By Tony Guzman Florida Grand Opera is concluding its 2011-2012 season with a brilliant and inspired staging of Charles-François Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. This is one of those rare instances where the production design and execution merits discussion up top rather than at the tail end of the review. Just as Roméo et Juliette’s masterful [...]
The PlayGround Theatre was approved last week to screen feature films in the Theater in Miami Shores. After more than twenty years, Shores residents will once again be able to go to the movies. The Miami Shores Village Council, through unanimous vote, approved a special conditional use permit to The PlayGround Theatre to allow the [...]
By Tony Guzman GableStage’s third offering in what is proving to be another exceptional season put together by producing artistic director Joe Adler is A Steady Rain by Chicago-based playwright Keith Huff, perhaps best known as the writer/producer of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series Mad Men. A Steady Rain is a gritty, sometimes [...]
By Veronica Mingrone Take a trip down memory lane or introduce loved ones to the music of the world’s favorite band, the Beatles, with Broadway musical RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles. The 2011 Drama Desk Award winner provides fans of all ages with the opportunity to relive favorite Beatles memories with four talented performers, [...]
By Kim Stark Back in 1968, Hair The Musical hit London in an incredible seconds-after-censorship-ended wave of sex, drugs, hippy radicalism and nudity. It was a cultural phenomenon. In fact, when I invited her along, my theatre companion mentioned she had seen the original in London, in 1968. She even laughingly produced an original program [...]
Nominated for seven Tony Awards and winning five, including Tony Award for Best Play and Best Director along with Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. Written by 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (Superior Donuts, Man From Nebraska, Killer Joe Bug), this grand and gripping new play tells the story [...]
I fell for this Arts endeavor and I’m glad I did. Last Sunday the Adrienne Arsht Center threw a block party that was hot. It was really hot out there (about 110 degrees in the shade), but it was also a fun event that brought out thousands of people who enjoyed tons of free-bees, such [...]
This year the City Theatre celebrates the 15th Anniversary Season of the company’s acclaimed annual SUMMER SHORTS FESTIVAL, featuring two series of 5-20 minute one-act plays…and then there are the UNDERSHORTS. It’s all edgy, irreverent, and hilarious. So do you enjoy theatre? How about unexpected, award winning writers that push the envelope with innovative plays [...]
Beach Arts Institute Trains Stars of Tomorrow It began as many great good things begin; that is, by accident. A composer of a certain stature was asked if he knew a good violin teacher. He did, and he put the would-be Paganini in touch with an instructor. Then the teacher came back and said he’d [...]
One of the most stunning theatrical spectacles anywhere has arrived at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. It’s Miss Saigon, and it’s definitely worth the drive….
