South Florida’s newest professional theatre company, Zoetic Stage, will kick off a summer of fund-raising events with an evening of the best of Michael McKeever’s short plays entitled McKeever’s Briefs. The second installment will take place at The Miracle Theater (280 Miracle Mile) on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM. A $20 suggested donation is appreciated.
http://zoeticstage.com
Show dates: Nov. 12 – Dec. 5
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Cirque du Soleil’s touring production KOOZA is hitting Miami this winter.
Fans of Soul of Miami can receive a 15% Discount on select performances.
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Cirque du Soleil is pleased to announce that it will return to Miami with its big top touring production, KOOZA, starting Friday, November 12th, 2010. KOOZA will perform for a limited engagement under the trademark blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) at Miami’s Bicentennial Park.
KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil: It combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement. Truly an adrenaline rush of acrobatics in a crazy kingdom!
Fun for the whole family!
Cyndi Lauper One Night Only
August 3 @ 8 p.m.
John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
arshtcenter.org
See her live on stage and enjoy the memories that her music brings back to you! Cyndi Lauper burst onto the world stage as the quintessential girl who wants to have fun! After more than 20 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 25 million, she has proven that she has the heart and soul to keep her legion of fans compelled by her every creative move.
With her newly minted collection, Bring Ya To The Brink, Cyndi firmly asserts her position as one of the most beguiling, innovative, and downright exciting recording artists of this — and or other — generation.
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Club Cyndi VIP Four Packs
Vip Four Packs are available via Box Office or phone only (305.949.6722.) VIP Four Packs are $600 and include:
– Four Tickets to the Performance
– Free Valet
– Entrance to the Private Patrons Salon with cash bar
The Roxy Theatre Group Presents The Musical Fairytale, Once Upon A Mattress
July 23rd, 2010-August 1, 2010, the Roxy Performing Arts Center
July 23rd-August 1st. Fridays & Saturdays, 8:00 p.m. Sundays, 3:00 p.m. General Admission Tickets are $20. Summer camp performances are available.
There will be a cocktail reception and after-show party on Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. and tickets are $50. All proceeds benefit RTG’s Student Scholarship Fund.
The Roxy Performing Arts Center, 1645 SW 107 Ave. Miami, FL 33165.
The Roxy Theatre Group (RTG), a non-profit arts organization for children, is proud to present the musical fairytale, Once Upon a Mattress, featuring a cast of 35 students, ages 12-22 and an orchestra of students from the Greater Miami Youth Symphony (GMYS), a non-profit organization dedicated to training young musicians. Once Upon A Mattress is an enchanting musical comedy fused with love, magic, and plenty of zany adventures.
The exuberant cast and orchestra are comprised of actors, dancers, singers and musicians representing over 18 different schools and colleges in Miami-Dade County.
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS is based on the classic fairy tale The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer and Dean Fuller. For more information please call 305-226-0030, email SusannePinedo@gmail.com or visit www.RoxyPAC.com. The Roxy Theatre Group, (RTG) a non-profit organization, offers classes in drama, voice and dance to children ages 3-17, with year-round programs including an after school care program and a performing arts summer camp.
Miami Premier of “Two Islands: The Jewish Nun and Island Blogosphere”
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Cocktails begin at 7 pm – Curtain Rises at 8:00 p.m. The tickets are $15.00
GAB Studio
105 Northwest 23rd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
ISLAND BLOGOSPHERE – By Vanessa Garcia
Performed by Nicole and Vanessa Garcia
Directed by Vanessa Garcia & Wendy White
THE JEWISH NUN – By Wendy White
Performed by Casey Dressler
Directed by Wendy White & Vanessa Garcia
Be the first in Miami to see Two Islands: The Jewish Nun and Island Blogosphere at GAB Studio – the heart of the Wynwood Art District. The Miami performances are special benefit performances to raise funds for the actors’ travel expenses and their stay in Scotland as they represent the United States, and South Florida specifically.
www.newlightgallery.org and www.thekrane.com
Please call the Box office phone number: 954-829-0638 for seat reservations.
Babes & Blogs From Manhattan to Havana
New Light Foundation and Krane, Inc Present Two Islands: The Jewish Nun and Island Blogosphere
PREMIERING IN MIAMI BEFORE GOING TO NYC AND SCOTLAND
Wendy White of the New Light Foundation, Inc. www.newlightgallery.org and Vanessa Garcia of The Krane, Inc. www.thekrane.com are proud to present a performance of their new play Two Islands consisting of two one-acts entitled Island Blogosphere and The Jewish Nun.
From the time of the Odyssey, writers have been exploring the idea of the “island†in relation to humanity. Here, we have two contemporary playwrights using an age-old technique in a new world. The two pieces (The Jewish Nun by Wendy White and Island Blogosphere by Vanessa Garcia) are connected by a walking bridge that the directors will take the audience across, so to speak.
These plays show the worlds of one Jewish-American woman; one Cuban-American. These two shows are the stories of culture clashes; the world of outsiders; and the women who strive to find themselves as they delve into the pulsing life of the two particular islands that made them: Manhattan & Cuba.
In Island Blogosphere, two sisters virtually befriend Cuban bloggers, when they are not permitted to enter the island physically due to politics and family conflicts.
In The Jewish Nun, a nineteen year old girl moves from celibacy to free-love, juxtaposing the racy lifestyle of NYC and Manhattan against a self-imposed purity.
More information about the writers and directors can be found on their websites: www.vanessagarcia.org and www.newlightgallery.org.
In 2009, New Light Foundation, Inc. represented the United States as Art ambassadors by the 1-2-3 Kinderlachen e.V. foundation of Rottenburg, Germany by hosting the international “Global Gallery†project (www.123kinderlachen.org). During the course of this important project, the “world’s biggest canvas†emerged; painted by children – transcending all borders and conflicts.
Krane, Inc. was named Best of the City 2010 by Miami Magazine, as the best up and coming theatre company in town. http://vanessagarcia.org/press/theatrical-chairs.php
Together, New Light Foundation, and Krane, inc. have won numerous awards around the globe, have performed everywhere from Amsterdam to Arkansas; from Miami to New York City; and have tackled subjects related to women, love, politics, and Shakespeare. Here are two companies that push the envelope with every production.
Two Islands has an exciting road ahead as it will show in New York at 59e59 (www.59e59.org) and, later this summer, have its international debut at the upcoming Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland this August 2010.
The proceeds raised from the Miami Performance will go towards getting the troupe to Scotland; covering the actors’ travel expenses and their stay in Scotland as they represent the United States, and South Florida specifically.
“Two Islands is truly a dream come true – an opportunity to explore a lifetime of romantic temptations and transform it all to the written word – it is truly an honor and a constant source of inspiration to share this creative adventure with the very talented playwright and artist, Vanessa Garcia and our charismatic actors Casey Dressler and Nicole Garcia – what a dynamic team we are!†says Wendy White, Playwright, Director and President of the New Light Foundation, Inc.
“I feel like taking theatre to the global level is part of our mission, starting at home, and moving abroad really showcases what’s here in Miami to the world. It’s important. It’s also important because it creates an exchange. I’m sure we’ll meet people abroad that we can then bring to Miami to further culturally infuse the local community – what we’re doing is starting a conversation,†says Vanessa Garcia, Founding Director of The Krane, Inc.
Ashley Jean, Kerline Cajuste and Samandie Douceur, Miami Edison Middle School participants in the After-School All Stars / Arts for Learning Program Spring 2010 invite you to an evening of art for Haiti in conjunction with Marc Joseph and Ayabonmbe’s performance of REFUGEE.
Student Work from Arts for Learning classes at both Toussaint L’ouverture Elementary and Miami Edison Middle School will be exhibited in the Little Haiti Cultural Center Theater Lobby on Saturday, July 10 for performance attendees.
Our work since the earthquake of January 12 has been driven by concern, sadness and love for our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Join us as we send our handmade messages, 4 flags, to children at the Shalom Village Orphanage in Cap Haitien and take donations for supplies to help them in their art-making. Maeva Renaud, also part of the Arts for Learning family and founder of theChange is Coming Campaign whose primary focus is the orphanage, will receive our flags at the opposite end of the bridge we are building.
Please support the heart-centered efforts of Little Haiti’s young people. Your ticket purchase for the performance also benefits the Haiti Rebuilding Project. Secure the advance price of $20 by calling 314.546.5162, or call or visit the Little Haiti Cultural Center 305.960.2969, 212 NE 59thTerrace. Miami. FL 33137 Our exhibit will be accessible to ticket holders only.
Many thanks and we look forward to seeing you!
Claudia Montesinos
Arco Iris Workshop
Arts for Learning Teaching Artist
Toussaint L’ouverture Elementary
Miami Edison Middle School
Spring 2010
Arts for Learning’s programming is made possible by individuals like you and by support from Assurant Solutions, Bank of America, City of Miami, City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council, Dade Community Foundation, E.S. Moore Family Foundation, Jonathan D. Lewis Foundation, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, The Children’s Trust, and Young Audiences, Inc. For more information, please contact Kalyn James at 305-576-1212.
Prometeo Theatre To Stage The World Premiere Of Oliver Mayer’s Spanish Version Of “Filo Al Fuegoâ€
July 9th, 10th, 15th, 16th and 17th at 8:30 p.m.
Wolfson Campus Auditorium,
300 N.E. 2nd Avenue
The play is in Spanish with English super titles.
Tickets are $25 for the general public.
Discounts are available for groups, students, seniors, and persons with disabilities.
Event Information: For reservations and additional information, call (305) 237-3262.
Tickets available at www.prometeotheatre.com
Prometeo Theatre part of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College (MDC) will present the premiere of a Spanish version of “Filo al Fuego†(“Blade to the Heatâ€) by Mexican-American playwright, Oliver Mayer. Author of more than 20 plays, Mayer is the winner of the Zumberge Individual Award and an Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing at the University of Southern California School of Theatre.
Prometeo’s Artistic Director, Joann Maria Yarrow, directs this world premiere. “We have been blessed to be able have the assistance of amazing trainers who have been working with our actors.†Yarrow noted. “The play is set in Miami and the world of boxing in 1962. Revolt, refugees and world champs bang around this town like nobody’s business; a hotbed of political activity and a Mecca for the sport at the time,â€
“Filo al Fuego†is about the essentiality of finding yourself, identifying yourself independent of the way others might identify you,” says playwright Oliver Mayer. “It’s funny that the play remains so edgy and advanced in terms of its portrayal of gay characters.” Filo al Fuego is not for the faint-hearted. It deals with sexuality, race and ethnicity without pulling any punches; it dives head first into territory that others either tread lightly or avoid entirely.
His original and highly controversial hit play Blade to the Heat, on which this new adaptation is based, premiered at the New York Public Theatre in 1994, followed by a revised version at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. It has since played in many other venues and cities including Chicago, San Francisco and Mexico City — where it played 100 performances, earning a plaque at the renowned Teatro LÃrico.
“Filo al Fuego of course shares the story, pace and theme with Blade to the Heat, but something about the work we did [for this adaptation] makes it more than a simple translation,” Mayer said. “The very terrain and temperature of South Florida has invaded the play in sexy and sultry ways.”
The performance is part of the XXV International Hispanic Theatre Festival, presented by Teatro Avante and American Airlines.
June 30 – July 10
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
TAP DOGS is the international sensation that has performed in 330 cities worldwide, sold more than 12 million tickets, and won a boot load of top theatrical prizes!
It’s the hottest show with the hottest legs! The seriously sexy TAP DOGS is a fast and fabulous theater-dance spectacle that combines the strength and power of construction workers with the precision and speed of the world’s most thrilling tap dancers.
Or call the box office at 305.949.6722 to purchase your tickets today!
Also, don’t miss the Tap Pups Competition! Miami’s fiercest tap crews are invited to battle it out for prizes and the chance to share the stage with TAP DOGS on opening night! For information on entering go here!
WHY DOES LOVE HURT SO BAD?
July 17, 2010, 7:30pm
Joseph Caleb Auditorium
5400 NW 22nd Ave
www.nojiveproductions.org
“Why Does Love Hurt So Bad?” is a stage play that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Comedy plus drama, the suspense is enough to take anybody on a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs, and the ins and outs of love. It’s a gateway for communicating the pain, happiness, and self expression in a relationship. This show will open one’s eyes in hopes to forgive and move on.
If you were excited about “His Double Life” and thought it could not get any better wait until you get a taste of the new hit stage play “WHY DOES LOVE HURT SO BAD?”
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
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call 1-800-745-3000 or buy tickets at nojiveproductions.org
Temptation Cabaret
Passion Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
5701 Seminole Way, Davie, FL
Saturday night
Doors open at 8pm and the show begins promptly at 9pm.
Private showings are available on Fridays upon request.
Cocktail service is available both before and during the show.
Ticket prices range from $20-$42.50 and can be purchased online.
For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.temptationcabaret.com.
{Click here to see Soul Of Miami photos. We highly recommend this show.}
Premiering in South Florida, ‘Temptation’ introduces European-inspired cabaret with modern twist in a provocative and interactive performance at Passion Nightclub in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Executive Producer Dean Kronacher brings the classic art of Cabaret to meet the nightlife experience. Each performance is a synthesis of dance styles from around the world, with a central theme and storyline. Temptation draws the audience into each scene through continuous invigorating music and performers acting out scenes prefaced by anecdotes spoken in first person directly to the audience by the cabaret’s MC.
“As South Florida’s cultural scene continues to flourish the need for upscale performance art is more and more evident. I am proud to have been a part of the conception of Temptation Cabaret” – Executive Producer Dean Kronacher
Temptation’s seductive series of dance vignettes are strung together by the MC’s theatrical introduction to each act, which includes allusions to past trysts with each of the seven dancers and aerialist. The artfully choreographed set of performances evokes passion that overflows throughout the audience. Each scene displays Temptation’s own concoction of modern and traditional dance set to popular music both old and new.
Temptation also features two enthralling routines by the remarkably gifted aerialist who contorts herself mid-air supported only by two satin oversized ribbons. The graceful demonstration of aerial acrobatics set amidst smoke screens is utterly mesmerizing. From beginning to end this extraordinary performance is poised to delight a diversity of spectators, males and females alike.
Wenesday, May 26 At 7pm
The Wolfsonian–FIU
1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
Live From Belarus!
…And Remarkably Way, Way, Off Broadway
The Wolfsonian–Fiu Presents
A Sneak-Peek Of Director/Choreographer Jonathan Stuart Cerullo’s
Work-In-Progress
Hoop La La!
A Live Performance Featuring The Circus Artistry Of Guinness World Record-Holder Aleysa Gulevich
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University will present a sneak-peek of director/choreographer Jonathan Stuart Cerullo’s HOOP LA LA! on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 7pm at The Wolfsonian, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. The evening will include a performance from Aleysa Gulevich, three-time Guinness World Records record-holder for Most Hula Hoops Hooped Simultaneously! Tickets to HOOP LA LA! are free, and Wolfsonian members will receive priority seating. RSVP required at 305.535.2631 or ian@thewolf.fiu.edu.
About Jonathan Stuart Cerullo
For the past 27 years, Jonathan Stuart Cerullo’s work in the professional theater has been seen on Broadway, Off Broadway, Cabaret, as well as major regional theaters throughout the country. In addition to this, he has worked in film, television, circus arts, corporate events, and educational programs all to critical acclaim and respect from his peers and collaborators. He most recently directed a series of short plays by several rising HB Studio playwrights at the internationally recognized HB Playwrights Foundation under executive director, Donna de Matteo. Prior to this choreographed the 2009 NYMF Award Winner–Theater for the American Musical Prize, Under Fire, starring Jack Noseworthy, written and directed by Emmy award winning and the Tony nominated Barry Harman, with music by Grant Sturiale. Prior to this he directed and staged the world premiere of the Broadway bound musical entitled Fools’ Paradise, and is in preparation for the New York workshop of the musical Sandstorm and the play Ray Qualey by Golden Palm winning playwright, Garry Michael White. Prior to this he directed and staged the premiere of 7Women 7Heavens, Portraits of Muslim Women by NY Emmy award winning playwright, Kayhan Irani. He choreographed the Tony nominated actress, Deborah Yates, in Cheek To Cheek as part of Credit Suisse’s Gala Benefit for the Matthew Shepard Foundation. He made his national television debut choreographing Offenbach’s Orpheus Descending for Great Performances “Evening At Pops.†Taped live at Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Boston Pops Orchestra was conducted by Keigh Lockhart. Jonathan was the special effects movement consultant on the remake of The Stepford Wives, starring Bette Midler and Nicole Kidman, and choreographer for the Big Apple Circus’ 27th Season production of Picturesque. Also for the Big Apple Circus, he choreographed Carnevale! This earned Jonathan a 2003 Village Voice “Dance Pick†of the month. Prior to this, he privately instructed and created the two dances Frank Gorshin used as George Burns in Rupert Holmes’ Tony nominated best play, Say Goodnight, Gracie at the Helen Hayes Theatre, making this Jonathan’s sixth Broadway show. His other Broadway credits include assistant director and choreographer for Band In Berlin, associate choreographer for the Tony nominated musical, Anna Karenina, and production assistant to Joe Layton on The Three Musketeers. As a performer on Broadway, Jonathan danced in the musical Legs Diamond starring Peter Allen, toured nationally with Cats as Skimbleshanks, The Railway Cat, and on the west coast played Big Daddy in Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity starring the Tony award winning actress, Donna Mckechnie.
About Aleysa Gulevich
Aleysa Gulevich was born into a very famous circus family from Belarus, her parents being clown Fiodor Goulevich and aerialist Nadezda Bilenko. She made her circus debut in a Christmas show when she was five years old. By the time she was 12, her father had created her first original routine, a comedy bicycle/unicycle act, which she performed throughout Russia with her family. When she was aged 14, she created her own hula-hoop act, for which she later became famous. From then to the present, Aleysa has travelled around the world, delighting audiences with her unique and artistic style.
About The Wolfsonian–Florida International University
The Wolfsonian is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collections comprise approximately 120,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945—the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.
The Wolfsonian is located at 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. Admission is $7 for adults; $5 for seniors, students, and children age 6 -12; and free for Wolfsonian members, State University System of Florida staff and students with ID, and children under six. The Wolfsonian, presently on a Summer Schedule through September 15, 2010, is open Thursday from noon-6pm; Friday from noon-9m; Saturday and Sunday from noon-6pm; and is closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Contact us at 305.531.1001 or visit us online at www.wolfsonian.org for further information.
Undershorts Young Professionals Night
Adrienne Arsht Center
June 11, 9pm
Arsht Center Young Professional Invitation to Networking, Free Drinks & Hilarious Show!
Save $5 and enjoy pre-show cocktails
Click here for tickets and enter promo code YOPRONIGHT
undershorts
CARNIVAL STUDIO THEATER
Friday, June 11, 2010, 10pm
WARNING: Adult content, language, and nudity. Not appropriate for those under 17.
undershorts is City Theatre’s late-night series of short plays that are provocative, irreverent and hilarious. undershorts pushes the envelope with social and political material reflective of the times in one fast and furious program.
Special offer expires May 30th.
“Miami On Stageâ€
Presenting South Florida Performing Artists
Saturday, June 5th … a Theater Night with Two Premiers
Hilo (Thread) and Sipping Fury from a Tea Cup
Buy Tickets Here.
