Performing Arts

Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami has been on a meteoric trajectory. In its first 18 months, the troupe was a 2017 Knight Challenge Grant recipient, and in June, it will debut at New York’s Joyce Theater, followed by its first appearance at the storied Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. During that same…

Dance companies and student dance groups from around South Florida will participate in one iteration taking place at the Biscayne Nature Center in Crandon Park, and they’ll be part of a much larger network of troupes participating in communities across the United States. Three dance companies will also participate in the national performance in Puerto Rico.

From classic musicals to obscure dark comedies to movie adaptations, here’s all the best theater you can check on this month.

One of the undiagnosed ills of Miami is the tendency of its homegrown artists to leave for broader horizons. It has all of the cultural diversity, money, and institutional backing to expose young people to an amazing upbringing in the arts, but seems to fall short in distracting them from…

It’s not often that Florida’s musical theater fans get to make their counterparts in New York jealous. But this month, the Broadway geeks across the world will have their eyes on the BB&T Center — and their minds on Parkland. From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Parkland, USA…

Parkland Schools substitute teacher and Marjory Stoneman Douglas alum Joey Weisler wrote “Valentine’s Day Massacre” about his experience on the days before, during, and after the Stoneman Douglas shooting.

According to Jannelys Santos, Miami theater has a serious problem. “There have been too many idle theaters spewing out the same material constantly,” she begins, a little exasperated. “It doesn’t speak to our current political climate, to all the shit that’s happening these days.”

Pioneer Winter dances to the beat of his own drum. The local performer and activist is a third-generation South Floridian, with roots in New York, who became a choreographer after earning a master’s in public health from Florida International University. As a kid, he took dance classes at Miami City Ballet…

The ancient Japanese art of taiko drumming is coming to Miami with the group Tao: Drum Heart, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has gone on to tour internationally while getting an extra boost with an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Sponsored by Culture Shock Miami…

Mexico City-based theater collective Teatro Ojo’s works are constantly evolving. Nothing is ever really finished. That’s because they take direction during every performance. Whatever the audience experiences, observes, feels, and offers in feedback, which the performers highly encourage, is used in the evolution of the same piece or introduced into another work.

Here’s your monthly reminder that South Florida has a vibrant and thriving theater scene. From Broadway musicals to comedies to engrossing dramas, there’s never a shortage of great theater to catch at any given playhouse throughout Miami-Dade and Broward. And we’re not just talking about the Arsht Center or the Broward Center.

Come on, Miami, why don’t we paint the town? And all that jazz. The production coming to Miami this weekend is good — it’s grand, it’s great, it’s swell, and it’s fun. Ladies and gentlemen, coming to Villain Theater: It’s MissCellaneous, a monthly event that mixes cabaret and drag; and Sexcago…

It’s been a tough week in South Florida. We could all use some deep belly breaths and some quiet time to reflect and regain our balance. Bess Wohl’s play Small Mouth Sounds, which opened at the Arsht Center last weekend and runs through March 4, offers just that by giving audiences 100 uninterrupted minutes to immerse themselves in a play set in a silent retreat in the woods.

The politically incorrect comedian Jackie Mason can rest easy knowing there is no mention of him in ex-lover Ginger Reiter’s upcoming comedy musical 700 Wives. Reiter took a break from poking fun at her ten-year love affair with her baby daddy, whom she razzed in Both Sides of a Famous Love Affair: The Jackie Mason Musical and its previous incarnations, 702 Punchlines and Pregnant and Oh, Jackie, Oh.

He says his dance comes from his dreams. French-Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi’s most recent work, “What the Day Owes the Night,” combines Sufi rhythms with cutting-edge b-boy moves, classical ballet, and capoeira in a work as fluid and full of grace as it is wildly athletic. One reviewer at…

We live in the Zone now. The Zone — a widespread allusion to the 1979 film Stalker popularized by leftist comedy podcast Chapo Trap House and further propagated by the Weird Twitter hive mind — is a useful, catch-all reference to the United States’ current state of moral confusion…

As Hollywood continues to unpack more casualties from the #MeToo movement, women are fighting back by creating the kind of work they want to see and the roles they want to play. Erika Soerensen’s Reservoir Dolls, presented by the Outré Theatre Company at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, flips the script in an all-female stage adaption of Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 testosterone-driven heist film, Reservoir Dogs.

It’s a perfect twist of irony — or is it serendipity? — that Miami New Drama debuted its production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity the same weekend Donald Trump has taken on Jay-Z and is preparing for his first State of the Union Address. A rollicking, hilarious, kinetic farce…

Overtown resident Tranée and her young son Tremaine are the real-life inspirations for the Miami performance of Pang! The show, which will be performed at Miami Light Project’s Light Box at the Goldman Warehouse, consists of three installments of live radio plays that focus on the story of a local family struggling with poverty from three cities: Los Angeles, Cedar Rapids, and Miami.

People often imagine that new artwork is the product of the solitary artistic genius slaving away in a lonely studio. The South Florida Symphony’s 20th-anniversary program foregrounds a different vision of the artistic process: the kind of innovation that occurs when artists surrender their single vision in their encounters with other artists and the greater community.

Donald Trump’s critics derisively refer to him as the nation’s Cheeto-in-chief. But for groundbreaking theater company Miami New Drama, the president has been a bloated orange sack of inspiration, and promoting the upcoming production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was no exception. The production company has caused a bit of a stir in the wake of the president’s reference to “shithole countries.”