Joshua Henry, who graduated from University of Miami’s Frost School of Music in 2006, is nominated for a Tony Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical.” Last Fall, the actor played Haywood Patterson in The Scottsboro Boys at New York’s Lyceum Theatre.The musical,…
Fuck Christopher Hitchens and his lame opinion on funny women. Rachel Dratch and decades of hilarious female cast members on Saturday Night Live demonstrate that humorous females exist in abundance. Dratch told us about working on SNL, “We were a pretty evolved bunch. I never felt any disadvantage.” Women are…
Diavolo translates to “day” and “I fly,” so the spanking new South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center hopes this Los Angeles-based performance troupe will help the center take off. With their outrageously surrealistic and large-scale interdisciplinary performances — think larger than life-size everyday items such as doors, chairs, and stairways –…
Nuns performing Fiddler on the Roof on a cruise ship? You’d have to be a madman or a genius to think of that meshuggah idea. Nunsense creator and director Dan Goggin is the kooky brain behind the cockamamie concept of, what else, but Meshuggah-Nuns. The show marks the grand finale of…
You may not immediately recognize hip-hop as something to be deconstructed using classical poetic analysis, but Adam Bradley, editor of Yale Anthology of Rap alongside Andrew DuBois, argues that you may want to start counting meter next time the new Nicki Minaj single comes on the radio. The Anthology is…
When I think of opera, I think of things like little binoculars, corpulent singers and wealthy male and female audience members wearing matching purple and chartreuse suits and gowns. While I did witness all of these things last night at the premier of Cyrano at The Ziff Ballet and Opera…
French poet and dramatist Edmond Rostrand introduced us to Cyrano de Bergerac in his 1897 play. Since then, we’ve seen a lot of incarnations of the big-nosed romantic nobleman in film and theater (Steve Martin’s 1987 comedy Roxanne is probably the most famous). And now, composer David DiChiera is the latest…
The Red Thread: PlayGround Theatre’s magical Chinese journey
A toast to the next steps! Miami City Ballet (MCB) offers its hometown public another weekend to celebrate its 25th anniversary before honeymooning in Paris. This Friday and Saturday at MCB’s Wolfson studio theater in South Beach, the company performs excerpts from George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and Twyla Tharp’s…
Let’s preface this whole thing by saying that I’m not accustomed to attending performances in Miami where a significant percentage of female audience members are wearing fur coats. That said, I imagine that for other opera novices, Don Giovanni is a good one to cut your teeth on. It’s got…
Last night, the PlayGround Theatre, which prides itself in bringing unique and innovative stories to the stage for all ages, unveiled the world premier of their latest foray into myth and fantasy with The Red Thread.Taking inspiration from a Chinese folktale called “The Magical Embroidery,” co-writers Stephanie Ansin (who also…
Remember that scrawny, bug-eyed creature from the sketch comedy show In Living Color? How about the overzealous tribal warrior from Ace Venture Pet Detective II: When Nature Calls? Never mind, once you see him on stage tonight at the Miami Improv it will all come back to you.Davidson spreads his…
Listen up all you overachievers out there: Naps can be very productive. In fact, The Red Thread, a new original production opening Wednesday at Miami Shores’ PlayGround Theatre, is the product of such a siesta. “The original inspiration came from a Chinese folktale called ‘The Magical Embroidery,’ which Fernando Calzadilla,…
Myth, magic, and super powers collided at last night’s production of The Sparrow, which opened at the Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater.The House Theatre of Chicago brought their show (which debuted in 2007) to Miami for a month-long run, and it’s probably the most original production seen on the South…
GableStage’s disturbing and fascinating Blasted swept up five bronze rings this week at the 35th Annual Carbonell Awards held at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.Sarah Kane’s polarizing play that features rape scenes and dead babies picked up awards for Best Director (Joseph Adler), Best Production, Best Scenic Design…
Are you tired of collection companies harassing you during your lunch break or pesky foreclosure notices being stapled to the front door of your house? Then New World School of the Arts has a temporary cure for your depressing financial situation. Students from New World will be performing in two…
The Sparrow at the Arsht Center through May 1
Take Stephen King’s Carrie, Edward Scissorhands, and add a dash of ancient mythology, and what you have is one of the more original and unique productions to hit theatres in some time. The Sparrow, a musical play conceived and originally performed by the House Theatre of Chicago, opens this week…
Chances are if you’re between the ages of 28 to 38 you were a fan of Seattle band Nirvana. So it’s likely that your teenage reality was significantly shaken when you heard that frontman Kurt Cobain put a shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger on April 5, 1994…
O, Miami, my Miami! Okay, so we’re no Walt Whitman. But the poets who are taking their words to the streets during the month of April for O, Miami might be.One of the poets regaling us Miami folk with her wit and wisdom is New Orleans artist Sunni Patterson. She’s…
Miami theater this week: Brotherly love, family dysfunction, and tasty pastries
Malibu’s most wanted, Jamie Kennedy, loves the 305. And on Friday, the veteran comic kicks off a three-day, five-show engagement at the Miami Improv. He’s out supporting his latest Showtime comedy special, Jamie Kennedy’s Uncomfortable, but promises fans at the Miami shows will get to hear new material. “(The special’s)…
