In Zoetic Stage’s Clark Gable Slept Here, the mystery begins before the show starts. Amateur sleuths in the audience may spend the moments before the curtain drawing their own conclusions about Robert F. Wolin’s lavish, symmetrical set design — a penthouse suite in a posh Hollywood hotel, its color palette…
This year’s SoBe Comedy Fest is less than a week away, and the lineup looks like yet another Miami Beach invasion from all parts of America without much that’s South Floridian. Previous Fest line-ups included some local talent among headliners, but this year, the torch is carried proudly and solely…
Each year, the Carbonell Awards celebrate the best and brightest of South Florida’s theater industry. Though the awards recognize performances, productions, and works that moved audiences during the 2013-14 season, perhaps theaters’ greatest feat was focusing our Netflix-glazed gazes on something other than a screen for an hour. Along with…
Daniel Reskin, long-time underground Miami comic and host of Casa de Ha Ha, recently announced on his blog that he was going rogue. After ten years as a waiter, which was the source of some of his jokes, he’s finally been able to move on and perform stand up as…
True, $25 doesn’t buy much these days. That’s like 1/8th of a night out on SoBe. But thanks to Yelp, Gramps and the Adrienne Arsht Center, it’ll score you a ticket to a play and a brew to boot. Sweet deal. The latest installment of the “Play and a Pint”…
Niurca Márquez is rewriting the history of flamenco. Each dance-step the Miami-native plants marks a new direction for an art form cemented in Andalusian tradition. Her work simultaneously references and breaks from that tradition to create new contexts for both flamenco newbies and aficionados to consider, in a sub-genre known…
If you’ve read our interview with Michael Yo, then you might have guessed the latest big news — the Miami Improv is back! The Improv, formerly located in Coconut Grove, has come to the expansive Kendall Village Center’s 12,000-square-foot entertainment venue, Homefield Sports Bar & Grill. The official kick-off of…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s feet stank. At least they did April 3, 1968, in playwright Katori Hall’s imagined scenario of the night before the great leader was assassinated. It makes sense. Yours might stink too after trudging back to your motel room in a torrential storm while wearing the same…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s feet stank. At least they did April 3, 1968, in playwright Katori Hall’s imagined scenario of the night before the great leader was assassinated. It makes sense. Yours might stink too after trudging back to your motel room in a torrential storm while wearing the same…
You’ve probably seen Michael Yo interviewing celebrities on E! News or Chelsea Lately. But staring at a screen is bad for your health, so this weekend you’ll be able to see Yo live. He won’t be interviewing anyone, because he’ll be onstage for his Hot Mess Comedy Tour, giving audiences…
The love story between Psyche and Cupid is one of the most durable myths of all time; with appearances by Zeus, Venus, Zephyr, Pan, Ceres, and the oracle of Apollo, it’s pretty close to a greatest-hits collection of Greek mythology. At its most basic, it’s about two beings who will…
Spamalot, Eric Idle’s delirious farrago based on his own Monty Python oeuvre, has the reputation, like Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, of being musical theater for people who don’t necessarily attend musical theater. This assessment sidesteps the clever parodies of musicals ranging from Phantom of the Opera and…
What did Martin Luther King Jr. do the night before he was assassinated? Did he have a drink, pick up a girl, pray, cogitate, read, write, practice his next speech, hit the pillow early? Whatever activities occupied his time in room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April…
Thaddeus Phillips hails from Denver, but it’s fair to say he’s a citizen of the world. His work takes you to places. Under the auspices of his theater company, Lucidity Suitcase International, Phillips has become a deft travel monologist, his stage projects feeding into his journeys and vice versa. In…
Miami is full of grade-A artists, writers, directors, actors – all manner of creatives – and the Adrienne Arsht Center is here to make sure you never forget it. For the sixth year in a row, the Center celebrates locals with the Miami Made Festival, packing a whole weekend’s worth…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30, and finally, nine. We’ll be profiling those finalists in the days to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners will be…
Late-1970s North Philadelphia was crumbling under violence and poverty. Rennie Harris didn’t make it any safer for himself by jamming safety pins through his clothes and painting checkers on his sneakers well before Vans sold them that way. “They’d yell at me and call me gay. I’d get into a…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30, and finally, nine. We’ll be profiling those finalists in the days to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners will be…
So you think you can vogue? The bad bitches of Catwalk will have the final say on that. We braved the runway Sunday to check out the Garret’s fiercely fabulous monthly, giving local ballroom enthusiasts a chance to strut their stuff and win some cash – if they dare. There…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30, and finally, nine. We’ll be profiling those finalists in the days to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners will be…
His father was a costume designer and his mother a professional dancer, so it’s almost as if Mio Rodriguez was destined to be a performer. His father also dabbled in magic, y’know, the occasional trick. “When I was seven years old, he would sit me on his lap in the…
127 Hours was a fine film, but now try to imagine it with singing and choreography. That might give you some insight into the blazing originality of Adam Guettel’s fact-based musical Floyd Collins, dramatizing the last days of its titular cave explorer. While scoping out Kentucky’s Sand Cave, the real…
