Performing Arts

Jersey Boys at the Arsht: Goodfellas in a jukebox

Kevin Hart isn’t that cool. With four sold out shows at the Fillmore for the South Beach Comedy Festival, the man may be popular, but he’s definitely not that cool. He started his performance last night by grabbing the mic and pulling the stand down a good two feet to…

If you’ve been keeping up with Teo Castellanos, “zen” might not be the first word that comes to mind. His solo show NE Second Avenue had nine characters, each a distinct representation of the funky rhythm that is Miami. His last ensemble work, “Scratch and Burn” featured explosive b-boys who…

A recent graduate of New World School of the Arts, Liony Garcia is a young choreographer with decadent, old-world obsessions. Like Italian giallo cinema, that sexy, creepy genre where masked men wield knives in gloved hand to bloody beautiful young women in black lace. “Giallo is the equivalent of slasher…

Adam Carolla is an entertaining radio and talk show host. His professional past, from Loveline, through The Man Show, and all the way up to his current, enormously popular podcast, is testament to that. In all of these projects, he’s shown serious on-the-fly wit, doing his best when paired with…

You might catch Summer Hill Seven bobbing his head to some hip-hop track one second and reciting a Shakespearean monologue the next. He keeps his urban sensibilities intact while expanding his mind and his repertoire. “All those plays that we lovingly refer to as the ‘dead white men plays –…

Jersey Boys, the runaway Broadway hit and 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, hits Miami this week for a limited three-week run at the Arsht Center.With previews Wednesday and Thursday and regular run starting tomorrow night, Jersey Boys is the story of how The…

Doug Benson, Adam Carolla, and Wanda Sykes talk weed, girls, and Hawaiians

For Octavio Campos, life not only imitates art, but art is a call to action. Campos is a preeminent Miami personality – as a performance artist, dancer, choreographer, activist, and provocateur. This weekend, at the Miami Made festival presented by the Arsht Center Incubator in collaboration with the Miami Light…

She’s hard to watch, is a doody-head, and you can smell her B.O. through a television screen. Syke! Okay, now that we’ve got all the third graders’ attention, let’s talk some Wanda Sykes. She looks as cuddly as a koala bear but has a dry, sarcastic comedic timing that snaps…

Ana Mendieta fell to her death from her bedroom window in New York City one early morning in September, 1985. The acclaimed visual artist was heard crying out “No, no, no” before her body landed on a roof below. Her husband, who was with her in the bedroom, was acquitted…

Adam Carolla, the offspring of a special needs school teacher and “a  welfare-food-stamp-depression-kind-of -70s-sit-around-the-house” mom, is anything but boring. His career accomplishments include his stint as the Pinky to Dr. Drew’s Brain on Loveline, drunkenly watching girls bounce on trampolines with Jimmy Kimmel on The Man Show, and he is…

At 23, Pioneer Winter is something of a curiosity. He was born in South Miami, graduated from the dance magnet at Michael Krop high school in 2006, choreographed a show for the largest arts festival in the world in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2007, had his master’s degree in public health and epidemiology…

​Nerd alert! We grew up crushing each others’ heads with our thumb and pointer finger. It’s all thanks to the genius of Kids in the Hall. Nerds we were, certainly, but ones with good taste and a sense of humor. Scott Thompson, one of those hilarious kids in said hall, developed a…

It’s hard not to think of a “deez nuts” joke when you hear about A Pair of Nuts. That seems fitting, considering comedians are usually a little nuts and these guys clearly appreciate a joke about balls. The comedy duo are bringing their 2011 tour to the 305 for one night only this…

Paint me with your words,” Zero Mostel tells a young New York Times reporter who’s come to interview him at his 28th Street studio in New York City. It’s an appropriate request because that’s exactly what actor and writer Jim Brochu does for Samuel “Zero” Mostel in his one-man biographical…

Comedian Doug Benson has a beard, smokes lots of weed (he even starred in Super High Me), and sits on a throne while interrupting people in the TV show The Benson Interruption. Sounds like a charmer, huh? Well, he kind of is. Just check out some of his Tweets: “They…

The bombastic and uproariously hilarious Samuel “Zero” Mostel, who is regarded as one of the funniest entertainers to ever hit Broadway and Hollywood, is stunningly brought to life by writer/actor Jim Brochu in his one-man biographical play Zero Hour, solidly directed by Oscar-nominated actress Piper Laurie.Playing at the Aventura Arts…

Who the fu(ck)nny are the Have-Nots? According to their co-founder, Jay Mays, “we are, without a doubt, the funniest comics you’ve never heard of before.” The comedy group was founded in May 2010, when Mays and fellow local comedian Dominic Perenzin met during a gig at Sweat Record’s monthly stand-up…

For Robert Battle, artistic director designate of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (he takes the reins in July), Miami isn’t just another stop on the company’s 24-city national tour. It’s home. And starting tonight at 8 p.m. at  the Ziff Ballet Opera House you’ll be able to witness his return…

In part I of our interview with Andrew Dice Clay, the comedian managed to come across like an egotistical sexist pig who won’t mellow out for anybody. Part II is filled with even more diatribes. Luckily, Clay isn’t afraid to throw a few fellow comedians under his Ford Fairlane or…

Sure, this upcoming March you can giggle at the fluorescent ecstasy-influenced ensembles that sweep across the beach during Winter Music Conference. And you can secretly snicker at the snooty truffle-oil-and-saffron sect with their fancy palates and out-of-state license plates as they throw down ridiculous amounts of flow during the South…