Date & Time: 06/05/2010 8:00 PM
Byron Carlyle Theater
500 71st Street
Miami Beach
“Hilo†by Jose Manuel Dominguez, directed by Lucia Aratanha
Hilo (Thread) is a physical theatre project that uses movement, poetry, visual art and sound to express subjects of evolution, adjustment, modification, and adaptation to change for the sake of survival. Having lost his eyesight many years ago, writer and actor José Manuel DomÃnguez juxtaposes his own memories with mythological characters, and incites the audience to contemplate their own limitations and possibilities of transformation. Directed by Lucia Aratanha, “Hilo†develops in a non-traditional format. Aratanha conceptualized a set with carefully woven ropes, constructing imaginary chambers and passageways like the Labyrinth in the Greek mythology. It through this maze of ropes that the scenes move from dream to reality with no apparent chronology as a metaphor to our own mind where memories and dreams mingle. “Hilo†puts into play the realm of myths known and unknown, a world of fatal choices and unexpected mystery.
José Manuel DomÃnguez is graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba having Vicente Revuelta as his mentor. José Manuel was a member of the controversial and avant-garde theatre troupe Teatro El Publico with director Carlos Diaz. Their polemic productions were staged in Cuba, Spain and Brazil.
Lucia Aratanha arrived from her native Brazil to Miami in the 1990’s with 20 years of experience as a performer, choreographer and director. Her work has been presented at the International Hispanic Theatre Festival and Miami Light Project Here & Now Festival. Lucia had the pleasure to collaborate with artists Ricky J. Martinez, Giovanni Luquini, Gary Lund and Pablo Cano. “Hilo†is the third collaboration between José Manuel DomÃnguez and Lucia Aratanha.
Sipping Fury from a Tea Cup
created by Elizabeth Doud and Jennylin Duany and performed by Elizabeth Doud and Carlos Caballero
Sipping Fury from a Tea Cup is a tale of a woman, a tea cup, and a roiling pot of fertility, mutiny, destiny and honey bees, which takes place in a not so impossible future when there are no honey bees left and our pollination systems become fantastic, reckless and uncertain. Imagine a world where there are no longer any bees. Imagine a day when the pastures of plenty that we think of as guaranteed to us cease to mature into fruits and vegetables. Imagine a day when you only have enough viable soil to fit into a teacup. In the absence of these principle pollinators of the edible species we rely on for our food, and for our food’s food, the anti-heroine of our story toils in the search for revived fertility for her and the planet. This multi-disciplinary performance work explores the mystery of the disappearance of bee colonies (known as Colony Collapse Disorder), and what lengths one might go to in order to rescue our planet’s best and most threatened fertility mechanisms.
Elizabeth Doud is a performer and writer who has been influenced by many contemporary literary and movement forms, and the culture and practice of Flamenco and Capoeira. She is an independent artist and was co-Artistic Director of the Miami based Las Negras Theater Collective with collaborator Jennylin Duany. Doud arrived in Miami in 1996 to launch an unrelenting performance and collaborative stint, creating, producing and touring over a dozen original performance productions locally, nationally and abroad.
Carlos Caballero, is graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte de la Habana. Carlos has worked as an actor in theater and specifically with Teatro El Publico and La Ventana in Cuba. Carlos has performed in over 20 plays including plays by Shakespeare, Garcia Lorca, Cocteau, and other. He has worked extensively in film and television in Italy, Spain, Brazil, Panama, Peru, Mexico, and the United States.
Tickets: $20 General Admission, $15 students (under 25) and seniors (over 65), with I.D. Purchase through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com and by phone (800) 745-3000 (service charges apply), or in-person (no service charges) at the Byron Carlyle Theater day of show at 4:00 p.m. and in advance at the Colony Theatre box office, 1040 Lincoln Road. Miami Beach from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. A limited number of $15 discounted general admission tickets are available for 33141 zip code buyers with I.D. in-person at all theater box offices only. Group rates are available by calling 305 316 6165
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Critically acclaimed Italian tenor Piero Mazzocchetti performs at Lincoln Road’s Colony Theatre
Italian Performer Piero Mazzocchetti in concert
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach FL 33139
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $35 and can be purchased here.
Italy’s newest and most critically acclaimed tenor Piero Mazzocchetti brings his one man show to Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre for one night only on Thursday, May 27 at 8 p.m. Adriano Aragozzini Production presents the concert for Dharma in collaboration with Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast.
Mazzocchetti has been touted as Italy’s greatest crossover artist to hit the charts since Pavarotti. The larger than life tenor himself commented on the 32-year-old rising star’s vocal abilities in 2007 stating during an interview with Turin’s La Stampa Newspaper, “ he has a beautiful voice. Yes, really beautiful. Very interesting.â€
About Colony Theatre:
The beautiful Art Deco-style Colony Theater first opened in 1934 as part of Paramount Pictures’ movie theater chain. The Colony was transformed into a performing arts theater in 1986, it recently emerged from a dramatic three-year, $6.5 million renovation/restoration to reclaim its place as the regions’ premiere mid-sized performance space.
About Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast:
Since 1991, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast has supported Italian entrepreneurs and companies in their business endeavors in this global hub. The IACC has registered significant growth in recent years, successfully establishing itself as one of the most important Italian Chambers in the U.S.
About Adriano Aragozzini:
He began his career as a personal manager working for acclaimed Italian artists and contributed to the worldwide success of Mario del Monaco and Gina Lollobrigida. In the last twenty years Adriano Aragozzini has produced and organized over one hundred and fifty events in Italy and abroad.
FREE EVENT!
Wednesday, May 12 @ 7:30 p.m.
John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall
Watch worlds collide…classical, poetry and hip hop unite in Piano Slam.
See Susan and Sarah Wang, 2008 Dranoff International Two Piano Competition winners, in a classical music and rap poetry mash-up. The performance is bursting with creativity and features prominent Miami spoken word artists Lela Lombardo, Summer Hill Seven, DJ The Brass King, and the voices of Miami-Dade Public School Poets FREE in concert.
RESERVE YOUR FREE* TICKETS NOW
or call our box office at 305.949.6722.
This is a free event, but tickets must be reserved for attendance.
* Reservations limited to 4 tickets per person. Reservations do not guarantee admission. Seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-seated basis. Please arrive early.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida, 33132
City Theatre Celebrates 15 Seasons With World-Premiere, Full-Length Lisa Loeb Musical & Stellar Line-Up Of “Shorts†Stars
It’s Summer, and it’s the season for shorts,
Summer Shorts, that is.
Coming June 2010, is the 15th season of the Summer Shorts Theatre Festival, and what a summer it will be!
Featuring…
* A world-premiere commissioned work by award-winning singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb, penned by Miami native/”Sons of Anarchy” staff writer/Summer Shorts playwright Marco Ramirez
* New work by Christopher Durang, Adam Sandler, Rolin Jones and a reprise of everyone’s favorite play, “Matterhorn” by Rich Orloff.
* Performed by a cast of leading S. Fla. actors, including “Mr. Summer Shorts” himself Stephen Trovillion and the wacky Elena Maria Garcia.
Mark your calendar, June 3-27, at the Arsht Center.
In partnership with Actors Theatre of Louisville, the nation’s pre-eminent theatre festival, Summer Shorts Theatre Festival offers the best in new short plays, a little of this, a little of that: dramas, comedies, musicals, farces, mysteries-an experience that covers the emotional landscape.
SODOM & GOMORRAH: PRICED TO SELL by Ken Brisbois offered audiences a bawdy and irreverent glimpse of Gomorrah with (from L to R) Stephen Trovillion, Laura Turnbull, John Manzelli and Stephen G. Anthony.
15th Anniversary Summer Season Features New, Full-Length Musical Penned by Grammy Award-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Loeb & Rising Star Marco Ramirez along with “Shorts†stars Christopher Durang, Rolin Jones, Rich Orloff … and “Mr. Summer Shortsâ€, Stephen Trovillion
WHAT: City Theatre celebrates the 15th Anniversary Season of the company’s acclaimed annual Summer Shorts Festival featuring two series of 5-20-minute one-act plays: Signature Short, the original series that put “shorts†on the map; and Undershorts, a late-night series of shorts for adults that is edgy, irreverent, and completely hilarious
City Theatre’s 15th Anniversary Season features the company’s first full-length World Premiere Musical with CAMP KAPPAWANNA, with music by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb, book by rising star Marco Ramirez and conceived by City Theatre Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Norman
Stephen Trovillion, John Manzelli and David Hemphill were lost at sea in Brendan Andolsek Bradley’s JETTISON.
WHEN & WHERE: June 3 – 27: at and in association with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Carnival Studio Theater in Miami; and July 1 – 3 at the Epstein Center for the Arts at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.
TICKETS: Miami: Tickets for performances in Miami available through the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Box Office at www.arshtcenter.org or (305) 949-6722
Festival favorite KITTY THE WAITRESS by Christopher Durang featured “shorts” veterans Stephen Trovillion and Elena Maria Garcia in a side-splitting comedy.
Broward: Tickets for performances in Broward available through the Epstein Center’s Box Office at www.citytheatre.com or (305) 365.5400
INFORMATION- (305) 755-9401 or online at www.citytheatre.com.
South Florida’s Signature Summer Event is having a birthday bash! More festive than ever, City Theatre’s 15th Anniversary Season features the company’s first full-length World Premiere Musical, CAMP KAPPAWANNA, with music by Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb, book by rising star Marco Ramirez and conceived by City Theatre Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Norman, along with the 15th season of the company’s acclaimed annual SUMMER SHORTS FESTIVAL featuring two series that bring the nation’s best “short†plays to South Florida audiences: SIGNATURE SHORTS, the original series that put “shorts†on the map; and UNDERSHORTS, a late-night series of shorts for adults that is edgy, irreverent, and completely hilarious. SUMMER SHORTS will feature “Mr. Summer Shorts†Stephen Trovillion, veteran of 71 roles in 13 previous festivals, and the zany Elena Maria Garcia, a comedic star of 32 roles in 6 previous festivals along with a company of South Florida brightest talents.
Taken together, City Theatre’s 15th Anniversary Season will perform at and in association with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami from June 3 – 27, 2010 followed by a new summer residency at the Epstein Center for the Arts at Nova Southeastern University in Davie to celebrate the holiday weekend, performing July 1 – 3, 2010.
The Carbonell Award-winning festival has become a nationally recognized event and something of a must-see/must-be-seen-there social outing for South Florida audiences. Says Stephanie Norman, Co-Founder and Producing Artistic Director, “In 15 years City Theatre has produced over 300 original “short†plays by the nation’s top playwrights. This year we have truly kicked things up a notch with the nation’s best new “short†plays – a celebration of 15 seasons of “shorts†– – the perfect way to bring something completely unique to our artists and audiences alike.â€
CAMP KAPPAWANNA is the story of Jennifer Jenkins, awkward and adorable and 12, a kid who hasn’t really found herself just yet. She’s going away for the summer – her very first time leaving home. From the start, CAMP KAPPAWANNA makes audiences of all generations feel as if they, too, are joining in the fun of summer camp. Grammy Award-nominated multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb created CAMP KAPPAWANNA’S music and lyrics along with collaborators Dan Petty and Michelle Lewis in celebration of her days at camp, where she first learned to play the guitar. Lisa Loeb’s inspiration, “Summer camp is one of those life-changing experiences that every child should have. It teaches you to try new things, explore and make new friends. It won’t always be easy, but you can forge true friendships and make lifelong memories that will stay with you forever.â€
The CAMP KAPPAWANNA musical was conceived by City Theatre Co-Founder Stephanie Norman, who tapped multi-Heideman Award winning playwright Marco Ramirez to write the book. Says Norman, “we’ve produced 7 of Marco’s plays on our stages, starting with his first professional production and leading to many accolades as one of the nation’s rising talents. His writing is smart, funny and strikes the right chord with kids –and adults.†Ramirez comes to CAMP KAPPAWANNA from training at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts and The Juilliard School, and is currently a staff writer on FX’s “Sons of Anarchy.â€
This season marks Marco Ramirez’s 8th City Theatre production, similar to City Theatre Co-Founder and Literary Director Susi Westfall, whose play LOOK AT ME will make its World Premiere in the company’s UNDERSHORTS series. Other “shorts†veterans include Obie Award-winning talent Christopher Durang, whose play NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING marks his 6th City Theatre production; Rolin Jones, a writer for the hit Showtime series “Weedsâ€, whose City Theatre entry EXTREMELY was a previous standout at the prestigious Humana Festival of New American Plays; and City Theatre’s most-produced playwright, Rich Orloff, who marks his 11th City Theatre production with a reprise of his classic comedy THE MATTERHORN, featuring “shorts†veterans Stephen Trovillion and Elena Maria Garcia.
City Theatre’s acting ensemble for Signature Shorts and undershorts includes Carbonell Award winners Chaz Mena and Laura Turnball, festival favorites Elena Maria Garcia and Stephen Trovillion along with South Florida talents Erin Joy Schmidt, David Hemphill, Scott Genn and Breeza Zeller. “Shorts†directors include City Theatre Founding Artistic Director Gail Garrisan along with noted directors Avi Hoffman, Marjorie O’Neill-Butler, John Manzelli, Barry Steinman, James Samuel Randolph and Hugh Murphy.
City Theatre’s production team for all three series of “shorts†includes scenic designer Sean McClelland, lighting designer Sevim Abaza, sound designer Steve Shapiro, and properties designer Jodi Dellaventura under the direction of Festival Consultant Gail Garrisan and Associate Festival Coordinator John Manzelli.
City Theatre’s launches its 15th season, presenting its Miami performances to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the fourth year and establishing a new performance home in Broward, the 750-seat Epstein Center for the Arts on the campus of Nova University School. The University School Art Institute is a new 70,800 square-foot arts complex on Nova Southeastern University’s beautiful 300-acre campus. The Art Institute offers in-school programming for University School students as well as a wealth of classes in dance, music, theatre and art for the community. Says Jenny Cook, Director of Arts at the Epstein Center, We are excited to complement our programming with a professional residency from one of South Florida’s premier theaters. We believe City Theatre’s summer season will offer audiences throughout the region an opportunity to see the acclaimed Summer Shorts Festival.â€
Returning to the Festival this year is City Theatre’s 2nd Annual Art Contest, THE CAMP KAPPAWANNA ART CONTEST. Children in grades K – 8 may visit www.citytheatre.com/campkappawanna to download a template and registration form to enter. The contest runs April 1 – May 15 and winning entries will be enlarged and displayed at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and Epstein Center for the Arts as an exhibit of Florida’s finest young artists.
Says Co-Founder Stephanie Norman, “this year we have truly kicked things up a notch with the nation’s best new “short†plays – a celebration of 15 seasons of “shorts†– along with a fresh, original full-length musical – the perfect way to bring something completely unique to our artists and audiences alike. Taken together, our 15th Anniversary Season offers something for everyone, a summer chock full of performances, parties, family fun days and, always, City Theatre’s signature summer brand of ‘fun’â€.
Production supported by: title sponsor Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A., the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Affairs Council, The Children’s Trust, America’s Capital Partners, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the Shepard Broad Foundation, Citizens Interested in the Arts, Carnival Cruise Lines, Dramatists Guild Fund, Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Lynn Wille Fichman Family Foundation, Funding Arts Broward, Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust, IBM, Islander News, Miami Salon Group, Northern Trust, The University School Art Institute at the Epstein Center for the Arts at Nova Southeastern University, Wachovia, WLR
Don’t miss your chance to get the DEAL OF THE YEAR:
Buy two tickets for the price of one – to selected performances of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s 2010 Summer Season!
Purchase 2 for 1 Tickets* on May 8th!
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SPRING AWAKENING
Winner of 8 TONY® Awards Including Best Musical!
May 11 – 16
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SUMMER SHORTS
– Signature Shorts -The Series that put our -shorts- on the map!
– undershorts -Late-night shorts with an edge!
June 3 – 27
Carnival Studio Theater Ziff Ballet Opera House
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CAMP KAPPAWANNA
A world premiere musical for the entire family!
June 17 – 27
Carnival Studio Theater Ziff Ballet Opera House
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TAP DOGS
“A sexy, fast, and fabulous hit!” -San Francisco Chronicle
June 30 – July 10
Ziff Ballet Opera House
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SUMMER SEASON SALE
2 for 1 TICKETS!*
Saturday, May 8
In person, by phone, or online with promo code SUMMER2010
Don’t miss your chance to get the deal of the year: Buy two tickets for the price of one – to selected performances of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s 2010 Summer Season!
*Discount is limited, ticket fees apply, not applicable to previously-purchased tickets, valid for select price levels only and subject to availability. Offer subject to change. All sales are final, no refunds or exchanges.
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Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
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Join the MiaSci Young Patrons for Spring Cocktails and Spring Awakening.
Here’s the 411:
– Thursday May 13th, 2010
– 6:45pm, Cocktail Hour with MiaSci Young Patrons
– 8:00pm, Spring Awakening
– Cost $70
– Orchestra Circle Seats
– Click here to purchase tickets
The catch is that tickets should be purchased by this Friday, May 7th!
Great deal! Open bar and a show! (tickets are regularly $66 just for the show!) And it’s now sold out!
See you Soon!
The MiaSci Young Patrons
Spring Awakening
WINNER OF 8 TONY® AWARDS
INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL!
Broadway’s most talked about new musical is now the biggest Tony® Award winner in years. SPRING AWAKENING is the groundbreaking fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that has awakened Broadway like no other musical in years.
Miranda Sings in Miami
May 7th, 8:00 pm
Area Stage Theatre at the Riviera Plaza
1560 South Dixie Highway
Coral Gables, FL 33146
The Area Stage Company is proud to announce “Miranda Sings” Miami debut! International superstar Miranda Sings has been performing her one woman cabaret show to sold-out audiences since last spring when her Youtube channel went viral. Her hilarious shows consist of singing hit songs, onstage voice lessons, fashion makeovers, and dramatic readings of hate mail. You will not want to miss seeing this lipstick-wearing, epileptic-eye browed, crooked smiling beauty live! The show will also be hosted by Broadway actor AARON SIMON GROSS (original cast member member of the Broadway production “13”.) In addition, Miranda will give a singing lesson to the cast leads of the up and coming Area Stage Conservatory production of “Cabaret.”
Tickets: $35 & $25 – Premium Seats/ Backstage Pass: $50
Call Now For Reservations 305-666-2078 or visit our website at www.areastagecompany.com
WHO IS MIRANDA?
The creator of Miranda is a classically trained singer and actress named Colleen Ballinger. Her character is a satire of common YouTube videos featuring mediocre or even bad singers who film themselves singing as a form of self-promotion. Miranda sings comically off-key,
and, when confronted by viewers who take the videos seriously, uses the catchphrase “Haters back off!”. Ms. Ballinger’s character has enjoyed widespread popularity, particularly among musical theatre fans, and has recently appeared as Miranda Sings at live club and theater venues in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, London, and Australia. Special guests have included the casts of Mamma Mia, Billy Elliott, Bye Bye Birdie, Rock of Ages, Jersey Boys, Shrek, Ann Hampton Callaway, Shoshana Bean, Daniel Reichard, Seth Rudetsky, Christopher Sieber, and Scott Alan.
“youtube sensation Miranda seduces Broadway!”
– LA Times”This brilliant character is created by Colleen Ballinger. I’m obsessed.”
– Seth Rudetsky
“Spastic vocalist Miranda Sings has become one of the Internet’s biggest stars, and sold out venues in Los Angeles, New York, and
London!”
– BroadwayWorld
“Miranda Sings is the hottest, freshest and oddest breakout star in the musical theatre/cabaret scene!”
– the rrazz room, San Francisco
“I can’t walk anywhere without someone asking me if I’ve seen the Miranda videos!”
– Jason Robert Brown
Went to see Broadsword at the Carnival Studio at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Saturday, May 1st. Â This was an awesome show! The acting, the writing and the music were all really good. Â This being at the Carnival Studio it is very intimate and you really feel like you are in the basement with the actors, like you are peeking on a little bit of their life. Â The final music performance is awesome, Â I really wished I had a lighter to wave for an encore. Â If you have an free evening this week I would suggest heading over to the Arsht Center and seeing Broadsword, this is one you don’t want to miss.
