Announcements

Flamenco Festival Miami 2019: Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras
Wednesday, March 13 - Sunday, March 17

After selling out four performances during our Flamenco Festival in 2015, the incomparable Sara Baras—direct from Spain—returns to the Arsht Center as the star of the Center’s 12th annual Flamenco Festival Miami. Celebrated for her brilliant footwork and captivating stage presence, Sara Baras has become internationally famous in a career that has spanned more than 20 years and earned her dozens of … +

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The Joshua Redman Quartet Adrienne Arsht Center | Knight Concert Hall
Jan 18, 8pm

It’s Friday Night Jazz with the Joshua Redman Quartet. Internationally acclaimed saxophone master Joshua Redman is renowned for his sound and boundless creativity. In this highly-anticipated performance, Joshua performs with his quartet – pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Ben Williams and drummer Obed Calvaire. Expect an exceptional performance from this group of musicians The New York Times described as “feverish and soulful”. Get … +

Performing Arts

City Theatre’s Winter Shorts at the Arsht Center
Sun Dec 23, 2018 - Sun Dec 23, 2018

This festive version of Summer Shorts: America’s Short Play Festival features a jolly program of short plays and musicals, each a complete work 8-10 minutes long! Treat yourself, your friends and family to an evening of theater filled with hilarity, both naughty and nice. Penned by the country’s best playwrights and performed by a company of South Florida theater all-stars, City Theatre’s … +

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ARTEMIS: Great women in Jazz at the Arsht Center

Hailing from America, Canada, France, Chile, Israel and Japan, ARTEMIS is an extraordinary all-star group comprised of seven of the finest performers in jazz today, gender irrelevant. The band features a powerful front line of A-list musicians in trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana and clarinetist Anat Cohen; a virtuosic rhythm section of pianist and music director Renee Rosnes, bassist Noriko … +

Music

Frost School of Music presents MISTER MAESTRO: Leonard Bernstein at ARSHT
Fri Nov 9, 2018

Frost School’s Henry Mancini Orchestra and JAZZ ROOTS present MISTER MAESTRO—Leonard Bernstein, the Renaissance Man of American Music. With Ann Hampton Callaway (voice); Kirk Whalum in saxophone; Shelly Berg in piano and Scott Flavin as Conductor. To rediscover Leonard Bernstein’s powerful scores for iconic American dramas, including West Side Story and On the Waterfront, in new arrangements by Frost students and faculty. … +

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African Rock’s Great Global Star, Youssou DNOUR at the Arsht!
Fri Oct 26, 2018

Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter and activist Youssou NDOUR makes his Arsht Center debut! Named one of the world’s 50 great voices by NPR, the Senegalese superstar’s vibrant vocals anchor powerful songs that have made him the world’s leading performer of mbalax, his country’s music that fuses classic African praise-singing, percussion, and guitar-based pop. “African rock’s great global star, he has found the most … +

Music

Youssou NDOUR makes his Arsht Center debut!
Fri Oct 26, 2018

Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter and activist Youssou NDOUR makes his Arsht Center debut! Named one of the world’s 50 great voices by NPR, the Senegalese superstar’s vibrant vocals anchor powerful songs that have made him the world’s leading performer of mbalax, his country’s music that fuses classic African praise-singing, percussion, and guitar-based pop. Throughout a thirty-year recording career, Youssou NDOUR’s roots in Senegalese … +

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Pianist & Composer Featured in “Shutter Island” and “Arrival”!
Saturday, October 13

Blending classical, electronic and rock influences, Max Richter calls his style “post-classical.” Hear his haunting, beautiful music featured in Shutter Island and Arrival in an evening featuring Infra and excerpts from The Blue Notebooks. Max will be joined by a narrator and ACME, an electro-acoustic chamber ensemble comprised of piano, electronics and a string quintet! “A modern-day musical genius.” – The New York Times About the Program Infra is … +

Music

Max Richter with ACME in Concert at ARSHT
Sat Oct 13, 2018

The work of the award-winning British composer Max Richter includes concert music, film scoring and acclaimed solo albums. Max’s work explores the meeting points of many contemporary artistic languages and embraces a wide range of influences while working with Tilda Swinton, The Royal Ballet or Hilary Hahn. In this concert with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble ACME. Infra resonates with Richter’s characteristic … +

Music

Florida Grand Opera presents La bohème
Sat Nov 3, 2018 - Sat Nov 17, 2018

Giacomo Puccini’s lyrical romantic tragedy of young lovers in the Latin Quarter of nineteenth century Paris. Will Mimì and Rodolfo find a way to make their love survive terrible poverty, the freezing winter, and Mimì’s life-threatening illness? Puccini’s magical melodies, including “Si, mi chiamano Mimì” and Musetta’s famous waltz, transform this tale of lovers living on borrowed time into a timeless classic. … +

Performing Arts

ARSHT’ Theater Up Close presents DRACULA
Thu Oct 11, 2018 - Sun Oct 28, 2018

Dracula, A World Premiere play by award-winning playwright and Zoetic Stage co-founder Michael McKeever. It’s 1897, Jonathan Harker and his fiancée Mina Murray are welcoming Count Dracula from Transylvania. From that point on, nothing is what you’d expect it to be. Using Bram Stoker’s novel as starting point, McKeever has reinvented the gothic horror tale with a feminist point of view and … +

