We live in the Zone now. The Zone — a widespread allusion to the 1979 film Stalker popularized by leftist comedy podcast Chapo Trap House and further propagated by the Weird Twitter hive mind — is a useful, catch-all reference to the United States’ current state of moral confusion…
As Hollywood continues to unpack more casualties from the #MeToo movement, women are fighting back by creating the kind of work they want to see and the roles they want to play. Erika Soerensen’s Reservoir Dolls, presented by the Outré Theatre Company at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, flips the script in an all-female stage adaption of Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 testosterone-driven heist film, Reservoir Dogs.
It’s a perfect twist of irony — or is it serendipity? — that Miami New Drama debuted its production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity the same weekend Donald Trump has taken on Jay-Z and is preparing for his first State of the Union Address. A rollicking, hilarious, kinetic farce…
At this time last year, South Florida fans of Hamilton were celebrating. Broadway Across America had announced that a touring production of the Lin-Manuel Miranda phenomenon would land here during its 2018-2019 season. [related stories] Now, those same fans are gearing up for the fight to score a…
Overtown resident Tranée and her young son Tremaine are the real-life inspirations for the Miami performance of Pang! The show, which will be performed at Miami Light Project’s Light Box at the Goldman Warehouse, consists of three installments of live radio plays that focus on the story of a local family struggling with poverty from three cities: Los Angeles, Cedar Rapids, and Miami.
People often imagine that new artwork is the product of the solitary artistic genius slaving away in a lonely studio. The South Florida Symphony’s 20th-anniversary program foregrounds a different vision of the artistic process: the kind of innovation that occurs when artists surrender their single vision in their encounters with other artists and the greater community.
Donald Trump’s critics derisively refer to him as the nation’s Cheeto-in-chief. But for groundbreaking theater company Miami New Drama, the president has been a bloated orange sack of inspiration, and promoting the upcoming production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was no exception. The production company has caused a bit of a stir in the wake of the president’s reference to “shithole countries.”
The time seems right for Karen Finley to visit Miami, to perform in the black-box space of the Miami Light Project at the Goldman Warehouse, and to present her latest performance-art manifesto about the current political landscape, Unicorn Gratitude Mystery. In the show, which she began developing…
The internet has been a boon to modern moms in many ways. It has provided stay-at-home moms with contact and communication with the outside world. It has practically created the work-at-home mom. And just as important, it has given moms a way to vent, to get real — often with hilarious results.
YoungArts, the nationally recognized incubator of young artistic talent, will kick off 2018 with its annual performance and gala, Backyard Ball, this Saturday.
Theater collective Primal Forces’ new production, Communion, promises “emotional fireworks” and more, says artistic director and theater founder Keith Garsson. Sparks will fly among the disparate characters: a lesbian psychiatrist, her alcoholic mother, and her evangelical daughter, each hooked on her own ardent and oppositional beliefs.
At the age of 65, choreographer Bill T. Jones speaks about dance with intellectual curiosity and the confidence of experience. Since his beginning in New York’s experimental 1970s dance scene, he has earned a place in the high tiers of dance history. Now, as a mature artist with a full resumé, he is in position to look back, not only at his own career but also at the shape a life might take and how to tell it.
Miami New Drama, based out of the Colony Theatre, and film production company Rakontur have teamed up to bring Billy Corben’s seminal 2006 documentary, Cocaine Cowboys, to a live stage. The idea is the result of a collaboration between two of Miami’s most inventive and innovative artists.
The original series is coming back to life at the Arsht Center in May 2018 as the stage adaptation ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? Today… 40 Years Later, produced by Nelson Albareda, CEO of Loud and Live. The Cuban-American Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning producer has been working on the revival for four years.
Here’s a trivia question: Name the 1892 box office flop panned by critics for lack of seriousness and for casting too many kids, one that is now a force of nature timed to occur yearly around the winter solstice. The answer, of course, is The Nutcracker…
Miami choreographer Marissa Alma Nick’s Alma Dance Theater is preparing to add its distinctive voice to Miami Art Week. The troupe is rehearsing for the upcoming performance of Flowers at the Colony Theatre December 2.
Great friendships can nurture and inspire an artist to make greater work. Think of Pablo Picasso and Wifredo Lam, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Such is also the case for flamenco dancers Francisco Hidalgo and Anabel Moreno, who will perform this weekend at…
Before any questions are asked, Tracy Morgan is already off and running. “We love Miami, me and my wife. My wife wants to go to Versace and eat dinner one night. I want you to print that. My wife, Megan Morgan, wants to eat at Versace.”
Multimedia artist Yara Travieso returns to her native Miami to debut her latest performance piece, El Ciclón, for the YoungArts series Outside the Box — for one night only, November 4.
Few artists have had the impact on their disciplines that guitarist Paco de Lucía had in flamenco. He expanded the harmonic vocabulary, incorporated instruments from outside the tradition, and had a curiosity that led him to collaborations with artists as disparate as jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, pianist Chick Corea, and Brazilian pop star Djavan. He opened new vistas to flamenco artists.
“These walls do talk.” That’s Monica Lynne Herrera, a Hialeah-born, Miami-raised actor who’s performing in Miami Motel Stories, a real-time immersive theater experience opening October 26 at Little Havana’s newly restored 1920 Tower Hotel. The Juggerknot Theater Company production is the first of its kind in Miami, turning hotel rooms into intimate spaces that bring the city’s deep-rooted history to life.
In a roomful of dancers popping, locking, and breaking, famed dancer, spoken-word artist, and director Jonzi D is as eloquent in words as he is in dance. Jonzi founded Breakin’ Convention, the world’s largest festival of hip-hop dance and theater, in London in 2004. This weekend, Breakin’ Convention will travel to the Southeast for the first time for a performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center in downtown Miami.
