Set in New York in 1982, the script follows forty-eight hours in the lives of three very lost young souls: Warren, a dejected nineteen-year-old who has just stolen $15,000 from his abusive, tycoon father; Dennis, his charismatic drug-dealing friend who helps Warren put the stolen money to good use; and, Jessica, the anxiously insightful young woman who Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, ... +

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Paying homage to one of America’s most celebrated playwrights during his birthday month, Island City Stage will present its debut of Tennessee William’s gothic mystery Suddenly, Last Summer, March 17 – April 17, 2022. Suddenly, Last Summer is part of the award-winning theater company’s 10th Anniversary 2021-22 South Florida Season. Evoking themes of aging, beauty, hypocrisy, greed, sexual repression, and cannibalism, the ... +

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom tells the moving, true story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, one of the youngest participants in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. to secure the right to vote for African-Americans. The performance lets audiences of all ages experience what it took ... +

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A main stage production brought to you by your local, off-broadway theatre, Showtime Performing Arts Theatre. Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical jr., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical. It’s a “big bright beautiful world” as everyone’s favorite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and ... +

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A group of strangers meet in a dirty subway station. They have arrived with limited personal belongings, their watches have stopped and they all claim to be in different cities. Soon they learn there is no way out of the station, and the unfortunate truth is told to them: they are all dead. Since subway stations have two sides, they reason the ... +

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What does success mean in America? What does it mean when you don’t make it? In THE MONROE DOCTRINE, poet and adjunct professor REAL MONROE tries to hold his world together from his trailer on Hog Island on Maryland’s eastern shore. Nov 17,2019, 7 PM

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Take a funny, profound, and provocative road trip with four women who share their stories of love, sex, and their ‘first time’ – with often hilarious but sometimes harrowing detail. The Lost Virginity Tour is a funny, profound, and provocative play about four women in their golden years – not talking about their grandkids or their knitting circles, but talking about sex ... +

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In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in Washington Heights, New York–a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of Latin music. Measure for Measure Theatre begins it 2019-20 season with the Tony AwardⓇ-winning musical In the Heights Thursday, October 24 to Sunday, November ... +

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A journey back in time: Orchestra Miami presents Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage!  A dramatic story, a little bit of history and the world’s best-loved classical music set the scene in a musical adventures for all ages! This popular story in the Classical Kids series tells the story of the great composer Mozart’s young son, Karl, who longs to spend more time with his ... +

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Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel adapted by five time Obie Award-winning actor and playwright David Greenspan, turning this richly multi-faceted tale, of five travelers in colonial Peru hurled to their deaths by a collapsing bridge, into a wryly lyrical fable of fate, love, and the transformative magic of theater. “There is a land of the living and a land of the ... +

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Filled with hope, humanity and humor – this is the riveting true story of Simon Wiesenthal, who devoted his life to bringing more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice. Intelligent, funny, flawed and noble – his unbelievable dedication and tenacity over decades is honored in this play, which gives equal weight to his wisdom and wit during his long, purposeful life. ... +

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The play tackles the corrosion of the American Dream – and the economic, racial, and social tensions of a city, a workforce, and a nation. Set in a small factory in Detroit – the play articulates the workers struggle to survive. Their banter and confrontations are a powerful currency, posing urgent questions and revealing startling truths. “CRITICS PICK! A deeply moral and ... +

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Mixing classic musical comedy with a dash of Agatha Christie, everyone is a suspect in this house of eccentric characters unfazed by the dead body on the floor. Murder for Two is a hilarious musical murder mystery with a twist; one actor investigates the crime, the other plays all 13 suspects, and they both play the piano! A zany madcap musical mystery, ... +

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In a remote cottage on the lonely British coast, a couple of retired nuclear engineers are living a very quiet life. Outside, the world is in utter chaos following a devastating series of events. When an old friend turns up at their door, they’re shocked to discover the real reason for her visit. This scary play makes tense drama out of the ... +

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A village, a dream, a new musical. Bringing passion and color through traditional rhythms and dances, Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo—her village’s own multi-generational band—invites audiences to discover, indulge, and celebrate the contagious beats of Afro-Venezuelan soul through stories and songs of their real-life struggles and triumphs. The energizing percussion and vocal ensemble presents an engaging repertoire cultivated through centuries of ... +

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Miami-Dade County Auditorium and Teatro Avante present En Ningún Lugar del Mundo (Nowhere in the World) by playwright Abel González Melo. The dramatic comedy explores the relations between Cubans from two shores, and poses the question: Do visible borders define one’s homeland? Exile breaks up families, and years of separation produce the mirage of a reunion. After a long forced exile, Ángel returns to ... +

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Amidst cut-throat competition at a renowned auction house, Camila has just been promoted as the head of the Latin American Art Department when she is presented with one of her great-aunt Amelia Pelaez’s paintings as a last minute inclusion. The authenticity of the painting is questionable, Camila’s dedication to her great Aunt is not, forcing Camila to decide between her own burgeoning ... +

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Miami-Dade County Auditorium and ARCA Images present Exquisita Agonía, (Exquisite Agony), by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, a story of love and loss, grief and romantic obsession. When opera singer Millie’s husband Lorenzo, a famous classical musician, dies in a car crash, her grief leads her to a doctor’s office, in a desperate search for the recipient of her husband’s heart. Millie ... +

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A precocious and fiercely competitive actress, her father – a famous playwright – and a wickedly intense evening combine as they deliberate whether to read the reviews of her off-Broadway debut…and things unravel from there. This critically acclaimed play – in turns dark, funny probing – pulls the audience into the middle of a deeply complicated relationship and sheds light on the ... +

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This spellbinding drama with music explores the firestorm surrounding the 1923 Broadway premiere of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance, and pays heartfelt tribute to the people that brought it to life. The original drama from 1907 God of Vengeance (Got fun nekome) is about a Jewish brothel owner who attempts to become respectable by commissioning a Torah scroll and marrying off his daughter to a ... +

