Wearing black tops and skirts, four dancers walk the diagonal in the Little Haiti Cultural Complex’s bright studio. Allyn Ginns Ayers, Benicka Grant, Isabelle Luu Li Haas, and Renee Roberts are accompanied by five 12-year-old girls in jeans and brightly colored shirts from Miami’s Conchita Espinosa Academy. Soon the ensemble…
Jim Gaffigan is a rarity in contemporary standup comedy: a clean, family-friendly comic who’s able to sell out venues both stateside and internationally without working blue. He’s also one of the only comedians who won’t take Florida to task for being an godless, politically mismanaged state. “Florida is so special…
America’s culture wars get an illuminating skirmish in The Cake, Bekah Brunstetter’s play about a white North Carolina woman named Jen, who returns to her hometown from Brooklyn to plan the traditional wedding of her dreams.
Yuval Ofir, the founder of the arts incubator Yo Miami, decided to deep-dive into the local comedy scene seven years ago. Though not a comedian himself, he was inspired by the underground scene, which included funny folks who have since left the 305 such as Daniel Reskin, Jessica Gross (now Anderson), and Irene Morales.
Playwright Joseph McDonough, artistic director William Hayes, and actor David Kwiat had something in common when they began working on Ordinary Americans, the play that’s enjoying an extended run at Palm Beach Dramaworks before moving on to a series of shows at GableStage in mid-January.
The loveliest and most expensive cake most of us will ever buy is, without doubt, a wedding cake. A focus on one of the most special days in a couple’s life, the cake is a sweet, beautifully decorated symbol of good fortune and marital happiness. But in recent years, as…
Thomas J. Watson Sr., the founding chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM), was a brilliantly successful salesman and celebrated businessman for the vast majority of his life. But as James Grippando’s new play, Watson, would have it, the one person Watson could never seem to sell on his…
The Hialeah native is staging what she calls a Cuban cabaret, the solo performance “Oye: Starring Marcela Paguaga.”
The Tony-winning show is coming to South Florida for a string of performances in early 2020. Here’s how to get seats to the most talked-about musical in recent memory.
Choreographer and dancer Marissa Alma Nick says her provocative new show, Rebel in Venus, is meant to inspire a dialogue with audiences on rape culture and coping with sexual trauma.
Ilana Glazer — one-half of the successful duo behind Comedy Central’s Broad City — is making her Florida debut at the Miami Improv Comedy Club on November 22 and 23.
The South Florida-born standup comedian is bringing his Legalize Everything Tour to the Olympia Theater this Friday.
Having outgrown its original location downtown, the Tuesday-night play-reading series has found a new home in Miami Beach, in the Speak Easy Theater’s recently opened black-box space.
The RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and insult comic is bringing her tour It’s Jester Joke to the Olympia Theater October 30.
By removing the filth, you remove the heart of Peter Greenaway’s story: its distinct critique of class and its exploration of how the rich devour everything around them.
When it comes to the supernatural, nothing seems out of the ordinary for the Last Podcast on the Left crew, not even Miami’s dark crime history.
The Arsht Center’s upcoming Broadway in Miami season will feature beloved blockbuster musicals such as Hamilton and Jesus Christ Superstar, along with a number of favorites for the whole family.
Australian comedian Pam Ann brings her latest tour to Miami after moving to South Beach more than two years ago.
Hannibal Buress chose to shoot his latest comedy special in Miami, in no small part because of his controversial 2017 arrest in Wynwood.
“Murder for Two” fulfills the summer mission of Actors’ Playhouse: Don’t think too hard; just enjoy.
Comedian Nikki Glaser compares standup to weightlifting — and she is very much a bodybuilder. “If I don’t get out there and do it every single night, I will get rusty,” she says. “Just like weightlifting, if you’re a comedian and you take two days off in a row, you lose serious progress.”
When Richard Wagner wrote Der Fliegende Holländer, or The Flying Dutchman, in 1843, he imagined the two-hour-plus opera performed with no intermission. Perhaps fortunately for some audience members, the Miami Music Festival and Miami Wagner Institute will not stay true to the great German composer’s original vision this Friday, July 19, at…
