Museums

Cuban Legacy Gallery at MDC Freedom Tower exhibits Cuban Streams: 1885 – 1965
Sat May 19, 2018 - Mon May 20, 2019

Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Cuban Legacy Gallery at the Freedom Tower will present Cuban Streams: 1855 – 1965, a multimedia installation by Miami artist César Trasobares. The installation features captivating and immersive video projections that highlight historical photographs of the island nation from the collection of Ramiro A. Fernández. The Cuban Legacy Gallery is a permanent space dedicated to the impact of … +

Announcements

America’s Short Play Festival returns in 2018
Thursday, May 31 - Sunday, July 1

Featuring the best brand-new ten-minute plays and musicals in the country! Summer Shorts 2018 is a yearly theatrical celebration that showcases the diversity of Miami through a 90-minute program of new comedies, dramas, and mini-musicals. Don’t miss this season’s fun-filled collection of plays from the country’s best writers, starring a company of South Florida theatre all-stars! This year’s lineup includes*: Ailurphobia by … +

Performing Arts

ARSHT presents Summer shorts Festival 2018!
Thu May 31, 2018 - Sun Jul 1, 2018

America’s Short Play Festival returns in 2018 with the best brand-new ten-minute plays and musicals in the country! Summer Shorts 2018 is a yearly theatrical celebration that showcases the diversity of Miami through a 90-minute program of new comedies, dramas, and mini-musicals. Ailurphobia by Scott Gibson The fur flies when a couple enjoying a purrfectly romantic evening wind up at the mercy … +

Performing Arts

CCE Miami Macro Directors for Microtheater: Carlos Diaz
Through May 20, 2018

The project Macro Directors for Microtheater will experiment with theatrical formats by inviting renowned theater directors to produce plays in the center’s microtheatres, located in shipping containers, where each 15-minute piece is part of a larger story that audience members can see in any order. This is the third KACM grant awarded to CCEMiami since 2012. Macro Directors will be divided into … +

Music

Jorge Mejia releases An Open Book: A Memoir in Music at ARSHT
Fri May 4, 2018

A heavyweight in the Latin music world, classical composer and pianist Jorge Mejia releases An Open Book: A Memoir in Music on Sony Music on May 4, 2018. This genre-bending project, born of Mejia’s devotion to storytelling in all its forms, is an audiobook alternating narrative vignettes with orchestral preludes recorded by the composer with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. Also available … +

Performing Arts

¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? Today comes to ARSHT
Thu May 17, 2018 - Sat May 26, 2018

Our favorite Cuban family is back, now with Steven Bauer joining the cast – in the brand-new Spanglish production of ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? Today! The cast features returning favorites – Ana Margo, Connie Ramirez and Barbara Ann Martin – from the original TV Show plus new cast members including Vivian Ruiz and Martha Picanes. Four decades ago, ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? entered our living rooms and … +

Visual Arts

Locust Projects ART ON THE MOVE: Whithervanes by Studio Rootoftwo
Through Fri Jul 20, 2018

Whithervanes are weathervanes for the twenty-first century, tracking and measuring the “climate of fear” on the internet. Installed on three rooftops in Miami, these 4ft-high, internet-connected sculptures inspired by the story of Chicken Little, come to Locust from the Detroit-based hybrid design studio rootoftwo, headed by Cezanne Charles and John Marshall. Whithervanes consists of three headless chicken sculptures, sited on rooftops in … +

Announcements

An Open Book: A Memoir in Music. Jorge Mejia at the Arsht
Fri May 4, 2018

A heavyweight in the Latin music world, classical composer and pianist Jorge Mejia releases An Open Book: A Memoir in Music on Sony Music on May 4, 2018. This ambitious genre-bending project, born of Mejia’s devotion to storytelling in all its forms, is an audiobook alternating narrative vignettes with orchestral preludes recorded by the composer with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. Also … +

Music

MISO presents The Hidden Love of Clara & JOHANNES
Sun 29 Apr, 2018

As a part of MISO’s Current Season, under Conductor Eduardo Marturet, The Hidden Love of Clara & JOHANNES will include Brahms – Variations on a Theme of Haydn; Schumann – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Brahms – Symphony No1; with Inna Faliks (Piano). Inna Faliks’s distinguished career has taken her to thousands of recitals and concerti throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. … +

Music

ARSHT presents Florencia en el Amazonas by FGO
Sat 28 Apr, 2018 - Sat 5 May, 2018

Inspired by the writings of the great Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas is one of the most lyrical and melodious new operas of the past 30 years, embraced by critics and audiences everywhere it has played. This story of a Brazilian soprano’s emotionally fraught journey back to her homeland offers a brilliant display … +

Cinema

MDC Museum of Art + Design: Film The Yes Men are Revolting
Thu 26 Apr, 2018

The Yes Men Are Revolting chronicles the past five years of pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the infamous activists known for duping the media with their impersonations of corporate shills and government stooges. This time they have climate change in their sights, which results in anxiety, improv, media whirlwinds, and a threat of legal action more serious than ever before. The Living Together Film … +