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FUNDarte in collaboration with The Miami Dade County Auditorium presents Mendoza, a theater play by Los Colochos Teatro (Mexico). The internationally acclaimed and award winner play will impress the Miami audience for two nights only, October 11th & 12th, 2018. “Mendoza” is an adaptation by Antonio Zúñiga and Juan Carrillo of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a Mexican context. With an alternative dramaturgy ... +

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Arthur Przybyszewski owns a decrepit donut shop in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Franco Wicks, a black teenager who is his only employee, wants to change the shop for the better. This comedy-drama by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tracy Letts explores the challenges of embracing the past and the redemptive power of friendship. Written by Tracy Letts Directed by Danny ... +

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A comedic paradox that shows how the lives of four people are dramatically uplifted through the redemptive power of new life.  Lemon is a woman healing from the physical and emotional scars of a tragic fire intentionally set by her husband 18 years ago, which claimed his life and the life of their infant son. She again begins to feel the sting of ... +

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Miami New Drama includes an eclectic mix of original plays, musicals, classics and world premieres – featuring work commissioned specifically for Miami New Drama (MIND). Actors, directors and designers, culled from the Miami community and beyond, create work that reflects Miami city and highlights some of the best theatrical talent in the world. 2018-2019 Season will feature: One night in Miami Oct ... +

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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 ... +

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The world according to August Wilson – a world churning with life and death, lovemaking and violence, uplifting dreams and hard realities – is back onstage in South Florida with the opening of M Ensemble’s Seven Guitars. Written in the mid-1990s, the sprawling drama is part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle (first called the Century Cycle), with each play ... +

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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 ... +

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Woody Guthrie’s American Song is an ensemble musical theatre piece adapted from the songs and writings of America’s premier folk poet. The show uses Guthrie’s own storytelling to create narrative contexts for his music. He said that his work was inspired by this great country and the people who fought to find meaning and fulfillment in their lives as they wandered through. ... +

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Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town. He set out to construct a fictional account ... +

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The original Flamenco work, Verano y Humo, by the company’s Artistic Director Ilisa Rosal, is an international collaboration with stellar guest artists from Spain. Ballet Flamenco La Rosa is a professional Flamenco company, based in Miami, Florida and made up of dancers and musicians from Spain, Latin America and the U.S. The company offers a wide range of pure flamenco programs, as well ... +

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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 ... +

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Winner of the Lawrence Oliver, Tony, and Drama Desk awards, Shrek the Musical starts off as many fairy tales do: “Once upon a time …” Yet this story is all but your typical fairy tale. After accepting he will live alone, apart from the “Big Bright Beautiful World” outside, Shrek’s swamp is invaded by fairy tale misfits thanks to a new decree by ... +

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Queen of Basel is an Only-in-Miami story of lust, power and class. Hilary Bettis, one of America’s hottest young playwrights and a writer on the FX hit series The Americans, revamps August Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie for the present day. Set during Miami’s famous Art Week at a luxurious hotel, Julie, the owner’s glamorous but spoiled daughter, gets entangled with Christine, a ... +

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Our Lady of Allapattah is a drama by Christopher Demos Brown. Finalist for the Eugene O’Neil Playwriting Competition, Our Lady of Allapattah is the riveting story of an inexplicable religious image that appears on the side of a Miami strip mall and the two police detectives brought in to investigate. Soon they find themselves engaged with Eddie Camaro, a brilliant but morally ... +

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This legendary story of good versus evil has been a source of enduring fascination and has been the subject of a best selling novel by author Isabel Allende and several major motion pictures. This new musical retells the dramatic tale of a romantic hero with extraordinary aerial acrobatics, spectacular sword-fighting, and dazzling illusions – all set to the famous red-hot Gipsy Kings ... +

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Moscow Festival Ballet, led by Artistic Director Sergei Radchenko, brings to life two of the most enduring and romantic programs in the canon of dance. Les Sylphides (Chopiniana) Choreography by: Mikhail Fokine Music by: Frederic Chopin This short, one act, non-narrative ballet is often described as a “romantic reverie” and some say the first ballet to be simply about mood and dance ... +

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Sesame Street meets The Exorcist in this outrageous comedy about 3 troubled teenagers at a Christian puppet ministry. Things take a twisted turn when one student (Jason) creates a hand puppet that is possessed with a Satanic personality of its own, contrasting its master’s meek demeanor. This five-time Tony Award nominee (including Best New Play) was a smash hit on Broadway in ... +

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Small Mouth Sounds is a funny and ingenious new play that asks how we address life’s biggest questions when words fail us. The New York Times says, “it leaves you moved, refreshed and even enlightened.” And New York Magazine declares “it deserves to be seen—and re-seen!” It’s a theatrical experience—and an emotional journey—you will never forget. In the quiet of the woods, ... +

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Written by Bess Wohl
 and directed by Rachel Chavkin, Small Mouth Sounds is a funny and ingenious new play that asks how we address life’s biggest questions when words fail us. The New York Times says, “it leaves you moved, refreshed and even enlightened.” And New York Magazine declares “it deserves to be seen—and re-seen!” It’s a theatrical experience—and an emotional journey—you ... +

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This stirring musical drama is a classic tribute to the great American icon who freed herself and hundreds of her people from the bonds of slavery. As Harriet and her friend Sarah Bradford narrate the story of Harriet’s adventurous life, students share in the joys, sorrows and challenges faced by these brave women who changed the world with courage. Students will find ... +

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The Tony Award-winning enchanting classic of children’s literature -The Secret Garden- is reimagined in a musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. Directed by Patrick Fitzwater, it tells the story of 11 year-old Mary Lennox, orphaned in India, who returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald and his invalid son Colin. The estate’s ... +

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Topdog/Underdog, is a dark comedy revolving around two African American brothers, Lincoln and Booth, whose names were given to them by their father as a joke before deserting them, but foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Now in their thirties, they must rely on each other for survival and company, coping with women, ... +

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Following 36 critically acclaimed productions and 20 Carbonell Awards, the 2017/18 lineup features four  plays from Miami’s own Zoetic Stage—including “Best Musical” Tony Award winner Fun Home—and the New York Times “Critics’ Pick” Off-Broadway hit, Small Mouth Sounds by Drama Desk Award winner Bess Wohl. This Season of Theater Up Close will include: Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Stuart Meltzer November ... +

