Music

Seraphic Fire presents Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass
Oct 19 - 23, 2016

Seraphic Fire opens its 15th season with flourish featuring new compositions by Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley and Guggenheim-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis, as well as selections from Philip Glass’s quintessential opera Einstein on the Beach. Venues Oct 19, 2016, 7:30 PM, St. Sophia Cathedral (Miami) Oct 21, 2016, 7:30 PM, St. Philip’s Episcopal (Coral Gables) Oct 22, 2016, 7:30 PM, … +

Visual Arts

"Chromatic Perceptions"
Fri 7 Oct, 2016 - Sat 5 Nov, 2016

This two man show by Colombian Danny Esquenazi & Venezuelan Aureliano Parra reunites these talented established artists from Latin-America. Navigating between Geometric Abstraction and Neo-Kinetics, Esquenazi & Parra have found a way to reinvent these movements by embracing technology in the creative process and through the use of non-traditional materials. “Chromatic Perceptions” is exclusively composed by wall sculptures; showcasing the most recent … +

Music

Frost Symphony Orchestra: Russian Passions
Sep 17, 2016, 8 PM

Internationally acclaimed guest conductor Mark Gorenstein leads the Frost Symphony Orchestra in an all-Russian program with distinguished Frost faculty pianist Santiago Rodriguez. Program includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Santiago Reodriguez in piano, Mark Gorestein as guest conductor and Thomas Sleeper as Director of Frost Symphony Orchestra. UM Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami Frost School of … +

News

Titus Kaphar' The Vesper Project Opening & Artist Gallery Talk at Lowe Art Museum
Sep 8, 2016, 7 PM

The Vesper Project is the culmination of Titus Kaphar’s intensive engagement with the fictional history of the Vespers, a 19th-century New England family. The resulting project, which features the remains of an abandoned Connecticut home into which the artist has incorporated his own work, interrogates notions of race, identity, memory, and social constructs. The Vesper Project obliterates the distance between viewer and … +

Music

Sir Angel Romero Guitar Concert at Comunity Arts Program
Aug 18, 2016, 8 PM

The CAP 2016 Summer Concert Series closes with the Spanish maestro of the guitar, Sir Angel Romero. Considered one of the most sought-after musicians of his generation, his extensive discography includes highly-acclaimed recordings for Delos, International, RCA Victor Red Seal and RCA Victor Worldwide, Telarc, and Angel/EMI. In 2007, the Recording Academy, producer of the GRAMMY® Awards, presented Sir Angel with the … +

Music

The Music of Bill Holman and Frank Foster at Frost School of Music
Sep 15, 2016, 8 PM

Frost Concert Jazz Band and Frost Studio Jazz Band conduct a fabulous concert performing original works by Frost composers in its second annual “House Writers” concert. Under the direction of John Daversa and Steve Guerra. UM Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive, Room 110 Coral Gables, FL 33124-7610 305.284.2241 www.miami.edu/frost/index.php/frost/

Cinema

Film Café Society by Woody Allen at Coral Gables Cinema
Through Aug 11, 2016

Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet romance Café Society follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) as he flees his father’s Bronx jewelry store for Hollywood, where he works for his high-powered agent uncle (Steve Carell) and falls for Phil’s charming assistant Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). When Vonnie’s boyfriend breaks up with her, Bobby seizes the opportunity to romance her, and she ultimately … +

Music

Kom Wongsawat’ Jazz Piano Concert at Frost School of Music
Sep 6, 2016, 8 PM

Jazz Pianist, Drummer, Composer/Arranger and Educator Kom Wongsawat will perform a Doctoral Recital at Gusman Concert Hall. Kom has won several music competition in Thailand, Wining the “Best Keyboard Player 2005” by Overdrive Magazine, “Best Outstanding Keyboard” in the Thailand Jazz Competition 2006, and his band received First Prizes from many Jazz Band Competitions (As a pianist and drummer). As a jazz … +

Cinema

Spanish film Isla Bonita at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Jul 22 - 28, 2016

The Coral Gables Art Cinema presents the U.S. theatrical engagement of Isla Bonita, the freshest comedy of the year. Director Fernando Colomo, who ushered in a new era of post-Franco Spanish comedies with Tigres de Papel turns Isla Bonita into an intimate summer interlude in the Mediterranean as his characters wrestle with the vagaries of love and life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxDprF8Nw4E Coral Gables Cinema … +

News

Area Stage Company presents Our Town
Jul 22 - 24, 2016

Area Stage Company presents Our Town by Thornton Wilder, featuring actors below the age of 18 in a production of Stage II. Our Town is considered a staple of American theater. This Pulitzer Prize-winning- is a drama in three acts -produced and published in 1938- that became a classic portrayal of small-town American life. Through flashbacks, dialogue, and direct monologues the characters … +

