It’s the timeless tale of fading beauty, the working class of old New Orleans, rape, and a dude in a wife beater shirt who belts out one of the most famous scenes in stage and film history (“Stella!”). A Streetcar Named Desire was the play (and film) that launched Marlon…
Shawn and Marlon Wayans have played characters with names like Ashtray, Slim, Cheapie, Gawain, Snails, and Homeless Guy during the four-year run of their homegrown sitcom in the late ’90s. As the youngsters in their successful comedic blood line, they’ve stuck together through thick and thin, bad movies and worse…
Miami theater this week: Hitchcock, Streetcar, and vibrators
Behind the bright lights and red velvet curtains of “professional theater” is an alternative that is challenging the norm. House Next Door Productions is a group of students from the Miami area looking to spread awareness of so-called “alternative theater” throughout the city. They’re hoping that their production of Stephen…
Last week a man told his 81-year-old father that making tweets was how to search things on Google. The result was the hilarious @oldmansearch.The tweets reflect the mind of a confused (but adorable) old coot: how do you pronounce juan, cold toes, is alex trebek really smart, national geographic dinosaur…
Can you imagine what dinner was like at the Wayans household in the 1980s? You probably had Keenen Ivory Wayans doing his Mike Tyson imitation, while Damon developed his Homey the Clown or Men on Film schtick, and then the babies of the family, Shawn and Marlon Wayans, were developing…
The 39 Steps at Actors’ Playhouse crams an entire film onto the stage
Writer, dancer, and, although he doesn’t like to admit it — actor, Rudi Goblen has performed with The Roots, Mos Def, and De La Soul, just to name a few. The acclaimed B-Boy and his crew, the Flipside Kings, perform, compete, and judge events all over the world. You may…
Kids often forget that their parents existed as real people before having them. Kids also think they know everything. These two facts are the reasoning behind Three Days of Rain, which premieres Friday at the Black Box Theatre at Nova Southeastern University.Richard Greenberg, a Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize…
Talk about the creative struggle. This weekend, Miami will play host to a group of dancers, known as Ayikodans, who have overcome obstacles more challenging than what most of us can imagine. The company, led by choreographer Jeanguy Saintus, is based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their facility was partially destroyed in…
Led by Cuban-born and trained stars of international repute hailing from top-tier companies including the San Francisco Ballet and the English National Ballet, the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM) presents traditional ballet at its most grandiose. The Cuban-flavored classical ballet takes the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach at…
The Victorian age was a confusing time. The Industrial Revolution sprung up many technological innovations, people figured out the importance of clean water (like that it’s important for not dying), and medicine proposed new solutions to everyone’s problems. But lost in all the progress were some less positive developments. Like,…
Celebrity Autobiography at the Arsht Center May 12-15
Choreographer, director, and all-around multimedia artist Yara Travieso got her start dancing here relatively late, at age 13, and not in the usual realms of jazz, modern, or ballet. Rather, the self-described “super-sassy” teen was drawn instead to the flamboyance of flamenco. And though she later attended the New World…
Sam Shepard and Patti Smith performed Cowboy Mouth back in 1971. The play follows two sad sacks, Cavale and Slim. She’s kidnapped him at gunpoint in order to make him a rock ‘n’ roll star, but they’re just wasting away in a messy room. Sounds like college a little, no?This…
We have been shaking in anticipation of Reggie Watts’s performance at the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse this Thursday and Friday. Intersecting the worlds of music and comedy, Watts is truly unlike any “musical comedian” who has come before him. Using his loop petal, Watts completely improvises every performance brilliantly,…
Of all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, his 1935 classic The 39 Steps would probably be the most difficult to bring to the theater stage. Yet that is exactly what the Actors’ Playhouse is doing by presenting one of Hitch’s first masterpieces. It’s a spy thriller that has it all: murder,…
Talking about Stone Groove. Then we can dig it. Jus’ hang loose, blood. What it is, big slick? Our mama ain’t raise no dummies. We dug the rap! Cut me some slack, Jack! Say ‘e can’t hang! Jive ass dudes don’t got no brains anyhow!Stone Groove is an avant-garde, bohemian,…
The Main Street Players in Miami Lakes presented a relatively impressive opening night performance of the insightful and amusing musical Company with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The production was engaging, the stage design perfectly simple, and, for the most part, the singers sounded good and…
Local choreographer Alexey Taran, filmmaker Carla Forte, and the Bistoury Physical Theater Company want us to confront our demons. Their new and extravagantly multimedia project Asesinos por una Noche (Assassins for One Night), performed on Friday, revolves around a simple principle: “as above, so below.” More specifically, brutal government regimes…
Miami theater this week: Meshuggah-Nuns, Cyrano, and The Red Thread
Roselyn Sanchez first erupted onto the big screen with her role as sexy Secret Service agent Isabella Molina in the second installment of Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour. Sultry and exotic, the Puerto Rican beauty sizzled onscreen. And now, a decade later, she’s managed to maintain her career, proving that she…
