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…
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them at New Theatre through October 30
The Miami City Ballet will perform George Balanchine’s Square Dance as part of its upcoming Program I, kicking off the 2011-2012 season. It’s a beautifully symmetric choice: Edward Villella, the founder and director of MCB, was a star protégée of Balanchine. The MCB first performed this quintessentially American dance in…
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, which opened Thursday at the New Theatre as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, is the latest proof that there are infinite variations on how parents can fuck up their kids. The play, as directed by Ricky J. Martinez,…
The Mark Morris Dance Group made a long-awaited return to Miami in front of a spirited and chatty crowd. Not that the audience was distracted. There were frequent outbursts on the beauty of the performance. Like when dancer Michelle Yard, back turned toward the audience, squatted above her partner, who…
[jump] Matthew Ragas, who played Link Larkin, Tracy’s love interest, seemed to have been born to play the delicious crooner heartthrob. Handsome and coordinated, he came pretty close to actually making us swoon when he strutted out in his sexy fitted silver-gray polyester suit, electric guitar slung over his shoulder…
‘s execution in the Spanish Civil War. Lorca was a man comprised equally of progressive social values and untameable passion. And accordingly, one of his greatest tragedies is not only a harsh critique of custom, decorum and values, but also a raw depiction of the intense emotional responses produced by…
Most love stories follow a familiar narrative. Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, then boys wins or loses girl. Samuel Beckett however, was known for turning common situations on their head. In First Love, Beckett writes a tale about a homeless man in love with a prostitute, and MDC Live!…
The House of Bernarda Alba at the Arsht Center through October 30
Hairspray at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre through November 13
Kenny and his little sister have to fend for themselves after their mother dies and their asshole father abandons them for his job and his girlfriend. Most of us would probably just become deviant little snots if fate dealt us that card. But in playwright A. Rey Pamatmat’s heartrending and…
We don’t have a problem with hair-hoppers, unless of course they’re sitting in front of us during the Actors’ Playhouse production of Hairspray, the musical, at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Set in 1962 Baltimore during the height of the segregation/integration conflicts, Hairspray tells the story of racism through the eyes…
Miami’s got a lot of catching up to do. It’s been 15 years since the Mark Morris Dance Group last appeared here. That’s a whole half-life for this esteemed company, which celebrates 30 seasons this year. So why is MMDG returning now? “We only go where we’re hired,” deadpans artistic…
Bras can be sexy and they can be cute, painful, or the wrong size. Bras. They’re usually pretty uncomfortable, but western women wear them almost everyday of their lives. Each bra speaks to a stage in our lives. The tiniest were usually first, the largest when we’re pregnant. They’re more…
Spring Awakening is a misleadingly cheery title for the Tony Award-winning musical New World School of the Arts premiered last night at the Colony Theater. Teen suicide, incest, and abortion make us think the original play’s alternate title, A Children’s Tragedy, might have been a better fit. But it did…
Ever catch yourself watching Sesame Street and think, Cookie Monster is funny, but he needs more dick jokes? Well, don’t fret. Because Stuffed & Unstrung is what happens when Jim Henson’s puppets stop teaching kids the alphabet and start letting the expletives and adult-content humor fly. Boasting more than 80…
Tall heels and red jeans, or Christian Dior boutique evening gown? Yes, figuring out what to wear to Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Symphony for the Dance Floor might be tricky. The Margate native has created an art piece that melds the multisensory nightclub scene with classical symphonic elements. The show mingles choreography,…
