From August 3rd through August 27th, 2006New Theatre hosts the South Florida Shakespeare Festival and presents two productions for the occasion. One is an enigmatic and timeless adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, and the second is a contemporary adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. The festival sets the stage for these two Shakespeare masterpieces about jealousy, reconciliation, renewal, love and forgiveness. In The Winter’s Tale, Leontes of Sicilia and Hermione have a young son named Mamillius. King Polixenes of Bohemia is concluding a long visit to their kingdom. Leontes comes to believe that Hermione’s child was fathered by Polixenes and that he and Hermione are plotting to murder him. In Much Ado About Nothing, Leonato lives in Messina with his daughter, Hero, and his niece, Beatrice. His friends Don Pedro, Claudio , Benedick, and Don John return from the wars and take up residence in the home. Benedick and Beatrice resume the war of insults that they have always fought, while Claudio and Hero pledge their love and decide to get married. Performances will take place at the New Theatre located at 4120 Laguna Street in Coral Gables, FL. For more information, please call: 305.443.5909
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Requiem for a Stone Curlew, by Lu... +
Réquiem por un alcaraván (Requiem for a stone curlew) is the performative dance of the man-woman. The Zapotec culture, through muxheidad, lives homosexuality, gaycity and same-sex marriages with certain contradictions: a muxhe is a man who assumes roles culturally destined for women, both work and affective, emotional and sexual, muxheidad is a veiled social acceptance and at the same time the celebration … +
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World Premiere of Writing in Sand... +
Writing in Sand is a multidisciplinary stage production directed by Carlos Caballero, featuring actress Mabel Roch, choreographer and dancer Lucia Aratanha, musician Inez Barlatier, and the writing of Griselda Ortíz. The work opens a dialogue that explores themes of displacement, immigration, trauma, personal crisis, and assimilation as a mirror of Miami itself. Three female performers – one Cuban, one Brazilian and one … +
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FUNDarte presents Teatro El Públi... +
FUNDarte presents Teatro El Público’s Antigonón, written by the young playwright Rogelio Orizondo, and directed by Carlos Díaz. The work departs from the myth of Antigone to fuse with old and new heroes of Cuban history, in particular José Martí, considered the founder of Cuban revolutionary thought- and join in the post-modern Greek tragic chorus to serve up a remix of frustrations … +
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FUNDarte’ Out in the Tropics 2016... +
Now in its seventh edition FUNDarte’s Out in the Tropics performance series will feature artists who address gender, sexuality and issues of interest to the art community and their allies. La otra voz is a work about the homo-erotic love affair of two men, written and directed by Spanish playwright Manuel De. Based on the acclaimed monodrama La Voix Humaine by Jean … +
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Chiflón, the Silence of Coal at M... +
FUNDarte presents the debut in Florida of Chiflón, the Silence of Coal by Chile’s Silencio Blanco Theatre Company. To keep working, a young miner must travel to Chiflón del Diablo, one of the most dangerous mines in Chile. Based in part of a story by distinguished Chilean author Baldomero Lillo, and devised during trips to the mining town of Lota, it reflects … +
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U.S. Premiere of 10 Million by Aw... +
On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami Dade County Auditorium March 24 & 25, 2017, 8:30 p.m. March 26, 2017 – 5:00 p.m. Copperbridge Foundation and FUNDarte, in association with Miami-Dade County Auditorium, present 10 Million by the Cuban Theater Company, Argos Teatro, at the On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami Dade County Auditorium. Written and directed by Carlos Celdrán (Winner of the Cuban National … +
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