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
Because he hasn’t yet had an icky cameo on Glee, you might not realize that actor and comedian Joel McHale’s star is cresting. He plays heartthrob Jeff Winger, a lawyer forced to go back to junior college, on NBC’s Community. And he hosts E!’s The Soup, a clip show that…
Summer Shorts 2011: No shortage of comedy, drama, and the provocative
In addition to last year’s annual Summer Shorts festival, City Theatre premiered Camp Kappawanna, the family rock musical penned by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb (the show is back for a return engagement this year). This year’s festivities, however, is not so kid-friendly. The 16th anniversary of Summer Shorts calls for…
The national tour of Hair arrived full-force in Miami last night at the Ziff Opera House. People familiar with the show will recognize classic songs like “Aquarius,” “Hair” and “Let the Sun Shine In” that had many fans dancing in their seats. This 1967 musical, deemed the first “tribal love-rock…
Performer/dancer/writer/director Teo Castellanos is back. His new piece, Fat Boy, which opens tomorrow, is unlike anything the hometown homeboy has done before — and anything you’ve seen before. With his troupe D-Projects and accompanied by original music from another local favorite DJ Le Spam, Castellanos mines dance and cultural traditions…
Last week, we gave a preview of the New Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, charging that “a theater troupe really has to have guts to take on” Tennessee Williams’ most celebrated work. Well, in the premier of the show last night, the performers and director Ricky J. Martinez…