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An Octoroon is the kind of art that defies a Siskel & Ebert thumbs up / thumbs down assessment. You can praise or fault elements of the script or a production, but Area Stage Company’s courageous effort reinforces An Octoroon’s overarching intent as a thought provocateur. It’s impossible to be neutral about its premise and execution, which is what Area Stage and ... +

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At the turn of the century in the Deep South, the ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan poison everything they touch. The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a classic of 20th century drama. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 of the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, “Take us the ... +

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Written immediately prior to the recent presidential election, BUILDING THE WALL is a hard-hitting new play inspired by angry campaign rhetoric, and threatening promises made law, that leads to a terrifying escalation of horrifying events. It’s 2019 and the US has suffered another terrorist attack. Declaring martial law, the government has swept up and detained millions of immigrants. Rick is a former ... +

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Mad Cat kicks off their 18th season with their popular concert series Mad Cat Live performing Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4. Just in time for Halloween, this limited engagement will be a must-see live event for fans of Sabbath; a heavy metal band who began their dramatic 50 year history in Birmingham, England as a jazz-blues quartet called Earth, only to find themselves ... +

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the brilliant Tony Award-winning musical thriller by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and Hugh Wheeler (book), opens at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre on July 14. This deliciously macabre and witty tale of a throat-slitting barber and his enterprising accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, who grinds his victims into meat pies, runs through August 6. ... +

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Centro Cultural Español in Miami (CCEMiami) and Microtheater Miami present the new season Out of the Container, dedicated to the LGTBQ community through June 25, 2017. The programming offers drama and comedy with 12 plays inspired by themes such as sexual identity, gender politics and other topics related to LGBTQ. Out of the Container will premiere Teatro Sorpresa, produced by filmmaker Abraham ... +

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AHYT Reborn is a variety show with both classical and contemporary monologues, scenes, and musical theatre. This will be the company’s first performance in three years. The show includes selected scenes by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Eric Coble, and Katori Hall. Also, poetry selections from Mari Evans and Tupac Shakur. The African Heritage Youth Theatre is the in-house youth acting apprenticeship program ... +

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Island City Stage presents the world premiere of James L. Beller’s play, “Son”.  On the morning of their wedding, the teenage son of a lesbian couple is confronted with a shocking accusation. “Son” is a riveting new drama that explores the devastating impact of the past on the present as a relationship is tested and secrets revealed. Island City Stage 2304 N. ... +

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This April, Jersey Boys, named “the most exciting musical Broadway has seen in years” by the Chicago Tribune, makes a triumphant return to Miami, April 4 through 9. And this summer, Slava’s Snowshow, a visual and musical extravaganza  described as “eye-catching” and “dazzling” by the Miami Herald, returns to South Florida following two critically acclaimed engagements. Other highlights coming to the Arsht ... +

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On May 8, 1938, Hitler arrives in Rome to meet with Mussolini. While Italy celebrates the rise of Fascism, an over-worked housewife and a mysterious bachelor meet by chance. Based on Ettore Scola’s 1977 Oscar-winning Italian film Una Giornata Particolare, Award-winning artists Ana Graham and Antonio Vega tell this epic story using minimalistic elements that celebrate the powerful imagination of the theater. ... +

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“ASTONISHING. ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON.” – The Associated Press “A SURE-FIRE, ACTION-PACKED HIT.” – The Huffington Post Political intrigue takes center stage at Actors’ Playhouse in the Tony Award-winning drama All The Way by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. This riveting behind-the-scenes look at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s (LBJ) tumultuous first year in office in the wake of President ... +

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Fringe Theater of Key West invites for an experience with no lights and no costumes, just a group of folks, who love plays, sitting around and reading them out loud. Plays Out Loud is part of a program going every first Monday until June, where over the course of 60 + minutes the participants read selected scenes from one play. In this ... +

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Olivier Award for Best Musical, and hailed by critics as one of the first truly modern works of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George has become one of the most acclaimed musicals of our time. Inspired by Georges Seurat’s landmark painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of ... +

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Winner of multiple Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, The Trip to Bountiful is an American masterpiece about the universal pull that we all feel for “home.” Carrie Watts is an elderly widow, trapped in the tiny Houston apartment of her overprotective son and domineering daughter-in-law, who wants to return to her hometown of Bountiful – one last time before ... +

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Island City Stage opens it’s fifth season with the regional premiere of Topher Payne’s “Perfect Arrangement” which The New York Times heralded as a “clever canape of comedy” during its premiere Off-Broadway last fall at Primary Stages. It’s 1950 and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying ... +

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Theater Stage Door presents Topher Payne’s biting comedy Perfect Arrangement. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. The twist: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, ... +

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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 ... +

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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. ... +

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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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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 ... +

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From the author of Making God Laugh from two seasons ago, comes Sean Grennan’s newest comedy, this one with inspirational dramatic resonance. The Tin Woman is a rich, funny and 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 ... +

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Miami City Ballet’s Open Barre events take place at the MCB Studios on South Beach. Watch performance excerpts with the MCB Dancers, meet Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez, and go behind the scenes with special guests in a fun, intimate setting! Friday, February 5, 2016 | 7:00pm Saturday, February 6, 2016 | 2:30pm Saturday, February 6, 2016 | 7:00pm MCB’s new production of ... +

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The Area Stage Company (ASC) plays The Nether by Jennifer Haley, a virtual wonderland where a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination. Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out ... +

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The Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, one of the most applauded ballet companies in South Florida, continues their successful 2015-2016 season with the presentation of the classic Christmas Ballet most anticipated by the whole family, “The Nutcracker”, performing in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale under the direction of the Master Vladimir Issaev. “The Nutcracker” ballet, the most popular holiday treat of all, tells ... +

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“Yellow Dream Road” examines the relationship between Miami and Havana; written in Miami by visiting Cuban dramaturge and playwright Rogelio Orizondo from Cuba; directed by renowned director Carlos Diaz of Havana’s Teatro El Publico; and performed byLili Renteria, Mabel Roch, Javier Fano, Mabel Valiente , and Alegnis Castillo among others. About Carlos Díaz Born in Havana, Cuba, (1955) and a graduate of ... +

