Comic Cure Brings Comedy Festival to Coral Gables

To say that the local organization Comic Cure cares is an understatement. Over the last year or so, the group has made important progress across South Florida, supporting both local comics and the community at large. Founded by brothers Benjamin and Richy Leis, Comic Cure organizes events year round, with…

George Bernard Shaw Gets a Musical Treatment at GableStage

For a play set in the 19th century, George Bernard Shaw’s Candida is frighteningly still relevant. Throughout his life, the Irish playwright and critic harbored allegiances to Marxism, gradualism, and eventually, Fabien Socialism. And in his writing career, Shaw often wrote versions of himself or interpretations of his ideals into…

Paul Tei’s Mad Cat Theatre Does Beckett

This St. Paddy’s Day weekend, while much of Miami is celebrating Irish culture with green beer, shamrock decor, and Celtic rock, Mad Cat Theatre Company will offer a different Irish perspective: existential despair, traumatic recollections, and creaking ghost stories from the nation’s chief export of the avant-garde, Samuel Beckett. For…

Pioneer Winter and Jared Sharon Premiere a Divided Host

While Miami native Pioneer Winter has been active in the local dance community as a choreographer, he has also been wrapping up his Masters of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University. HOST, Winter’s current project, is also his thesis performance. The piece explores the potential of what Winter calls a “practice-based” approach…

Dancer Farruquito Improvises Flamenco Back to the Future

Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as “Farruquito,” was born into one of the grand families of flamenco. His father was the late cantaor Juan Fernández Flores, “El Moreno.” His mother, the dancer Rosario Montoya, was referred to as “La Farruca.” And his grandfather, the founder of a flamenco school of…

Japanese Choreographer Kota Yamazaki Concludes His Tour of OQ in Miami

A palace is typically extravagant, filled with too many pillows and too many luxury items. It’s the ultimate signifier of wealth and consumption. But for Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki, it’s a frenetic, meditative space where dark and light coexist. Inspired by utakai (poetry readings by Japanese aristocrats) and renga (collaboratively…

Alvin Ailey Dance Theater’s Awakening Will Rouse the Arsht Center

After a long day’s work, most people like to plop down in front of the TV to unwind — but not Jamar Roberts. The 33-year-old dancer, choreographer, illustrator, and fashion designer considers the act of watching television an exploration of what’s happening behind the lens. “I usually watch on mute…