Performing Arts

Three Fittings. From Apr 25th through May 18th, 2008.The Women's Theatre Project is currently presenting the play Three Fittings written by Stephanie Walker at the Sixth Star Studios located at 505 NW 1st Avenue in Ft. Lauderdale. Three Fittings is actually three vignettes, with three sets of mothers and daughters visiting Blushing Brides, an upscale bridal boutique in Chicago.

Arts Inside the Open Tent. May 31st, 2008. 9:00 p.m. Bringing a combination of comedy, parody and burlesque to South Florida for one evening only, the cast of Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad will take to the stage on Saturday, May 31st at 9:00 p.m. at the historic Alfred I. DuPont Building, located at 169 E Flagler Street in downtown Miami.

GableStage. From Apr 26th through May 25th, 2008. GableStage at the Biltmore presents the Southeastern Premiere of the play The Accomplices by Bernard Weinraub. Longtime journalist for the New York Times and playwright Bernard Weinraub dramatizes how the American government, media, and even American Jewish officials, fearing a backlash of anti-Semitism at home, failed to act decisively enough to stop the World … +

The Great Jaguar Rescue. From Jun 14th through Jun 15th, 2008. The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and Broadway Across America present the new live stage show Go, Diego, Go Live! The Great Jaguar Rescue on June 14th and 15th, 2008. Featuring Diego, his sister Alicia, and cousin Dora the Explorer, this new show is an interactive high-stakes quest through … +

Tenth Anniversary. May 2008. Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, under the direction of Ballet Master Vladimir Issaev, is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the company. The repertoire will include performances by awarded Best Male dancer at the American Ballet Competition, Brian Ruiz along with Yoshie Oshima a finalist at the Korea Competition who will perform Lavrosky’s Romeo and Juliet Pas de Deux. … +

The Naked Stage. From Apr 25th through May 18th, 2008. The Naked Stage announces the addition of Erin Joy Schmidt to the cast of its second show of the 2008 season, Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis. Directed by Mad Cat’s Paul Tei and starring Katherine Amadeo, Kim Ehly and Schmidt, 4.48 Psychosis will be presented at the Pelican Theatre in Barry University.

Performances in Miami and Montenegro. April 1st through 22nd, 2008. Karen Peterson’s Dance Troupe presents “Future Memories” at the Excello dance space in April and then travel to Montenegro in May to perform at the Montenegrin National Theatre and teach at the youth disability center in the capital, Podgorica. This is the second part on a Miami / Montenegro Cultural Exchange Project … +

Next Generation of Dancers. April 19th, 2008. 2:00 p.m. The Dance Now! Ensemble (DNE) sets forth to both educate and entertain the community of Coral Gables with a free performance at Coral Gables Library and master classes at Coral Gables High School. The performance takes place at Coral Gables Library, 3443 Segovia Street, on April 19th, 2008 at 2:00 pm.

New Theatre. April 18th, 2008. 6:30 p.m. The 3rd annual Miami Stories 2008 featuring a series of three one-act plays penned by local personalities, promises to be another sensation. The dinner / theatre production is a benefit for the award-winning New Theatre and takes place on Friday, April 18th at the Miami Science Museum, located at 3280 South Miami Avenue in Miami.

The Playground Theatre. From Mar 26th through Mar 28th, 2008. The Playground Theatre, located at 9806 NE 2nd Avenue in Miami, is presenting a fresh and local Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In this contemporary adaptation of the world-renowned classic English fairy tale by Lewis Carroll, a girl named Alice takes a wonder-filled journey and meets remarkable characters like the White Rabbit, Mad … +

Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. From Apr 10th through Apr 13th, 2008. The Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and Camposition present 1,000 Homosexuals by Michael Yawney. A Miami Made commission, 1,000 Homosexuals tells the story of Anita Bryant’s 1977 crusade against gay civil rights.

Guys and Dolls. From Apr 16th through Apr 26th, 2008. The Ring Theatre at the University of Miami, located at 1312 Miller Drive in Coral Gables, is presenting the 50’s musical Guys and Dolls. Based on Damon Runyon’s short story “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown,” Guys and Dolls revolves around Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest established permanent floating crap … +

Arsht Center. April 18th and 19th, 2008. 11:00 a.m. Through the magic of black-light theater and life-size puppetry, Eric Carle’s most popular storybook characters – The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and the Mixed-Up Chameleon – come to life on the stage of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia performs “The … +

World Premiere of NIGHTSPOT. From Mar 28th through Mar 30th, 2008. Miami City Ballet’s Program IV will feature the World Premiere of Twyla Tharp’s NIGHTSPOT and George Balanchine’s Square Dance, Tarantella, and Sonatine. The program will show at Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing of Miami-Dade on Friday, March 28th at 7:30p.m. Saturday, March 29th at 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, March 30th … +

New Faces, New Work. March 4th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.The play Our Lady of Allapattah by Christopher Demos-Brown will have a free play reading on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at the New Theatre venue located at 4120 Laguna Street in Coral Gables. Directed by Kate Katcher, Our Lady of Allapattah features Lela Elam, Clint Hooper, Joel Kolker, Don Striano, and Patrick Manley. Local … +

The Waterfront Playhouse. From Feb 27th through Mar 22nd, 2008.Lock up the youngsters, cover grandma's eyes and batten down the hatches – Reefer Madness, The Musical has invaded The Waterfront Playhouse. Based on the 1936 movie, this outrageously twisted musical of sex, drugs and showtunes was a long-running, award-winning musical in Los Angeles and finally makes it to South Florida with the … +

Broward On Broadway. From Feb 16th through Mar 9th, 2008. Seymour, a nerdy skid-row floral assistant at Mushnik's Flower Shop, becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" (named in honor of his secret love, the beautiful Audrey) grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing, carnivore who offers him fame and … +

Jar the Floor. From Feb 22nd through Mar 16th, 2008. Jar the Floor is a play created by playwright Cheryl L. West presented by The Women's Theatre Project under the direction of Genie Croft. The play tells the story of a quartet of black women spanning four generations make up this heartwarming dramatic comedy. The four, plus a white friend of the … +

Tigertail Productions. Mar 14th and 15th, 2008. 8:30 p.m.As part of its 2007/2008 season, Tigertail Productions brings Susan Marshall and Company to town for the Miami premiere of Cloudless, her Bessie-Award winning evening-length dance piece at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre. Cloudless is an eclectic collection of 18 intimate pieces (short-form narratives), ranging in length from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. A master … +

Blackbird. From Mar 6th through Mar 30th, 2008. Blackbird, on stage at the GableStage Theater from March 6th, has been regarded as a brutal and shattering truth of an unconventional love affair. Blackbird was written by Scottish playwright David Harrower and commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005.

Cuillo Centre for The Arts. From Jan 10th through Apr 13th, 2008. Jake Ehrenreich's hit rock n roll true story, holocaust family, borscht belt, comedy musical comes to West Palm Beach direct from it's record breaking 15-month run at the Lamb's Theater in the heart of Broadway.