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Artists from the U.S, Latin America and Spain, led by the world renowned master teacher, choreographer, soloist and Artistic Director Ilisa Rosal, bring to this production the spellbinding and earthy power of Flamenco dance at its best. With its spectacular footwork, precise athleticism and vibrant energy, Flamenco is at once sensual and spiritual, raw and refined, and filled with both restrained passion ... +

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To celebrate the presence of Hispanic American culture in the United States, FUNDarte present Miami’s first Hispanic Arts Festival for Children and Youth. Spanning one week and several cultural venus in the city, the festival will include academic talks, musical concerts, and plays. The festival will close with a Children’s Art Gala on October 3 at Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Tickets to this ... +

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Proudly presenting the world premiere of Tsunami, a poignant docudrama, based on transformative stories of Japan. This new play introduces us to the resilient people behind the front-page horrors of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster that occurred in 2011. The actors from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds find a common theatrical language to retell the stories gathered from interviews conducted by ... +

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One of the most acclaimed productions of its season, an enchanting three-character silent movie opera. In Moscow, in 1926, a housing crisis rages. In a cramped apartment, Ludmilla, a put-upon housewife, lives in dreamy complacency with her cheerful despot of a husband, Kolya. When Kolya’s handsome comrade, Volodya, arrives from the country, but can find no lodgings, Kolya offers him their sofa. ... +

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Direct from Spain, the incomparable Flamenco Ballet Sara Baras will make its Arsht Center debut as the feature of the Center’s 8th annual Flamenco Festival Miami! Sara Baras, the reigning queen of flamenco, will lead a company of 15 performers on stage to present a fusion of traditional flamenco with vibrant contemporary choreography, all set to a thrilling live musical score! Celebrated ... +

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A 1954 American Classic, this suspenseful drama depicts a jury forced to consider a homicide trial. As in most American criminal-cases, the twelve men must unanimously decide on a verdict of "guilty" or "not guilty". (In the justice systems of nearly all American states, failure to reach a unanimous verdict, a so-called "hung jury", results in a mistrial.) Several of the jurors ... +

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New World School of the Arts college music program presents A Little Night Music, a musical adaptation composed by Stephen Sondheim and based on the book by Hugh Wheeler. Directed by NWSA dean of theater, Patrice Bailey, the musical highlights the talents of music theater college junior and seniors while sharing the stage with an 18-member NWSA Symphony Orchestra, led by Alfred ... +

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When Christopher Columbus is arrested for abuse of power in the Indies, he begs an audience with Queen Isabella to explain his actions and to plead for absolution. La Reunión, a play written and directed by Trinidad González and played by Trinidad González, Jorge Becker and Tomás González, uses this historic event to build a story that reflects on the human condition ... +

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Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania from her honeymoon. The reappearance of her husband’s academic rival, Eilert Lövborg, throws their lives into disarray. Lövborg, a writer, is also a recovered alcoholic who has wasted his talent until now. When Hedda and Eilert talk privately together, it becomes apparent that they are former ... +

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Diavolo reinvents dance, re-images theater, and redefines thrills. Performers take movement, athletics and daring to the extreme, creating abstract narratives through surreal architectural landscapes. Under the Artistic Director Jacques Heim, the company creates an almost cinematic experience of powerful images that develop conceptual accounts of the human condition, utilizing unique architectural creations, to provide the backdrop for an evening of dramatic movement. ... +

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Through Monday, June 8, 2014 Zoetic Stage and the Adrienne Arsht Center co-present the regional premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog’s haunting drama, The Great God Pan, following its recent critically acclaimed world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. This contemporary drama follows Jamie’s life in Brooklyn, which seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a budding journalism career and ... +

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Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. As part of the Miami Dance Festival Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, the Miami-based international dance company, is pleased to announce the world premiere performance of Ritmo y Pasion. Performing this pure Flamenco work are artists from the U.S, Latin America and Spain guided by the choreography of Artistic Director Ilisa Rosal. Ritmo y Pasion electrifies ... +

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Opening: Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 3:00pm Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, the Miami-based international dance company, is pleased to announce the world premiere performance of Ritmo y Pasion. Performing this pure Flamenco work are artists from the U.S, Latin America and Spain guided by the choreography of Artistic Director Ilisa Rosal. Ritmo y Pasion electrifies the audience with pure Flamenco music and ... +

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May 4, 2014, 3:00 pm Artists from the U.S, Latin America and Spain, led by the world renowned master teacher, choreographer, soloist and Artistic Director Ilisa Rosal, bring to this production the spellbinding and earthy power of Flamenco dance at its best. This production will incorporate live music, created and arranged by guitarists El Sivi and Alex Jordan, along with singer Almudena ... +

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Friday, February 28th at 7:30 p.m. | March 1st, 7:30 p.m. | March 2nd, 2:00 p.m. New World School of the Arts college music theater program presents the popular musical Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. Under the direction of James Randolph, this modern twist on Grimm’s fairy tales follows the classic tales ... +

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May 14 through June 8, 2014 F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway wrestle with the sparks of art and the perils of creativity. This combative new play is set in 1937 Hollywood, at the infamous Garden of Allah, celebrity filled apartment complex. Fueled by friendship and rivalry, these two literary heavyweights reunite for one final night, in this smart and powerful new ... +

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Colony Theatre. From November 22 through 24, 2013. A highly unconventional and innovative staging of the Pulitzer Prize winning play “Anna in the Tropics” will be presented in three full-evening performances on Miami Beach. The original text by Nilo Cruz is transformed in this new production directed by Carlos Díaz of the famed Havana-based Teatro El Público, and performed in Spanish with ... +

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Little Haiti Cultural Center. November 22 and 23, 2013, 8:30 p.m. DNM kicks off its season with a main stage concert featuring Water’s Edge, the Long Walk, Stories of the Seashore, exploring human relationships through time at the dynamic intersection of Land and Sea. This Cinematic World Premiere from Artistic Director Hannah Baumgarten will capture the imagination of children and adults alike ... +

