Just like Cheech Marin’s mustache or The Dude’s bathrobe, there are some signature movie moments that are instantly recognizable. For comedy troupe and filmmakers Broken Lizard, their indelible mark on cinema will forever be their twisted views on the things state troopers do when no one’s watching, or the exact…
Carrying Water in a Sieve at Ring Theater Through September 22
We’ve known for weeks that the next female winner of So You Think You Can Dance would be from South Florida. And in last night’s finale, ballerina Eliana Girard was given the title of “America’s Favorite Girl Dancer.”See also:- Tiffany Maher looks back on the season- America’s Favorite Girl Dancer…
Ruined, at Gablestage, Paints a Wrenching Picture of Congolese Violence
See Coconut Grove Residents Demand Playhouse Board “Give It Back”; Coconut Grove Playhouse Settlement Delayed Again.The State of Florida will give the Coconut Grove Playhouse 30 days to get its affairs in order before reclaiming the property.The Miami Herald reports that Al Dougherty, deputy secretary of the Florida Department of…
See SYTYCD’s Season Nine Girl Champion is From South Florida.America’s first real introduction to So You Think You Can Dance finalist Tiffany Maher was as the jazz dancer with brown wavy hair who wasn’t Audrey Case during the top 20 reveal show in June. The 19-year-old Plantation hoofer flew so…
It was a sunny, hot, and extremely humid Saturday afternoon, Labor Day weekend, and a crowd had started to gather at the Euclid oval on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. There were a few people who may have been there from previous word-of-mouth knowledge, but the majority of the ever-increasing…
See Two South Florida So You Think You Can Dance Contestants are Nearing the Finish Line.No, the current So You Think You Can Dance season isn’t yet over. We still have two more weeks — a night of performances by the final four dancers Tuesday, followed by the balloon-dropping, champion-announcing…
Alliance Theater Does Death With Home Sweet Funeral Home
See Edward Villella Announces Retirement; Lourdes Lopez Selected to Replace Villella; MCB Executive Director Nick Goldsborough Resigns.Miami City Ballet founder Edward Villella, who was scheduled for retirement in 2013 after the MCB’s board of directors allegedly forced him out of the company he founded in 1986, has stepped down from…
First, we heard there would be a surprise speaker at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Then we heard rumors that a Hollywood actor would be speaking. Finally, we heard that Clint Eastwood would take the stage. Still, when we tuned in last night, we were pretty surprised.Nobody told us…
Next weekend, GableStage will open its long-awaited production of Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, the final play of its 2012-2013 season. Artistic Director Joseph Adler had been wanting to stage the acclaimed play since he saw its New York debut in 2009. Adler spoke to New Times about his affection for the…
The American sitcom is as old a tradition as a pie to the face. Year after year television producers churn out show after show about family men who hate their families, single guys who are afraid to grow up, doctors who sleep with nurses, neurotics that talk to stuffed animals,…
Eliana Girard, a West Palm Beach ballerina, and Tiffany Maher, a jazz dancer from Plantation, made it through another round of eliminations on So You Think You Can Dance last night — meaning they’re two of only six remaining dancers in the competition.The two dancers have quietly but steadily risen…
Florida Grand Opera named a successor to Robert M. Heuer, its CEO of 27 years, yesterday. After an exhaustive search spanning the globe, the company has appointed Susan T. Danis, executive director of Sarasota Opera, as his replacement.The announcement touts Danis’ 20 years of experience in arts administration, but also…
On Saturday, September 8, tickets for the Arsht Center’s 2012-2013 season events will go on sale to the general public. But because you’re special, you can buy your tickets early — and with no extra fees — the day before, at a lunchtime shindig at the Arsht.The free street party…
While flash mobs and pop-up parties that involve bikinis, swimming pools and beach balls are all well and good, we have to applaud those that have a little more cultural relevance. Enter the Knight Foundation, who’s been going gangbusters for the past two years creating Random Acts of Culture in…
See Miami One-Acts Festival Brings Hot Thespian Action to the Roxy.The world’s largest lady lumps are a size ZZZ.Whether or not you own a pair of sweater puppies, we bet you didn’t know those letters in the alphabet could have anything to do with what’s going on underneath that inconspicuous…
Miami Comedian Nery Saenz Records His First CD
As news breaks that yet another cast member is leaving Saturday Night Live next year, bringing the total to three (possibly four), you’d think that Lorne Michaels would be going through a mini breakdown. But even with the departures of heavyweights Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig, upcoming star Abby Elliott,…
This Saturday, local comic Nery Saenz — New Times’ Best Comedian of 2011 — will achieve a rite of passage for any comedian: the recording of his very first comedy CD. He’ll be dusting the cobwebs off some of his older material and officially retiring it — or “burying it,”…
Kicking off this weekend, the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre will present five plays written by the controversial Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera, in a grand production entitled “Absurd Celebration: The First International Festival of Virgilio Piñera’s Theatre.” The first play, Aire Frio (Cold Air), opens Friday, with the…
