Music

Jack and Lennie: Frost School Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra in Concert
Fri 30 Mar, 2018

President John F. Kennedy and composer Leonard Bernstein would have celebrated their 100th birthdays during the 2017 – 2018 academic school year. This multimedia, cross-genre salute to these American icons features Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Oliver Nelson’s The Kennedy Dream, and Peter Lieberson’s Remembering JFK (An American Elegy). Scott Flavin, conductor UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of … +

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Frost Extensions and Frost Jazz Vocal I in Concert
Tue 27 Mar, 2018

FROST Extensions and FROST Jazz Vocal I presents music from the Great American Songbook as well as original music by some of today’s leading jazz composers. The concert will feature arrangements by FROST Studio and Music and Jazz faculty, students, and alumni. Kate Reid, director UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 … +

Music

Florida Guitar Foundation presents flamenco guitarist Grisha Goryachev
Thursday, March 17th @ 7pm

A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Grisha is one of very few guitarists in the world who is reviving the tradition of solo flamenco guitar in a concert setting that was practiced by legendary flamenco masters such as Ramón Montoya and Sabicas. Grisha strives to keep alive older flamenco masterpieces that now exist only on records, by performing them in concerts. Instead … +

Music

Frost Wind Ensemble: Classics at UM Gusman Concert Hall
Thu 22 Mar, 2018

An ambitious concert of music for winds including Mahler’s Um Mitternacht, the largest of the Ruckert-Lieder set, featuring FROST School’s vocal professor Robynne Redmon; and also Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations, Stravinsky’s Octet, Dahl’s Sinfonietta, and Schmitt’s Dionysiaques. Robynne Redmon, soprano Jeffrey Summers, guest conductor Robert Carnochan, director UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 … +

Music

Charles Castleman: An Evening of Brahms at Frost School Of Music
Fri 23 Mar, 2018

Frost School professor Charles Castleman, one of the world’s most active performers and pedagogues of the violin, offers a program showcasing the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 78, Op. 100, and Op. 108. He will be joined by Dean Shelly Berg and Chair of Keyboard performance Santiago Rodriguez, both on piano. Santiago Rodriguez, piano Charles Castleman, violin Shelly Berg, piano … +

Cinema

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (NTL) at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Fri 23 Mar, 2018 - Sun 25 Mar, 2018

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth-century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gathers at their cotton plantation to … +

Music

Friends of Miami Chamber Music presents The Dover Quartet
Tue 20 Mar, 2018

Works by Haydn, Borodin, and Mozart with Alex Fiterstein (clarinet), who is considered one of today’s most exceptional artists. Fiterstein has performed in recital, with distinguished orchestras, and with chamber music ensembles throughout the world. He won first prize at the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant Award. Since 1955, Friends of Miami Chamber Music … +

Music

Florida Guitar Foundation presents GRAMMY award winner David Russel
Thursday, March 15th @ 8pm

Classical guitarist David Russell is world renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. In recognition of his great talent and his international career, he was named a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997. During his studies at the Royal Academy, David Russell won twice the Julian … +

Music

Seraphic Fire presents Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes
Wed 14 Mar, 2018 - Sun 18 Mar, 2018

Scott Allen Jarrett, featured in Seraphic Fire’s GRAMMY® nominated Ein Deutsches Requiem disc, leads Seraphic Fire from the keyboard in the most joyous and tender of Brahms’ choral works, the eternal Liebeslieder Waltzes. Concerts and Venues Wed, Mar 14, 7:30pm St. Sophia Greek Orthodox 2401 SW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL 33129 Thu, Mar 15, 7:00pm Vanderbilt Presbyterian 1225 Piper Blvd, Naples, FL … +

Events

2018 Classical Guitar Competition Featuring David Russell, and Grisha Goryachev
Thu 15 Mar, 2018 - Sat 17 Mar, 2018

Florida: The Florida Guitar Foundation (FGF) is proud to announce its 2nd annual Classical Guitar Competition featuring evening performances by world-renowned David Russell, and flamenco virtuoso Grisha Goryachev. For ticket information, please visit www.floridaguitar.org. DAVID RUSSELL Thursday, March 15th @ 8pm Grammy Award winner classical guitarist David Russell is world-renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise … +

Performing Arts

Area Stage Company: Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Fri 9 Mar, 2018 - Sun 18 Mar, 2018