Broadsword will run Sunday, May 2nd, and then Thursday – Sunday, May 6th – 9th (two shows on Saturday).
Late-Night Theatre “SHORTS” – June 12th 2010 @ 9pm
Carnival Studio Theater at the Arsht Center,
1300 Biscayne Boulevard,
Miami, FL 33132
http://www.eurocircle.com/events/calendar/
This late-night series of short plays are characterized by being provocative, and irreverent. A “short” is a one-act play running 5-20 minutes. Featuring an all-new roster of edgy shorts featuring South Florida’s finest talent, this theater company pushes the envelope with social and political material reflective of the times in one fast and furious program. Adult content, language, and possibly, some nudity. Not appropriate for those under 17.
For those interested in joining us, we have a discount price of $35.50 per ticket, you can buy your ticket(s) online at http://www.arshtcenter.org/offer entering the promo code FUNSHORTS when you log in, otherwise you may also do this by phone at 786 468 2358 using the same promo code.
Keep in mind that these tickets’ availability is limited, so the sooner you get them, the better.
Last but not least, we’ll start gathering at 9pm to meet and greet for some wine, then at 10pm showtime… Keep the following number handy when you get there, you may call or text to find us: 561 843 6433.
NOTE: for the skittish: nothing to be afraid of, this won’t be edgy “a la europea”, it should be something like Janet Jackson has another outfit malfunction “accident” without the ensuing hypocritical puritanical madness.
“NEW YORK NIGHTSâ€
Presented and Performed by The Gold-Diggers, Inc.
The Gold-Diggers, Inc. is proud to present this year’s musical adventure: “New York Nights.†This Broadway-style revue is sure to delight as The Gold-Diggers, Inc. take a bite out of the Big Apple.
Show Producers Holly Beth Billington, Justine Chichester and Natalie Tappert will take you on a journey to some of New York’s hottest districts through music and dance at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Miami. Performances will be held on May 22, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and May 23, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
The Gold-Diggers, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization, now in its 33rd year, has raised over one million dollars for its beneficiaries, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of South Florida and The Food for Life Network. The Gold-Diggers, Inc. is comprised of 60 women from Miami-Dade and Broward Counties who raise money for these charities through various fundraisers and their annual spring musical revue. Visit www.gold-diggers.org for more information.
For more information, ticket prices and group rates, please contact Executive Producer Donna Marr-Capparelli at 305-281-8667, or visit our website at www.gold-diggers.org.
BroadSword
CARNIVAL STUDIO THEATER
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 8pm
CARBONELL AWARD WINNER!
Get ready for the reunion of the year, featuring some of Mad Cat Theatre’s hottest actors, including actor and director Paul Tei (Barry on TV’s “Burn Notice”), Erik Fabregat, Eli Peck, Gregg Weiner, Sofia Citarella and Ken Clement.
Sixteen years ago, the Jersey band BroadSword broke up. Now their lead guitarist has gone missing. What the hell happened to Richie and who’s the strange man with the disturbing news? BroadSword is all about myths, music, fantasy—and heavy metal deals with the devil.
Written by Marco Ramirez (of TV’s “Sons of Anarchy”) and nominated for 5 Carbonell Awards.
SPRING AWAKENING is coming to the Arsht Center May 11-16!
Broadway’s most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony winner in years tells the story of three teenagers coming of age in oppressive 19th century Germany. It is a story of first love, lasting regrets, and a celebration of the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood. The show received eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, raves from critics and audiences in over 20 countries around the world, and was named “the most important musical of the decade†by the New York Times. Recently, the Denver Post called the Grammy-winning indie rock score by Duncan Sheik “the best original score since West Side Story.â€
This is sure to be a hot ticket and some seating areas are already sold out for select performances. Tickets start at just $25. Get your tickets now!
For more info: www.springawakening.com
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 to interpret the characters and relationships in this great play.
This production will incorporate live music, created and arranged by guest guitarists and singers from Spain in collaboration with company dancers and choreographers. Artists from the U.S, Latin America and Spain, led by the world renowned master teacher, choreographer and soloist La Tati in the title role, and with one of Spain’s most sought after male dancers, Miguel Cañas, as Macbeth, 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 and electrifying release, making it a powerful language to interpret this timeless work.Under the direction of Ilisa Rosal, a stellar cast of international artists will create the characters of Shakespeare’s drama.
The production will debut on Saturday May 1 at the Gusman Center for The Performing Arts 174 E Flagler St. Miami, Fl. at 8:00 pm as part of the Miami Dance Festival.
Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, also known as La Rosa Flamenco Theatre, is a professional company dedicated to Flamenco as an ever-evolving art form. The innovative and creative dancers of Ballet Flamenco La Rosa present Flamenco dance in a theatrical setting, expanding the art form beyond traditional limits to reach and enlighten students and audiences with its beauty and magic. A Miami based non-profit dance company, Ballet Flamenco La Rosa Flamenco has performed to sell out crowds and received critical acclaim in both the artistic mainstream and in the “Tablaos” (Flamenco Clubs) of Little Havana since 1985. Since then, the company has grown to a National and International reputation, with its pure Flamenco works, cutting edge cross- cultural collaborations and ground breaking dramatic Flamenco Ballets. The company offers audiences performances and workshops throughout it concert season, as well as daily classes for children and adults at all levels with this project, Master Classes will be offered with La Tati and Miguel Cañas, during the week preceding this performance.
For more information contact PAN, Performing Arts Network at 305-899-7730 or panmiami@aol.com
and Ballet Flamenco La Rosa at 305-899-7729 or rosalpanmiami@aol.com
Tickets $22 – $49
$15 seniors and Students
Available at www.ticketmaster.com
WHEN: Monday, May 10, 7 pm
WHAT: Play Monday, a series of monthly SHORT Play Readings of Original Plays, coordinated by Barbara Fox. Topic is MIAMI BEACH.
WHERE: Arts at St Johns, 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140
COST: FREE EVENT
FULL DETAILS AT: www.artsatstjohns.com, or call 305-613-2325
When: Monday, April 12, 7 pm
WHAT: Play Monday, a series of monthly SHORT Play Readings of Original
Plays, coordinated by Barbara Fox. Topic is MONEY.
WHERE: Arts at St Johns, 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140
COST: FREE EVENT
FULL DETAILS AT: www.artsatstjohns.com, or call 305-613-2325
Barbara Fox coordinates live short play readings at Arts at St Johns
MONEY is the topic for April 12th
featuring the following short plays:
YOU CAN BANK ON IT, by Robert Griffin
Life Does Not Have To Be This Hard, by Dee Deringer Piquette
Trust Bank, by Dorothy Danaher White
Legacy, by Allan Provost
A Circle of Money, by Barbara Fox
Win a pair of FREE tickets to see the most famous opera of all time – Bizet’s Carmen – starring singing sensation Kendall Gladen, on April 26th, 2010 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. If you’ve never seen an opera before, this is your chance!
Deadline to enter: April 5, 2010
No purchase or contribution is necessary to enter the drawing. Winners will be selected randomly. From the submissions 1,100 entrants will each receive two complimentary tickets to the Florida Grand Opera performance of Carmen on April 26th, 2010.
Entrants must sign up at www.FGO.org or mail in an entry on a 3″ x 5″ card, with name, address, phone number and email address to: Carmen Ticket Giveaway, c/o Florida Grand Opera, P.O. Box 561837, Miami, FL 33256-1837, by midnight on April 5th, 2010. Limit one entry per person. Each entry must be mailed separately. Go to www.FGO.org for complete rules and regulations.
Enter by April 5th, 2010 by mail or at www.FGO.org
Florida Grand Opera
8390 NW 25th Street
Miami, FL 33122
Box Office: 1.800.741.1010
Mon – Fri, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
www.FGO.org
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR MYSTERY MONDAY PLAY READINGS
on March 8th at 7pm when Miami Beach writers delve into deep, dark and humorous experiences in a variety of short, live Play Readings.
2ND MONDAY PLAY READINGS ARE FREE EVENTS at Arts at St Johns, 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Barbara Fox coordinates live short play readings at Arts at St Johns for our series of Second Monday Play Readings.
MYSTERY is the topic for March 8th featuring the following short plays:
The Case of the Missing Camarones ~ by Dee Deringer Piquette
Innocent or Guilty ~ by Barbara Fox
Murder Most Messy ~ by Allan Provost
Meet Market Mystery ~ by Anne Dichele
and 2 or 3 more plays – TBA
Writers – start submitting your short plays for APRIL “MONEY” topics – Play Reads on Monday, April 12 and MAY “MIAMI BEACH” topics – Play Reads on Monday, May 10
GUIDELINES:
– The plays must have a “Money” theme for April, “Miami Beach” theme for May
– Ten pages or less/ten minutes or less running time
– A minimum of stage directions/narration
Mail (no email submissions accepted) to:
Barbara Fox
5107 Collins Ave #410
Miami Beach, Fl 33140
Readings begin at 7 pm.
This is a free event at Arts at St Johns
4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140.
Carnival Studio Theater
(Inside the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House)
March 5 – 7
Now’s your chance to support the arts and preview some of our dynamic and creatively entertaining local talent!
Miami Made Weekend is an annual showcase of new work and informative dialogue with artists living and working in South Florida as well as with industry professionals from the country’s leading arts institutions.
Over 30 of these artists have gone on to perform that work in 14 states and 15 countries for an estimated audience of 20,000 people world-wide!
Purchase tickets for a show within the weekend or a package that includes all shows. To purchase tickets for the individual shows, click on the show titles below.
Miami Made Weekend includes:
– Here & Now Program A Featuring Juraj Kojs and Rudi Goblen
– Here & Now Program B Featuring Jillian Mayer and Rosie Herrera
– Incubator: up-and-coming artists perform works-in-progress
– Outloud: new play reading
– Talking Here & Now: Get Involved! Saturday, March 6, 2010, 1pm
– Panel Discussion with Industry Leaders, Saturday, March 6, 2010, 6pm
– Conversation with the Artists, Sunday, March 7, 2010, 6pm
Packages available now for just $40! To order a package, please call the box office at 305.949.6722.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
Florida Grand Opera presents more than 30 Opera Stars in Concert for One Night Only!
25th Anniversary Tribute Concert
February 25 @ 7:00 p.m.
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Don’t miss this spectacular One Night Only Tribute Concert featuring more than 30 opera stars performing with full orchestra and chorus! The program will feature more than 20 famous arias and ensembles from some of your favorite operas, including great works by Puccini, Bizet, Rossini, Verdi, Mozart, and many others. The Masters of Ceremonies for the evening will be opera legends Renata Scotto and Sherrill Milnes.
On-Stage Dinner
Seats are also available for a special dinner with the stars and Bob Heuer immediately following the concert on the Lynn Wolfson Stage. For more information, please contact Denise Courshon at 305-854-1643, ext. 1202 or dcourshon@fgo.org.
BUY TICKETS NOW!
Or call the box office at 305.949.6722 to purchase your tickets today!
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
Sobe Arts – Music & Shakespeare Events
March 12 – 8:00pm
Open Friday @ Sobe Arts (Concert):
Music In The Time Of Shakespeare
SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble
Robert Chumbley, conductor
Carl Fisher Clubhouse @ SoBe Arts
Free & Open to the Public
Friday, March 19 – 6:30pm
Art Speaks: Music & Shakespeare
Robert Chumbley & Carson Kievman
Carl Fisher Clubhouse @ SoBe Arts
Free & Open to the Public
March 18 – April 4
A Sobe Arts Production Of Twelfth Night Or What You Will By William Shakespeare
Directed by Carson Kievman
Includes Renaissance Music written for Twelfth
Night by Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes & Others
Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts
(Miami New Times 2010 Mastermind Award Winner)
Previews: Thurs & Fri March 18 & 19 – 8:00pm
Opening Night: Sat March 20 – 8:00pm
Opening Wknd Mat: Sun March 21 – 3:00pm
Performance Schedule through April 4
Friday & Saturdays 8:00pm, Sunday 3:00pm
Cast (alphabetical order):
Ken Clement
Merry Jo Cortada
Glen Lawrence
Andres Lefevre
Amy McKenna
Jody Owens
Joshua Ritter
Elena Sanchez
Musicians:
Carl Ferrari – Guitar (Lute)
Adam Chefitz – Keyboards (Clavichord/Harpsichord)
Ticket Prices:
Previews $15.00
Friday & Saturdays $25.00
Sundays $20.00
Student tickets for all shows $12.50 (must show student id.)
Rush Tickets for all shows: $12.50 (1/2 hour prior to show based on availability).
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE: www.sobearts.org/twelfthnight.html
Discounted tickets available for groups of 10 or more – call (305) 674-9220
Contact events@sobearts.org or (305) 674-9220 for additional information
Box Office opens 1 hour before all performances
Ethan Bortnick
Sunday, February 21, 2010, 2 pm
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center
Nine-year-old, national TV star, YouTube sensation, and We Are The World performer Ethan Bortnick has shared the stage with Beyonce, Natalie Cole, Nelly Furtado, Smokey Robinson, Gloria Gaynor, Patti Labelle, and many more. Ethan will play classical works, jazz, rock-and-roll, and children’s music, as well as his own compositions and much more. He will do a Q/A session and talk about some of the celebrities he has performed with, as well as those he is about to perform with.
Watch the video of Ethan appearing on NBC6.
This sure to be sold-out performance promises to be an interactive and fun show!
Cost: $10 for members, $12 for non-members, $5 for youth (18 years or under). All seats are assigned for this special performance.
To buy member or group tickets prior to the performance, please call 954. 921. 3274 ext. 236. Advance member ticket sales available until Friday, Feb. 19, 5 pm.
You may purchase tickets online or at the show. Box office opens one hour prior to performance.
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
ArtAndCultureCenter.org
MIAMI LIGHT PROJECT, CENTRO CULTURAL ESPAÑOL(CCE) AND FUNDARTE PRESENT THE US PREMIERE OF THE CLOSEST FARTHEST AWAY
(below information in spanish)
Miami Light Project, Centro Cultural Español (CCE) and FUNDartre prosily present the US premiere of the multi media theatre work The Closest Farthest Away March 11-13, 2010 at the Byron Carlyle Theatre on Miami Beach.
The Closest Farthest Away (La Entranable Lejania) is the first of its kind – a multi-media theater piece created by filmmakers, theater artists, and musicians from the US and Cuba. Using cinema and live performance to cross the impossible boundaries that keep the US and Cuba apart; multi-channel video installation is projected against live actors to create a dramatic metaphor for the impossibility of exchange between two countries. Tapping into the physical presence of live performance and the defiance of space and time that is cinema, an impossible world is created-one in which Cuban and American performers exist together on the same stage.
Called “A groundbreaking hybrid work of film and theatre… incorporating a beautiful, nearly holographic interaction between Cuban actors on film and American actors on stage.†by American Theater Magazine, The Closest Farthest Away had its world premiere at the Havana Film Festival in December 2009.
The Closest Farthest Away is the first of its kind — a process-driven social and artistic experiment between Americans and Cubans to create a story that reflects contemporary ideas from multiple points of view. The collaborative process is interdisciplinary in approach where the artists from every medium contribute their ideas to the whole. The script was co-written by playwrights, filmmakers, composers, and theater artists from both countries and the film involved three directors and a bi-national crew of over 40 people working together in different languages. An ongoing inquiry into the mystery of this multi-faceted exploration occurred throughout one year of conversations over the internet and in person between artists in Los Angeles, Miami, and Havana.
The Closest Farthest Away was created by composer Sage Lewis whose work as a composer and sound designer for live performance, animation, and video has been featured at venues such as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the REDCAT and holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from the Oberlin Conservatory in Music Composition. It is directed by Los Angeles based theatre director Chi-wang Yang is a Los Angeles-based theater director and digital media artist. Committed to physical performance and interdisciplinary collaboration, his work synthesizes stage, media, and technology. His work has been featured at REDCAT (Los Angeles), New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Time-Based Arts Festival (Portland), and the Platform International Animation Festival. He is a recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award for Theater Directing. Raúl Pérez Ureta, the award winning Cuban Cinematographer has shot over 40 features and shorts around the world.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:00pm
Friday, March 12, 2010 8:00pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:00pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:00pm
The Byron Carlyle Theatre
500 71 Street, Miami, FL 33141
Tickets: $25.00
Miami Light Project, Centro Cultural Español (CCE) y FUNDarte tienen el honor de presentar el estreno en Estados Unidos del proyecto escénico multimedia “The Closest Farthest Away” del 11 al 13 de marzo de 2010 en el Byron Carlyle Theatre en Miami Beach.
The Closest Farthest Away (La Entrañable Lejania) es un trabajo único –una pieza escénica multimedia creada por cineastas, artistas de teatro y músicos de EE.UU. y Cuba. Mediante el cine y la interpretación en escena propone sobrepasar las barreras imposibles que mantienen a ambos paÃses apartados; una videoinstalación es proyectada en el espacio escénico para crear una dramática metáfora sobre la imposibilidad de intercambio entre los dos paÃses. Utilizando el recurso de la presencia fÃsica de los actores en escena y el desafÃo del espacio y el tiempo que el cine representa, se crea un mundo imposible donde intérpretes cubanos y norteamericanos coexisten en el mismo escenario.
Denominado “Un novedoso trabajo hÃbrido de cine y teatro … que incorpora una bella y casi holográfica interacción entre actores cubanos en el cine y los actores americanos en escena†(American Theater Magazine), The Closest Farthest Away se estrenó mundialmente en el Festival de cine de La Habana en diciembre de 2009.
The Closest Farthest Away es la primera de su categorÃa –un trabajo en proceso- un experimento artÃstico y social entre americanos y cubanos para crear una historia que refleje ideas actuales desde diversos puntos de vista. El proceso de colaboración tiene una aproximación multidisciplinaria donde artistas de diferentes medios contribuyen al todo final con sus ideas. El guión fue escrito en colaboración por dramaturgos, cineastas, compositores y artistas teatrales de los dos paises, la pelÃcula cuentra con tres directores y un equipo técnico binacional de más de 40 personas con idiomas diferentes trabajando juntas. Durante un año se mantuvieron diversas conversaciones a través de internet y en persona, entre los artistas de Los Angeles, Miami y La Habana que han contribuido resolver los obstáculos de esta multifacética producción.
The Closest Farthest Away ha sido creada por el compositor Sage Lewis cuyo trabajo como compositor y creador y “diseñador†de sonido para actuaciones en directo, animación y video ha sido presentada en teatros como la Academy of Television Arts and Sciences y el REDCAT, Lewis tiene un MFA del California Institute of the Arts y un BA del Oberlin Conservatory in Music Composition. La obra está dirigida por el director teatral y artista multimedia radicado en Los Angeles Chi-wang Yang. Comprometido con la actuación y la colaboración en distintos medios el trabajo de Yang sintetiza el teatro, los medios audiovisuales y la tecnologÃa y ha sido presentado en REDCAT (Los Angeles), New York International Fringe Festival, el Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Time-Based Arts Festival (Portland), y en la Platform International Animation Festival. Ha recibido el 2006 Princess Grace Award de dirección teatral. Raúl Pérez Ureta, galardonado cineasta cubano con más de 40 pelÃculas y cortos rodados en todo el mundo ha dirigido la fotografÃa de las imágenes filmadas en Cuba.
Jueves 11 de marzo, 2010 8:00pm
Viernes 12 de marzo 2010 8:00pm
Sábado 13 de marzo 2010 2:00pm
Sábado 13 de Marzo 2010 8:00pm
The Byron Carlyle Theatre
500 71 Street, Miami, FL 33141
Tickets: $25.00
mas información en www.fundarte.us
Carnival Studio Theater
(Inside the Ziff Ballet Opera House)
February 17-28
“A modern day West Side Story!” raved The New York Times.
