Performing Arts

Ilan Hatsor’s Masked, at GableStage, deftly explores complex issues

Those who grew up in the Magic City in the ’70s and ’80s may remember the Byron Carlyle Theatre as the place to be to catch the latest flicks and blockbuster movies. That’s right, kids. Before all your fancy 500-screen theaters with your surround sound and $80-a-ticket IMAX 3-D multiplexes,…

​Hey, dudes, ever wonder what it’s like to be a woman? Sure you can put on heels, a skirt, and a bit of blush, but then you’re just a man in women’s clothing. Living as a woman is a different tale, one that involves an intricate number of things from…

​The explosive and provocative stage play Masked — which opened last night at the GableStage — skillfully manages to plumb the depths of the raw emotions of the divisive Israeli-Palestinian issue with honest story telling and aggressive, brooding and sobering performances from its three stars.Written in 1990, three years after…

International Hispanic Theatre Festival 2011 showcases diversity and honors Chile

Drunkenly eating a cheeseburger got The Hoff one, dating Sly Stalone’s ex got Foofy-Foo one, and doing a blond brigade of future ex wives got Huge Hefner one, so, why wouldn’t tiger blood and goddesses get Charlie Sheen one?Today Comedy Central  announced that the next celebrity roastee to be verbally-stoned…

In a city that is as diverse in lifestyle and taste as Miami, the International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF) — presented by Teatro Avante Thursday through July 24 — has been singular in churning out quality stage productions from the Spanish-speaking world every year for a quarter century. Some of…

Early on in Forrest Shaw’s comedy career, a guest spot at the Improv put him in front of an enthusiastically unappreciative crowd. He told us, “When you first start out, all your jokes are about masturbating.” While telling a joke on the sensitive subject, hand moving back and forth in…

Miami artists Pioneer Winter and Jared Sharon’s upcoming performance contains partial nudity — but which part? To find out you have to visit the Bass Museum of Art for 42: A Stonewall Prospective tomorrow. Winter and Sharon looked to the historical Stonewall riots as a focus for 42. “We’ll be…

Martin Lawrence: (noun) A funny motherfreaker. Ex. “Dude, he went on all Martin Lawrence on that bitch. It was hilarious.”Some people know him from Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. Others are familiar with classics like House Party, and Blue Streak. Most are familiar with his hit show Martin, which…

The M Ensemble does Crossroad Blues

Comedian Daniel Reskin is celebrating his 26th birthday with a ukulele-wielding lesbian singing a little ditty about joining the Christian right to piss off her ex-girlfriend. This display does not disrupt his celebration. In fact, it’s very much a part of it. Reskin is in the midst of hosting the…

​Multiple mistresses. A womanizing king who imprisoned or killed their husbands. Nineteenth Century political scandals were a lot more intense than today’s freakouts over PG-13 cellphone photos of a congressman’s package. Case in point: Victor Hugo’s Le Roi s’amus (The King’s Fool) modeled on the exploits of France’s murderous King…

On the cusp of his live performance at the Seminole Casino Hollywood tomorrow night, we were able to convince Gallagher to let us ask him some hard-hitting questions he would surely side-step. We wanted a phone interview so when we claim that homeboy just basically phoned in his responses we…

The WNBA’s Miami team, the Miami Sol, may no longer be around, but that isn’t because Miami women don’t know how to slam. Deborah Magdalena, the local founder of SWAN (Supporting Women Artists Now) realized that 305 women needed a court of sorts to display their poetry slam prowess. “There…

What happens when you put Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, and Jay-Z in a blender? No, not a flesh-and-guts gazpacho that only Hannibal Lecter could love. You get comedian, master mimicker, and Saturday Night Live cast member Jay Pharoah. Nailing his first impression at age six when an audible copy of…

The setting for Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love is fitting: an isolated, shabby motel in the Mojave desert. It’s the perfect bubble for a tortured, taboo, and sickly compelling love affair. Unspeakable things, wrong things, happen between people who are under the influence and locked in cheap motel rooms. Here, the…

Part of being a local entails babysitting out of town visitors staying on South Beach. That can be a drag if you don’t actually live on Miami Beach. Especially, if they ask for ideas on what to do besides clubbing on a Saturday night. Your might be tempted to suggest…

Last night, the M Ensemble Company opened the Tony Award-nominated story of Home at the Light Box in Goldman Warehouse in Wynwood’s. They chose the play to end their 2010-2011 season, which also happens to be the celebration of their 40th anniversary. Written by Samm-Art Williams, Home tells the story…

Get out of the house and into a seat at the Colony Theatre: San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist Keith Hennessy performs on Saturday as part of Out in the Tropics, South Florida’s first gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender performing arts festival, now in its second year. Among the pioneering artists addressing…

Sam Shepard’s mythic play Fool For Love, which opens tonight at the Alliance Theatre Lab, is set in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert and tells the story of Eddie and May, two young lovers who also happen to be half-siblings. Eddie is a rough-spoken rodeo…

Miami theater this week: Summer Shorts, good vibrations, desire, and love