The ever-curious Alice begins her journey innocently enough as she chases the White Rabbit. Her adventures become increasingly more strange as she races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, raps with a bubble-blowing Caterpillar, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game! Based on Lewis Carroll’s famous novel, Disney’s Alice in Wonderland features updated songs from the animated … +

Performing Arts

New play: Blind Mouth Singing at Jerry Herman Ring Theatre (FIU)
Thu 22 Feb, 2018 - Sat 3 Mar, 2018

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’ new play developed at New York’s renowned Public Theater and performed in Cuba, asks the question— is it more dangerous to follow our desires, or to bury them? Reiderico sneaks out of his house and spends his nights in the garden conspiring with a boy who lives at the bottom of a well, testing stormy waters between reality and … +

Performing Arts

Actors’ Playhouse: ONCE
Wed 28 Feb, 2018 - Sun 25 Mar, 2018

Winner of eight Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Once is a truly original theatrical experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians, Once tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician and the beautiful young woman who takes an interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights. Emotionally captivating and theatrically … +

Cinema

Coral Gables Art Cinema’ Screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Sat 24 Feb, 2018

Modern science fiction wouldn’t be what it is today if not for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, a seminal film that presented a multicultural, dystopian future filled with massive corporate advertising, thick pollution, and flying cars. Central to this world are replicants, human-like androids with limited life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation. When four of them escape from an off-world colony to … +

Cinema

Cuban Film Memories of Underdevelopment at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Sun 25 Feb, 2018 - Tue 27 Feb, 2018

In the maelstrom of Cuban politics, Memories of Underdevelopment is one film made in the island after the revolution that generations will be revisiting for years to come. A film very much of its time, Memories is redolent of the jaunty, black & white sensibility of the French Nouvelle Vague that was common currency among European filmmakers in the sixties. It chronicles … +

Visual Arts

Virginia Miller Galleries exhibits Color + Geometry
Through Sat 31 Mar, 2018

Color + Geometry includes paintings, assemblage and sculpture by  artist Israel Guevara. His work, defined as a contemporary take on the long tradition of Latin American geometric abstraction and op art,  introduces innovative compositions that evolve from his years of experience as an architect. Guevara’s body of work is  sophisticated yet playful,  presenting a constant interaction that results in ever-changing colors, shapes, … +

Performing Arts

CARRIE: The Musical by Area Stage Company
Fri 16 Feb, 2018 - Sun 4 Mar, 2018

Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, the musical of Carrie hasn’t been seen since its legendary 1988 Broadway production. Carrie White is a misfit and an outcast who’s bullied by the popular crowd and virtually invisible to everyone else. However, Carrie has just discovered she has a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it…. Set in today’s world in a small town in … +

Cinema

Phantom Thread Now Playing! at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Through Thu 1 Feb, 2018

Set in the glamour of 1950s post-War London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he … +

Cinema

A Fantastic Woman at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Fri 9 Feb, 2018

The otherwise conventional Orlando has left his wife and kids for Marina (Daniela Vega), a passionate transsexual and much younger waitress-singer. After his sudden, unexpected death, Marina faces the suspicions of the police, the angry incomprehension of Orlando’s family and the discovery she’ll be denied the usual privileges of a grieving loved-one and life partner. On one level, writer-director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria) … +

Performing Arts

Area Stage Company plays RIDE by Eric Lane
Thu 18 Jan, 2018 - Sun 4 Feb, 2018

Eric Lane’s poignant and hilarious play RIDE takes three teenage girls on a life-changing road trip. While Carrie and Molly would never hang out together at high school, the two form a fragile bond during their job at a local farm stand. Molly convinces Carrie to join her on an unexpected road trip, which deepens their connection. Sam, Carrie’s eleven-year-old sister, joins … +

Performing Arts

Actors’ Playhouse plays Noises OFF
Wed 17 Jan, 2018 - Sun 4 Feb, 2018

Did you ever wonder what happens behind the scenes during the producing of a play? Well, we found your answer. Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing and performing a flop called “Nothing’s On.” This uproarious farce features lovers frolicking, doors slamming, clothes being tossed this way and that, with both on stage … +

Museums

Artist Luis Cruz Azaceta at American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora
Sun 19 Nov, 2017 - Mon 26 Mar, 2018

At 18, artist Luiz Cruz Azaceta fled Cuba from the threat of compulsory military conscription under Fidel Castro’s newly formed regime. He moved to the U.S. and used his previous experience with the dictatorial regime to create his work. Azaceta explores the themes of terrorism, war and exiles in his 29-piece exhibition that spans from 1980 to the present. Oppression and the … +