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Spicy, sweet and delicious, Platanos and Collard Greens is the long-running off-Broadway hip-hop romantic comedy that asks if love between blacks and Latinos can survive. College kids Freeman and Angelita give it a try—until her Mom finds out and has a heart attack. It’s a star-crossed love affair guaranteed to make you think while laughing out loud!
The Courier Times, New York city’s leading African-American newspaper, calls the show “stimulating, breathtaking, a mind-blowing must-see!” La Diva Latina Magazine says “Bring your appetite for laughter!”
“Love Conquers All” Community Discussion: Interracial Relationships
Thursday, February 18
Please lend your voice to the community discussion that will take place on Thursday, February 18 immediately following the performance.
Panelists include:
– Co-Moderator: Supa Cindy, 99 JAMZ
– Co-Moderator: James Burnett, Miami Herald
– Dr. Dionne Patricia Stephens, Assistant Professor, Psychology & African Diaspora Studies, Florida International University
– Sandie Luna, Cast Member (Samana)
– Phillip J. Smith, Cast Member (Freeman)
– Susan Abascal “Miss Suzy,” Founder, Miami Urban Life (Miami’s first downtown social network)
THE ROXY THEATRE GROUP PRESENTS THE MUSICAL FABLE OF BROADWAY, GUYS AND DOLLS
March 12th-March 28th, The Roxy Performing Arts Center
WHAT: The Roxy Theatre Group (RTG), a non-profit arts organization for children, is proud to present the musical fable of Broadway, Guys and Dolls, featuring a cast of 70 youth, ages 10-22 and an orchestra of students from the Greater Miami Youth Symphony (GMYS), a non-profit organization dedicated to training young musicians. Guys and Dolls is a comedic story of love, money, and salvation in New York City.
WHO: The young ensemble is comprised of actors, dancers, singers and musicians representing 32 different schools and colleges in Miami-Dade County.
WHEN: March 12-14, March 19-21 and March 26-28. Fridays & Saturdays, 8:00 p.m. Sundays, March 14 & 21, 7:00p.m. & Sunday, March 28, 3:00p.m. Tickets are $20.
OPENING NIGHT: There will be a cocktail reception and after-show party on Friday, March 12 and tickets are $50. All proceeds benefit RTG’s Student Scholarship Fund.
WHERE: The Roxy Performing Arts Center, 1645 SW 107 Ave. Miami, FL 33165.
GUYS AND DOLLS is based on a story & characters by Damon Runyon with music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Set in post World War II, New York, Guys and Dolls is an oddball, romantic comedy that soars with the spirit of Broadway!
For more information please call 305-226-0030, email SusannePinedo@gmail.com, Pat@SanPedroProductions.com or visit www.RoxyPAC.com.
The Roxy Theatre Group, a non-profit organization, offers classes in drama, voice and dance to children ages 3-17, with year-round programs including an after school care program and a performing arts summer camp.
Photos by: Nora Onate.
Guillermo Calderón’s Diciembre
Teatro en el blanco
Friday and Saturday, February 19 – 20, 2010.
8 p.m.
Byron Carlyle Theater
500 71st St., Miami Beach
Tickets for Performance
on Friday, February 19
From the roiling imagination of Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón comes this politically charged, haunting drama about a near-future war in the Andes. Peppered with surprising doses of pitch-black comedy, Diciembre takes place in Santiago on Christmas Eve 2014 with the city besieged by Peruvian forces. Young soldier Jorge returns home on a 24-hour leave to celebrate the holiday with his pregnant twin sisters, who each have sharply different views on nationalism and the morality of war. One wants Jorge to defect, the other demands he return to the fight. Jorge, however, has his own take on the matter. Smartly produced by his dynamic Santiago-based company Teatro en el Blanco (“Theater on Targetâ€), Calderón’s play strips away ostentatious theatrical conceit for us to hear clearly the terror knocking at the door. Featuring Paula Zúñiga, Trinidad González and Jorge Becker. Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.
Love & Romance are the topics for February’s Live Play Readings of 6 short original plays
Join us on Monday, February 8th at 7pm
2ND MONDAY PLAY READINGS ARE FREE EVENTS
at Arts at St Johns, 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Barbara Fox coordinates live short play readings at Arts at St Johns for our series of Second Monday Play Readings.
Love & Romance are the topics of February’s six short plays by the following writers:
Dennis Bass – A Test For A Valentine. Allen Provost – Noteworthy.
Barbara Fox – Quickmeet. Marla Schwartz – Peeling Off The Mask.
Jonathan Rose – Internet Dating. Dee Deringer Piquette – Still Crazy.
Readings begin at 7 pm.
This is a free event at Arts at St Johns, 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140.
More info: artsatstjohns.com, or call 305-613-2325.
Join Us on Saturday, February 6th at 8pm
when Arts at St Johns presents
Gian Carlo Menotti’s comic opera
“THE TELEPHONE”
starring Beverly Coulter and Eddie Valdés
at Arts at St Johns, 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Performed in English. This Opera will be preceded by a potpourri of duets from
Opera and Zaruela depicting different dilemmas in amorous relationships.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day!
Click here for a sample of “The Telephone” on YouTube.
RESERVE YOUR TICKET NOW and Save $5.
Advance tickets online $15. At the door: $20.
More info: artsatstjohns.com, or call 305-613-2325.
A must for all cultural arts enthusiasts!
The Leadership Miami Alumni Group selects a community service project each year for “incubation†which is designed to sustain the project and continue its introduction into the community. This year they have selected the community service project “Diversity through the Arts.â€
Set against the backdrop of a growing skyline, diminishing affordable housing and the necessary interaction of Miami’s different cultures, Melt tells the story of an African American brother and sister, a Jewish father and son and a Hispanic mother and her son who find their lives intertwining over social and moral issues as seen from the perspective of each culture. The Leadership Miami Alumni Group believes that the “incubation†of this project in a ‘ONE COMMUNITY, ONE PLAY’ event will have a positive impact on the nature of the ongoing community discussion about the diversity of our population.
With today’s economic situation, we are seeing more stress on our community and it is even more important now than ever that we address the problem by easing the tension and bringing our community together in new and artistic ways. The Group will fundraise to donate to the community approximately half of the tickets (2,000) to various relevant groups, such as, community based and civic organizations, high school students, academicians, clergy and members of local fire and police departments to truly make it a ‘ONE COMMUNITY, ONE PLAY’ event. Talkbacks with community leaders about the experiences garnered during and after the play are an essential part of the project and will take place both on stage and via social media.
In order for The Leadership Miami Alumni Group to make this worthwhile project possible we will need our community’s support. If you or you know of someone who would like to get involved either through volunteer efforts, audience development, marketing, or fundraising please let me know.
Tickets can be purchased at www.actorsplayhouse.org and all money raised goes to the South Florida Progress Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization 501(c)3.
Please join our Facebook page and contribute to the ongoing discussion about the Play by visiting this link http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=5307448#/pages/MELT-One-CommunityOne-Play/211927847720?ref=mf
All regularly scheduled performances last weekend of the Grand Cabaret extravaganza in the Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts were sold out! Two shows have been added by popular demand, Friday, Jan. 22 and Saturday Jan. 23 – 9:00PM (Theater opens at 8:30 for bar and food). Reserved Seating only. If you wanted to see the production but could not get tickets this is your chance. Buy soon to avoid being shut out again.
Tickets for the cabaret this Friday and Saturday are $25 and can be purchsed by calling 305-674-9220, visiting the website www.sobearts.org/cabaret.html or visiting SoBe Institute of the Arts in person weekdays between 12:00-7:00pm at 2100 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach.
Miramar Cultural Center presents
Gold Coast Opera 2010 Series
Die Fledermaus
Life looks good to Gabriel von Eisenstein until he, his lovely wife, and their rambunctious maid are caught in a practical joke that exposes all of their secrets! Mistaken identities, royal balls, and too much Champagne create merriment galore.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 . 8pm
Ticket: $40, $45 (Box office fees will apply)
http://browardcenter.org/
Bits ‘N Pieces presents:
Alice in Wonderland
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 2 pm
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center
Our 2010 season of “Family Friendly Performances” kicks off with Bits ‘N Pieces splendiferous musical production of a beloved childrens’ story. Bits ‘N Pieces presents Alice in Wonderland, using giant nine-foot-tall puppets. In their original production of the Lewis Carroll classic, our heroine escapes the boredom of this world and ventures into her dream of another. Bring the whole family, as these bigger-than-life puppets even make adults feel “child-sized!”
Meet the costumed performers after the show and bring your camera!
Click here to purchase tickets or for more information.
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
954. 921. 3274
954. 921. 3273 fax
ArtAndCultureCenter.org
Grand Opening Cabaret at SoBe Arts has been selling out – Get your tickets early for next weekend’s shows as we are expecting more of the same. http://sobearts.org/cabaret.html
Starring actors Ivette Viñas, Andres Lefevre, Philip de la Cal & Montserrat Franco and featuring Montserrat Franco as Betty Boop, Andres Lefevre as Cab Calloway’s Ghost. Created & Directed by Carson Kievman. Keyboards, Kiki Sanchez – Clarinet, Paul Gordillo – Tenor Saxophone, Juan Silveira – Trumpet, Osvaldo Fleitas – Drums, Tony Suarez – Bass, James Quinlan – Conductor, Carson Kievman
Little Stage Theater @SoBe Arts is an intimate space that will provide seating for approximately 60 cabaret patrons so sell-outs are anticipated. Click here to purchase tickets. For more information or to reserve seats: events@sobearts.org- (305) 674-9220
PUPPETS THEATER BY BAMBALINA
DATE: 01-30-2010
Program to promote Spanish culture
CCEMiami and Prometeo Theatre of the Florida Center for the Literary Artspresent:
KRAFT BY BAMBALINA
Saturday January 30, 8pm
Puppets Theater for the whole family
At Prometeo Theater
300 N.E. Second Avenue, Room 1101
Miami, FL 33132
www.bambalina.es
www.prometeotheatre.com
Kraft
“Trees give us shade, fruit, flowers, medicine, oxygen… and paper. We were asking ourselves where the soul of a tree converted into paper could be hiding. One thing occurred to us: make the folds sing. This gave us some sounds that led us to notes for a primary musical scale, the tone of which, once unfolded, magically rebuilt the rustling of the leaves in the trees, the murmur of waves on the seashore, the crackle of fire or the thunder of a summer storm. No longer can we put off the need for a playful and vital spectacle that will simply deal with our love for things and people. Quite simply, letting us move on, without artifice or ambiguities without great pretensions. And that is what gave rise to Kraft, like a primary idea, like a kid’s thought, by pilling up paper and cardboard for a big game”.
Artistic Team:
Script and stage direction: Jaume Policarpo
Musical direction: Jesús Salvador “Chapiâ€
Actors: Merce Tienda, Óscar Jareño/Josep Mª Zapater, David Durán/Vicente Arlandis/Jaume Policarpo.
NIGHT AT THE OPERA: CARMEN
Join us for a delightful evening of music and grand entertainment.
Tuesday, May 4th 2010 at 7pm for meet and greet (details to come), 8pm for the opera.
Ziff Ballet Opera House
Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33132
Click here and login to your EuroCircle account to sign up!
The promo code for this offer is CARMEN2. To redeem this offer, visit:
http://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/account/login.aspx
and enter the promo code: CARMEN2 when you log in; you will need to be logged in to view the group special discount.
NOTE: This special offer is only available online for the show/date listed and is not available at the box office window or through the box office call center
This French masterpiece by Georges Bizet has become arguably the most popular opera ever produced turning into a source of inspiration for other composers, film adaptations, television, theater, etc. Chances are you’ll be surprised to recognize many of its melodious passages. Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNjqxZ11NQ
Whether this is your first time at the opera or you already happen to be a connoisseur, this opportunity is not to be missed not only because we’ll have the chance to meet and greet for some vin before and during this operatic spectacle but also for the special online discount available for our members (below).
So save the date, and get your tickets the sooner the better since tickets are selling fast.
NOTICE: for those who will be at the Arsht Center before the show to meet and greet, please keep the following number in order to find us in the Lobby, you may either call or text: 561 843 6433
Shakespeare in the Park 2010
All performances are Free
No Tickets Required
The Taming of the Shrew
Miami-Dade County performances:
At the Barnacle State Park in Coconut Grove
January 15, 16, & 17 at 7:30 pm
Matinee performance January 17 at 2:00 pm
Children’s Tea With Shakespeare Story Hour
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at noon
Date: Tuesday, 1/5/2010
Time: 7:00 PM
Tickets: $35, $25, $15
Venue: Miramar Cultural Center
This event is located at the:
Miramar Cultural Center/ArtsPark
2400 Civic Center Place
Miramar, Florida 33025
The Golden Dragon Acrobats represent the best of a time honored tradition that began more than twenty-five centuries ago. The Golden Dragons are recognized throughout the United States and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today.
The reputation of the company is solidly rooted in a commitment to the highest of production values and an attention to artistic details that is unparalleled in the art form. World renowned impresario Danny Chang and choreographer Angela Chang combine award-winning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty
Click here for more information about The Golden Dragon Acrobats
Saturday, January 2 @ 8 p.m.
John S. and James L. Knight Hall
What a fantastic way to celebrate the New Year with Salute to Vienna as it returns for another sensational performance! Inspired by Vienna’s world-famous New Year’s Concert, Salute to Vienna brings the same splendor, charm and beauty to North America. Fall in love with Vienna’s “Waltz King,” Johann Strauss Jr., in an unforgettable and uplifting, performance of music, song and dance!
Enjoy a brilliant cast of over 75 musicians, European singers and magnificent dancers: a brand new cast and a splendid new program features operetta excerpts, popular waltzes, polkas and marches. Guaranteed to inspire and delight!
What The Nutcracker means to Christmas, “Salute to Vienna” means to the New Year!
Don’t miss this exciting and joyous performance!
FEATURING:
-The Strauss Symphony of Americaâ„¢
-Klaus Arp, conductor (Frankfurt-Vienna)
-Ute Ziemer, soprano (Vienna)
-Thorsteinn Ãrbjörnsson, tenor (Vienna-Iceland)
-With dancers from: Kiev-Aniko Ballet of Ukraine
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The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
December 30 – January 3
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Celebrate the New Year with the family!
Select seats and performances are only $20.10!
A topsy-turvy musical adventure story full of songs, dance, and spectacle! The family-friendly tale concerns Mr. and Mrs. Pongo, a pair of spotted dogs, whose puppies are dog-napped by Cruella de Vil. 101 Dalmatians is a one-of-a-kind show with a surprise ending that will leave everyone cheering!
Led by the creative team of Jerry Zaks (La Cage Aux Folles, Smokey Joe’s Café, “Everybody Loves Raymond”), B.T. McNichol (Spamalot, Billy Elliot, Cabaret) and Dennis DeYoung (founding member of the rock group Styx). 101 DALMATIANS THE MUSICAL will transport audiences to a slightly topsy-turvy, exciting, and altogether fantastic reality that gives grand license for song, dance and spectacle.
View behind-the-scenes video here.
To get your discount,
CLICK HERE
and enter promo code NEWYEAR or use the code when you call our box office at 305.949.6722.
Dine before your performance at Prelude! We will have kid-friendly menu items available.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
March 3 – March 21
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Special Offer for Broadway lovers.
Purchase your tickets before they go on sale to the general public on Friday, January 15th.
Back by “Popular” Demand! The New York Times calls WICKED “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster,” and when it first played in Miami in 2007, it broke box office records and sold out in record time!
Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One – born with emerald green skin – is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for “the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time.” USA Today
Presale: NOW
Public On Sale: Friday, January 15 @ 10 a.m
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and enter promo code YELLOWBRICK or use the promo code when you call our box office at 305.949.6722.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
“Miami Beach – the Musical”
The 100+ history of Miami Beach & the characters who played a role in this history — seen through the eyes of a photographer and his magical genie!
Oct 1, 2, and 3. Fri. & Sat. 8 pm and Sun. at 3 pm
Arts at St Johns, 4760 Pinetree Drive, Miami Beach 33140
Tickets now on sale ONLINE.
Make a donation of $50 or more for free tickets.
A donations of $250 or higher gives you special treatment!
Opening Night:
* Walk the red carpet along with other VIPS & donors.
* Join famous celebrities, nefarious politicians and sexy starlets in front-row seats!
At the VIP After-Party on Sunday evening, Oct 3:
* Mingle with actors and singers.
* Hobnob with other prominent people.
* Meet “Miami’s in-demand director” David Kingery.
Your name and logo in printed & online publicity.
Tax-deductible donations can be made online:
CLICK HERE!
FOR MORE INFO, contact us at 305-613-2325 or artsatstjohns@bellsouth.net
Artistic Director: David Kingery. Music Director: Chris Lobdell.
Co-Director: Kevin Black. Lyricist: Doug Cureton.
Scriptwriters: David Kingery, David Leddick & Dale Penn.
Music composers: Andrew Sargent and David Cohen.
artsatstjohns@bellsouth.net
Coming OCTOBER 1, 2 and 3, 2010 “The History of Miami Beach – The Musical” is an original production featuring ‘your’ stories of places, times and happenings covering the past 100+ years! This show will offer plenty of opportunities for individuals, performers, organizations and businesses to be part of this show! Please contact us if you have stories about living, working or visiting Miami Beach, particularly in its earlier years!! Mark Your Calendar Now!! OCTOBER 1, 2 and 3, 2010! 305.613.2325
artsatstjohns@bellsouth.net www.artsatstjohns.com
Monday, Nov. 2, 7 pm
PLAY READINGS
Original Short Plays by local authors
Read by local actors
PLAYS WILL INCLUDE:
A Nightmare of a Gift, by Jessica Jardine
Home For the Holidays, by Barbara Fox
Get Out Now or Try Again, by Dennis Bass
The Back Lot Costume Shoppe, by Dee Deringer Piquette
And two more TBA
Meet the authors and actors at a TALK BACK after the readings.
Free and open to the public
INFO: 305-613-2325
LOCATION: St.John’s on the Lake, 4760 Pinetree Drive
Miami Beach 33140
www.artsatstjohns.com
Barbara Fox/Playreading Coordinator
David Kingery/Artistic Director
4760 Pine Tree Drive
Miami Beach, Florida 33140
Starring Sally Bondi, Lela Elam, Jacqueline Laggy, Jude Parry,
Carol Sussman and Alisha Todd
A titillating, provocative and humorous collection of short plays and monologues that reveal and lay bare an array of secrets and revelations. Join us and find out just how much we’re willing to expose during this evening of sweet and snappy shorts!
October 22 – November 15, 2009
Preview on Thursday, October 22nd
Opening Night on Friday, October 23rd
Performance Times:
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm,
Sundays @ 2pm.
Call 866-811-4111 for tickets by phone or purchase on-line at www.womenstheatreproject.com. You may also click here to order tickets.
Adults – $25. / Students – $15. (limited availability)
Special group rates available! Please call our administrative office for details at 954-462-2334.
Cash, checks and all major credit cards accepted. Reservations are strongly suggested due to limited seating. Please arrive early to the venue. Due to the intimate nature of our theatre, latecomers cannot be seated once the show begins.
Performances are at Sixth Star Studios: 505 NW 1st Ave. Ft. Lauderdale, conveniently located one block west of Andrews Avenue at NW 5th Street in downtown Ft. Lauderdale.
Directions from I-95: Take I-95 and exit Broward Blvd heading east. At Andrews Avenue make a left (north). Go five blocks to 5th Street and make a left (west). Go one block to NW 1st Avenue and make a right (north). Sixth Star Studios will be on your left. Free parking on the street.
Join us for an Opening Weekend After Party
On Friday, October 23rd, an exclusive Opening Weekend After Party will be held at the loft of TWTP Producer, Meredith Lasher. Enjoy an evening of complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres with the cast, crew and director following the Friday evening performance.
