Performing Arts

There’s hardly a worthwhile production hitting a local stage that doesn’t have the talents of Ann Marie Olson at hand. A music theater graduate from New World School of the Arts, Olson is a Carbonell Award winner and two-time nominee. Miami New Times’ sister paper New Times Broward/Palm Beach named her Best Actress of 2015, she was a recipient of a Silver Palm Award for Outstanding Contribution to South Florida Theater, and she has a voice described as “golden” by numerous critics of the stage.

“I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power,” dancer and choreographer Jose Limon explained before his death in 1972, “dance as Michelangelo’s visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.” The late dance pioneer’s vision still endures in the company he founded, now in its 70th year — a tribute to the man and the artist and those who believe in his gifts.

Pioneer Winter is not your average choreographer. The 28-year-old native Miamian has a master’s degree in public health and epidemiology, along with a master of fine arts in choreography. He combines his two fields of interest to create avant-garde, socially conscious, and experimental work.

Around the nation tonight, Americans will continue to grapple with political division and unrest. But inside the Jewel Box at the National YoungArts Foundation, dancers and audiences will celebrate a unique collaboration of creative forces, with local and international arts groups coming together to create a uniquely Miamian masterpiece.

No, Louis CK didn’t take down Donald Trump last night. CK’s bit endorsing Hillary Clinton on Conan went viral in the weeks leading up to last Tuesday’s election. The clip’s popularity had some fans wondering whether CK would add a political update to his set, which he’s been perfecting on the road for months.

Before the announcement of their retirement as principal dancers with Miami City Ballet last spring, Carlos Guerra explained the artistic side of his relationship with his wife, Jennifer Kronenberg: “We share a complementary, balanced dynamic as a couple. I always get nervous a week before the ballet opens…

Jo Koy is a family man through and through. It was his mom who first encouraged him to get up on a talent show stage, which led to his career as a standup comedian. In fact, a large portion of his routine is centered on her idiosyncrasies.

In honor of our “People” issue, which will hit newsstands November 17, New Times proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes. Have suggestions for future profiles? Let us know in the comments. #96: Marissa Alma Nick You can thank a shitty Tom Cruise film for bringing dancer…

In honor of our “People” issue, which will hit newsstands November 17, New Times proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes. Have suggestions for future profiles? Let us know in the comments. #97: Stephanie Ansin Stephanie Ansin is a multitasker, at least in the theatrical sense. She…

The smell of greasepaint hovers over Liberty City’s new Audrey Edmonson Transit Village — and the crowds are already gathering in anticipation of the new Sandrell Rivers Theater’s official grand opening November 19. Two of Florida’s top professional theater companies are nearly finished moving into the space.

For most of us, mornings mean waking up to ten alarms, checking for social media notifications, and downing a cup of cafecito for that early boost. But Liza Pitsirilos wants to change the way Miami wakes up. Specifically, she wants you to dance. In April, Pitsirilos attended a retreat concentrating on…

Like all of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, The Cask of Amontillado is dark and psychological. The motive behind the murder central to its plot is never revealed. The author only describes the final deadly encounter between the narrator Montresor and his victim Fortunato. It’s death by immurement: being trapped inside…

Grisi, the legendary ballerina who originated the role of Giselle in 19th-century Paris, must be smiling down on Lauren Fadeley from dance Heaven. Portraying the titular heroine of Giselle, the most celebrated French ballet, can well be considered the zenith of any career. And not only did Fadeley get to…

One of the highlights of Tigertail’s fall season, The Way You Look (at me) Tonight, comes to the Miami stage this weekend. It runs Friday and Saturday, October 14-15 at the Miami Dade County Auditorium’s On.Stage Black Box. A collaboration between self-described disabled choreographer and performer Claire Cunningham and choreographer…

Critics often categorize the multifaceted work of performance artist Nora Chipaumire as contemporary dance. But Chipaumire, based in Brooklyn, New York, but born and raised in Mutare, Zimbabwe, says her upcoming work, Portrait of Myself as My Father, isn’t just a performance. It’s also a manifesto. “What is so terrifying…

Remember when you were six years old and flounced around the playground playing tag with your friends? Improv Everywhere, based in New York City, is making it possible to embrace your inner child with its touring show, the MP3 Experiment. The MP3 Experiment has traveled all over the world, but…

Ten years ago, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County opened its doors for the first time. This weekend, the venue will host a massive party to celebrate. To commemorate its tenth anniversary, the Arsht plans to show off why its has become a major home for…

The historic Colony Theatre will now be operated by Miami New Drama, the City of Miami Beach announced this week. Miami Beach, which owns the historic theater, says that the company assumed operations at the resident theater company on October 1. Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann and Managing…

Programming a lineup of performances to appeal to Miami’s eclectic locals can be a challenge. We’re a town of die-hard South Floridians, immigrants, transients, cougars, silver foxes, and snowbirds. But that’s part of what the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts’ senior director of programming, Erica Lynn Schwartz, admires…

“Of course you can be a prince on stage, but you can be an animal as well? Can you move like a snake, move like a tiger?” With that, a wiry, energized Miao Zong — guest choreographer with Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida — demonstrated the proper technique for a…

Hand to God, which opened this weekend at GableStage at the Biltmore, is an irreverent black comedy whose greatest strength lies in one of the best casts ever assembled by the local theater company. The play, written by Robert Askins, takes place mostly in the basement of a fundamentalist Texas…

From Jekyll and Hyde to Fight Club, the trope of dual personalities has come in many forms throughout the history of storytelling. But it’s probably fair to say it’s never been tackled with as much irreverence and existential outrageousness than in playwright Robert Askin’s Hand to God, which opens at…