Siempre Flamenco, a Miami based Flamenco arts organization, is widely recognized in town for the quality of the festivals they have presented. The organization was founded by the husband and wife team of Paco and Celia Fonta — he is a Flamenco guitarist and singer; she is a Flamenco dancer…
“I’ve got one foot in Miami and one foot in the Caribbean,” says Neri Torres, the founder and director of the Ifé-Ilé Dance Company, which will host its 16th annual Ifé-Ilé Afro-Cuban Dance Festival from Thursday, August 28, through Saturday, August 30. This is true for her culturally, as a…
Are you an expert at the “Conga”? Have you ever successfully turned the beat around? Does it seem like the rhythm is on a constant mission to get you? If so, you’re a natural for On Your Feet, the musical based on the life of Miami superstar Gloria Estefan and…
The real-life mining community of Centralia, Pennsylvania, has been devastated by an underground coal fire since the early ’60s. The monoxide-laden disaster has polluted the town’s air and prompted a massive government-funded relocation of its citizenry. But a few defiant souls remain living in their hometown–fewer than 10, currently–and their…
There is a place called Centralia, whose citizens are called Centralians. It is not the product of a science-fiction writer’s imagination. It is an actual American town, but in 2002 this borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, had lost so many residents that the U.S. Postal Service revoked its zip code…
There is a place called Centralia, whose citizens are called Centralians. It is not the product of a science-fiction writer’s imagination. It is an actual American town, but in 2002 this borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, had lost so many residents that the U.S. Postal Service revoked its zip code…
Isabella Rossellini is bringing her quirky nature lectures focused on the sexual habits of animals she calls “Green Pornos” to Miami Beach. In her shorts, which began online for the Sundance Channel, the former-model-turned-actress blends deep insights on nature with a cheeky humor and a lo-fi Michel Gondry aesthetic. They…
The liquid onslaught poured forth long before audiences entered the Arsht Center for H2Ombre this past weekend. Torrential rains slowed the flow of spectators into this undeniably unique prooduction. But they finally arrived to find a combination platter that’s equal parts rave, 3D movie, and modern dance show. After passing…
There’s likely no nicer stage on which to present a play than the Balcony Theatre at the Actors’ Playhouse on Miracle Mile. It purveys a sense of both intimacy and expanse, thanks to ample seating and a stage that allows for any number of up-close possibilities. It’s also been home…
The Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House is about to get wet. Very wet. The sort of wet that if the water were the result of natural causes, it would require extra flood insurance. Nightly Wednesdays through Sundays — and three times Saturdays — more than 6,000 gallons of water…
The Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House is about to get wet. Very wet. The sort of wet that if the water were the result of natural causes, it would require extra flood insurance. Nightly Wednesdays through Sundays — and three times Saturdays — more than 6,000 gallons of water…
Courtesy of Jenna BalfeJenna Balfe climbs through mangroves. Her strong, lean body weaves through the intricately tangled branches. This is her art, her dance, and her healing. She knows that she probably won’t fall, but if she does, Balfe, a clear-thinking, creative individual, will take whatever shit situation befalls her,…
As one character in Bill Cain’s sobering, antiwar psychodrama 9 Circles puts it, “terrible things happen” in war. It’s the sort of indisputable, politely hollow phrase that says nothing — one of those euphemisms civilians use to accept the unspeakable. That old chestnut “mistakes were made,” with its general admission…
The 29th season of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF) of Miami, which runs July 10-27, showcases leading theater companies from across Latin America, Spain, and the United States. This year, the festival honors Argentina. It also features one Argentina’s most celebrated writers and theater companies — the eponymous Cibrián-Mahler…
The rest of the world may consider Bob Lind something of a legend. He’s the man who wrote and sang the top five worldwide hit “Elusive Butterfly” in 1966, and subsequently became somewhat elusive himself as he veered from the music business into a writing career that found him penning…
As one character in Bill Cain’s sobering, antiwar psychodrama 9 Circles puts it, “terrible things happen” in war. It’s the sort of indisputable, politely hollow phrase that says nothing — one of those euphemisms civilians use to accept the unspeakable. That old chestnut “mistakes were made,” with its general admission…
In its fifth year of Out in the Tropics — a performing art series that highlights contemporary LGBT artists and their work in poetry, dance, and theater — FUNDarte invited back San Francisco-based Sean Dorsey Dance to unveil new work, Uncovered: The Diary Project. Two years ago, Dorsey and company…
In the insular world of stand-up comedy, Jim Breuer is well known. Anywhere else (say, in sit-down comedy), you’d know him from Saturday Night Live or the movie Half Baked. But Breuer’s one busy dude. Besides regular touring, he has also managed to podcast, write a book, and make a…
Here in Miami, more than in any other city in America, an encounter with Cuban culture is akin to a return to the roots. No matter whether it’s dance or art, music or theater, it’s the heritage itself that seems to matter most, with the artistic and entertainment elements often…
Comedian Hannibal Buress has had a pretty excellent last few years. The Eric André Show, in which he co-stars, is a critical darling. Broad City, another of his shows, earned a devoted following after a successful first season. He just went viral after walking around Harlem in a suit made…
Rather than construct a standard-issue theater review for an evening of mirth and brevity that is always anything but standard-issue, I decided to trek through City Theatre’s 19th edition of Summer Shorts play by play, in the order in which they are presented. Liberated from the need to excavate overlapping…
Bourbon is on the rocks, and so, apparently, is a marriage in James McLure’s Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star, two interlocked one-act plays. Both include the same array of characters: two close companions and one intruder bearing a sordid secret. Both end in revelations, vomit, and toppled props. And…
