Performing Arts

The Rocky Horror Show is back at Waterfront Playhouse
Sat Oct 19, 2019 - Fri Oct 25, 2019

Live on stage at Waterfront Playhouse. This sweet transvestite and his motley crew are back for the Time Warp and promising to be better than ever! With Christopher Peterson, Arthur Crocker, Belle Jampol, Kelsey Wilson, Carolyn Cooper, Donavan Pavlicek, Dave Bootle, Tony Konrath, Nick Mazza and John McDonald in talent. The play is directed by Tom Thayer, and with set design by … +

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“La Memoria”: Theater Improvisation Workshop at Koubek Center
Oct 10, 2019, 11 AM

Utilizing theatrical language, improv techniques, and personal narratives, this workshop aims to create brief performances of around five minutes or less. Participants will be able to explore memories and the richness of the Hispanic language as creative tools. The workshop will be led by theater artist Jose Manuel Dominguez, an En Residencia artist, a program at the MDC Koubek Center in Little … +

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Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida open Season at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
Sat Oct 5, 7:30 pm & Sun Oct 6, 3:00 pm

Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida will begin its season of performances in October with a beautiful program which includes contemporary and neoclassical pieces dedicated to loyal and new audiences.  Led by Artistic Director Master Vladimir Issaev, the North Miami-Dade based ballet company (founded in 1997) opens on October 5th, featuring a selection of neoclassical contemporary works of the XXI Century that includes: … +

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Caravan: A Revolution on the Road at ARSHT
Fri Oct 18, 2019

Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective collaborate with choreographer Rennie Harris’ company, Puremovement, and sculptor/projection mapping artist Andrew Scott to create Caravan: A Revolution on the Road, a new work expanding on themes explored on the first E-Collective recording and tour. These artists have created a multi-disciplinary performance that transcends racial and social boundaries and breathes new artistic life into conversations on personal and collective identity in relation to social … +

Performing Arts

Last Podcast on the Left’ World Tour at Olympia Theater
Sat Oct 19, 2019

Last Podcast on the Left barrels headlong into all things horror — as hosts Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski cover dark subjects spanning Jeffrey Dahmer, werewolves, Jonestown, iconic hauntings, the history of war crimes, and more. Whether it’s cults, killers, or cryptid encounters, Last Podcast on the Left laughs into the abyss that is the dark side of humanity.

Performing Arts

Orchestra Miami: Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage for all ages at Alan & Diane Lieberman Theater
Oct 13, 2019

A journey back in time: Orchestra Miami presents Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage!  A dramatic story, a little bit of history and the world’s best-loved classical music set the scene in a musical adventures for all ages! This popular story in the Classical Kids series tells the story of the great composer Mozart’s young son, Karl, who longs to spend more time with his … +

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Alta Escena company presents “María Montez 100 years” at The Koubek Center
October 11th and 12th at 8:30 pm

The company Alta Escena in association with Latinos United presents “María Montez 100 años”, authored by Luis Dantes-Castillo. After presentations it the Dominican Republic and New York the play now comes to Miami. Giamilka Román plays María, while Amarilis Rodríguez plays María’s mother (Regla María Teresa), Olga Valdez and Judith Rodríguez are in the roles of María’s cousins ​​(Celeste and Ela) together … +

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey at The Colony Theatre
Thu Oct 24, 2019

Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel adapted by five time Obie Award-winning actor and playwright David Greenspan, turning this richly multi-faceted tale, of five travelers in colonial Peru hurled to their deaths by a collapsing bridge, into a wryly lyrical fable of fate, love, and the transformative magic of theater. “There is a land of the living and a land of the … +

Performing Arts

Junie B. Jones, The Musical at Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Mon Oct 7, 2019

Outspoken, precocious, lovable Junie B. Jones stars in a colorful,  fast-paced musical about new friends, new glasses, sugar cookies, the annual kickball tournament and other various first-grade, angst-ridden situations. Follow her adventures as she writes down the story of her life in her “Top-Secret Personal Beeswax Journal.” This musical is based on four volumes in Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones series of … +

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The Wolves on its South Florida Premiere at Carnival Studio Theater
Oct 31 - Nov 17, 2019

This Pulitzer Prize finalist centers on the lives and experiences of nine high school girls through their weekly Saturday morning pre-game soccer warmups, using their team and relationships as a metaphor for survival in 21st Century America. Different personalities and backgrounds clash, as these young women navigate the bumpy terrain of being a teenager living in America today. This stunning new work, … +