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From October 9 through November 3, 2013. Ruthless! The Musical, with music by Marvin Laird and book and lyrics by Joel Paley, is a gem of a satirical comedy about the consuming drive for stardom. Suburban housewife Judy Denmark is dull as dull can be, but her daughter, Tina, is the greatest song-and-dance sensation to ever hit the third grade. She’s cute. ... +

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September 2013. Miami City Ballet, hailed by The New York Times as “one of America’s most beloved dance companies” proudly announces its 2013-2014 season, featuring four Company premieres by four of the world’s greatest ballet and contemporary dance choreographers. This exciting season of dance marks the debut season of Miami City Ballet’s new Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez. “I am thrilled to be ... +

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Miami: June 7 and 8, 2013.New York: June 11, 2013. The New World Dance Ensemble comprised of New World School of the Arts (NWSA) college dance alumni and college merit scholarship students will present three performances of the work of British choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller. The first two performances will be offered in Miami and, accompanied by Mary Lisa Burns, Dean of ... +

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From July 31 through August 25, 2013. The forecast in Miami this summer calls for snow – lots of it – as the blockbuster Slava’s Snowshow, which was a “hit with Miami audiences” in 2008 (The Miami Herald), returns to the Adrienne Arsht Center with its breathtaking wintry stage magic. Often described as a cross between Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man ... +

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From May 18 through June 8, 2013. New Theatre presents its second World Premiere of the season: Road Through Heaven written by and starring Artistic Director Ricky J. Martinez and directed by Carbonell nominated Margaret M. Ledford. Road Through Heaven tells the story of a tension filled, sexually charged, lovers triangle as it unfolds on a forgotten Caribbean island, where the characters ... +

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From May 10 through 12, 2013. The New World School of the Arts high school theater program closes the season with the poignant The Laramie Project, a play by Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project. Patrice Bailey, Dean of Theater at NWSA highlighted, “This play offers an opportunity for our students to connect to a hate crime committed ... +

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Sunday, April 21, 2013, 3:00 p.m. as part of The Miami Dance Festival Fiesta Flamenca will delight the audience with pure Flamenco music and dance, in a range of rhythms and styles that will take you through dramatic, soulful, joyous, sensual and passionate moods with powerful vocals, electrifying footwork, and all of the grace and beauty that has made Flamenco so loved ... +

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New World Dance Theater. April 25 through 28, 2013. This year’s New World School of the Arts’ College Spring Dance Concert will be an exciting and varied program, featuring the work of two faculty choreographers – a ballet Closet 5716 by ballet faculty member, Gerard Ebitz and a new work by faculty member Peter London Seoul Soul inspired by the dance and ... +

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Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. April 4, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Ballet Etoile has returned to Aventura Arts & Cultural Center with one night only performance The House Of Bernarda Alba. Artistic Director Tomas Mazuch has created a danced adaptation of tragic tale of frustration and explosive passion in a household of women ruled by tyrannical mother. Ballet Etoile presents “The House of ... +

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From March 16 through April 14, 2013. A beautifully rendered portrait of the relationship between an old-style lefty grandmother and her new-style lefty grandson. After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely ... +

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From March 22 through April 7, 2013. In this wry comedic play, an adolescent Felix recalls working summers at his father’s tropical-bird theme park in Miami, where imported flamingos serve as a metaphor for his feelings of entrapment, estrangement and disconnection. Through movement, video and sound, the birds played by actors help Felix reconstruct foggy and embellished memories of his past. Under ... +

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BFA Dance Concert at the New World Dance TheaterFebruary 22 and 23, 2013, 7:30 p.m. As one of the most anticipated performances of the college year, the College BFA Dance Concertmarks the most comprehensive and final project delivered by NWSA’s dance aspiring graduates. Led by NWSA dance faculty member Dale Andree and MaryLisa Burns, Dean of the dance division, this year’s concert ... +

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From February 1 through 17, 2013. New Theatre presents its second Mainstage Classic of the season, Agnes of God by John Pielmeier. In this psychological drama, which was a Broadway hit and later made into a film, a court-appointed psychiatrist is charged with the task of assessing the sanity of a novice nun (Agnes) accused of murdering her newborn. However, the Mother ... +

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From January 16 through February 10, 2013. Other Desert Cities is the funny and searing play by Jon Robin Baitz, the creator of TV’s Brothers & Sisters that received universal acclaim in its recent Broadway debut. In Other Desert Cities, Brooke Wyeth, a once promising novelist, returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, ... +

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Carnival Studio Theater. From October 4 through 21, 2012. Zoetic Stage and The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly present Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play I Am My Own Wife, an uplifting drama based on the gripping true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who triumphed, and against all odds, survived the ... +

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From October 11 through 14, 2012. 7:30 p.m. The World Premiere of “The Pleasure is…all Mime” comes to the Colony Theater from October 11 through 14. This exciting celebration is a two-act pantomime show created and produced by world-renowned pantomime expert Edward Rozinski and performed by acclaimed actor Nina Hlava.  Creator, producer and director Edward Rozinsky (stage director, dramatist, educator, actor), has ... +

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Byron Carlyle Theatre. From August 10 through 12, 2012. New Voices; New Vision; New Theatre. This is the overriding goal of The Company Company, a theatre company comprised entirely of students.  With a mission of having the voices of high school students heard through writing, directing and acting, The Company Company presents the 4th Annual New Play Project, a series of short ... +

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From September 22 through November 24, 2012. This fall the Coral Gables Art Cinema continue its “Live from the National Theatre of London” series of recorded high definition recorded performances from one of the world’s most prestigious theater companies. Plays include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Last of the Haussmans and Timon of Athens, presented one weekend ... +

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From October 2012 through May 2013. Miami City Ballet recently announced its 2012-2013 season of dance in South Florida, which features new works by two of the world’s most innovative and sought-after choreographers: Alexei Ratmansky, regarded as classical ballet’s greatest choreographer, brings us Symphonic Dances, a dramatic, fast paced work set to the powerful Sergei Rachmaninoff score of the same name. It ... +

