If you’re a person of a certain age, a lover of jazz, or a fan of outsize personalities, you’re probably familiar with Louis Armstrong. The late, great jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer’s 1964 recording of “Hello, Dolly!” dethroned the Beatles from a 14-week run atop Billboard’s Hot 100.
If you’ve ever wearily watched a dance performance in a theater and thought, I’ve seen this before, a production by Jérôme Bel might cure your artistic ennui. The renowned French dancer and choreographer — whose works have been performed in collaboration with esteemed institutions such as…
“Hamilton,” the hip-hop musical based on the story of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, finally takes Miami.
If you’ve never seen the movie, don’t think you’ll be ill-prepared for the musical. The play is a retelling of the plot but filled with comedic songs.
The comedian’s standup show “Brain Humor,” which is slated for release March 8, pulls material from Grooms’ March 2019 seizure and the removal of the brain tumor that caused the serious health scare.
Some of the biggest productions in showbiz are making their way down south.
The Juggerknot Theater Company’s latest production is a great addition to its canon of immersive plays delving into Miami’s history.
Edred Utomi fulfills his goals nightly as Alexander Hamilton in the touring company of the musical sensation.
Despite the strength of the material, the M Ensemble’s production of the Tony Award-winning show about Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller doesn’t fully hit its stride.
Five years since its original production, Hamilton: An American Musical continues its world domination. The Broadway musical saw its South Florida debut at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts during the 2018-19 theater season, but it will finally land in Miami February 18 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, where it will remain through March 15.
South Florida-raised dancer/choreographer Jon Boogz has always wanted to use dance to tell stories that matter.
Feeling joyous is not so easy these days in light of the nation’s toxic politics, global climate change, potential pandemics, and, well, pick your anxiety-producing crisis. But at least temporarily, joy can be experienced for the price of a theater ticket.
The interactive stage show and Miami history lesson is turning its attention to North Beach for its newest iteration.
Whether it’s his science-centric podcast Here We Are or his live Stand Up Science, comedian Shane Mauss has built up a dedicated audience that digs his brand of trippy, unusually informative comedy. Luckily for Miami comedy connoseurs who enjoy gaining a little knowledge between their belly laughs, he’s bringing his…
Soprano Sandra Lopez – who is returning to South Florida in the Florida Grand Opera’s Madama Butterfly – has a story not many performers can tell. She was one of the first singers on the second-largest performing arts stage in the United States: the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the…
Like many contemporary plays, Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son is a small-cast drama, one that unfolds in a taut 84 minutes. But those minutes hold a story of uncommon depth, one that is straightforward yet layered, observant, achingly real and ultimately devastating. Demos-Brown’s finest play to date was created in Miami and…
Playwright Michael Leon’s collaboration with director Victoria Collado is set to open at the Colony Theatre January 23 and run through February 16.
The standup comic is set to open for The Daily Show host Trevor Noah at Hard Rock Live Saturday, January 18.
Miami City Ballet will show the wonders that dancers can weave in pairs when it presents Program Two: I’m Old Fashioned this month at three South Florida venues.
Actor Seth Trucks has been living with Macbeth and Macbeth – one of William Shakespeare’s great roles in one of his great tragedies – for much of the current theater season. In August, Trucks played the ruthlessly pragmatic Scottish king in an intimate New City Players production at The Vanguard…
The room buzzed with activity as members of the Peter London Global Dance Company spent time preparing for Crossing, which will be performed between December 27 and 29 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Founder and artistic director Peter London uses local dancers…
The comedian has organized a holiday show at the Miami Improv on Sunday, December 29, to raise funds for the Julia Rubio Colon Cancer Foundation. Named in honor of her mother, the organization works to provide colon cancer screenings for women across South Florida.