Dance

I am TANGO, at SMDCAC
Sat Oct 19, 2019

With an ensemble of 24 world-renowned dancers, singers and musicians, I Am Tango presents a distinctive tango experience by staging its artistic evolution over time. The genre is represented by a central character named “Tango” who evolves through different ages and cultures while maintaining the essence of the music that made its mark all over the world. Directed by Alfredo Lerida Main … +

Performing Arts

The Bridge of San Luis Rey at Colony Theatre
Thu Oct 24 - Nov 17, 2019

Five time Obie Award-winning actor and playwright David Greenspan adapts Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, turning this richly multi-faceted tale, of five travelers in colonial Peru hurled to their deaths by a collapsing bridge, into a wryly lyrical fable of fate, love, and the transformative magic of theater. “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead,” … +

Dance

Miami City Ballet opens 2019-2020 Season
Oct 18 - 20, 2019

Miami City Ballet opens their 2019/20 Season in October. The first program for the season includes three works including Balanchine’s own favorite ballet, Stravinsky Violin Concerto; a do-not-miss work by iconic choreographer Paul Taylor, Mercuric Tidings; and the celebrated stage spectacle set in a 1930s speakeasy, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue – a ballet with vaudevillian soul and a recognizable, toe-tapping score.  Program One STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTOChoreography: … +

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Top Comedian Bill Engvall comes to Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Thu Oct 24, 2019

The thing that makes any entertainer successful is the ability to connect with an audience. It’s this quality of sharing the humor in everyday situations that has made Bill Engvall one of the top comedians today – and one of the busiest. A Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum selling artist, Engvall is best known for being part of the enormously successful Blue Collar Comedy … +

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Hollywood Revisited at Old School Square Cultural Arts Center
Fri Dec 27, 2019

Few costumes from the “Golden Era” of Hollywood remain except for a small number that have been meticulously preserved by a handful of collectors. Greg Schreiner’s wonderful Hollywood film costume collection houses over 175 such masterpieces. During the 1930-60’s, Hollywood directors were told to “put the light where the money is” and this often-meant spectacular costumes. Studios hired the biggest designers and … +

Dance

Benise: Fuego at The Center, Coral Springs
Oct 10, 2019

It’s one hot night as Benise, “The Prince of Spanish Guitar,” and his Emmy Award-winning production comes to town. Armed with his Spanish guitar, Benise will take the audience on an unprecedented adventure through Spanish Flamenco, Cuban Salsa, Brazilian Samba, Parisian Waltz, exotic drumming, and more. For Benise, music has always been a journey. From his humble beginnings as a street performer, … +

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ 2 shows at Miami Theatre Center
Sat Oct 26, 2019

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of this beloved children’s book, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia reimagining of The Very Hungry Caterpillar follows the wonderful adventures of a very tiny and very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through an amazing variety of foods on his path to becoming a beautiful butterfly, a Little Cloud who playfully transforms himself into various creatures, and finally The Mixed-Up Chameleon who … +

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Highly acclaimed “Hot Shoe Shuffle” on stage at The Wick
Thu Oct 17, 2019 - Sun Nov 10, 2019

It starts when the seven Tap Brothers receive a telegram telling them that they will inherit millions from their late father if they reproduce the dance step Hot Shoe Shuffle within one month of his demise. Hilarity ensues when a long-lost twin sister turns up. A big hit in Australia and London, featuring songs like “Puttin” “On the Ritz”

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The Vagina Monologues back at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
Sat Oct 12, 2019

An Obie Award-winning whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who “liked to look at it.” *This … +

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Sister Act: the new comedy musical at Lake Worth Playhouse
Thu Oct 3, 2019 - Sun Oct 20, 2019

Sister Act is the feel-good musical comedy smash based on the hit 1992 film. Featuring original music by Tony- and eight-time Oscar winner, Alan Menken (Newsies, Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors), this uplifting musical was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. When disco diva, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one … +

Dance

New World School of the Arts presents Woke/Spring
October 11, 12, 18, 19; 7:30PM

Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s masterwork, Springs Awakening, Woke/Spring will bring audiences to contemporary American life brimming with multiculturalism, in a world where technology reigns king and connecting to other human beings is endangered. A new spring is upon the youth of America and their sexual coming-of-age story is a mix of religious oppression, bigotry, xenophobia & disease. Woke/Spring is a choreoplay that … +