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From May 24 through June 2, 2012. Prometeo Theatre, the theatrical component of The Center for Literature and Theatre @ Miami Dade College, will once again shine the spotlight on its students with the production of “A puerta cerrada” (No Exit) at the end of May. In this existential classic, three people condemned to hell for their crimes find themselves in a ... +

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From May 5 through June 3, 2012. Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. When her battlefield injuries force them to return home to New York, they find their future together threatened by the prospect of a more conventional life. Penned by Pulitzer Prize ... +

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New World Dance Theater. From April 12 through 15, 2012. A showcase of talent, versatility, and virtuosity the New World School of the Arts College Spring Dance Concert presents a wide range of exciting dance works – two classics by modern dance masters and four contemporary premieres. “This program represents the culmination of the year’s work in which the dancers immerse themselves ... +

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March 31, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. and April 1, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. Hailed as “Carnal and courageous”, with “sexual magnetism and dramatic depth of male partnering” by Mia Leonin of ArtburstMiami, Dance NOW! Directors Diego Salterini and Hannah Baumgarten revive the critically acclaimed Murder Mystery Ballet “Six Characters” for their Spring Concert at the Colony Theatre. Performed with live music and ... +

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University of Miami. February 15 through 25, 2012. Stage Door is a witty and stylish 1937 American comedy centering around a group of aspiring actresses crammed into a theatrical boarding house in Manhattan while awaiting their big break on Broadway’s Great White Way. Stage Door showcases love affairs, betrayals, snappy wisecracks, rejections, drama, despair, and plenty of delicious comedy. The central plot ... +

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Jan 18 through Feb 12, 2012. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three 2009 Tony Awards®, Next to Normal explores how one suburban family copes with crisis. With powerful lyrics and an electrifying pop-rock score of more than 30 songs, this intense, emotional and ultimately hopeful musical aims right for the heart with its story of a family coming ... +

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Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Jan 4 and 5, 2012. Ballet Etoile has developed a reinterpretation of Carmen that features contemporary ballet, a beautiful set and costumes, and brazenly sultry characters. Unlike the opera, which focuses on later parts of the original novella, Mazuch’s ballet will include nuances often left out in other adaptations. Slightly anachronistic in its retelling, Carmen will bring ... +

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Colony Theatre. Oct 29 & 30, 2011. 8:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. Breathtaking visuals accompany Dance Now! Miami’s stunning dancers and poetic choreography in this season’s “Random Patterns of Falling Leaves” danced to the haunting music of Arvo Part. This new work transports the audience from the tropics of South Florida on journey into the dynamic midwestern forests as they shed their ... +

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Fall 2011. After 20 successful seasons, Miami Dade College’s (MDC) premier performing arts series, Cultura del Lobo, has changed its name to MDC Live! Performing Arts Series. When the series was inaugurated in 1991, it was limited to the Wolfson Campus (hence the name – a Spanish twist on Wolfson – “Lobo”) and served as a platform for progressive, mostly Latin American ... +

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From Sept 3 through Oct 2, 2011. GableStage at the Biltmore is presenting the Florida Premiere of “The Brothers Size”, a play written and directed by Miami’s own Tarell Alvin McCraney starring Teo Castellanos, Ryan George and Sheaun McKinney. Set in the Louisiana bayous, the play explores the struggles of two brothers who walk the line between law and liberty, locked in ... +

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From Sept 14, 2011 through Apr 28, 2012. The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre Arts presents its 2011-2012 Season which kicks off on September 14, 2011 with Night Train to Bolina, a play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Miami native Nilo Cruz.   Mr. Cruz will be in residence with the Department of Theatre ... +

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From Jun 2 through 26, 2011. A gruffly poignant and darkly funny play written by Sam Shepard, Ages of the Moon tells the story of Byron and Ames, two old friends re-united by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a ... +

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GAB Studio. May 14 and 15, 2011. 5:00 p.m. In the fall of last year, Krane, Inc. and New Light Foundation, Inc. decided that they wanted to honor the upcoming 10th anniversary of September 11th. However, the companies did not want to show the over-exposed images of the towers crashing down all over again; they also did not want to hit audiences ... +

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From Apr 7 through May 1, 2011. Following the record-breaking run of The Irish Curse, Award Winning Mosaic Theatre presents Stephen Belber’s “Dusk Rings a Bell” featuring a member of “Chicago’s Elite 8,” Jenny McKnight in the lead role of Molly in the first production of this play outside of New York. Molly and Ray unexpectedly meet 25 years after a one-afternoon ... +

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Feb 11 and 12, 2011. As one of the most anticipated performances of the college year, the College BFA Dance Concert marks the most comprehensive and final project delivered by NWSA’s dance aspiring graduates. Daniel Lewis, Dean of the Dance division and instructor of this intense course announced last week, that the BFA concert-showcase which this year will feature a total of ... +

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Nov 19th through Dec 26th, 2010. 
Performing Arts / Theater The Actors’ Playhouse presents the Tony-award winning musical Oliver! One of the most beloved productions of all time, Oliver! vividly brings to life Charles Dickens’ timeless characters from the novel Oliver Twist, with its ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more. This musical masterpiece features a sensational score full of ... +

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Dec 2nd through Dec 4th, 2010. The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is thrilled to announce the return of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as part of the John S. and James L. Knight Masterworks Season , Sanford and Dolores Ziff Signature Dance Series to premiere a special performance installation which will transform the stage of the ... +

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From October 8th through 17th, 2010. New World School of the Arts’ launches the 2010-2011 Theater season with the 1933 epic comedy The Girl from Maxim’s. Directed by NWSA theater faculty Andrew Noble, this powerful production, with costumes designed by Estela Vrancovich shows off the craftsmanship and splendor of Victorian garb through gorgeous, rich fabrics, satins and silks, and miles of lace, ... +

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Nov 2010 through May 2011. The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County announces new and ongoing partnerships for the 2010-2011 Carnival Studio Theater Season, featuring four dynamic programming initiatives: The Best of South Florida, Groundbreaking New Work, Critically acclaimed National and International Theater, and Family-friendly Theatrical hits all presented in the Carnival Studio Theater within the Sanford and ... +

