Here are the best and worst plays of 2010. If you caught the good ones, congrats. You really saw something special. If you caught any of the bad ones, my condolences. Don’t let it put you off the form. There’s fabulous stuff out there. This is my last year-end roundup…
Some claim Miami has no memory. Maybe, but no one is forgetting teacher, choreographer, and erstwhile Miami-resident Gerri Houlihan. A former soloist with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and schooled in Martha Graham and Jose Limon technique, Houlihan remembers as much as anyone alive about the making of modern dance…
Between Art Basel, Miami’s beaches, and SoBe’s endless stream of meticulously sutured and sculpted bodies, it may seem like you’re bombarded with nothing but aesthetically pleasing stimuli every minute of every God-forsaken beautiful day. Well, soon the Arsht Center will offer you the chance to stare at a big hairy…
Oliver!By Lionel Bart. Through December 26 at Actor’s Playhouse, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-444-9293; actorsplayhouse.org. Oliver! is the 50-year-old musical by Lionel Bart based on the Dickens novel, but there’s nothing stodgy about it. The glittering new production at Actor’s Playhouse is so fresh, fun, and with-it you could…
First off, who knew Steve-O did stand-up? Secondly, who would’ve guessed a swarm of people would show up this past weekend, packing Coconut Grove’s Improv Comedy Club like this headliner would pack a port-o-potty with poo (and then roll down a hill inside of it), just to watch this Jackass…
For 29 years the King Mango Strut has claimed that it “put the nut back in Coconut Grove.” Leave it to organizers of satirical procession to put those nuts in its mouth. No, wait. Put nuts where the mouth is? Okay, so both sound dirty. But it all made sense…
Noche Buena is next week, and we’re in a bit of a jam. Our date’s an atheist and doesn’t eat meat. She’s worried the pre-meal prayer, and the stench of roast pork escaping La Caja China and clinging to her peacoat will make her feel like an outsider. Still, she insists…
There are plenty of good reasons to see David Arisco’s production of Oliver! at Actor’s Playhouse, the most obvious being that the play finds the director returning to his natural habitat — the classic, conservative musical — and kicking all kinds of ass. Arisco is a wizard with a show…
The best satire is the kind that doesn’t quite flagrantly cross the line of bad taste and coarse affront, yet still manages to crap all over its intended victim with comical results. And that’s the subtle brilliance of Forbidden Broadway, which opened last night at the Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio…
Sure, people know Steve-O once swallowed a goldfish live and then threw it up back into its bowl. And the Jackass star got the world’s dumbest tattoo (a self portrait of himself with two thumbs up and the words “Yeah dude, I rock!”). But did you know that he’s a…
We love ourselves some comedy here at Cultist. From the one-name wonder Godfrey to Margaret Cho, we love anyone who can make us laugh. But we’ve picked up on a growing trend in the funny business — comics are getting downright feisty. Everyone from Kathy Griffin to Katt Williams is…
With all its pompous celebrities and Tony Award-winning screenwriters and tear-jerking performances, Broadway takes itself way too seriously. It was only a matter of time before someone went Not Another Teen Movie on the sacrosanct institution and created a spoof. We’re grateful that hits such as In the Heights and…
Margaret Cho sure has a purty mouth. She did spout out quite a few “I-really-like-to-give-head” jokes last Saturday night during her super raunchy show at the Fillmore Miami Beach, her latest stop on her Cho Dependent Tour. But that’s not all that Cho’s ball-sack-loving-orifice (“you can suck them in like…
Louis C.K. was already a well-seasoned, headlining comedian with a litany of TV and film projects under his belt when an appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien became a viral hit. The clip, titled “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy,” is remarkable not only for it’s humor, but for how…
Margaret Cho is like the Charlie Brown of comedy. Despite talent, a loyal cult following, and a knack for rocking a leather catsuit things never seem to go her way. She’s had bouts with anorexia and alcoholism, career disappointments, and even had her crotch cleaned by a man-woman named Gwen…
What does Coca-Cola have to say about America — the immigrant experience, globalization, progress versus tradition, gods versus science? If this question has never occurred to you, don’t worry — it’s only barely occurred to Rogelio Martinez, author of “new” Coke caper Fizz, which made its Southeastern premiere at Coral…
All the excitement about the visual arts during Basel can leave performing artists feeling neglected. But the experimental choreographers at Inkub8 are not to be left out. They hooked up with visual and sound artists and renamed their art form “visual dance” – at least for last week’s performances. Smack…
Are you a constant disappointment to your mother? Are your lady cojones bigger than the matzoth balls in your metaphoric soup? Then you might be a nice Jewish girl gone bad. And we have the perfect way for you to spend tomorrow night, the last night of Hanukkah. A new…
Cranky New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay has embarked on a “Nutcracker marathon,” pledging to see as many productions as he can of this classic ballet this season across the United States. Well, we have one for him to attend in Miami this weekend. Save room for sugarplums on…
Choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg were groundbreaking when they first collaborated from 1954 to 1964, and they kept breaking ground right up through their last collaboration in 2007. The two men believed art referred only to itself, and they created riveting works together. Even now in the…
Spoof movies have become a staple of our film diet. And a lot of that has to do with Leslie Nielsen, who passed away in his sleep on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. He was 84. Nobody played a goofball straight man better than Nielsen. Roger Ebert called him the “Olivier…
We know we don’t have to sell you on the talents of Louis C.K. or at least we shouldn’t have to. His comedic tenacity is only rivaled by his substantial body of work — he’s been everything from a standup comedian, actor, writer, and director. And though he’s been busy,…