For more information please call our administrative office at
954-462-2334.
Salute to Vienna
New Year’s Tradition at the
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, January 2 @ 8pm
John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall
What a fantastic way to celebrate the New Year with Salute to Vienna as it returns for another sensational performance! Inspired by Vienna’s world-famous New Year’s Concert, Salute to Vienna brings the same splendor, charm and beauty to North America. Fall in love with Vienna’s “Waltz King,” Johann Strauss Jr., in an unforgettable and uplifting, performance of music, song and dance!
Enjoy a brilliant cast of over 75 musicians, European singers and magnificent dancers: a brand new cast and a splendid new program features operetta excerpts, popular waltzes, polkas and marches. Guaranteed to inspire and delight!
What The Nutcracker means to Christmas, “Salute to Vienna” means to the New Year!
Don’t miss this exciting and joyous performance!
FEATURING:
The Strauss Symphony of Americaâ„¢
Klaus Arp, conductor (Frankfurt-Vienna)
Ute Ziemer, soprano (Vienna)
Thorsteinn Ãrbjörnsson, tenor (Vienna-Iceland)
With dancers from:Kiev-Aniko Ballet of Ukraine
BUY TICKETS NOW
Or call our box office at 305.949.6722.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
Please Join Us For A Sneak Peak Reading Of
Shepherd’s Pie
By Ivonne Azurdia And Paul Tei
When: October 19th @ 7:00 Pm
Where: The Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Boulevard
With: Erik Fabregat, Todd Allen Durkin, Erin Joy Schmidt, Sofia Citarella, Ivonne Azurdia And Betsy Graver
Please Join Us For Some Fine Irish Beer And Delicacies
Rsvp: Ann Scully, 305.799.2746 Or Ann@Skymar.Com
This benefit reading is free, but donations will be gladly accepted because we need to fill the pot of gold at the end of our rainbow in preparation for the January 20th performance of Shepherd’s Pie presented by Miami Light Project & the South Beach Comedy Festival at the Colony Theater!
Marionette Magic at MOCA this Sunday Oct 18 – Pablo Cano’s Cavaletti’s Dream
The Color Purple
October 27 – November 1
Ziff Ballet Opera House
It’s a soul-stirring musical based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the Oscar-nominated film by Steven Spielberg.
It is the unforgettable and inspiring story of a woman named Celie, who triumphs over tremendous odds to find joy in life, and her true inner beauty. Nominated for eleven Tony Awards, THE COLOR PURPLE is a landmark theatrical event. With a joyous GRAMMY-nominated score featuring jazz, gospel and blues, THE COLOR PURPLE is capturing the hearts of young and old, and uniting audiences in a celebration of love.
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Duelling Divas: The Battle Begins!
Greetings!
We wanted to personally invite you to our opening season gala event at First Presbyterian of Fort Lauderdale. While there is NO ADMISSION CHARGE, that does NOT mean we are low-brow! We’re funnier, juicier, and, if possible, LOUDER than ever!
Diva on!
La Bouvier & The Baroness
Sunday, October 4 ~ 7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church
401 SE 15th Avenue
Fort Lauderdale FL
For information: 954-462-6200 x228 or click
A taste of “OUT IN THE TROPICS†at Sleepless Night! featuring BETTY, Adora, Juan Carlos Zaldivar, Miami Gay Men’s Chorus and Drag it Out…
Sat. Nov. 7th 10PM – Midnight at the Colony Theater
Gender-bending, great music, lots of laughs and some powerful takes on history and sexual identity are all part of the upcoming performing arts showcase. The evening will feature the women-led pop-rock group BETTY, whose hilarious and always fresh musical performances and theater work has made them popular world-wide, as well as a great line-up of local GLBT artists. The M.C. for the night will be Adora, South Florida’s infamous gender illusionist known for his spot-on comedy and lip-synching in both English and Spanish. Juan Carlos Zaldivar will appear in his Martà and I, a mixed-media piece that blends video and live performance. Drag It Out will present their female-to-male “drag king†show that is sure to entertain audience members of all persuasions. And finally, the evening will be rounded out with a performance from an ensemble of the always-popular Miami Gay Men’s Chorus.
FREE!
A CO-PRESENTATION WITH City of Miami Beach’s Sleepless Night; Tropical Wave Productions and MiamiARTzine.com
BETTY & More at “A Taste of Out in the Tropics”
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Performing Arts Showcase Sleepless Night at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre, November 7, 2009
Gender-bending, great music, lots of laughs and some powerful takes on history and sexual identity are all part of the upcoming A Taste of Out in the Tropics Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) performing arts showcase. It begins at 10:00 pm and continues on past midnight on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road. A Taste of Out in the Tropics is part of the annual Sleepless Night event, a vibrant free indoor and outdoor cultural festival spread out over multiple locations throughout Miami Beach on the 13-hour night that marks the end of Daylight Savings Time. A Taste of Out in the Tropics is a presentation of Robert Rosenberg/Tropical Wave Productions, in association with FUNDarte and MiamiARTzine.com, with the support of the City of Miami Beach and other funders.
A Taste of Out in the Tropics’ featured performer is the women-led pop-rock group BETTY, whose hilarious and always fresh musical performances and theater work has made them popular worldwide. They are well known for their music for the groundbreaking Showtime lesbian series The L Word, including the racy theme song, as well as their Off-Broadway show BETTY Rules. Lily Tomlin has said they are “so joyously captivating, you’ll ovulate†and Gloria Steinem has commented that they “sing with heart, humor….and attitude.†BETTY will perform a full concert to close the evening.
A great line-up of local GLBT artists will open A Taste of Out in the Tropics with brief sets from 10:00 to 11:30 pm. The M.C. for the night will be Adora, South Florida’s infamous gender illusionist known for his spot-on comedy and lip-synching in both English and Spanish. Juan Carlos Zaldivar will appear in his Martà and I, a mixed-media piece that blends video and live performance. Drag It Out will present their female-to-male “drag king†show that is sure to entertain audience members of all persuasions. And finally, the evening will be rounded out with a performance from an ensemble of the always-popular Miami Gay Men’s Chorus.
A Taste of Out in the Tropics is a preview of what will be South Florida’s first full-fledged gay contemporary performing arts festival, Out in the Tropics, coming to Miami in July 2010. The festival will present award-winning, cutting-edge GLBT performing artists from around the country who address broad gender and social issues, for an extended weekend of shows and other events. “We are so excited to launch this new Out in the Tropics project by participating in Sleepless Night this year, “ says Out in the Tropics Artistic Director Robert Rosenberg. “Our intent is to create a gay and lesbian signature event that can have both a local and national profile while exposing South Florida audiences to new and exciting work that rarely if ever gets presented in the region.â€
Admission to A Taste of Out in the Tropics is free, with no reservations required, as is the case for all Sleepless Night events. For more information visit www.fundarte.us and www.sleeplessnight.org or contact robert@tropicalwavemiami.com.
Robert Rosenberg, whose Tropical Wave Productions is presenting A Taste of Out in the Tropics, is the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker of the classic gay documentary “Before Stonewall;†was the Founding Director of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; and has worked in many capacities in presenting live performance in South Florida. A Taste of Out in the Tropics is presented in association with FUNDarte, a multidisciplinary non-profit organization dedicated to producing, presenting, and promoting music, theater, dance, film and visual arts that speak to Miami’s diverse cultures, with a special emphasis on artists from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain; and MiamiARTzine.com, a biweekly online magazine that showcases the diverse events and activities of South Florida’s cultural organizations and individual artists.
A Taste of Out in the Tropics project and organizational support comes in part from the City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; Glassworks Multimedia; Mega TV; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; and the Southern Arts Federation (SAF) in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council.
WHAT: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender performance showcase featuring BETTY
WHEN: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 10:00 pm
WHERE: Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
TICKETS: Free admission as part of the City of Miami Beach’s Sleepless Night event
INFO: Visit www.fundarte.us and www.sleeplessnight.org
High-resolution images and video are available upon request –
– Performers and presenters are available for advance interviews –
– More about BETTY at www.hellobetty.com –
– More about other artists at –
www.adoramiami.com
www.zaldivar.info
www.dragitout.org
www.miamigaychorus.org
Save $10 on tickets to see The Harder They Come-LIVE! A jammin’ reggae musical based on the 70’s Jimmy Cliff Film on Sunday, September 6 at 2pm OR 8pm.
The Harder They Come
Ziff Ballet Opera House
A hard-driving, irresistible musical celebration! Young singer Ivan Martin heads to Kingston with dreams of becoming a reggae star, but a corrupt and drug-fueled music industry drives him into a fast and furious life as Jamaica’s most-wanted outlaw and most-celebrated underground star. Accompanied by a killer band of outstanding reggae musicians, the cast performs all the classic songs from the film soundtrack, including “By The Rivers of Babylon,†the title song, and the unforgettable global phenomenon, “You Can Get It If You Really Want.â€
To redeem this offer, visit http://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/account/login.aspx
and log in using the following discount code to receive the discount for the performance listed above: DANCEHALL
This special offer is only available online for the shows listed and is not available at the box office window or through the box office call center. If you have trouble accessing the online discount, please call Group Sales at 786-468-2358.
Come check out a musical theater show being performed this weekend by members of our Broadway Actors summer camp:
Beauty and the Beast Jr.
Broadway Actors
Friday, August 14, 2009, 5 pm
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street
Based on the Academy Award winning animated feature, the stage version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast includes all of the wonderful songs from the film, written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, plus new songs written especially for the Broadway version by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice.
The audiences will be transported to a lovely French provincial town where the beautiful Belle lives with her father – a dotty inventor. When her father doesn’t return from a trip to the local fair, Belle rushes off to find him. To her dismay, she discovers he is being held captive in an old castle by a horrible beast. She trades her freedom for his and the “tale as old as time†begins. How Belle tames the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation into a handsome prince continues to enthrall audiences.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children under 12-years-old. Tickets can be purchased at the box office 1 hour prior to the show. Performances take place at Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street (1770 Monroe Street). Click here for more information.
Join us for the last session of our Summer Arts Camp, Specialty Week-Session 2: Summer Hurrah. Click here for more information.
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
954. 921. 3274
ArtAndCultureCenter.org
“Tony’s N Tina’s Wedding” is an interactive dinner theater show that has been running in NYC & Las Vegas for over 20 years.
Now Mansion has brought it to Miami Beach.
The show is every Friday & Saturday @ 7PM.
For tickets & more info go to www.tonyandtinamiami.com
Come check out two musical theater shows being performed this weeked by members of our Broadway Actors and Broadway Actors Advanced summer camps:
Cinderella and Rockerfella
Broadway Actors
Friday, July 24, 2009, 5 pm
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street
A modern, panto-style reworking of the classic tale, including all the traditional characters: downtrodden Cinderella, Rockerfella (formerly known as Prince Charming!), Buttons, the Ugly Sisters, and the Fairy Godmother, with a selection of additional characters, from music managers and paparazzi, to good and bad fairies – all placed in a world of fame and celebrity.
With fresh and relevant things to say about fame, fortune and how true love will win in the end, it has a wonderfully comical script, fabulous songs and plenty of opportunity for audience participation.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Broadway Actors Advanced
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 2 pm
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street
Taking place in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself. It’s a New York full of intrigue and jazz – a time when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever.
Based on the popular movie, the stage version of Thoroughly Modern Millie includes a full score of new songs and bright dance numbers. Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-lady of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children under 12-years-old. Tickets can be purchased at the box office 1 hour prior to the show. Performances take place at Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street (1770 Monroe Street). Cick here for more information.
Limited slots are still open in the remaining sessions of Summer Camp, including Broadway Actors, Young Artists Advanced, and Young Artists/Young Actors. Click here for more information.
Don’t Miss the 1st Annual Talent Quest Miami FINALS!!
Saturday, July 25, 8 pm at Colony Theatre
Presented by the Arts at St. Johns
Miami’s newest talent competition, featuring 12 hot finalists – singers, dancers, musicians, rappers, comedians, one cirque act, & a contortionist! The contestants hail from Cutler Bay to Miami Lakes, from Miami Beach to Hialeah.
OUR CELEBRITY JUDGES
Diva Elaine Lancaster, Concert producer Roger Abramson and MiamiArtZine Editor Mary Damiano
YOU can help with the judging! Join the audience & our celebrity judges in picking the best talent & deciding who wins the $500 grand prize and other great prizes!
Plus, a special performance by Elaine Lancaster
Actor/Director Tom Colucci Talent Quest Moderator/Host
ASJ’s Artistic Director David Kingery created & directed Talent Quest Miami
FINALS: Sat., July 25, 8pm – COLONY THEATER – $20 Tix
1040 Lincoln Road on South Beach
Join us for the AfterParty at Lucky Strike Lanes
1691 Michigan, South Beach
Buy $20 Tickets Online for the Finals www.artsatstjohns.com
(tickets also available at the Colony box office or online at ticketmaster.com)
For more info: 786-525-9983
BizBuzzTour.com will be filming during the show. The taped performance of the Finals will be aired online after the show on the BizBuzzTour website on July 30 @ 8:00 p.m. The Finals will remain available on demand for future viewing.
Niso Corp (Controller on Demand) is the official ballot counter for the Final Judging at the Colony Theater in South Beach.
MISSION: To present arts and culture programming that builds community, encourages dialogue about social issues, & provides transformation through the arts. Socially Responsible Arts!
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOARD PRESIDENT: Julie Weaver, D.O, Writer
VICE PRESIDENT: Bernie Mickley, retired, Vietnam Vet
SECRETARY/TREASURER: Sylvia Ospina, Lawyer, Realtor
BOARD MEMBERS:
Rev. Melissa Pisco, Pastor, St. John’s United Methodist Church
Carol Haefner, President, Avery Glass & Mirror, North Miami, FL
A.J. Khaw, M.D., UM Pediatric Mobile Clinic, Jazz Musician
Susan Hamilton, Dancer, Pilates instructor
STAFF
FOUNDING DIRECTOR: Dr. Carol Hoffman-Guzman, 305-613-2325 artsatstjohns@bellsouth.net
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: David Kingery, 786-525-9983 sobesinger@aol.com
LIGHTING, SOUND: Ken Whiting
STAGE MANAGEMENT: Charmille Walters
Sponsors of Arts at St. Johns events
Arts at St. Johns programs are funded through grants from City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs (the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor & Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners); State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (National Endowment for the Arts); The Miami Salon Group; Dade Community Foundation; and Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce Pillars.
With the addition of a second extension, FUERZA BRUTA has broken the house record for the longest-running show at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. This will be the final extension as the show is scheduled to open in Mexico in September and must close in Miami on August 9.
To celebrate the success of the run, a special FUERZA BRUTA Party Pack promotion is being offered. The package includes a $40 discount on four tickets plus four sets of special, FUERZA BRUTA merchandise valued at $128. Details are available at www.fuerzabrutamiami.com and press release is attached.
FUERZA BRUTA Extends Run to August 9th by Popular Demand
FINAL WEEKS!! SHOW MUST CLOSE AUG 9th
International Smash Hit FUERZA BRUTA Sets House Record For
Longest-Running Theatrical Performance At The Adrienne Arsht Center
Special Limited Edition Fuerza Bruta Party Pack DISCOUNT
Offered in Celebration of a Successful Run
With the addition of a second extension, FUERZA BRUTA has broken the house record for the longest-running show at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. This will be the final extension as the show is scheduled to open in Mexico in September and must close in Miami on August 9.
To celebrate the success of the run, a special FUERZA BRUTA Party Pack promotion is being offered. The package includes a $40 discount on four tickets plus four sets of special, Fuerza Bruta merchandise valued at $128. Details are available at www.fuerzabrutamiami.com.
“We are thrilled to extend our run and have Fuerza Bruta break the house record at the Adrienne Arsht Center,†said Michael Cohl Chairman of S2BN Entertainment, the Miami-based entertainment company that is producing the show. “There has been an incredible response.â€
“The buzz surrounding Fuerza Bruta is infectious,†said M. John Richard, president and CEO of the Adrienne Arsht Center. “Miami has embraced this exhilarating production with tremendous fervor, making it one of the highest-grossing shows in the Center’s three-year history. Thanks to our partnership with S2BN Entertainment and Ozono Productions, more than 25,000 people will have enjoyed the thrill of Fuerza Bruta for the first time!.â€
Before coming to Miami, FUERZA BRUTA’s touring company played major cities worldwide including New York, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, London, Cordoba, Bogota, Edinburgh, Berlin, Mexico, and Sao Paulo to high critical acclaim. Fuerza Bruta also has a company in New York that is currently performing their second blockbuster year.
Free from the confines of spoken language and conventional theater, FUERZA BRUTA has become the “go-to†theatrical experience for edgy non-stop entertainment.
SHOW TIMES & TICKET PRICES
Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30 p.m.; and Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Single ticket prices are $63.75 and $73.75 including a $3.75 facility fee.
Tickets can be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at 305.949.6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org. Groups of 15 or more, please contact 786.468.2326.
For more information and video clips please visit www.fuerzabruta.net.
ABOUT FUERZA BRUTA
FUERZA BRUTA is an event where worlds collide and reality takes a back seat. This heart-pounding theatrical experience takes place completely on the Lynn Wolfson stage and begins the moment audiences walk in through the Center’s loading dock (dubbed the “Media Dockâ€) into the G-Lounge – a hip urban space, alive with heart-pounding club music directed by Miami’s best DJs, multimedia art installations created by local artists, and a signature Barton G. food and beverage experience.
At show time, audiences are ushered onto the main stage where they are engulfed in a 360 degree spectacle featuring mind-blowing visual effects just inches above the audience that must be seen to be believed – a man running full throttle on a giant treadmill, bursting through a series of moving walls; performers suspended in mid-air surrounded by a vast sea of mylar; and gorgeous women twisting ethereally in a lucite pool above the audience. Argentinean creative genius Diqui James, one of the creators of the smash hit show De La Guarda, created original scenes and magnificent customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement.
As the performance winds down, the visual and aural party continues in the G-Lounge. The pre- and post-party lounge is open to the general public.
FUERZA BRUTA premiered in Buenos Aires in 2005 and has been seen in Lisbon (2006), London (2006), Buenos Aires (2006), Bogota (2007) and at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2007), where it earned critical praise and was honored with the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel award for “the biggest and best show on the Fringe – the must see event of 2007†(The Herald). In October 2007, FUERZA BRUTA debuted at New York City’s Daryl Roth Theatre where De La Guarda had played a smashing six-year off-Broadway run. The New York engagement has attracted unprecedented national media attention and quickly extended its run due to overwhelming demand.
Celebrity followers of James’ De La Guarda included Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Cameron Diaz, Sting, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford, Tyra Banks, Robert DeNiro, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sandra Bullock, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore and Drew Barrymore among others.
Celebrities who have visited the NYC or Miami production of Fuerza Bruta include, Lil Wayne, Jessica Alba, Fergie, Beyonce, Rachel McAdams, Jude Law, John Legend, Tyra Banks, Shakira, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and Serena Williams.
FUERZA BRUTA was created by Diqui James (De La Guarda Co-founder/Co-creator); Gaby Kerpel (De La Guarda Composer/Musical Director); Alejandro Garcia (De La Guarda Technical Director) and Fabio Daquila (De La Guarda Production Supervisor).
For more information, photos, music, video clips, media reviews and more please visit www.fuerzabruta.net.
FUERZA BRUTA is presented in Miami by the Adrienne Arsht Center, S2BN Entertainment and Ozono Productions. The Miami production is sponsored in part by the Opera Suites and Marina. The Miami New Times is the official media sponsor of the Miami production.
