliff: The Harder They Come hits the Arsht Center

The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell and Trevor Rhone. Through September 13. Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org The Harder They Come is based on the 1972 movie of the same name, which is itself (loosely) based on the true-life career of Ivanhoe “Rhygin” Martin —…

Temps in the Jungle: David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow at GableStage

Speed-the-Plow By David Mamet. Through September 13. GableStage at the Biltmore, 1300 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; 305-446-1116; gablestage.com An early Mamet masterpiece that once almost made a Broadway star out of Madonna, Speed-the-Plow hits the Biltmore this weekend, featuring Greg Wiener and Paul Tei. No critic has seen this production…

Viva Bourgeois By Molière. Adapted by Paul Tei. Through August 22. Mad Cat Theatre at the Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Tickets cost $30. myspace.com/madcatcompany Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, first performed in 1670, was about a man struggling to cope with wealth, obscure his piss-poor origins, and achieve classiness…