Performing Arts

From Jun 2 through 26, 2011. A gruffly poignant and darkly funny play written by Sam Shepard, Ages of the Moon tells the story of Byron and Ames, two old friends re-united by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a … +

Jun 2 through 4, 2011. Miami Light Project presents the world premiere of Fat Boy, the latest work by Fringe First award winning playwright / director Teo Castellanos. Fat Boy will premiere June 2 – 4, 2011 in Miami Light Project’s new space, The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse. The production marks Miami Light Project’s third major commission of Teo Castellanos hybrid … +

May 20 through 23 and Jun 3 and 4, 2011. Don’t miss your chance to see the future stars of the ballet world as students from Miami City Ballet School take the stage with two exciting programs: the Annual Student Showcase and Benefit May 20-23 and the first Annual Student Jazz Showcase June 3 and 4, 2011.   

GAB Studio. May 14 and 15, 2011. 5:00 p.m. In the fall of last year, Krane, Inc. and New Light Foundation, Inc. decided that they wanted to honor the upcoming 10th anniversary of September 11th. However, the companies did not want to show the over-exposed images of the towers crashing down all over again; they also did not want to hit audiences … +

Through Jun 5, 2011. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of merry mayhem and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced, hilarious whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! In this two-time Tony Award winner, a cast of four hilariously reenacts over 150 eccentric characters from Hitchcock’s 1935 film thriller using just a few … +

New World Center. May 15, 2011. 1:00 p.m. For the first time ever, this year’s YoungArts winners from across the state of Florida and alumna Yara Travieso, 2005 Winner in Dance, will be sharing the stage to bring you YoungArts Florida Celebration 2011 – a free public performance hosted at master architect Frank Gehry’s newly built New World Center which will showcase … +

The State Theatre Project, founded and directed by New World School of the Arts (NWSA) 2009 alum, David Hemphill, has since over a year made it its mission to “provoke, question, kick ass, shake things up”; its aim is to learn through performance and inspire inquisitiveness.

May 5 and 6, 2011. 8:30 p.m. The Miami On Stage 2011 presents Assassins for the night, directed by choreographer Alexey Taran by Bistoury Physical Theater Company. A Dance Theater performance piece combined with video installation inspired on the play by Cuban playwright José Triana. Performances will take place at the new On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami-Dade County Auditorium.

O, Miami is a month-long initiative with a simple but ambitious goal: for every single person in Miami-Dade to encounter a poem in the month of April. The diverse program, produced by the University of Wynwood and funded by the Knight Foundation, has already brought poetry into collision with multiple art forms and unexpected environments, and we’re only halfway through the month.

Apr 15 through 17, 2011. Presenting a total of eight plays, the New World School of the Arts Theater Division presents the New Playwrights Festival 2011, featuring two student-directed, four faculty-directed, and one alum directed productions. “This year eight young playwrights will see their work produced. Prepare yourself for a journey from the trite to the surreal and stations in between” said … +

From Apr 16 through May 27, 2011. The PlayGround Theatre celebrates its newest world premiere original production, The Red Thread, with a full weekend of events, starting with the grand opening performance on Saturday, April 16th at 7:00 p.m. Inspired by ancient Chinese folktales, The Red Thread tells the story of a young woman’s heroic efforts to rescue her father’s surprisingly miraculous … +

The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater.May 14, 2011. 8:00 p.m. and May 15, 2011. 5:00 p.m. The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami, Artistic Director Pedro Pablo Peña, will present the premier of the full-length ballet “La Fille Mal Gardee” starring Cuban Principal Dancers Lorena Feijoo and Rolando Sarabia with fabulous sets and costumes from the Russian Grand Kirov performance … +

From Apr 7 through May 1, 2011. Following the record-breaking run of The Irish Curse, Award Winning Mosaic Theatre presents Stephen Belber’s “Dusk Rings a Bell” featuring a member of “Chicago’s Elite 8,” Jenny McKnight in the lead role of Molly in the first production of this play outside of New York.

From Apr 14 through 17, 2011. An impressive roster of NWSA choreographers will be showcasing their exhilarating works as New World School of the Arts College students present the Spring Dance Concert.

Byron Carlyle Theatre. May 7, 2011. 8:00 p.m. DNE returns to the intimate Byron Carlyle Theatre in North Beach for its last performance of the season, celebrating the company’s second decade of Dance in South Florida.

Bass Museum. May 1, 2011. 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Back by popular demand, DNE returns to the Bass Museum of Art May 1 for Ekphrasistwo: More Art from Art, a migrating site-specific work as part of the Miami Dance Festival and kicking off Miami Museum Month. This unique dance and art experience is created by DNE Directors Diego Salterini and Hannah … +

On March 24 to 27, over thirty students from Archbishop Curley Notre Dame High School performed the MTI school arrangement of Elton John and Time Rice’s ‘AIDA’ to a sold-out crowd.

Apr 9, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Clarita Filgueiras – Flamenco Puro presents La Frontera (the Frontier), an extraordinary production fusing the fire of Spanish Flamenco Dance with the cool sophistication of American modern dance. 

Apr 13 through 23, 2011. Rodgers and Hart’s Broadway classic Pal Joey comes to the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre this spring. Pal Joey tells the story of Joey – a nightclub habitué in the habit of loving and leaving women. Despite that, he is also thoroughly lovable.

As a native of Brazil now living and working in the U.S., Brazz Dance Theater choreographer and artistic director Augusto Soledade draws on an enormous variety of dance forms. He favors contemporary dance but the details – a twist of the hips, a winding spine, an explosive leap – reveal his many other influences: African and Afro-Brazilian, ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop. … +

Strength may be the foundation of well-executed dance, but without character, the beauty of dance can still be elusive.