Miami Made Festival 2013 at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

From February 26 through March 3, 2013.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, together with Riviera South Beach hotel, Alan Lieberman and Nathan Lieberman, present the fifth annual Miami Made Festival, featuring for 2013 a weeklong showcase of new works-in-progress created and performed by a roster of Miami-based artists across multiple disciplines, all of whom have previously collaborated with the Arsht Center. Miami Made Festival 2013 includes staged play readings and a dance showcase on-site in the Carnival Studio Theater, as well as pop-up performances at the soon-to-be-opened hotel, Riviera South Beach. Admission to Miami Made Festival 2013 events is free.

“With Miami Made Festival 2013, the Arsht Center is building on its history of nourishing innovative new work with a deeper commitment than ever before to artists who have created work on the Arsht Center stages in the past,” said John Richard, president and CEO of the Adrienne Arsht Center. “In addition, the support of the Liebermans and Funding Arts Network this season allows us to continue expanding the boundaries of traditional theater. For the first time in our history, Miami Made brings a terrifically fun immersive theater piece to a premium new venue – Riviera South Beach hotel.”

Miami Made Festival 2013 Lineup:

POP-UP PERFORMANCES
EXTENDED STAY   – The Project [Theatre]   
February 26 and 27 @ 9 p.m.
Riviera South Beach hotel, 2000 Liberty Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Free. No reservations required.

Project [Theatre] brings its newest experience to South Beach in the style of pop culture’s highest art form: Reality TV. You’ve drooled at 8th & Ocean. You’ve been Miami Ink’d. Come take a lesson in hospitality at the Hotel Riviera. Be a part of the problem with the staff you love and the drama you can’t live without. Don’t bring your baggage – we’ve got plenty.

STAGED PLAY READINGS
FEAR UP HARSH – By Christopher Demos-Brown, Directed by Stuart Meltzer
February 28 @ 7:30 p.m.
Carnival Studio Theater (In the Ziff Ballet Opera House)
Adrienne Arsht Center.
Free tickets are available starting at 10 a.m. on day of performance, in-person only at the Arsht Center Box Office.

Zoetic Stage co-founders and 2012 Carbonell nominees Christopher Demos-Brown and Stuart Meltzer team up with a cast of Miami’s best actors (including Todd Allen Durkin, Steve Anthony and Arielle Hoffman) to present a staged reading of this dramatic new work-in-progress. FEAR UP HARSH focuses on the process by which America’s highest award for valour (The Congressional Medal of Honor) is given and, more broadly, how the entire concept of “awards” and “commendations” tends to skew our understanding of reality. “Fear Up Harsh” is a term used by the military to designate certain types of “enhanced interrogation” techniques that were legally sanctioned in the “global war on terror” post-9/11.

DINNER PARTIES (IRONIC AND THEMED)
Written by Stuart Meltzer, Directed by Margaret Ledford
March 1 @ 7:30 p.m.
Carnival Studio Theater (In the Ziff Ballet Opera House)
Adrienne Arsht Center.
Free tickets are available starting at 10 a.m. on day of performance, in-person only at the Arsht Center Box Office.

DINNER PARTIES (IRONIC AND THEMED) is an examination of three contemporary couples attempting to maintain personal dignity in party situations. The play is a mix of comedy and drama and explores the endless pressures of marriage, faithfulness and happiness. The all-star Miami-based cast includes Nicholas Richberg, Amy McKenna, Chaz Mena, Gregg Weiner and Lindsey Forgey.

TWO-MERZ – By Mark Della Ventura, Gabe Hammad and David Michael Sirois
March 3 @ 4 p.m.
Carnival Studio Theater (In the Ziff Ballet Opera House)
Adrienne Arsht Center.
Free tickets are available starting at 10 a.m. on day of performance, in-person only at the Arsht Center Box Office.

From the guys that brought you Brothers Beckett and Small Membership, a dark comedy about brothers with cancer. After the recent death of their father to cancer, the Merz brothers think it’s a good idea to get checked out, just in case. They soon learn that both of them have terminal cancer. TWO-MERZ is about how their family and loved ones deal with this incredibly bizarre and tragic news.

DANCE
GOOD, GOD, GO – Letty Bassart
March 2 @ 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Carnival Studio Theater (In the Ziff Ballet Opera House)
Adrienne Arsht Center.
Free tickets are available starting at 10 a.m. on day of performance, in-person only at the Arsht Center Box Office.

Originally shown as a work in progress at the Arsht Center in 2010 as part of the Miami Made Festival, GOOD, GOD, GO is a dance trio that asks: How much force is required to get the canary out of the coal mine? It is an exercise in energy, enthusiasm, and endurance. GOOD, GOD, GO features film, an installation of 50+ wooden canaries created by sculptor Laura Luna, a cappella singing in the dark, and a marching band.

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
305.949.6722
www.arshtcenter.org