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is made possible by the public support of the Miami-Dade County Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council. Education & Outreach is funded in part by The Children’s Trust. The Adrienne Arsht Center also receives generous support from private and corporate contributions to the Performing Arts Center Foundation of Greater Miami Inc. through its Visionary Society Membership Program and Major Gifts Program; City of Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency; American Express Company; Arison Arts Foundation; Dade Community Foundation; ExxonMobil Inter-America Inc.; Funding Arts Network; Southern Arts Federation; The MAP-Fund, a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
FUERZA BRUTA, the hottest show in Miami, sizzles by combining culture and cuisine with the Dine + Play promo. Book reservations at several of Miami’s top dining destinations including Smith & Wollensky, Fratelli Lyon, Michael’s Genuine, Sra. Martinez and 660 at The Angler’s, in the month of July any Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening for a special prix-fix, $47/ person menu and enjoy the spectacular performance before or after for $53 ($10.75 off the regular ticket price).
List of participating restaurants is below and for an updated list please visit www.FuerzaBrutaMiami.com. Dine + Play offers locals an amazing night out for $100 per person.
660 Mediterranean Kitchen – 786.594.5888
Badrutt’s Place – 305.415.0070
Cafe Sambal at Mandarin Oriental Miami – 305..913-8358
Emeril’s at Loews Miami Beach Hotel – 305.695.4550
Fratelli Lyon -305.572.2901
Gotham Steakhouse – 877.669.5007
Indigo at the Intercontinental Hotel – 305.577.1000
Meat Market – 305.532.0088
Michy’s – 305.759.2001
Quattro – 305.531.4833
Red Steakhouse – 305.534.3688
Scarpetta – 877.669.5007
Smith + Wollensky – 305.673.1717
Sra. Martinez – 305.573.5474
{This is a great day trip out of town. We have been going to this for a few years now, ever since we ran into it on accident. The park is right by the ocean and very pretty. Go for a day and hang out, get out of the city, and see some of The Bard. Highly recommended.}
Palm Beach Shakespeare by the Sea at Carlin Park in Jupiter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
July 16-19, 23-26
Free admission
More Info
From the brilliant creaters of CAGNEY!
An evening of music that will melt your heart lift your soul, and make you laugh and sing outloud!
A sizzling evening of top-of-the-chart music from 1960-65. Sinatra, Streisand, The Beatles, The Supremes, Connie Francis, The Four Seasons, Wilson Pickett and more.
Audiences are standing and cheering!
From now – August 30th.
Call (561) 585.3433
or visit http://www.floridastage.org
Florida Stage – The nations largest professional theatre producing
exclucively new American Theatre.
Located in the Plaza Del Mar, corner of A1A & Ocean Ave., Manalapan
(across from The Ritz Carlton Palm Beach)
Miami Lyric Opera presents Marina: A Spanish Opera in Three Acts
July 30th and August 1st, 2009. 8:00 p.m.
Dates: Thursday, July 30th and Saturday, August 1st, 2009. 8:00 p.m.
Location: Colony Theater. 1040 Lincoln Road. Miami Beach, FL 33139.
Admission: $30
Miami Lyric Opera presents Marina, a Spanish opera in three acts set to music by composer Emilio Pascual Arrieta and lyrics by Francisco Camprodon, under the artistic direction of Raffaele Cardone. The cast will include Beverly Coulter, Maruchi Urquiaga, Aurelio Gabaldon, Hugo Marcos, Lilo del Campo, Diego Baner, Ismael Gonzalez and other fine artists. Alfredo Munar will conduct the MLO Orchestra and Pablo Hernandez will be Chorusmaster.
Marina, the orphaned daughter of a merchant captain, awaits the return of Jorge, the man who took her in after her father’s death. She is in love with him, but as he is older and her guardian, she has never dared tell him the truth. Upon Jorge’s returning from a trip, Pascual loses no time in telling him that he intends to get married, who responded that he has had the same thought, so why don’t they marry on the same day? Pascual names Marina, to Jorge’s shock and consternation. Marina is equally hurt that Jorge apparently wants to marry someone else.
One day Pascual intercepts a sailor bringing a letter from Marina’s father that wrote before dying asking Alberto to give to her. The letter included her father’s declaration of eternal love and that leaps Pasqual to the obvious conclusion, denounces Marina bluntly, breaks off the engagement and cursing rushes away. Jorge appears, and soon understands Pascual’s mistake and the innocent identity of the letter writer. When he hints he will be leaving tomorrow, Marina can no longer avoid telling him the identity of the man she really loves, and they admit their love for one another.
Emilio Pascual Arrieta (1821 – 1894) was born in Puente la Reina, Navarre, and died in Madrid. His Italian training led him, under the favour of the Queen Isabel II, to concentrate on operatic writing; and though he later composed zarzuelas he remained less committed to the renascent art form than his contemporaries such as Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, continuing to write in an essentially Italianate style throughout his life. The 1887, through-sung and rewritten opera version of his zarzuela, Marina, is one of the most popular lyric stage work in the Spanish repertoire.
Miami Lyric Opera
305.297.3619
miamilyricopera@bellsouth.net
www.miamilyricopera.org
For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com
This Summer’s Biggest Reggae Event
The Harder They Come
Premiere In The United States at The Adrienne Arsht Center For The Performing Arts Of Miami-Dade County direct from London’s West End, the musical based on the 1970’s cult film that transformed reggae music and singer Jimmy Cliff into international sensations.
Begins August 29
Ziff Ballet Opera House
Come see the reggae event of the year! In this hard-driving, irresistible musical celebration, young singer Ivan Martin heads to Kingston with dreams of becoming a reggae star, but a corrupt and drug-fueled music industry drives him into a fast and furious life as Jamaica’s most-wanted outlaw and most-celebrated underground star.
Accompanied by a killer band of outstanding reggae musicians, the cast performs all the classic songs from the film soundtrack, including “By The Rivers of Babylon,” the title song, and the unforgettable global phenomenon, “You Can Get It If You Really Want.”
BUY TICKETS NOW
or call the box office at 305.949.6722 to purchase your tickets today!
Tickets: $50 & $95
August 29 – September 13
John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is proud to present, for the first time in the United States, the internationally acclaimed hit musical THE HARDER THEY COME, opening August 29 in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert. Direct from London’s West End, THE HARDER THEY COME will offer audiences a peek into the journey of an aspiring reggae star as depicted in the 1972 international breakthrough film that caused a reggae music explosion heard around the world.
Hailed by Time Out as “a real thrill…the band is tight, the clothes are right – it’s a sure-fire smash hit,†THE HARDER THEY COME features a cast of 16 Jamaican-born performers and tells the story of young singer Ivanhoe Martin (played by Rolan Bell) as he arrives in Kingston, Jamaica with dreams of becoming a reggae star. A corrupt and drug-fueled music industry drives him into a fast and furious life as Jamaica’s most-wanted outlaw and most-celebrated underground star. Reggae music star and pioneer Jimmy Cliff starred in the ‘70s film of the same title, which catapulted the island’s signature sound into a globally recognized and respected genre, turning Jimmy Cliff and reggae music in general, into an international sensation. “With top-class acting, singing and dancing, [this] superb production faithfully distils not just the movie’s music and characters, but also, somehow its soul†(The Standard).
“The Harder They Come made music history, introducing the world, and the United States in particular, to reggae music. Miami, in the summer of 2009, will be long remembered as the epicenter of cultural history as we host the U.S. premiere of this hit musical at the Adrienne Arsht Center,†said Adrienne Arsht Center President and CEO, M. John Richard. “With three international stage productions to enjoy this summer, including the return of last summer’s smash-hit Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz and the visual spectacular Fuerza Bruta, South Florida has a world of entertainment options that reflect the diversity of our resident community.â€
Accompanied by a killer band of outstanding reggae musicians, the cast performs all the classic songs from the film soundtrack, including “By the Rivers of Babylon,†the title song, and the unforgettable global phenomenon, “You Can Get It If You Really Want.â€
The film of THE HARDER THEY COME was written, produced and directed by the late Perry Henzell. Perry also wrote the book for the musical, which was originally produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East and UK Arts. The West End production, which comes to Miami is directed by Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid and produced by Jan Ryan and Robert Fox.
THE HARDER THEY COME is sponsored in part by Heineken USA Incorporated.
TICKETS
Tickets for THE HARDER THEY COME are on sale now. Single ticket prices range from $50 and $95 and can be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at 305.949.6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org. For information on group sales, please call 786.468.2326.
Tony ‘N Tina Come to Mansion Miami Beach
Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding is the original interactive theatre event. Created in 1988 by Artificial Intelligence, the show opened in New York City and is still running today. TNT has played every major city in America including current productions in New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Chicago and now Miami.
The glamour of South Beach is just the place to see Tony and Tina get hitched. The Latin flavor of Miami permeates the production with Italian and Cuban family members coming together with the audience. At Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding you will be attending the ceremony, mingling with relatives and friends, eating, drinking and dancing to the soulful Carribean beat of the bilingual DJs Donny and Dee Dee Dulce. The evening includes a champagne toast, an International buffet, and of course, a slice of wedding cake.
{If you missed the earlier review and photos, Soul Of Miami HIGHLY recommends this show. But wear sneakers, not heels!}
$10 DISCOUNT* FOR FUERZA BRUTA
Through July 5!
FUERZA BRUTA will be in Miami until August 2! In celebration of the show’s extension, FUERZA BRUTA has created a special promotion that includes a $10 discount on tickets, autographed merchandise drawing and a nightly meet and greet with the cast in the G-Lounge.
To get your discounted tickets,
CLICK HERE and enter promo code FREEDOM.
In response to the overwhelming audience reaction to FUERZA BRUTA, the show will extend through August 2 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. As a thank you to all those who have helped make the performance a success, FUERZA BRUTA has created a special promotion that includes a $10 discount on tickets, autographed merchandise drawing and a nightly meet and greet with the cast in the G Lounge. This exciting and value-driven promotion is only available through July 5.
FUERZA BRUTA SHOW EXTENSION PROMOTION
$10 discount on tickets
Nightly meet and greet with the cast in G Lounge after the performance
Drawing for autographed merchandise
Featured Cocktail: The Nitro – Red, White and Blue American flag creation
This promotion is valid June 30- July 5 (please note there is no show on July 4.) Promotion code: FREEDOM
SHOW TIMES AND TICKET PRICES
Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30 p.m.; and Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Single ticket prices are $63.75 and $73.75 including a $3.75 facility fee. Tickets can be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at 305.949.6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org. Groups of 15 or more, please contact 786.468.2326. For more information and video clips please visit www.fuerzabruta.net.
Once Upon a Mattress
Broadway Actors Advanced
Saturday, June 27, 2009, 2 pm
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street
If you thought you knew the story of The Princess and the Pea, you may be in for a walloping surprise! This rollicking spin on the familiar tale of royal courtship and comeuppance provides for some side-splitting shenanigans! Chances are, you’ll never look at fairy tales quite the same way again!
Performances take place at Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street (1770 Monroe Street). Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children under 12-years-old. Tickets can be purchased at the box office 1 hour prior to the show.
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Disney’s High School Musical 2: On Stage!
Broadway Actors
Friday, June 26, 2009, 5 pm
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street
Disney Channel’s smash hit movie musical comes to life on stage! It’s the last day of junior year, and the East High gang can’t wait to get the summer started. Things have been smooth sailing for Troy and Gabriella since their star turn in Juliet and Romeo, but Sharpay vows to win Troy’s heart this summer – by any means necessary. With all of the Wildcats desperate for cash, Troy gets a surprise phone call that work has arrived! The celebration is cut short when not only Troy, but the entire Wildcats gang, shows up for duty at the Lava Springs Country Club owned by the family of Sharpay and Ryan Evans. Sharpay’s world and Sharpay’s rules. Tyro has to deal with a lot of decisions. Will he give up the Wild cats and Gabriella to rise to the top?
Performances take place at Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, US-1 and Monroe Street (1770 Monroe Street). Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children under 12-years-old. Tickets can be purchased at the box office 1 hour prior to the show.
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The first week of shows sold-out, so we’ve made 50 additional tickets available for each remaining performance – order your tickets today before they sell out too!
Also! $20 “Rush Tickets” now available by lottery!
We’ve set aside 20 “rush tickets” for each show, on sale for just $20 each! For a chance to purchase these specially priced tickets, you must enter the “rush ticket lottery” starting 60 minutes before each show. At a half-hour before show time, the names of the 10 people eligible to purchase “rush tickets” for that performance will be drawn at random.
“Rush tickets” are available in person only at the box office and must be purchased with cash.
Visit www.fuerzabrutamiami.com for behind-the-scenes video, the latest twitter posts, and more!
FUERZA BRUTA is now playing on the Lynn Wolfson Stage at the Ziff Ballet Opera House. Show runs through July 5, 2009.
Le jeu de l’amour et du hasard (Admission by donation)
Pièce de théâtre en français de Marivaux présentée par la Troupe de théâtre amateur de l’Alliance Francaise sous la direction de Yoshvani Medina.
Distribution : INTERPRETATION
Sophie Videment-Dupuy
(Silvia en alternance avec Diane Alexandre )
Diane Alexandre
(Silvia en alternance avec Sophie Videment-Dupuy )
Corine Timon (Lisette)
Philippe (Dorante)
Anne Claude Medal (Arlequin)
Jean Paul Guis (Orgon)
Lucille Rich (Mario en alternance avec Greer Celestin)
Greer Celestin (Mario en alternance avec Lucille Rich)
Jinglin(Sissy) ZHOU (Un Valet)
MUSIQUE
Jean Paul Guis (Clarinette)
COMMUNICATION & MACKETING Jinglin(Sissy) ZHOU (Affiche Et Website) Elise GODIER (Flyer)
SON, LUMIERE ET REGISEUR Elise GODIER
MISE EN SCENE ET SCENOGRAPHIE
Yoshvani Medina
Synopsis
Dans cette piece en prose de 1730, la Marquise Silvia, fille de Orgon, est promise à Dorante, un noble prétendant. Cependant Silvia n’est pas disposée à se marier. C’est pourquoi celle-ci décide, avant les épousailles de l’observer en se faisant passer pour sa propre servante, Lisette. Mais, jeu du hasard (avant celui de l’amour), le gentilhomme a eu de son côté la même idée, et prend alors la place d’Arlequin, son valet qui, lui, devra se faire passer pour le futur époux…
Le metteur en scene :
Yoshvani Medina, (Cuba-France) est diplômé du Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Paris. Il a mis en scène dans le circuit des Scènes Nationales françaises : « Roméo & Juliette », (Shakespeare) ; « Chacun sa vérité », (Pirandello) ; « L’amant », (Pinter) ; « La dispute », (Marivaux) ; « Les monologues du vagin », (Ensler), et bien d’autres. Il a participé a différents festivals en Europe, aux Etats-Unis et en Amérique Latine (Avignon, Limoges, Sibiu, La Havane). Ses pièces ont été mises en scène et/ou en espace au Théâtre du Rond Point des Champs-Élysées, à La Cartoucherie de Vincennes (Paris), à La Vinya (Barcelone), à La Bellone (Bruxelles), à Atlanta Lyric Theater (USA), à Gran Teatro de La Habana (Cuba). Actuellement, il dirige la troupe de théâtre de l’Alliance Française de Miami.
Fuerza Bruta
NOW PLAYING
Lynn Wolfson Stage
at the Ziff Ballet Opera House
“A dazzling blend of erotic, hypnotic, aquatic.” – New York Post
“A sexy, heart-pounding fantasy. Not many shows can boast that they deliver something you’ve never seen before. This one does.” – New York Daily News
LOOK UP — and experience a non-stop collision of dynamic music, jaw-dropping acrobatics, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery that resembles nothing less than a mash up between aerial theater and a late-night dance party!
From the creators of the smash-hit De La Guarda, Fuerza Bruta will transform the Lynn Wolfson Stage into an alternate universe with flying dancers, pumping beats, engaging dream sequences and a multidimensional swimming pool above the heads of the audience. The visuals are spectacular! The effects are stunning!
Add to your experience – party before and after the show (Drinks and food available!) in the G-Lounge by Barton G.!
See fuerzabrutamiami.com for videos, music and more!
Having Already Wowed Audiences In New York, London, Argentina, Colombia And Brazil, The Mind-Blowing Smash Hit Fuerza Bruta arrives in Miami headlining the Adrienne Arsht Center’s 2009 Summer Season
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami- Dade County is thrilled to announce the Miami premiere of the international hit Fuerza Bruta, a non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery that resembles nothing less than a fantastic mash-up between aerial theater and a late-night dance party.
Beginning June 9, the Lynn Wolfson Stage inside of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House will be transformed into an alternate universe with flying dancers, pumping beats, engaging dream sequences and a multidimensional swimming pool above the heads of the audience.
Fuerza Bruta opens officially on June 11, with preview performances June 9 and 10, and will be on stage for a limited 4-week engagement.
“More than 130,000 people enjoyed a performance at the Center last summer. With the presentation of Fuerza Bruta beginning in June, the Adrienne Arsht Center brings to Miami a show that will rock South Florida – a cutting-edge performance that has been a hit all over the world,†said M. John Richard, president and CEO of the Adrienne Arsht Center.
Breaking free from the confines of spoken language and theatrical convention, Fuerza Bruta is an event where worlds collide and reality takes a back seat. This heart-pounding theatrical experience takes place completely on the Lynn Wolfson stage and begins the moment audiences walk in through the Center’s loading dock (dubbed the “Media Dockâ€) into the Fuerza Bruta lounge – a hip urban space alive with heart-pounding club music directed by Miami’s best DJs, multimedia art installations created by local artists, and a signature Barton G. restaurant inspired by the show.
At show time, audiences are ushered onto the main stage where they are engulfed in a 360 degree spectacle featuring mind-blowing visual effects just inches above the audience that must be seen to be believed – a man running full throttle on a giant treadmill, bursting through a series of moving walls; performers suspended in mid-air surrounded by a vast sea of mylar; and gorgeous women twisting ethereally in a lucite pool above the audience. Argentinean creative genius Diqui James, one of the creators of the smash hit show De La Guarda, created the original scenes and magnificent customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement.
As the performance winds down, the visual and aural party continues in the Fuerza Bruta lounge. The pre- and post-party lounge is open to the general public.
“The audience experience will be unlike any other presentation at the Adrienne Arsht Center. From the unique entrance through the loading dock and onstage experience to the interactive pre- and after-party components, Fuerza Bruta will be the talk of the town this summer,†continued Richard.
Fuerza Bruta has a company in New York that is currently performing their second blockbuster year, as well as a touring company that has played major cities worldwide including New York, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, London, Cordoba, Bogota, Edinburgh, Berlin, Mexico, and Sao Paulo to high critical acclaim.
Fuerza Bruta premiered in Buenos Aires in 2005 and has been seen in Lisbon (2006), London (2006), Buenos Aires (2006), Bogota (2007) and at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2007), where it earned critical praise and was honored with the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel award for “the biggest and best show on the Fringe – the must see event of 2007†(The Herald). In October 2007, Fuerza Bruta debuted at New York City’s Daryl Roth Theatre where De La Guarda had played a smashing six-year off-Broadway run. The New York engagement is attracting national media attention and quickly extended its run due to overwhelming demand. Celebrity followers include Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Cameron Diaz, Sting, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford, Tyra Banks, Robert DeNiro, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sandra Bullock, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore, and Drew Barrymore, among others.
Fuerza Bruta was created by Diqui James (De La Guarda Co-founder/Co- creator); Gaby Kerpel (De La Guarda Composer/Musical Director); Alejandro Garcia (De La Guarda Technical Director) and Fabio Daquila (De La Guarda Production Supervisor).
Fuerza Bruta is presented in Miami by the Adrienne Arsht Center, S2BN Entertainment and Ozono Productions. The Miami production is sponsored by Opera Tower and the Riviera South Beach Hotel, part of South Beach Group Hotel collection. The Miami New Times is the official media sponsor of the Miami production.
