Performing Arts

Dance NOW! Kicks off its 20th Anniversary Season with a world premiere from founding co-Director Diego Salterini. Salterini uses Earth, Air, Fire and Water as metaphors to investigate personal, societal and global issues. The evening will also include the audience favorite Visions of Unrest from DNM Co-Director Hannah Baumgarten, and work from guest choreographers Angela Gallo, of Coker University and Miami Dance Luminary Daniel … +

Escape to Margaritaville, has been considered a “hilarious” and heartwarming” musical, featuring musical storyteller Jimmy Buffett. The musical was first performed in 2017, featuring Jimmy Buffett songs. The plot revolved around about a part-time bartender and singer who falls for a career-minded tourist. The show features music and lyrics by Jimmy Buffett and is based on a book by Greg Garcia and … +

This commissioned play, based on events in the lives of Gertrude Berg and Philip Loeb, the pioneering stars of television’s groundbreaking sitcom, The Goldbergs, reveals the double-edged sword between speaking out and staying silent.

By Gerome Ragni and James Rado with music by Galt MacDermotThe international musical hit that changed the sound and the face of the Broadway musical. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical’s profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, … +

A group of strangers meet in a dirty subway station. They have arrived with limited personal belongings, their watches have stopped and they all claim to be in different cities. Soon they learn there is no way out of the station, and the unfortunate truth is told to them: they are all dead. Since subway stations have two sides, they reason the … +

Salute to Vienna will once again captivate audiences at Coral Springs Center for the Arts on New Year’s Eve. Led by the charming and witty conductor, expert in Viennese music, Bernhard Schneider of Vienna and featuring Vienna’s Jennifer Davison and New York’s Brian Cheney, along with dancers from National Ballet of Hungary, International Champion Ballroom Dancers, and the Strauss Symphony of America, … +

In New Hampshire during early 2008, a former First Lady is in a desperate bid to save her troubled Presidential campaign. Her husband sees things one-way; her campaign manager sees things differently. This play is a profound and timely look at two of the most controversial figures in American political history. Created by Lucas Hnath.

Light, fast-paced, irreverent and completely politically incorrect, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is some of the funniest musicals ever written. Pseudolus, a crafty slave, struggles to win the hand of a beautiful, but slow-witted, courtesan named Philia for his young master, Hero, in exchange for freedom. The plot twists and turns with cases of mistaken identity, slamming doors, and … +

Set in the living room of a middle class family on a Sunday afternoon in the late 1930s, Brecht described this play as “a dramatic sketch of family life as it is today in the new Hiter’s Germany.” A teacher and his wife are terrified that their son, a member of the Hitler Youth, will turn them in for their negative statements … +

There is trouble in River City with Meredith Willson’s most famous flim-flam man comes to town in The Music Man. Winner of the 1957 Tony Award for Best Musical, the classic Broadway blockbuster includes hits like “Til there was You”, “76 Trombones”, “Lida Rose”, and “The Wells Fargo Wagon”. A whole marching band might show up on stage.

From the songwriting team behind the smash-hit Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen and the Academy Award-winning film La La Land, A Christmas Story, The Musical brings the classic 1983 movie to hilarious life on stage! Following a successful Broadway run garnering three 2013 Tony Award nominations including BEST MUSICAL, BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Joseph Robinette) and BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Benj … +

During October, Theatre Lab offers The Playwright’s Forum & Master Class Series, welcoming some of the nation’s most notable playwrights to share readings of their newest plays followed by a discussion about the work, their process, and the importance of new-play development. In addition, playwrights will offer a 90-minute workshop designed to guide participants through the various stages of playwriting. This year’s … +

Inspired by the 1980 seminal David Byrne/Brian Eno album, Remain in Light is a phenomenal aggregate of funk, hip hop, afro beat, minimalism, punk, ambient and electronica. The album demurs from fusion and meets on another harmonic plane of collaborative engagement. Remain in Light celebrates meeting the “otherness” of the natural world with this same collaborative engagement. From that spirit of welcome … +

From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. Performed by five incredible actor/singer musicians who play 20 different instruments, this exciting musical features the songs “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and more than two dozen classic … +

What does success mean in America? What does it mean when you don’t make it? In THE MONROE DOCTRINE, poet and adjunct professor REAL MONROE tries to hold his world together from his trailer on Hog Island on Maryland’s eastern shore. Nov 17,2019, 7 PM

Tony®-winning director Bartlett Sher and the team behind South Pacific, The King and Iand 2017 Tony-winning Best Play Oslo, bring a fresh and authentic vision to this piece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. The original production won ten Tony Awards, including a special Tony for becoming the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. You’ll be there when the sun rises on … +

Unrivaled flamenco masters Casa Patas return to Miami Dade County Auditorium with their newest show, RAIZ DE 4, created by and featuring Rafael Peral and Marisa Adame.  RAIZ DE 4 honors the art of Flamenco by delving into its most primitive roots, evoking the convergence of cultures and the folklore of Spain. The work expresses the purest styles of flamenco, some of … +

The Forgotten Kingdom uses evocative music and story to ignite imaginations. Guy Mendilow and his international musical collaborators bring audiences on a musical trek through a lost world, a journey through former Ottoman lands starting in Sarajevo and winding through Salonica. The music and storytelling conjure voices lost to war, recorded in a language blending archaic Spanish with Turkish and Greek. As … +

Take a funny, profound, and provocative road trip with four women who share their stories of love, sex, and their ‘first time’ – with often hilarious but sometimes harrowing detail. The Lost Virginity Tour is a funny, profound, and provocative play about four women in their golden years – not talking about their grandkids or their knitting circles, but talking about sex … +

In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in Washington Heights, New York–a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of Latin music. Measure for Measure Theatre begins it 2019-20 season with the Tony AwardⓇ-winning musical In the Heights Thursday, October 24 to Sunday, November … +

George Balanchine’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue headlines this program with a parody of hijinks and high kicks, gangsters and cops in this ballet about a tap dancer and the impossible stripper he falls in love with. Balanchine’s sassy and spirited choreography and Richard Rodgers’ tantalizing Broadway score open the season full of laughter in a 1930s speakeasy.  Balanchine’s plotless masterpiece, Stravinsky Violin … +