Performing Arts

Broadway’s CHICAGO comes to ARSHT
Tuesday, May 8 - Sunday, May 13

There’s never been a better time to experience CHICAGO, Broadway’s razzle-dazzle smash. This triumphant hit musical is the recipient of six Tony Awards®, two Olivier Awards, a Grammy®, thousands of standing ovations and now the #1 longest-running American Musical in Broadway history CHICAGO has everything that makes Broadway great: a universal tale of fame, fortune and all that jazz; one show-stopping song … +

Music

Cubismo! Chucho Valdés: Irakere 45 at ARSHT
Friday, April 20

Winner of six GRAMMY® and three Latin GRAMMY® Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. Chucho Valdés: Irakere 45 is a celebration of Irakere, the Cuban band that, with its bold fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music, popular Afro-Cuban music styles, jazz and rock, marked a before and after in Latin jazz. … +

Performing Arts

South Florida Premiere of Fun Home at ARSHT
Thu 12 Apr, 2018 - Sun 13 May, 2018

Winner of the 2015 TONY AWARD for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book of a Musical, Fun Home is about Alison, a graphic novelist who dives deep into her past to tell the story of her father, a volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Through her work, she relives her unique upbringing in … +

Performing Arts

CCE Miami’ Microtheater presents I need a (Space) Man
Through Sun 15 Apr, 2018

I need a (Space) Man is a new comedy held by Microtheater at Centro Cultural Español. It portrays a bumbling social worker’s ‘dating’ anniversary which plans are thrown for a loop when he discovers his fiancée’s secret fetish…Will their relationship survive this new twist? Author: Michael Kingston Director: Michael Kingston Ensemble: Kris Bean and Shane Lowe Genre: Comedy Language: English Thursdays-Sundays 8PM-12AM … +

Visual Arts

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art at PAMM
Fri 13 Apr, 2018 - Sun 2 Sep, 2018

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art is an art-based exhibition on the subject of soccer, or fútbol, and its interactions with societies around the world. Planned to overlap with the 2018 FIFA World Cup™, the exhibition will explore how the sport has stimulated artists to reflect upon its implications on society. With approximately twenty artists working in video, photography, painting, and sculpture, the aim … +

Museums

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art at PAMM
Fri 6 Apr, 2018 - Sun 2 Sep, 2018

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art is an art-based exhibition on the subject of soccer, or fútbol, and its interactions with societies around the world. Planned to overlap with the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the exhibition will explore how the sport has stimulated artists to reflect upon its implications on society. With approximately twenty artists working in video, photography, painting, and … +

Music

The Miami Symphony Orchestra: MIAMI POPS
Sun 18 Mar, 2018

Celebrating a city where music is everything. Following the spectacular success of the first edition of MIAMI ROCKS in 2016. Miami POPS proposes a symphonic feast from the best of Miami from Salsa, Rock, to Tango! Works by Porter, Dominguez, Estefan, Perez, Liszt, Piazzolla, Benson, Gardel, and Puccini. With Exec. Producer Fernando Duprat; Classical-Crossover Director: Rudy Perez and Conductor: Eduardo Marturet. Venue … +

Announcements

JAZZ: Gregory Porter & Sara Gazarek!
Fri 2 Mar, 2018

For Gregory Porter, the influence of Nat King Cole on his life and music runs deep, a through-line that reaches back into some of his earliest childhood memories, and culminates in the release of the two-time GRAMMY-winning vocalist’s stunning fifth studio album Nat King Cole & Me, a heartfelt tribute to the legendary singer, pianist, and Capital recording artist. Porter’s love for Cole’s … +

Museums

Meiro Koizumi: Battlelands at PAMM
Fri Mar 23, 2018 - Sun Aug 19, 2018

Pérez Art Museum Miami presents a newly-commissioned video work by Meiro Koizumi (b. 1976, Gunma, Japan; lives in Tokyo). Working primarily in video and performance, Koizumi’s works investigate the boundaries between the private and the public, between authentic and staged emotions. They often present everyday situations transformed into sites of tension, involving conflicts between duty and desire. In this new work, Koizumi … +

Announcements

Cinematic masterpiece AMADEUS LIVE! at the Arsht Center
Thursday, March 15

Experience the multi-Academy Award® winning 1984 motion picture Amadeus on a vast HD screen while Mozart’s most celebrated works are performed live in-sync by a full orchestra and choir: Amadeus is a sumptuous period epic, celebrating the music of the greatest musical genius the world has ever known, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Winner of eight Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Amadeus tells the … +

Announcements

Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zuckerman in recital at the Arsht Center!
Sunday, February 25

Pinchas Zukerman returns to the Knight Concert hall for a second time in the same season, but this time joining fellow world-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman! Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded to a classical musician. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world … +