News

Speaking of Abstraction at Durban Segnini Gallery
Through Jul 30, 2016

Speaking of Abstraction, language transitions in Latin American Art is curated by Dennys Matos, the show considers artists from six generations whose contributions and paths made of Abstraction the most influential tendency in the historiography of Latin American Contemporary Art of the XX century. The exhibition presents a selection of 12 crucial abstract artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay and … +

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David Hayes: Small Sculpture and Gouache Studies at Lowe Art Museum
Through Jul 31, 2016

A focused micro-exhibit, this show highlights the work of artist David Hayes, who is remembered for his monumental cut-steel sculptures that have been featured in some 300 exhibitions both domestically and abroad. It includes six pairs of preparatory drawings and maquettes, or models, for Hayes’s full-sized colorful works, and sheds light on the sculptor’s artistic process, both intellectual and aesthetic, revealing the … +

News

Actors' Playhouse: Buyer and Cellar
Jul 13 - Aug 7, 2016

Buyer and Cellar now starring Chris Crawford, was considered the most talked-about comedy of last year’s Off-Broadway Season, winner of the 2013 Drama Desk Award is a one-man tour-de-force. An underemployed Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu basement. What follows is a riotously funny new play that gets every comedic element right, ultimately questioning the price of fame. … +

Music

The Community Arts Program starts its 31st Summer Concert Series
Through Aug 18, 2016

The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2016 Summer Concert Series will take place featuring six extraordinary jazz and classical concerts. From the opening season with Doc Severinsen, passing to Sybarite5, Catherine Russell, Terri Lyne Carrington, to Peter & Will Anderson Jazz Trio to Angel Romero to summarize the season. Venue: Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ Performances: Every other Thursday at 8 … +

Museums

The Eye Paintings of J. McGuinness Myers at Lowe Art Museum
Through Jul 31, 2016

In 1966, the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute engaged noted medical illustrator J. McGuinness Myers to paint a series of eyes with ocular conditions that patients presented to the faculty of the Institute. This exhibition features highlights from this work, which captures with great aesthetic sensitivity what Henry David Thoreau referred to as “the noblest feature, the eye … the jewel of the … +

Cinema

Documentary Playing Lecuona at Coral Gables Cinema
Jul 1 - 7, 2016

Playing Lecuona brought together Tenerife native producer-director JuanMa Villar Betancort in collaboration with Cuban director Pavel Giroud to present not a biography, but a musical journey from Cuba to Spain – via the U.S. – to demonstrate the timeless virtue of Lecuona’s music. Their proponents are masters in their own right, a matchless trio of Grammy-laden pianist/composers, to wit, Cuba’s greatest living … +

Events

Area Stage Company: Jon Secada in Ecuador Earthquake Relief Concert
Jun 16, 2016, 8 PM

Area Stage is proud to be hosting the Ecuador Earthquake Relief Concert featuring performances by international singing star Jon Secada, as well as up and coming talent such as Ecuadorian singer Nicole Pernigotti, Conservatory staff and students as well. The orchestra will be directed by award-winning musical director Jon Rose. Area Stage Company 1560 S. Dixie Hwy Coral Gables, FL 33146 305.666.2078 … +

Music

Greater Miami Symphonic Band presents 37th Season Finale Concert
Jun 7, 2016, 8 PM

For the Gran Season Finale Concert, Greater Miami Symphonic Band will host Brian Neal, the trumpet virtuoso formerly from The Dallas Brass and soloist at numerous national and international events. The Band will play with him “La Virgen de La Macarena” and “Gabriel’s oboe”. Also the program will include “Twelfth Night”; “Star Wars:The Force Awakens” and other classical band pieces and famous … +

News

Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre: The Tin Woman
Through Jun 12, 2016

From the author of Making God Laugh, which the audiences fell in love with, comes Sean Grennan’s newest comedy, this one with inspirational dramatic resonance. The Tin Woman is moving theatrical experience involving a postoperative heart transplant recipient struggling with her own survival guilt, who decides to meet the family of the late donor, their son. The grief of the late donor’s … +

Music

Mainly Mozart Festival: Sergei Babayan and Marina Radiushina in Concert
May 21, 2016, 6 PM

Praised by Le Figaro for his “unequaled touch, perfectly harmonious phrasing and breathtaking virtuosity” pianist Sergei Babayan will present a recital of works by Bach and Mozart. He will be joined by the festival artistic director and his former student at the Cleveland Instittue of Music, Marina Radiushina for a few duo piano selections. Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami University of … +