Just the Funny

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 … +

The Bugchasers. From Oct 25th through Oct 27th, 2007. 8:00 p.m. Having received rave reviews last season for his dance-theater drama Kitchen Monkey, Miami-based artist Octavio Campos premieres his newest work The Bugchasers at Carnival Center for the Performing Arts from October 25th through 27th, 2007. Sensual and violent yet hilarious, The Bugchasers is a dance-theater meditation on sex, lies, and death-wish … +

Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. March 16th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.Martin Short, one of our era’s true musical-comedy stars, makes his Miami debut at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in a musical evening at the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. Accompanied by a five-piece band, Short will sing and dance his way through Broadway show tunes … +

October 14th, 2009. 1:15 p.m. New World School of the Arts (NWSA) will kick-off the second year of its lecture series, Make Art Work, with award-winning playwright and director Nilo Cruz. A Cuban-American, Mr. Cruz received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics. Cruz is the first Hispanic to receive this honor. The lecture takes place … +

January 14 through 18, 2013. Tigertail Productions continues its SpeakOut project for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning) teens with a weeklong residency with nationally recognized Washington, DC-based, Filipino-American spoken word pioneer Regie Cabico. Scheduled for the week are school and community workshops, a poetry slam for LGBTQ youth and a reading for a general audience. All events are free and … +

July 2010. This summer, when most companies are on break for a couple months, the dancers and staff of Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida are grabbing their passports and packing their bags, as they head to several different countries.