Show Times & Ticket Prices Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30 p.m.; and Fridays and Saturdays at 10 p.m. Single ticket prices are $63.75 and $73.75 including a $3.75 facility fee.
Tickets for Fuerza Bruta are now on pre-sale for Arsht Center members. To become a member today, please call 305.949.6722. Tickets are on public sale.
Regular-priced tickets can also be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at 305.949.6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org. Groups of 15 or more, please contact 786.468.2326.
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is made possible by the public support of the Miami-Dade County Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council. Education & Outreach is funded in part by The Children’s Trust. The Adrienne Arsht Center also receives generous support from private and corporate contributions to the Performing Arts Center Foundation of Greater Miami through its Membership Program; City of Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency; American Express; Dade Community Foundation; The MAP-Fund, a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
County Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is Miami-Dade County’s largest ever public/private-sector partnership, comprised of an $150 million private capital campaign conducted by the Performing Arts Center Foundation and public funding drawn primarily from the County’s Convention Development Tax revenues, as well as the City of Miami Omni Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment Agency. Greatly enhancing the artistic and educational opportunities in South Florida, the Adrienne Arsht Center will have significant and long-term economic benefits for the city and the region.
The Adrienne Arsht Center, designed by the world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, includes the 2,400-seat Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House, the 2,200-seat Knight Concert Hall, a 200-seat black box Carnival Studio Theater, the Peacock Education Center, a restored Art Deco Tower, and the Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts, which unites the Center buildings across Biscayne Boulevard, providing a magnificent setting for outdoor entertainment and informal gatherings. The key members of the design team include theater planning and design consultant Joshua Dachs of Fisher Dachs Associates, Inc. and acoustician Russell Johnson of ARTEC, Inc., both of whom worked of the project since its inception. The Adrienne Arsht Center is a Miami venue not only for its four resident companies (Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet, and New World Symphony), but also for many smaller South Florida arts organizations that will perform in its theaters on a regular basis, as well as for the finest popular and classical performances from around the world. With state-of-the-art performance facilities in Miami for the first time, the Adrienne Arsht Center offers South Florida audiences the best and most diverse theater, music, and dance – with a dedication to entertain, challenge and educate all segments of the community. For more information, visit www.arshtcenter.org.
About S2BN Entertainment: S2BN Entertainment is a diversified international family show and event entertainment company specializing in the acquisition, development and production of high caliber touring exhibitions, unique live music tours and events, theatrical performances, and consumer and multimedia product offerings. Our experienced management team executes activities across all types of global venues – from stadiums to theaters. S2BN Entertainment delivers solid profitability while providing extraordinary experiences for our clients and our customers.
Summer Shorts is giving away a pair of tickets to one of the three shows’ opening day performances.
To enter the contest, Â send an email to artsexaminer@gmail.com by Wednesday, May 27 at 5 p.m. and explain in 150 words or less why you deserve two tickets to see one of the Summer Shorts. The most creative or inspiring answers will win the pair of tickets for their chosen show. Include in your email which Shorts you would like to see. Parking fee is not included. Enter to win a pair of tickets for one of the following shows. More info can be found at the Miami Theatre Examiner page.
Thursday, May 28, 8 p.m.- Signature Shorts
Friday, May 29, 10 p.m.- undershorts
Sunday May 31. 1 p.m.- Shorts 4 Kids
Sunday, May 31, 3 p.m.- Signature Shorts
Miami Lyric Opera presents Caballeria Rusticana and Suor Angelica
May 28th and 30th, 2009. 8:00 p.m.
Dates: Thursday, May 28th and Saturday, May 30th, 2009. 8:00 p.m.
Location: Colony Theater. 1040 Lincoln Road. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Admission: $30
“Hanno ammazzatu compare Turiddu” (Turiddu has been killed). With this dramatic phrase, concludes the story of popular chivalry tradition in the old Sicily of the 19th Century. Love, jealousy and infidelity create the drama that ends in a death among friends. The story of Giovanni Vega attracted Mascagni theatrical intuition to create one of the most popular opera of the Italian repertoire, Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry).
Come and listen to the most beautiful and dramatic melodies with its famous “Intermezzo” great arias and duets and the choral with popular mystic songs that villagers sing to nature and Holiness.
The selection of a dual opera program with Cavalleria and Suor Angelica will provide our public with two extraordinary works from Mascagni and Puccini very close to the hearts of the opera lovers. Traditionally I Pagliacci combines with Cavalleria on the same performance but we felt that Suor Angelica would add freshness and emotion to a dramatic evening experience.
Meet some of the Cavalleria’s Artists
Veronica Murua (Santuzza). Young Mexican Soprano who makes her first appearance with MLO. She has performed the role in Mexico with great success.
Francesco Valpa (Turiddu). Francesco is an Italian tenor well remembered by our public for his remarkable performance of the same role in 2004 receiving enthusiastic reviews by the Miami Herald. He also sung with MLO La Boheme as the poet Rodolfo with great success.
Kevin Misslich (Alfio). Mr. Misslich makes his debut with MLO in the role of Alfio. He is a talented baritone having performed in different opera houses around the nation.
For May 28th performance tickets, CLICK HERE
For May 30th performance tickets, CLICK HERE
Miami Lyric Opera
305.297.3619
miamilyricopera@bellsouth.net
www.miamilyricopera.org
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The Harder They Come
Begins August 29
Knight Concert Hall
Come see the reggae event of the year! In this hard-driving, irresistible musical celebration, young singer Ivan Martin heads to Kingston with dreams of becoming a reggae star, but a corrupt and drug-fueled music industry drives him into a fast and furious life as Jamaica’s most-wanted outlaw and most-celebrated underground star.
Accompanied by a killer band of outstanding reggae musicians, the cast performs all the classic songs from the film soundtrack, including “By The Rivers of Babylon,” the title song, and the unforgettable global phenomenon, “You Can Get It If You Really Want.”
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or call the box office at 305.949.6722.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Fl. 33132
Chicago
May 26 – May 31
Ziff Ballet Opera House
“Chicago has no peer on Broadway in matters of wit, style and sheer musical riches,” says Variety. It’s a razzle-dazzle tabloid tale that has won six Tony Awards®, two Olivier Awards, a Grammy and thousands of standing ovations throughout its record-breaking run in New York and around the world. See the show, live on stage, that sparked the Oscar-winning movie!
JUST ANNOUNCED!
Sofia Vergara, one of the hottest Latina stars of stage, film and TV, will star in the Miami engagement of CHICAGO! Read her letter to her fans here!
As one of the most beloved personalities of the Latino entertainment world, Vergara will bring major heat as ‘Matron Mamma Morton’ in this award-winning musical. Vergara is featured in the current box office smash Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail and her credits also include the female lead in the film Four Brothers, directed by John Singleton, and starring Mark Wahlberg; Chasing Papi, opposite Eduardo Verástegui; and the steamy 2008 telenovela “Fuego en la sangre.†Her TV guest appearances include “Entourage,†“Eve,†‘Baywatch,†“Punk’d,†and numerous talk shows including, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!†“Don Francisco presenta,†“Late Night with Conan O’Brien,†“Despierta America,†and “Last Call with Carson Daly.â€
A Special Event for the Cultural Center of Spain
Saturday, May 9th at 8pm.
Sanford & Dolores Ziff Opera House
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
In honor of the Spanish Consulate in Miami, Florida Grand Opera has a special offer to see Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. When you buy your tickets with the code CCE you’ll receive a 50% discount. Experience this emotionally charged drama overflowing with some of grand opera’s greatest music performed by a world renowned cast. Don’t miss Florida Grand Opera’s spectacular season finale, with this special offer for one night only …more info click here
Call for best available seats M-F 10 AM – 4 PM at 1-800-741-1010 or select-your-seat on-line today with the special code CCE at www.fgo.org
Courtest of CCE Miami
Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
May 12 – May 17
Ziff Ballet Opera House
Direct from Broadway! Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy has been “wowing” audiences. This show is the “grandest circus spectacle east of Vegas!” says New York Magazine. With stunning athleticism and explosive imagination, an international cast of soaring aerialists, spine-bending contortionists, acrobats, jugglers, and musicians create a breathtaking and exotic universe.
“Parlez-vous français ?”
Cabaret-Concert by French Artist Frederic STROUCK
The incredible adventure of a French teacher who decided to go and live his american dream. The evolution of his teenage point of view make him face today’s US reality … The tone is very humoristic and the show is based on a recital of French tunes that became worldwide hits (My way, Beyond the sea, What now my love, where do I begin, …)
General Admission: $15 / $10 for members
Frédéric Strouck’s career has been far from typical. After studying science and armed with a passion for lighting design, he began by studying cinema in view of becoming a director of photography. Simultaneously, he taught himself the piano and started composing his first songs. Increasingly interested by the relationship between music and dramatic art and the use of music in film and opera, the works of composers including Stephen Sondheim and Claude-Michel Schönberg inevitably led him to what was to become a passion for musical theatre.
Encouraged by a friend and never having considered himself as a singer, Frédéric auditioned for the 1996 production of FAME, played the part of Nick Piazza and went on to perform in shows including: PIAF JE T’AIME, HAIR, the German production of LES MISERABLES and spent five years with Jerome Savary’s company at the Opera Comique. During this time, he continued his career as a composer, writing various jingles and theme-tunes and in 2000, was commissioned by Pascal Pistone to orchestrate his contemporary musical PETER. With co-author Grégory Blot-Rudolph, he began to write and their first musical LES 7 PECHES CAPTEAUX based on a concept of song parodies in a super-market, was performed at the Gymnase Marie Bell theatre, Paris in May 2004. Following interest from television companies, Frédéric and Gregory were soon invited to adapt the show into what became SOAPERETTE, a series of short musical programs that were to invent a new kind of “fictional-variety†show! Directed by Gilles Amado, the series was aired on FOX-Life, NRJ12 and PLUG-RTL in 2007 and 2008. Working as actor, author and musical director on the show not only furthered Frédéric’s already multi-facetted career but also led to him being asked to direct Marie Orlandi’s performance as Piaf at the Olympia Theatre, Paris in July 2007.
Frédéric Strouck a un parcours artistique assez alambiqué. Après des études scientifiques, passionné par la lumière, il s’engage dans des études de cinéma dans le but de devenir directeur de la photographie. En parallèle, presque par bravade, il se met au piano et commence, en autodidacte, à composer ses premières chansons. Extrêmement intéressé par les rapports qu’entretiennent la musique et la dramaturgie, il va s’orienter vers les musiques qui sont au service d’une intrigue et les intrigues qui servent la musique (l’opéra, la musique de films,…) C’est assez naturellement qu’il découvre l’univers de la comédie musicale anglo-saxonne pour lequel il aura une attirance démesurée : associant la richesse d’univers musicaux des plus hétéroclites à une certaine forme d’emphase et un fort rapport à l’intrigue, il reçoit comme un éléctro-choc l’écoute des spectacles de Stephen Sondheim ou de Claude-Michel Schönberg. Poussé par une amie, il se décide, alors qu’il ne se considère pas comme un chanteur, à passer une audition pour le spectacle ” Fame ” en 1996, il sera engagé pour le rôle de Nick Piazza et enchainera alors en tant qu’interprète des spectacles comme ” Piaf, je t’aime “, ” Hair “, ” Les Misérables ” (en Allemagne), puis intégrera la troupe de Jérôme Savary à l’Opéra Comique pendant 5 ans. En parallèle, il poursuit son parcours de compositeur en écrivant quelques génériques et jingles pour la radio et se met à l’orchestration symphonique sur la commande d’arrangements de Pascal Pistone et de sa comédie musicale contemporaine ” Peter ” en 2000. Il se lance alors dans l’écriture et c’est avec son co-auteur complice Grégory Blot-Rudolph qu’il accouche du spectacle musical ” Les 7 Péchés Capitaux ” qui sera joué au théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell à paris en Mai 2004. Le concept du spectacle qui repose sur la contextualisation de parodies de chanson dans une intrigue sous forme de huis clos dans un supermarché intéresse alors la télévision. Avec Grégory, il adapte le concept de leur pièce pour créer ” Soaperette “. Ce programme court musical qui invente la ” variété-fiction ” sera réalisé par Gilles Amado et diffusé courant 2007/2008 sur les chaines FOX-Life, NRJ12, et PLUG-RTL. Cette expérience multiplie encore ses casquettes en le faisant travailler en tant qu’auteur, interprète, mais lui demande également de gérer l’artistique et la direction musicale. On lui propose alors de diriger Marie Orlandi dans son interprétation de Piaf sur la scène de l’Olympia en Juillet 2007.
More information at http://www.myspace.com/fredericstrouck
Directed by Arturo Fernandez
Written by & Starring Meshaun Labrone
From Carbonell nominated and critically acclaimed South Florida actor / playwright Meshaun Labrone comes The Hate U Gave: The Tupac Shakur Story, an incendiary journey into the mind of Tupac through the playwright’s eyes. The intensity unfolds inside the mind of a man imprisoned by his past, society, self, reality, and regret, as he fights to wrestle away freedom from the enemies that lie within. His adversaries are reflections from his thoughts, each character representative of the demons that haunted his life, mind, and soul until his death.
Venue: The Byron Carlyle Theater*
Dates: May 1st – 2nd, 2009
Where: 500 71 Street, Miami Beach, FL 33141
Time: Friday & Saturday: 8:00 pm
Admission: VIP Seating: $40.00
General: $25.00
Seniors, Students & Military: $20.00
Reservation: BoxOffice@groundupandrising.org
Or call 305-867-4194
Purchase Tickets Online
The gripping true story of a young geisha, seduced and abandoned by a U.S. Navy Lieutenant.
For him, it was a passing pleasure. For her, it meant a lifetime of love and devotion. Family, fortune and honor–poor Butterfly forsakes them all, for the officer who was no gentleman. Watch Michael Douglas tell Glen Close about the impact Madama Butterfly made on his life in the movie Fatal Attraction, and then close that window and click here to purchase your seats because TICKETS ARE GOING FAST. And if that is not enough to convince you click here and experience Butterfly’s moving and unforgettable aria, Un bel di (One Fine Day) . Remember, there are projected titles in English and Spanish at every performance, so you can enjoy and understand every emotionally charged moment.
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
April 25 at 7 PM
April 29, May 1, 2, 5, 8 & 9 at 8 PM
May 3 at 2 PM
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
May 14 & 16 at 8 PM
ORDER TODAY for best seats. Select your own seat on line at fgo.org, or call the box office, M-F 10 AM – 4 PM, 1-800-741-1010.
Mad Cat Theatre Company presents BroadSword a new play by Marco Ramirez
April 10th – May 2nd 2009
Thursdays-Saturdays 8pm
The Light Box
3000 Biscayne Blvd #100, Miami, Fl 33137
Admission is $25; Students are $10 with valid I.D.
Cash or Check only
Call (305) 576-6377 for reservations and info.
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Mad Cat Theatre Company returns for its second production of its ninth season with BroadSword, a new play by Marco Ramirez. BroadSword is a play with heavy metal. 16 years ago, the heavy metal band BroadSword, from Rahway, New Jersey, unexpectedly broke up and the 4 members went their separate ways. Now the mysterious disappearance of their lead guitarist, Richie Gomez, reunites the original band members along with the band’s biggest groupie and some creepy old guy to figure out what the hell happened to Richie.
Directed by Paul Tei, BroadSword stars Mad Cat company members Erik Fabregat, Paul Tei, Scott Genn, Sofia Citarella with guest actor George Schiavone and the return of former company member Gregg Weiner.
-SPECIAL OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION-
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2009
Celebrate the opening of BroadSword with food, libations, and a meet and greet with the cast with your purchase of a $40 Opening Night Ticket to the show. Event begins at 7:00 p.m. Show begins at 8:00 p.m. To purchase tickets with a credit card for Opening Night ONLY call Miami Light at 305.576.4350.
THIS SATURDAY ONLY: 2-FOR-1 TICKETS FOR CELIA, FUERZA BRUTA, AND MORE!
April 4, Sat. 8pm
Jelaluddin Rumi, a 13th century mystical poet, has been America’s best-selling poet for many years.
His books have sold more than a million copies in the U.S. Rumi’s universal legacy – through his personal life, writings, and practices – is to live in peace, to serve the highest calling, to celebrate diversity, and to love all.
Hear the poetry of Rumi, dramatically spoken live by Peter Rogen in English and Amir Vahab in Farsi, accompanied by three wonderful Sufi musicians: Arsalaan playing the nay flute and harp, Osiris on frame drum and other percussions, and Amir on nay flute, tanbour, and drums. The music of the nay flute and tanbour is improvised (“taksim”) in the authentic Turkish and Persian styles. The musicians may also provide spontaneous Sufi chanting to accompany some of the poems.
EVENT INFO:
LOCATION: 4760 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, 33140
COST: $20 adults & $15 seniors/students/online
Click here, scroll down to Rumi Night to purchase tickets
Friday, May 1st 8pm
“An Evening with John Waters”
This Filthy World – Dirty & Filthier
The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival & Edison Farrow are proud to present an evening with the iconic, irreverent, and deliciously twisted John Waters!
The man who brought us Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and made Divine a cult-icon will take to the stage of the Lincoln Theater on South Beach for one-night only, in his first South Florida stage appearance in over a decade!
John Waters’ one-man show is a “vaudeville” act that celebrates the film career and obsessive tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.” Focusing in on Waters’ early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers” everywhere.
VIP TICKETS
VIP ticket holders will receive reserved prime seating in the orchestra pit, as well as admittance to a private Meet & Greet reception with John Waters. Tickets are limited and will sell out!
Lincoln Theater
541 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach
305.674.1040
VIP Tickets: $125
Lower-level tickets: $45
Balcony tickets: $35
Sexy Servants
A Philandering Count
& A Frisky Teen
Cupid has his hands full getting this wedding party to the church on time!
The Count makes sexual advances to the maid, who is engaged to the valet, who is pursued by an older woman, who is annoyed by a hormonal teen, who is obsessed with the boss’s wife…are you with me so far???? Buy your tickets today for this delicious, bodacious and bawdy comedy!
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
March 21, 22, 24, 25, 27 & 28
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
April 2 & 4
Call the Box Office at 1-800-741-1010 or Select-Your-Seat at www.fgo.org
A Night at the Opera – MOCA Shaker Event on Friday, March 20, 6 pm
Performance of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro
Hors d’oeuvres & cocktails in the Patrons Lounge
Talk by Michael Lonergan
Adrienne Arsht Center
Dance Now! Ensemble would like you to know about the upcoming concert by our friends at Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida.
Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida
Vladimir Issaev, Artistic Director
Presents The World Premiere
Fairy Doll
Music by Josef Bayer
March 7 & 8
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets: 954-462-0222
www.browardcenter.org
March 14 & 15
Julius Littman North Miami Beach Performing Arts Theater
Tickets: 1-800-494-8497
www.boxofficetickets.com
www.artsballettheatre.org
305-935-3232
CompagnieMarie Chouinard
The Rite of Spring and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Florida Premieres
DATE & TIME Friday & Saturday March 13 & 14, 2009 8:30 pm
TICKETS $50 VIP ticket, priority entrance and seating
$25 General Admission
$20 Students/Seniors w/ ID
Marie Chouinard is a choreographer who cannot be mistaken for anyone else. Her Montreal-based company has received worldwide acclaim for its angular, startling and moving dance works. This weekend they make a triumphal return to Miami with two outstanding pieces that showcase Chouinard’s unique and distinctive style. In The Rite of Spring, working with Stravinsky’s music, Chouinard, through sensual, almost primal choreography, mines the intimate mysterious depths of each of her dancers. The totem-like costumes that echo the animal world in its violence and beauty add to the dance’s vivid effect. A short solo work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, preceeds The Rite of Spring.
