Whenever you hear, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”, it’s rarely followed by “I’m in the lumberyard you crazy, Capulet.” But we do things a little differently in Miami. So when Shakespeare in Miami’s production of Romeo and Juliet was booted from Peacock Park in the Grove the company had…
Written and directed by Jane Prowse, A Round-Heeled Woman is based on Jane Juska’s 2003 memoir A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance. Sharon Gless, whom you might recognize as the neurotic chain-smoking mom in hit TV show Burn Notice, turns in a candid performance as Jane,…
Say you’re one of those people who gets dragged, kicking if not screaming, to dance events who would rather lie down on a bed of nails listening to a Sarah Palin speech than sit through an evening of contemporary dancing. Kate Weare might change your mind.Check out her New York-based…
The Tales of Hoffmann, presented by the Florida Grand Opera and opening at the Arsht Center Saturday night, is a 19th century, three-act opera by German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach. And, as it is with the best operas, the stirring tale involves forbidden love, ominous symbolism and, of course, tragic untimely…
What does a nun, a hyena, bartending aliens, and Ted Danson have in common? Whoopi Goldberg. Caryn Elaine Johnson — who revealed last Saturday night that her stage name is a result of the comedienne “having a lot of gas” — has had quite a career. It’s been 30 years…
Known as the “mob’s accountant,” Meyer Lansky was financier who worked with golden era gangsters like Charles “Lucky” Luciano and childhood friend “Bugsy” Siegel. Though often portrayed as a secondary character in Hollywood mob hits, Lansky might have been the most influential crime boss of the entire Twentieth Century, helping…
In A Round-Heeled Woman, Jane Juska is a 66-year old divorced schoolteacher who hasn’t had sex in 30-odd years and thinks it’s about time to get some nooky. So she puts out an ad in the New York Review of Books that gets straight to the point: “Before I turn…
Whether your comedy taste involves straight-up slapstick with a side of sledge-hammered watermelon à la Gallagher or dark, clever, awkwardness spiked by silliness like Andy Kaufman’s Foreign Man singing the Mighty Mouse theme, two community theaters in Coral Gables currently have performances sure to tickle (be it with a feather…
Have you always loved the play The Diary of Anne Frank but felt it was missing something — like a rubber chicken, whoopee cushion, or Hitler getting a pie in the face while Eva Braun slipped on a banana peel? Such was the thinking of performer Frannie Sheridan when she…
Miamian Annah Rondon used to manage a Christian church. Now she blogs full-time about sexperiments, the joy of eating ox tail, and duck boners. Maybe not the most intellectual or elegant topics, but definitely amusing and entertaining. Her blog, Red Means Go, is hypnotic with its simple stick figure cartoons…
Hundreds of thousands of people showed up on the National Mall last October for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. We’re pretty sure most the attendees didn’t really believe they could ignite reasonableness in D.C. They just came to party with The Daily Show crew. So last night, while…
Named one of Variety’s 2009 comics to watch, Wyatt Cenac has crept into the national consciousness thanks to his gig as a correspondent on The Daily Show, earning an Emmy for his contributions on the writing staff. Not content with resting on his Emmy winning laurels, Wyatt is in town…
Ballet isn’t all pointy objects and swan feathers, it’s also a visually fascinating, physically challenging art form. Now, thanks to Miami City Ballet, it’s also a nifty night on the town. MCB’s young professionals group, Upper Room, offers the sweet double deal of watching a unique performance and finishing off…
Nowadays, every TV viewer has an idea of what a dance audition looks like: a series of technical feats to a snippet of a pop tune in front of a cranky trio of judges, one of whom might burst into tears at any moment. But this weekend, young dancers are…
I am moving to New York City this week and I’m sad to go. From seats in the gloom of South Florida theaters, I’ve seen and heard extraordinary things. I’m forever grateful to those who enabled my constant attendance over the last four years — the directors, actors, set designers,…
A sleepwalker, cowboy, and a baker’s dozen walk into a saloon… Actually, they walk into the Ziff Ballet Opera House starting this Friday as the Miami City Ballet celebrates 25 years of dance with its second program of the 2011 season. The MCB Program II will feature three pieces –…
The Love of Three Oranges has long and historical footprints leading up to its run at the PlayGround Theatre, where it opens next week. It started as a fairytale written by Italian courtier, soldier and writer Giambattista Basile in the early 17th Century. Its form changed when playwright Carlo Gozzi,…
Even though we’ve become accustomed to losing our artists to L.A. and the Big Apple, the truth is that their bond with the 305 can never be truly broken. Playwright J. Sebastian Fabal grew up in Miami and moved to New York for graduate school. Miami stayed with Fabal, though…
We get it: You are pissed that you didn’t get to grinch your way through the holidays with Lewis Black. Unfortunately, the big-Black-grump got a batch of the sniffles while doing a show for the troops overseas and asked Leno to fill in for him. Thus, please defer your anger…
So, you and your family have piled into the car and visited every relative. You’ve been jammed elbow to elbow in endless retail lines. You’ve eaten and drunk enough to launch a diabetic coma. Now there is only one holiday ritual left: Neujahrskonzert. What? This fun-to-mispronounce German word loosely translates…
We love our cougars here in Miami, but A Round-Heeled Woman, which opens at GableStage tonight, is something else entirely. The play chronicles the coital adventures of Jane Juska, a retired school teacher who has not had sex in 30 years. Juska is a late baby boomer looking for a…
With all the recent holiday goodwill and merriment, we thought we’d found the perfect antidote in tomorrow night’s Lewis Black show at Hard Rock. But it looks like you’ll have to find your hilarious well of vitriol somewhere else. The modern-day grinch’s show has been canceled. We will surely miss…