Events

ARTS LAUNCH 2018! by ARSHT Coming Soon
Sat Sep 8, 2018

Miami’s biggest annual event celebrating and kicking off the Arts Season. A day of fun and discovery: family activities, mini performances, a community arts village of more than 100 arts and cultural organizations, chef demonstrations, food, live bands, DJs and more. Plus: the majority of the Arsht Center’s season will go on sale for individual show tickets for the first time. More events will be announced … +

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Lior Suchard enchants the Arsht Center this weekend!
Friday, July 20 - Saturday, July 21

Lior has traveled the world with his highly successful show where he performs extraordinary displays of telepathy and telekinesis with audience participation. Lior had multiple guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Show and has done television appearances with James Corden, Kim Kardashian, Larry King, Zac Efron and many others. He is an incredible showman; his live performance is mind-blowing, … +

Performing Arts

ARSHT ¡FUÁCATA! or a Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe
Aug 1-Aug 19, 2018

Back by popular demand, this one-woman tour-de-force performance brings more than 20 Latina women to glorious life on stage by weaving together tales of love, marriage, immigration, and identity through eclectic stories and whimsical song! A collaboration between Zoetic Stage Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer and highly celebrated, three-time Carbonell Award-winning Cuban-American actress Elena María García, ¡FUÁCATA! or a Latina’s Guide to Surviving … +

Music

WAR in Concert at ARSHT
Sat Jul 28, 2018

WAR is a world-renowned American funk band best known for the hit songs “Spill the Wine,” “Why Can’t We Be Friends?,” “Low Rider,” and many more. WAR’s lively mix of funk, rock, Latin, reggae, jazz and R&B and message of brotherhood and harmony made them one of the greatest bands of all time. Known as the original street band, WAR was brought … +

Performing Arts

33rd International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami: En ningún lugar del mundo (Nowhere in the World) at ARSHT
Jul 26-29, 2018

Do visible borders define one’s homeland? Exile breaks up families, and years of separation produce the mirage of a reunion. Because without love we would have no homeland. Nowhere in the world would we fit, except there, where it is.

Miami, USA
TEATRO AVANTE
by Abel González Melo Directed by Mario Ernesto Sánchez Carnival Studio Theater The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts 1300 … +

Performing Arts

33rd International Hispanic Theater Festival of Miami
Thu Jul 12, 2018 - Sun Jul 29, 2018

Avante Theater, Adrienne Arsht Center and Miami Dade County Auditorium present the 33rd Miami International Hispanic Theater Festival. The Festival will consist of 9 shows from six countries: Argentina, Spain, United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. The works will be performed in Spanish and some with supertitles in English. Performances and Venues: Jul 12, 2018, 8: 30 PM Carnival Studio Theater at … +

Performing Arts

33rd International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami: La incapaz (Incapable) at ARSHT
Fri Jul 20, 2018 - Mon Jul 23, 2018

Alone and confined, a woman prepares to defend herself in a trial that turns out to be a travesty. Assailed by memory and delirium, she tells us her story. The setting is Uruguay in the late 19th century, in the midst of political and family wars. Montevideo, URUGUAY LA INCAPAZ Author: Carlos María Domínguez Directed by Cecilia Baranda Carnival Studio Theater The … +

Performing Arts

Hij@s de la Bernarda (Daughters of Bernarda) by TOJUNTO at ARSHT
Thu Jul 12, 2018 - Sun Jul 15, 2018

Freely adapted version of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. Dance-theatre rendered in flamenco and contemporary dance. A widow decrees eight years of mourning for her five daughters. In an atmosphere of authoritarianism, repression and desire, the drama is unfold. Written and directed by/ Escrita y dirigida por Rosa Luisa Márquez Choreography by / Coreografía de Jeanne D’Arc Casas Carnival … +

Announcements

Gary Nuñez & Plena Libre with special guest Lalo Rodríguez at the Arsht
Sat Jun 30, 2018

Singer, songwriter, composer, producer and Grammy Award-winning Lalo Rodríguez will join Plena Libre for some of his greatest hits including the fan favorite “Ven, devórame otra vez.” Captivating and moving audiences over the course of a 25-year, 16-album career, this fine-tuned Puerto Rican-based ensemble of virtuoso musicians has only gotten better with age, as evidenced by their four Grammy nominations. Plena Libre … +

Music

Gary Nuñez & Plena Libre with special guest Lalo Rodríguez at ARSHT
Sat Jun 30, 2018

Salsa singer, songwriter, composer, producer and Grammy Award-winning Lalo Rodríguez will join Plena Libre for some of his greatest hits including the fan favorite “Ven, devórame otra vez.”

Captivating and moving audiences over the course of a 25-year, 16-album career, this fine-tuned Puerto Rican-based ensemble of virtuoso musicians has only gotten better with age, as evidenced by their four Grammy nominations. Plena Libre … +