Performing Arts

Enjoy a little girl’s dreamlike journey to the magical Land of the Sweets with the Sugarplum Fairy, dazzling costume characters, and Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score that will transport you to a magical world where mischievous mice besiege a battalion of toy soldiers, and an onstage blizzard leads to an enchanted Land of Sweets. The cast features star professional ballet dancers and students from … +

Enjoy a little girl’s dreamlike journey to the magical Land of the Sweets with the Sugarplum Fairy, dazzling costume characters, and Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score that  will transport you to a magical world where mischievous mice besiege a battalion of toy soldiers, and an onstage blizzard leads to an enchanted Land of Sweets.  The cast features star professional ballet dancers and students from … +

IFE-ILE Afro-Cuban Dance Company, Miami’s premier Afro-Cuban cultural organization, has been selected as a finalist for the 2014 Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award. The winner will receive $20,000 to support its mission. IFE-ILE Founder Neri Torres is an award-winning choreographer and instructor, would like to expand the organization’s annual festival, which produces a wide array of workshops for all ages reflecting … +

Writing in Sand is a multidisciplinary stage production directed by Carlos Caballero, featuring actress Mabel Roch, choreographer and dancer Lucia Aratanha, musician Inez Barlatier, and the writing of Griselda Ortíz. The work opens a dialogue that explores themes of displacement, immigration, trauma, personal crisis, and assimilation as a mirror of Miami itself. Three female performers – one Cuban, one Brazilian and one … +

When Christopher Columbus is arrested for abuse of power in the Indies, he begs an audience with Queen Isabella to explain his actions and to plead for absolution. La Reunión, a play written and directed by Trinidad González and played by Trinidad González, Jorge Becker and Tomás González, uses this historic event to build a story that reflects on the human condition … +

Now in its third season, New World School of the Arts’ NWSA Repertory Dance Ensemble continues to be the opening concert for the NWSA dance season. Gracing The City of Aventura, the concert features a dynamic program with performes in the ballet, modern and hip-hop styles. This year’s performance will feature NWSA’s talented High School and College dancers performing a varied evening … +

In the face of evil and deceit, we choose to fight back through the power of dance. Join Miami Contemporary Dance Company for a double bill of Not in my Name and Rooms of Suspicion, two compelling dances that were performed to sold-out houses in Turin, Italy in 2013. Not in my Name is the creation of MCDC Artistic Director Ray Sullivan, … +

In a continuous effort to bring to South Florida the most iconic ballets of the Russian repertoire, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida presents a Tribute to Diaghilev, the art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, with three splendid works that translate the spirit of the era. Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida joins the celebration of the 100th anniversary … +

South Florida continues to mature as an area brimming with the fine arts. At any time, locals and visitors alike have a rich menu of choices available to them, reflecting the unique mix of different backgrounds and talents that calls this area home. The Miami International Film Festival, Miami Book Fair International and Art Basel Miami Beach are renowned and anticipated on … +

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania from her honeymoon. The reappearance of her husband’s academic rival, Eilert Lövborg, throws their lives into disarray. Lövborg, a writer, is also a recovered alcoholic who has wasted his talent until now. When Hedda and Eilert talk privately together, it becomes apparent that they are former … +

The Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida opens a new season of performances in October, with a Tribute to Sergei Diaghilev, the Russian art critic, patron and founder of the Ballets Russes. This Tribute includes three pieces related to his contribution to the Ballet: The Rite of Spring, Le Spectre de la Rose and Petrouchka. Artistic director, ballet master and choreographer of Arts … +

Jay Jorge Alvarez fled Cuba by boat with his entire family in 1964. He was 4½ years old at the time. Alvarez plays various family members, most movingly the role of his mother who was terrified of venturing into the shark-infested waters of the Florida Straight. A moving and humorously human story, acclaimed by critics as the "very best of solo performances", … +

Alma de Tango cordially invites you to join as we celebrate five years at the Biltmore Hotel with our annual Night of Glitz & Glamour. Ladies come dressed in all things glamorous, and gentlemen in formal tuxedo. The grand extravaganza will be held at no other than in the iconic Biltmore Hotel of Coral Gables grand Country Club Ballroom. It will be … +

Jay Jorge Alvarez fled Cuba by boat with his entire family in 1964. He was four and a half years old. Alvarez plays various family members, most movingly the role of his mother who was terrified of venturing into the shark-infested waters of the Florida Straight. A moving and humorously human story, acclaimed by critics as the “very best of solo performances”, … +

Diavolo reinvents dance, re-images theater, and redefines thrills. Performers take movement, athletics and daring to the extreme, creating abstract narratives through surreal architectural landscapes. Under the Artistic Director Jacques Heim, the company creates an almost cinematic experience of powerful images that develop conceptual accounts of the human condition, utilizing unique architectural creations, to provide the backdrop for an evening of dramatic movement. … +

  Miami Dade College – William & Joan Lehman Theater 11380 NW 27th Ave Miami, FL 33167 Ph: 305.237.1505

From the creators of De la Guarda comes the biggest event of Summer 2014 – H2OMBRE! Heart-pumping electronic music, aerial acrobatics, extravagant visuals, and water (more than 6,000 gallons a show!) transform the Center into an alternate universe where the audiences step onto the stage and are engulfed in a 360 degree experience! With state-of-the-art three-dimensional projection screens and monstrous inflatables, H2OMBRE … +

The follow up to the hilarious MID-LIFE! The Crisis Musical that performed to critical acclaim at Actors’ Playhouse in the summer of 2008, MID-LIFE 2! takes audiences back to the middle ages once again with a hilariously tuneful look at the aches, pains, and joys of getting older. From ever-increasing trips to the doctor’s office, to the horrifying moment when one qualifies … +

From the creators of De la Guarda comes the biggest event of Summer 2014 – H2OMBRE! Heart-pumping electronic music, aerial acrobatics, extravagant visuals, and water (more than 6,000 gallons a show!) transform the Center into an alternate universe where the audiences step onto the stage and are engulfed in a 360 degree experience! With state-of-the-art three-dimensional projection screens and monstrous inflatables, H2OMBRE … +

Alma de Tango is bringing the elegance of Argentine Tango to South Florida. Every Tuesday in the intimate atmosphere of a Buenos Aires Milonga transported to the Historic Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables. Alma de Tango – Signature WHITE PARTY Alma de Tango’s Annual Signature WHITE PARTY is our biggest and grandest event of the year. Its reputation of being a unique timeless … +

Documentary journalist Allyson Lamont, known for asking her subjects probing personal questions, finds the tables turning when she takes on libertine poet David Bridge. Her interviews with him force her to go places inside herself she would rather avoid. Before it’s over, she will confront her deepest-held beliefs about sex, love and honesty — and whether they have anything whatsoever to do … +