FUNDarte and the Miami-Dade County Auditorium present the 7th edition of ZunZún Children’s Fest, featuring a double bill festival featuring My Folk Life by Nallely Ponce and Insectos y Bicharracos by Rita Rosa Ruesga. My Folk Life by Nallely Ponce is a Traditional Regional Mexican Dances accompanied with a Live Mariachi Band and a Pre-Hispanic Mexican Dance presentation with a Children’s mini ... +

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Eight suspects, one thrilling ride! The exotic Orient Express with a train full of suspects is the perfect mystery for detective Hercule Poirot. Wax your moustache and hold onto your passport. This new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s masterpiece will take you on the most suspenseful thrilling ride of our season. Join us as Tony Award winning playwright Ken Ludwig succeeds in almost ... +

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FIU Department of Theatre presents The Miss Firecracker Contest: Camille Scott is a small town nobody, but she’ll show them when she’s crowned Miss Firecracker! A feisty comedy for anyone who dreams big. The Miss Firecracker Contest is a Southern literature play written by Beth Henley. It was originally produced in Los Angeles in 1980 at the Victory Theater directed by Maria Gobetti. It got a production at the Manhattan ... +

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Winner of six Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp that takes you back to the height of the Jazz Age. When Millie Dumont arrives in New York City from Kansas, she quickly finds an exciting new world filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a villainess audiences love to hate. Based on the 1967 film ... +

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Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! Winner of two Tony Awards®, the play is filled with nonstop laughs, over 150 characters (played by four actors), a plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance. ... +

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A New York Times’ Critic’s Pick! and a Florida Premiere by award-winning playwright and Zoetic Stage co-founder Christopher Demos-Brown. Set in a South Florida police station in the middle of the night, two parents search for their missing teenage son, who happens to be African American. A gripping tale of two people caught in our national divide, with their worst fears hanging in the ... +

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Stampeding elephants, raging typhoons, runaway trains! The original amazing race at Waterfront Playhouse. Previews of this play will happen on Dec 11-12, 2019 The story follows two travelers that grow to a trio and then a foursome as they fight their way through countless obstacles to reach home. The main characters are Phileas Fogg , a ruthless perfectionist who cares more about the ... +

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Set in the living room of a middle class family on a Sunday afternoon in the late 1930s, Brecht described this play as “a dramatic sketch of family life as it is today in the new Hiter’s Germany.” A teacher and his wife are terrified that their son, a member of the Hitler Youth, will turn them in for their negative statements ... +

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Combining the epic horror story of Count Dracula with a dash of Mel Brooks and Monty Python, DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors makes for a lightning fast, laugh-out-loud comedy. Five world-class actors play dozens of zany characters, as they tell their story through illusion and special effects.

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It starts when the seven Tap Brothers receive a telegram telling them that they will inherit millions from their late father if they reproduce the dance step Hot Shoe Shuffle within one month of his demise. Hilarity ensues when a long-lost twin sister turns up. A big hit in Australia and London, featuring songs like “Puttin” “On the Ritz”

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Meet Nadine Glass, a New York copyright attorney who has lived a life of unrealized dreams. Now, retired and feeling very alone, Nadine reluctantly agrees to join her friend in Boca for the season. Journey with Nadine as she suddenly finds herself on a path that changes her life. 

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Return to the world of a beloved classic in the premiere of The Not So Little Prince — a whimsical new one-act opera based on the story of The Little Prince which will take you on a journey through space and time. Join the adventure with the Prince and the Rose as they travel to new worlds and experience the folly of ... +

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This year edition of Miami’s Hispanic Theatre Festival will feature local Miami Teatro Avante, also productions from Zaragoza and Cádiz (Spain). Written originally in Spanish, these pieces shed a contemporary light on old classics. Directors as Paco de la Zaranda, Pepe Bable and Mario Ernesto Sánchez, showcase their art within the highly acclaimed festival. Passion and thoughtful questions are posed, through theatre ... +

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Jul 20 – Aug 18, 2019 / 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 ... +

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Tiffany Haddish is a comedian, actress, and producer who was the breakout star of the smash comedy Girls Trip, where she appeared as the scene-stealing “Dina” alongside Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, and Regina Hall.Her additional film and television work includes The Last O.G., Night School, The Carmichael Show, Keanu, and a turn as host of the 2018 MTV Movie and TV Awards. Her debut stand-up special, Tiffany Haddish: She ... +

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Through Jun 9, 2019 / Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for “Best Play,” all elements come invigoratingly together like clockwork in John Patrick Shanley’s provocative play Doubt, a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest’s behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Doubt is blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of ... +

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