Performing Arts

Luisa Fernanda at the Ziff Ballet Opera House through November 26

The Red Thread at the PlayGround Theatre through December 18

Red at GableStage through December 4

South Florida “funniest comics you’ve never heard of,” the Have-Nots have teamed up with Just the Funny — Coral Way’s comedy clubhouse for sketch and improv. They’re doing a television broadcast that is sure to be the South Florida comedy equivalent to the Power Rangers’ Megazord bio-mechanical robot vehicle, or…

Red at GableStage: Rothko’s ornery genius

Since this spring, Brazz Dance Theater has been giving Miami audiences sneak peeks at a work called “Cordel.” In the company’s March performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Theater, we saw a short lyrical piece, no doubt a tiny fragment of what has now become an ambitious, hour-long choreography…

The idea of a funny doorman is perfectly logical. The job puts people in their line of vision for exactly ten seconds, prompting short conversations every time they enter and exit the building — a situation that seems almost designed for the cultivation of witty one-liners.Maybe that’s what playwright Kenneth…

​Red, which opened last night at the GableStage, is a venerable one-act play that hurls symbolism, existentialism, and Fredrick Nietzsche all up in your face like an abstract expressionist dousing flecks of paint on a canvas. Loosely based on the life of Mark Rothko, the brilliant Russian-born American painter whose expressionist…

​Not so enthused with the job market? Go hang yourself… upside down from 40-foot silk scarves, that is.Victoria Pike! — exclamation intended — isn’t even out of high school, but she’s already setting her sights on an untraditional career path: the circus. The quirky 16-year-old has spent the past two…

Garth Fagan choreographed the spectacular Broadway production of The Lion King, and that one show has sealed his legacy. But there is much more to the 71-year-old Fagan than leaping gazelles and flying baboons. His company, Garth Fagan Dance, has set the standard for contemporary dance inspired by the many…

Miami native, Octavio Campos, founder and director of the arts organization Camposition, has built a local and international reputation for creating provocative, multidisciplinary performances that reinvent the boundaries between dance, theater, and activism. Now after a two-year hiatus, Camposition debuts Intention Intervention, a hybrid dance theater piece commissioned by Sleepless…

Hairspray at Actors’ Playhouse through November 13

Captiva at the Arsht Center through November 20

Reading the biography/history section of the Carpetbag Brigade’s website may cause seizures. The San Francisco group puts on visual extravaganzas using improvisation, acrobatics, music, circus antics, and butoh (explanation below).This Saturday, the Carpetbag Brigade will perform their live show, “Callings,” as part of the much anticipated Sleepless Night, an overnight…

​You might remember Ana Gasteyer, the current star of ABC’s Suburgatory, better as sweater-clad Margaret Jo McCullen, whose NPR spoof show Delicious Dish featured Pete Schweddy sharing his delicious trademark Schweddy Balls and Betty White giving the ladies a taste of her “dusty muffin.” Or if that doesn’t ring a…

For his latest daring Miami stage experiment, GableStage at the Biltmore’s producing artistic director Joseph Adler presents Red, John Logan’s six-time Tony Award-winning play about Russian-American abstract artist Mark Rothko. Set in 1958, the drama centers on the sometimes antagonistic interaction between Rothko and his assistant Ken as they create what…

​In the decade-plus since Miami Dade College started it’s Middle East Dance Program, the curriculum — and it’s accompanying, annual Belly Dance Show — has become the biggest and best place in the state of Florida to hone the ancient art of danse du ventre.Saturday’s showcase, titled Arabian Dreams, is…

The Addams Family at the Arsht Center through October 30

While watching The Addams Family musical last night at the Adrienne Arsht Center, we were struck by the realization that the entire pop culture phenomenon is basically an extension of the idea of “opposite day.” Bad is good, gloom trumps happiness, death is preferable to life, weird is normal, and…

Say you were to compile a list of celebrities who notoriously don’t give a damn, Tracy Morgan would probably appear damn near the top. And that’s why we love him. Morgan’s eccentric personality and outrageous antics are wildly entertaining. The dude’s filter is nonexistent and we’re convinced that his 30…

People have always been fascinated by the dark side of things,” says actor Douglas Sills, one of the stars of The Addams Family, which opens tonight at the Arsht Center. There’s a jovial dread that surrounds this macabre creation, which began as a simple cartoon that satirized the American family…

Miami City Ballet opened the season last night with a program of favorites that covered a wide range of modern and contemporary ballet choreography from classic Balanchine to sexy Jerome Robbins and from stately Christopher Wheeldon to sassy Twyla Tharp. The Friday night performance also revealed that the company’s greatest…