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Oct 15th, 2010. 6:00 p.m. Tarell Alvin McCraney, award-winning international playwright will be offering a special gift to New World School of the Arts to celebrate his 30th birthday to launch NWSA’s 2010-2011 theater season. The prolific playwright has planned a special VIP reception and staged reading performance at New World School of the Arts to raise much needed funds for the ... +

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Oct 8th through Nov 7th, 2010. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre opens the 2010 – 2011 season with The Color of Desire, a world premiere play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz, author of Anna in the Tropics. Born in Cuba and raised in Miami’s Little Havana, Cruz is one of the country’s most produced Cuban-American writers and the first Latino to ... +

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Oct 2nd, 2010. 8:00 p.m. The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Miami Dade College’s Cultura del Lobo Performance Series proudly announce the Miami debut of Mexico’s premier contemporary dance company, Tania Perez-Salas compaÑia de danza. One of the most acclaimed contemporary dance companies in all of Latin America, Tania Perez-Salas compaÑia de danza will present a ... +

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Sept 18th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. My House is Your House dance-drama explores the functionality of individuals within a unit such as a family or a community. The first act describes the underlying tension in group dynamics during turbulent times and power struggles. The second act lightens the atmosphere as the characters celebrate their role in the community by soaking up the glitz ... +

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2010-2011. True to its mission of “Providing the South Florida community with classical, contemporary and new theatrical productions of artistic excellence”, GS is ready for yet another new season full of theatrical surprises. Here is a glimpse of the upcoming 2010-2011 season: A Behanding in Spokane by Martin McDonaghOctober 23rd – November 21st, 2010Southeastern Premiere The title is just the starting point; ... +

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2010 – 2011. New Theatre’s 25th Anniversary season continues to fulfill our mission “to produce vibrant theatre that stimulates, provokes, challenges, and entertains by cultivating ‘New Voices- New Works and the Classics'” while bringing to life its theme for this season “overcoming adversity”. Following its successful 2010 – 2011 Season, New Theatre kicks off its 2010-2011 season with a limited engagement of ... +

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Michelle Rosenfarb’s The Gates of Choice. August 15th, 2010. 7:30 p.m. Local playwright and Carbonell Award nominee, Michelle Rosenfarb, was recently accepted into the MFA Dramatic Writing Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and will commence this prestigious program in the fall. To help support her educational endeavors, GableStage will be presenting a Benefit Play Reading of her ... +

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From Jul 7th through Sept 5th, 2010. After the success that accompanied Caldwell Theatre’s 2009 Summer season, Artistic Director Clive Cholerton has chosen again to counter program against traditional summer fare, and will produce a World premiere in Joel Gross’s highly emotional romantic drama, The Comfort of Darkness, preceded by the Southeastern premiere of Bob Clyman’s successful comedic thriller, Secret Order. Secret ... +

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From Jun 3rd through 27th, 2010. On the barren, diamond-diving coast of South Africa, Johan and Thami, an ex-cop and a gardener from starkly contrasting backgrounds, maintain a beachfront guest lodge during the off-season while looking for a way out. When Smith, a retired businessman, shows up one foggy night, the two men think they’ve found an ideal investor for their scheme ... +

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Saturday, May 1st, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, an international Flamenco company based in Miami, is pleased to announce the world premiere of La Dama Macbeth, a flamenco Ballet inspired by the great Shakespearian Tragedy Macbeth. Ballet Flamenco La Rosa brings to life the classic themes of ambition, passion, loyalty, betrayal, rivalry, righteousness and greed, using Flamenco as a language ... +

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From Apr 15th through May 9th, 2010. Dying City, Pulitzer Prize Finalist of 2008, is a powerful thriller and a gripping, psychological drama. A year after her husband’s death in Iraq, Kelly, a young therapist, confronts his identical twin brother, who shows up at her apartment unannounced. At first it seems to be a story of a wife and brother left grieving ... +

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Apr 9th and 10th, 2010. 8:30 p.m. Tigertail continues its 30th Anniversary Season with Ölelés, by the award-winning dancers from Barcelona, Spain, at the Colony Theatre. Gripping, physically intense and genuinely lyrical, this award-winning extended evening-length duet Ölelés for two men marks the first collaboration between acclaimed Catalán choreographers and performers Jordi Cortés and Damián Muñoz – two of Spain’s most innovative ... +

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From Jan 22nd through Feb 14th, 2010. New Theatre presents South Florida playwright and historian Sandra Riley’s World Premiere of The Hour of the Tiger, where two women from different worlds struggle against tradition to find personal and artistic freedom.  This production marks Sandra Riley’s first play produced at New Theatre.  Sandra Riley began her career fifty years ago as a drama ... +

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AE District Gallery. November 20th, 2009. 8:00 p.m. AE District, The Krane, New Light Gallery, and The University of Miami Masters Program in Creative Writing bring you Shake it Up – a series of original monologues that turn Shakespeare on his head. As it should be: bawdy, brilliant, and beer-guzzling – this is Shakespeare with a 21st century twist, performed by some ... +

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October 14th, 2009. 1:15 p.m. New World School of the Arts (NWSA) will kick-off the second year of its lecture series, Make Art Work, with award-winning playwright and director Nilo Cruz. A Cuban-American, Mr. Cruz received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics. Cruz is the first Hispanic to receive this honor. The lecture takes place ... +

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From Oct 9th through Nov 9th, 2009. New Theatre continues its season with the World Premiere of David Caudle’s In Development. In this new dark comedy, sex, death and dramaturgy take the stage when renowned, aging playwright Gideon Flynn mentors a fresh crop of young hopefuls at a summer conference. The previous year, his feedback had dire consequences for a troubled student, and now ... +

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The Whipping Man. From Aug 12th through Sep 6th, 2009. The Caldwell Theatre Company has already unleashed Matthew Lopez’s powerful drama, The Whipping Man. Set against the backdrop of the last day of the Civil War, a badly wounded Jewish confederate soldier returns to his Richmond estate and begs his now freed slaves to nurse him. In keeping with traditions of that ... +

