Drama

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, … +

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 … +

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. 

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 … +

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 … +

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 … +

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 … +

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.

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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.

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.