Performing Arts

Alma en Boca at the Colony Theatre October 1 (one night only)

Swimming in the Shallows at FIU’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center through October 2

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at Actors’ Playhous through November 19

What’s better than diverse and subversive stage readings presented by young, hungry driven actors? Nothing. Except when those stage readings are boundary busting, thought-provoking plays, have the actors interacting and discussing said play with the audience, and when it’s cheap. Cheap is good!Ground Up & Rising, the award-winning theatre and film…

You can hardly blame Chris Tucker for being a little distracted during his show Saturday night at the Fillmore Miami Beach. If we owed the IRS $11 million, we’d probably be preoccupied too. But unlike Tucker, we don’t have huge hilarious bulging eyeballs to effortlessly smooth over glitches in our…

Over the years, certain catch phrases have become a part of pop culture. But nothing has caught on for the 21st century like those from a show that left us too soon, Chappelle’s Show. A few that stand out are “F*** yo couch” and “Charlie Murphy!” We’ll never have the…

Like some of the most iconic figures in sports and performing arts history before him, Edward Villella, founder and director of Miami City Ballet, announced Thursday that he was leaving the company just as it had reached the pinnacle of success in its more than quarter century of existence. First…

Night Train to Bolina at the Ring Theatre through September 24

The Fantasticks at the Pelican Playhouse September 25

Moon Over Buffalo at JCat Community Theatre through September 25

‘Night, Mother at the Pelican Theatre through September 25

Jelly Belly at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center through October 2

If you still relish the memory of that middle school dance where your classmates crowned you ruler of the dance floor based on your unusually low limbo or stellar steps on the conga line, you may not want to attend the “So You Think You Can Dance” live show. Watching…

“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” Maybe Rick Ross wasn’t singing about the everyday grind of paying bills. But there once was a young Rick Ross, who struggled to find a way to balance his creative ambitions and cash flow. In “Everyday Hustlin’,” we talk with…

“So we’re just gonna sit here and talk for a couple of hours, and then you’re going to kill yourself.” Actress Sally Bondi, who plays Mama Thelma in the Alliance Theatre Lab’s production of ‘Night Mother, sums up the plot of this play by Marsha Norman (which was also made…

The Brothers Size at GableStage through October 2

Is anyone else feeling freaked out by East Coast earthquakes and hurricanes the size of Europe that reach all the way to Canada? Not to be alarmists or anything, but maybe it’s time to stuff our belongings into our hybrids, pack a year’s supply of organic trail mix, and navigate…

If you’ve been putting off taking in a show at Coral Gables’s New Theatre under the assumption that the venue ain’t going anywhere, you may want to bump your night at the theater up on your priority list. The theatre is going somewhere — namely, to pieces.The Laguna Street location…

Every now and then, a play with a fantastic script comes along and is utterly wrecked by stiff acting and shitty phoned-in directing that makes you want to jam a dental drill into your eye socket. GableStage’s production of The Brothers Size, which opened last night at the Biltmore, is…

Say what you want about the great city of Miami: we all chose, or are forced, to live here and don’t lie, you know you love it. Tourist and celebrities come from around the world to our beaches and even MTV thought a whole season of their moneymaker Jersey Shore…

Tarell McCraney’s The Brothers Size grows at GableStage

From Cain and Abel to the dudes from Oasis, brothers have a long history of fighting and generally acting like pricks with one another. Sometimes it’s jealousy. Other times it’s because they simply have nothing in common. In The Brothers Size, which opens this weekend at GableStage, two male siblings…