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From Jan 15th through May 17th, 2009.  New Theatre’s final three plays of the 2008-2009 “Nouveau Classic Season” commences after the first of the year, with the world premiere of Kissing by Robert Caisley, running January 15th through February 15, 2008. Things heat up in this quirky romantic comedy and lives spin out-of-control during an office softball game. When an illicit kiss between ... +

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Thoroughly Modern Millie. From Dec 5th through 14th, 2008.  Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan will be produced by New World School of the Arts’ music theater program to start the Holiday season. Directed by guest artist Kim St. Leon, Choreographed by guest artist Karin Bejerano with musical direction by Jeff Hess, from the NWSA Theater ... +

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Winter's Tale. From Nov 12th through Nov 22nd, 2008.   Jealousy, rage, intrigue, love, revenge and comic mishaps abound in one of Shakespeare’s most intriguingly plotted plays, now showing at the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre located at 1312 Miller Drive on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. The Winter’s Tale follows the king of Sicily as he suspects his best ... +

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The Gates of Choice. From Nov 13th through Dec 14th, 2008.  New Theatre continues with its second World Premiere of the season with Michelle Rosenfarb’s coming of age drama, The Gates of Choice making its World debut on November 13th, 2008.  Set in Israel’s ultra orthodox quarter of Mea Shearim, a Hasidic young woman facing an arranged marriage finds refuge and answers ... +

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Benefactors. From Apr 25th through Jun 15th, 2008.  Palm Beach Dramaworks, located at 322 Banyan Blvd. in West Palm Beach, presents the play Benefactors by Michael Frayn. This long running Broadway and London hit is about doing good and do gooding and about the way the world changes around you just when you are trying to change it yourself. An architect who ... +

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GableStage. From Apr 26th through May 25th, 2008. GableStage at the Biltmore presents the Southeastern Premiere of the play The Accomplices by Bernard Weinraub. Longtime journalist for the New York Times and playwright Bernard Weinraub dramatizes how the American government, media, and even American Jewish officials, fearing a backlash of anti-Semitism at home, failed to act decisively enough to stop the World ... +

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New Theatre. April 18th, 2008. 6:30 p.m. The 3rd annual Miami Stories 2008 featuring a series of three one-act plays penned by local personalities, promises to be another sensation. The dinner / theatre production is a benefit for the award-winning New Theatre and takes place on Friday, April 18th at the Miami Science Museum, located at 3280 South Miami Avenue in Miami. ... +

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Jar the Floor. From Feb 22nd through Mar 16th, 2008. Jar the Floor is a play created by playwright Cheryl L. West presented by The Women's Theatre Project under the direction of Genie Croft. The play tells the story of a quartet of black women spanning four generations make up this heartwarming dramatic comedy. The four, plus a white friend of the ... +

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Tigertail Productions. Mar 14th and 15th, 2008. 8:30 p.m.As part of its 2007/2008 season, Tigertail Productions brings Susan Marshall and Company to town for the Miami premiere of Cloudless, her Bessie-Award winning evening-length dance piece at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre. Cloudless is an eclectic collection of 18 intimate pieces (short-form narratives), ranging in length from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. A master ... +

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Palm Beach Dramaworks. From Feb 22nd through Apr 6th, 2008. Agnes of God, a play written by playwright John Pielmeier, will be on stage at a South Florida venue thanks to Palm Beach Dramaworks. A court appointed psychiatrist is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby. The Mother Superior seems bent on protecting Sister ... +

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Dirty Story. From Feb 28th through Mar 23rd, 2008.Mosaic Theatre presents a new comedy by Pulitzer, Oscar, Tony and Drama Desk award winner John Patrick Shanley. Dirty Story allegorically presents the political relationship between Israel and Palestine as a sexual, sadomasochistic relationship between a man and a woman. When an aspiring novelist seeks the advice of a successful writer she gets more ... +

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Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. March 16th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.Martin Short, one of our era’s true musical-comedy stars, makes his Miami debut at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in a musical evening at the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. Accompanied by a five-piece band, Short will sing and dance his way through Broadway show tunes ... +

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Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. From Mar 25th through Apr 13th, 2008. Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Broadway Across America-Miami bring to Miami the premiere of Forbidden Broadway, a funny roast of Broadway musicals. Forbidden Broadway features outrageous costumes, hilarious songs and stellar performances celebrating Broadway’s favorite shows and brightest stars. This limited engagement of ... +

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Miami City Ballet. From Jan 11th through Jan 27th, 2008. The stage is a dark and mysterious ballroom where thirty-four dancers waltz among each other in flowing romantic tutus to the climactic music of Ravel. La Valse, a neo-romantic ballet, choreographed by Balanchine in 1951, contains a mood of disturbed happiness and impending doom, a thematic element of Ravel’s scores thought to ... +

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The Fourth Wall. From Dec 21st, 2007 through Feb 3rd, 2008. Palm Beach Dramaworks, located at 322 Banyan Boulevard in West Palm Beach, will be presenting the play The Fourth Wall. In this love letter to the theatre, Gurney uses the stage to explore, quite comically, our place in the world today. Set in the living room of a contemporary, upper-class, New ... +

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The Bugchasers. From Oct 25th through Oct 27th, 2007. 8:00 p.m. Having received rave reviews last season for his dance-theater drama Kitchen Monkey, Miami-based artist Octavio Campos premieres his newest work The Bugchasers at Carnival Center for the Performing Arts from October 25th through 27th, 2007. Sensual and violent yet hilarious, The Bugchasers is a dance-theater meditation on sex, lies, and death-wish ... +

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All My Sons. From Nov 9th through Nov 18th, 2007. The Actors Community Theatre of Davie, located at 6591 Orange Drive, is presenting the play All My Sons, Arthur Miller's classic drama and winner of a Tony Award for Best Play. Joe Keller, self-made businessman and family man, faces accusations that he knowingly provided defective airplane parts to the military in World ... +

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The Women of Lockerbie. From Nov 9th through Nov 17th, 2007. NSU Theatre opens its third season with the drama The Women of Lockerbie, the story of a mother from New Jersey who roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. While there, she meets the women of Lockerbie, ... +

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