Now a fixture on the world’s major stages and at international festivals, Compagnie Marie Chouinard has its roots in Chouinard’s solo work, which began back in 1978. Her over fifty productions, action-performances, vocal works, installations and films earned her a reputation for daring originality. She refined her lifelong interest in formal research and the human body, going on to form her own dance company in 1990. Through her choreography Chouinard has explored the “poetics of the body” in immediate, intelligible and ever-surprising ways.
This performance includes nudity.
Miami Light Project & the Adrienne Arsht Center present Here & Now: 2009 as part of the Miami Made Festival of New Work featuring 2 world premieres by Rosie Herrera and Alexey Puig Taran
March 5-7, 2009, 7:30pm
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Carnival Studio Theater
1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL
Tickets: $20.00
Here & Now yields an annual bounty of innovative, eye-opening new works; up-close-and-personal world premieres in the Carnival Studio Theater featuring some of Miami’s most promising emerging artists!
Alexey Puig Taran – Symbol
From aerial dance and video-art to music, words and improvisation, Guggenheim dance fellow Alexey Puig Taran’s Symbol explores the boundaries of poetry where color, beauty, desire, and faith incorporate us into the cosmic order. Dancers fly, suspended from the ceiling as rain washes down on them in a vivid display of athletic grace.
Rosie Herrera – Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret
Choreographer Rosie Herrera recreates dream states through dance, theater, cabaret, opera and surrealism using water as a metaphor for the unconscious. Featuring a cast of 14 dancers, singers, bakers and drag queens and 10 birthday cakes that take you on a vivid journey through dreams and drowning.
MCB will perform Program IV at Broward Center March 13-15,
Kravis Center March 27-29, and Adrienne Arsht Center April 3-5.
Click here to order online or call (877) 929-7010 toll-free.
The Cleveland Orchestra performs Peter and the Wolf/Pedro y el Lobo
Latin Grammy Award winner, flutist, and Miami resident Nestor Torres will join The Cleveland Orchestra in Miami for April concerts as the narrator of a bilingual performance of Peter and the Wolf/Pedro y el Lobo, a favorite of the classical music repertoire that introduces young people to the orchestra.
A Family Concert open to the public will be held on Saturday, April 4, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor Tito Muñoz will lead the program, and Nestor Torres will provide both Spanish and English narration for this concert, which includes works by Mozart, Cimarosa, Dvořák, and Delecluse, in addition to Peter and the Wolf/Pedro y el Lobo.
Mr. Torres and Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Principal Flute Marisela Sager will perform the third movement from the Concerto in G major for Two Flutes by Domenico Cimarosa.
This concert is preceded by the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Family Fest, a free, event-filled day at the Arsht Center beginning at 11:30 a.m.
The same program will be performed at Education Concerts for public elementary school students in partnership with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools on Thursday, April 2, at 10:00 a.m. and noon, at the Arsht Center.
In Peter and the Wolf/Pedro y el Lobo, each character in Prokofiev’s musical story about an adventurous little boy is represented by the distinctive sound of a different musical instrument or group of instruments.
Teachers at participating schools will receive related curriculum materials including CDs, teacher guides, and student newspapers to help them prepare students for the concert.
The Education and Family Concerts are presented during the third week of the Orchestra’s 2009 Miami Residency, which also includes Cleveland Orchestra subscription concerts on Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4, at 8 p.m. at the Arsht Center.
Family Fest at the Adrienne Arsht Center,
Saturday, April 4, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (FREE!)
Just prior to the April 4 Cleveland Orchestra Family Concert, families will have the opportunity to See! Touch! Learn! Discover! the Performing Arts with Family Fest at the Adrienne Arsht Center when the Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza becomes Miami’s most exciting interactive arts playground. Hands-on, free, fun learning activities for children include crafts, face-painting, storytelling, and movement and theater classes, as well as outdoor performances.
Biographical Information
Tito Muñoz is in his second season as an assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra/League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow. An alumnus of the National Conducting Institute, Mr. Muñoz has also conducted the National Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He is a native of New York City.
Marisela Sager joined The Cleveland Orchestra as assistant principal flute in 2005. Born in Vista, California, she holds a bachelor of music degree from San Diego State University and a master of music degree from Rice University. For the 2004-05 season, Ms. Sager served as assistant principal flute of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with Miami’s New World Symphony.
Born in Puerto Rico, flutist Nestor Torres studied at the Mannes School of Music and the New England Conservatory. He has won the Latin Grammy award in the Pop instrumental category and his most recent album, Nouveau Latino, was nominated for a 2009 Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album, instrumental or vocal. Mr. Torres has been honored for his commitment to youth, education (including music education), and cultural exchanges.
Images of Mr. Muñoz, Ms. Sager, and Mr. Torres are available upon request. More information about The Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency is available at www.clevelandorchestramiami.com.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami series is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Concert Tickets
A very limited number of reserved Family Concert tickets are available for $27.25 and $17.25 (Orchestra Main/First Tier.) As part of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Family Fest FREE general admission tickets may be reserved beginning March 7, online at arshtcenter.org, or by calling the box office at 305-949-6722. Cleveland Orchestra patrons will have the first chance to reserve general admission tickets and beginning March 6 the public will be able to reserve.
For tickets to the Family Concert or for subscriptions to Cleveland Orchestra concerts, call the Arsht Center Box Office at (305) 949-6722 or order online at www.arshtcenter.org.
A limited number of tickets for the weekday Education Concerts (April 2) are available for purchase to independent, parochial, and private schools, as well as home- schooled students. Visit www.clevelandorchestramiami.com after February 23 and click on “Education & Community†for the Education Concert Reservation Form for non-public schools.
Music lovers interested in Cleveland Orchestra performances in Miami can be added to the priority mailing list by emailing miami@clevelandorchestra.com, calling (305) 372-7747, or subscribing to the email list at www.clevelandorchestramiami.com.
Florida International Magazine says “Miami Light Project has been grooming future stars for years” and this year is no different as we continue our ground-breaking commissioning/presenting partnership with the Arsht Center. Here & Now yields an annual bounty of innovative, eye-opening new works; up-close-and-personal world premieres in the Studio Theater featuring some of Miami’s most promising emerging artists.
Elizabeth Doud & Jennylin Duany
Sipping Fury From a Tea Cup
Choreography, photographic studies of insects and the animal world, and an originally crafted musical sound-scape explore the mystery of the recent disappearance of bee colonies known as the Colony Collapse Disorder. Elizabeth Doud & Jennylin Duany direct a stage wide traffic jam of remote controlled cars and invite you to a very unique tea party in Sipping Fury From A Tea Cup.
Rosie Herrera
Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret
Choreographer Rosie Herrera recreates dream states through dance, theater, cabaret, opera and surrealism using water as a metaphor for the unconscious. Featuring a cast of 14 dancers, singers, bakers and drag queens and 10 birthday cakes that take you on a vivid journey through dreams and drowning.
Alexey Puig Taran
Symbol
From aerial dance and video-art to music, words and improvisation, Guggenheim dance fellow Alexey Puig Taran’s Symbol explores the boundaries of poetry where color, beauty, desire, and faith incorporate us into the cosmic order. Dancers fly, suspended from the ceiling as rain washes down on them in a vivid display of athletic grace.
Miami Light Project & Adrienne Arsht Center
present
Here & Now: 2009
featuring new works by
Elizabeth Doud & Jennylin Duany, Rosie Herrera and Alexey Puig Taran
March 5-7, 2009, 7:30pm
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Carnival Studio Theater
1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL
Tickets: $20.00
Miami Light Project’s Here & Now program is one of the 31 inaugural grant recipients of the The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Arts Partnership Program.
Since 1999, 65 South Florida based artists have been commissioned for Here & Now. Over 30 of these artists have gone on to perform in 14 states and 15 countries for an estimated world wide audience of over 20,000! Join us again this year as South Florida artists continue to leave an indelible mark on the South Florida Cultural landscape!
CompagnieMarie Chouinard
The Rite of Spring and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Florida Premieres
DATE & TIME
Friday & Saturday
March 13 & 14, 2009
8:30 pm
TICKETS
$50 VIP ticket, priority entrance and seating
$25 General Admission
$20 Students/Seniors w/ ID
LOCATION
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL
Marie Chouinard is a choreographer who cannot be mistaken for anyone else. Her Montreal-based company has received worldwide acclaim for its angular, startling and moving dance works. This weekend they make a triumphal return to Miami with two outstanding pieces that showcase Chouinard’s unique and distinctive style. In The Rite of Spring, working with Stravinsky’s music, Chouinard, through sensual, almost primal choreography, mines the intimate mysterious depths of each of her dancers. The totem-like costumes that echo the animal world in its violence and beauty add to the dance’s vivid effect. A short solo work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, preceeds The Rite of Spring.
Now a fixture on the world’s major stages and at international festivals, Compagnie Marie Chouinard has its roots in Chouinard’s solo work, which began back in 1978. Her over fifty productions, action-performances, vocal works, installations and films earned her a reputation for daring originality. She refined her lifelong interest in formal research and the human body, going on to form her own dance company in 1990. Through her choreography Chouinard has explored the “poetics of the body” in immediate, intelligible and ever-surprising ways.
This performance includes nudity.
“Marie Chouinard’s Rite of Spring is, in short, a masterpiece.”
– Pittsburgh Tribune Review
For more information and a video preview, go to Tigertail’s Marie Chouinard event page.
More on Compagnie Marie Chouinard at the company’s website and YouTube.
Heady Love Meets Crushing Despair
Cultures collide, generations are at war and lovers fall irresistibly, helplessly and hopelessly in love. Lakmé, set in the jungles of Southern India, is more colorful than Bollywood and more emotional than Slumdog Millionaire, while featuring some of the most visually stunning sets and costumes ever to be seen on the grand opera stage. You know the music, you’ve heard it countless times in movies and TV commercials…click here and listen to the haunting and exotic melodies…and if Valentine’s Day chocolates and roses didn’t get you the results you were looking for…this opera will put the “grrrrrrr” into the romance you’ve been waiting for!
Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami
Feb. 21 (7 PM),Feb. 22 (2 PM), Feb. 24, 25, 27, 28 (8 PM)
Broward Center, Ft. Lauderdale
Mar 5 & 7 (8 PM)
Select your own seats on line at fgo.org or call our Ticket Hot Line M-F, 10 AM – 4 PM, at 1-800-741-1010…but get your tickets today!
See You There!
The Evolution of Broadway
Feb. 21 & 22, Sat. 8 pm, Sun., 3 pm
A wonderful new musical revue by ASJ’s Artistic Director David Kingery
The Broadway Musical is a true American art form!
Broadway has captivated audiences for over a century, with cutting-edge plots, music and lyrics that mirror our multi-faceted society.
Join David & his talented troupe of singers, dancers & actors on this journey that celebrates the riches of Broadway — past & present.
Where: Arts at St. Johns, 4760 Pinetree Drive,
Miami Beach, FL 33140
TIX: $20 adults, $15 online/seniors/students
Buy tickets online at www.artsatstjohns.com
Phone: 305-613-2325
We thank The Miami Salon Group for its generous grant for this program. Thanks also to the City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs for their support.
Arts at St. Johns presents a new Broadway revue about the birth and blossoming of the American musical since its inception over 100 years ago. The Broadway musical, a true American art form, often mirrors society – at its best and worst. Thousands of shows have been created — with endless plots, subjects, styles, settings and genres. The Broadway musical evolved alongside American culture- and sometimes paved the way.
Recently, numerous Broadway shows have closed in New York due to the new economic crisis – ticket sales are low and audiences are dwindling. Will Broadway survive? We believe it absolutely will!
In the late 1800’s, the format of the Broadway musical originated in New York City through a collaboration of talented theater actors, vaudeville performers and burlesque dancers, led by the lavish producer Florenz Ziegfeld. The first popular shows were written by great American composers such as the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern and were campy, fun, and poetic, with plots, songs, flashy costumes and at times, risqué subject matter.
The stock-market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression profoundly affected Broadway theater, causing the number of productions to decline dramatically. But writers and performers never gave up their passion and love of Musical Theater.
Paradoxically, the period after the Depression was quite creative and spawned THE GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY, starting in the early 40’s with classic greats such as Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, The King and I, Hello Dolly and My Fair Lady. Composers such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe, Kander and Ebb, and Jerry Herman churned out Broadway blockbusters. These shows also created huge stars including Julie Andrews, Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, George M. Cohan, and Rex Harrison.
Musicals have explored almost every subject and classic tale imaginable, covering diverse topics such as cultural differences, war, young love, murder, royalty, poverty, racism, religion and other controversial issues. Broadway has also recognized and paid tribute to many diverse ethnicities and cultures, with shows such as West Side Story, Miss Saigon, The Lion King, Brigadoon and the classic of Porgy n Bess.
The music, politics and the media of 60’s and 70’s changed America – and Broadway shows. Rock music, dominating the radio waves, also infiltrated the stage. The musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, and Bye Bye Birdie rocked the house. The first rock musical was HAIR- filled with hippies, afros and even full nudity.
Today, ASJ’s artistic director, David Kingery, has crafted this lively new production, The Evolution of Broadway, as a testament to the creativity of this genre. The production will also cover modern musicals including the styles of Andrew Lloyd Weber, Steven Sondheim and Steven Schwartz, paying tributes to shows like Cats, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, and Wicked.
Broadway has survived and mirrored two world wars, various political upheavals, the Great Depression and now faces another economic downfall. However, we know that this American art form is strong and resilient – Broadway will persevere!!!
Miami-Italia International
Friday & Saturday, February 20 & 21 at 8 p.m.
From the comically edgy and ethereal to the precisely executed and zany, Miami Contemporary Dance Company presents two new world premieres in Miami-Italia International. The performance features the works of two award winning choreographers, Ray Sullivan of Miami Contemporary Dance Company and Paolo Mohovich of Balleto dell’ Esperia. The evening opens with the world premiere of Mohovich’s “Strange News From Another Star”. Taking chances, Mohovich plays between unison phrases and frenetic abandonment with a masterful focus on the structural and artistic integrity of the piece. The second half of the evening features the world premiere of “Nonna’s Pasta Dances.” The piece is based on the childhood experiences of Ray Sullivan and the time he spent with his italian grandmother when she prepared holiday feasts and family dinners. Sullivan takes these memories and introduces us to crazy, over the top characters and zany, off- the-wall dances. The result is a comedic tribute to all things Italian-American! For more information about Miami Contemporary Dance Company, call 305-865-6232. Tickets are $20, $25, $35 and limited Student and Senior tickets for $15 and can be purchased at the Colony Box Office or through Ticketmaster.
Colony Theater
1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
305-674-1040 (Box Office)
The Evolution of Broadway
Feb. 21 & 22, Sat. 8 pm, Sun., 3 pm
An incredible new musical revue by ASJ’s Artistic Director David Kingery
The Broadway Musical is a true American art form!
Broadway has captivated audiences for over a century, with cutting-edge plots, music and lyrics that mirror our multi-faceted society.
Join David & his talented troupe of singers, dancers & actors on this historic, entertaining journey that celebrates the riches of Broadway — past & present.
Our great cast includes David Kingery, Kristen Fox, Ray Yanez, Nydia Noreiga, Jesse Carlo, Melissa Youngblood, Kelly Roberts and Carl Lauderman.
Where: Arts at St. Johns, 4760 Pinetree Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33140
TIX: $20 adults, $15 online/seniors/students
Buy tickets online at www.artsatstjohns.com
Phone: 305-613-2325
the sixth exciting installment of Pure Imagination LIVE at Sweat Records!! It’s one of the most unique, FREE nights of titillating entertainment in town so mark your calendars and make it out!!
To read more about it, check out this awesome Miami Herald article that came out on Sunday: Poetic Absurdities: WVUM’s Matt Gajewski upholds a storytelling tradition… and the New Times Crossfade Blog too!!
Dances in the Key of Love – Feb. 7th & 8th
The Dance Now! Ensemble ushers in Valentine’s Day with Dances in the Key of Love, February 7th and 8th. Through lush and expressive choreography, directors, Hannah Baumgarten and Diego Salterini, celebrate love in its various forms. From friendship to romantic love and heartbreak, the art form of dance tells the story of the heart. Dances in the Key of Love is a moving evening of dance theater, appropriate for all ages.
Tickets: $25 general; $20 advance; $15 students/seniors; group rates available
Tickets available at: Box Office 305-867-4194 or Ticketmaster
For more information:
www.dancenowmiami.org
info@dancenowmiami.org
305-975-8489
Watch the Don Quixote video trailer here
MCB will perform Program III, Don Quixote, at Adrienne Arsht Center Feb. 6-8,
Broward Center Feb. 13-15, and Kravis Center Feb. 20-22.
Click here to order tickets online or call (877) 929-7010 toll free.
PETER, PETER AND POTTER!
Gold Coast Theatre Company celebrates two famous children’s classics –Peter & the Wolf and Peter Pan- and weaves them into a story told by the hilarious professors of a famous English school of sorcery- Pigwarts!
A tribute to childhood heroes showcasing comedy, magic and mime with an international cast
DYLAN ACE, GRACIELA BINAGHI, PETER KISILUK, LELA LOMBARDO, JUDE PARRY
Sunday, January 25 at 2pm & 7pm at the Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami FL 33132
Box Office: 305 949 6722 or ArshtCenter.org
Saturday, January 31 at 7pm, Sunday, February 1 at 3pm, Broward Center, 201 SW 5 Av, Ft Laud
Box Office: 954 462 0222 or BrowardCenter.org
Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children under 14
Please contact us for further information! 305 538 5500
Or email us at goldcoast-panto@hotmail.com
Bring the kids! Don’t have any? Borrow some! You will enjoy the experience even more!
We hope to see YOUR smiling face at “PETER, PETER & POTTERâ€!
9 Days until Coco Peru at the Colony Theater! Tickets Selling Fast!
Sunday, January 11th 7pm
“An Evening with Coco Peru”
Special appearance by the Miami Gay Men’s Chorus
On Sunday January 11th, Coco Peru will be making a South Florida stop as she performs her stand up comedy show at the Colony Theater on Lincoln Road for one show only!
Coco has appeared in such films as Trick, Too Wong Foo, Girls Will Be Girls, and on TV in Will and Grace, Arrested Development, Twins, New York Undercover, Rude Awakening, Boy Meets Boy. Special guests the Miami Gay Men’s Chorus will also be performing.
Check out her website at: www.MissCoco.com
Colony Theater
1040 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach
305.674.1040
Tickets Selling Fast!
All tickets are only $25.
You can buy tickets (without any fees) at the Colony Theater, or on-line at www.ticketmaster.com
MCB will perform Program II at Adrienne Arsht Center January 9-11 and at Broward Center January 16-18. Click here to order online or call (877) 929-7010 toll free.
Colony Theater 1040 Lincoln Road Miami, FL
Our sincere apologies to the opera purists… Two professional opera singers decided that the world needed a good fat laugh! Big egos, along with big wigs, gorgeous voices, and ridiculous characters…audiences from college kids to older opera buffs adore this show and schtick. From the hallowed stage of Carnegie Hall, these hilarious ladies will tickle your funny bone as they combine “serious” operatic music with completely slapstick humor.
And remember, “it ain’t over till…” Well, you know.
“WHO KNEW OPERA COULD BE SO MUCH FUN?” Howard Cohen, Miami Herald July 11, 2008 “The Sopranos was never quite like this: “Baroness Vladka von Loudenstimme has had a long career on the opera stage but for how much longer is anyone’s guess. She’s still got the pipes but she likes to soak them in booze whenever she can — as in during every performance. So she hires the younger Southern belle Gwendoline Josephine Bellevoix Bouvier, who fancies herself French and cultured but who grew up in Boar Tush, La., to sing for the audience so she can sprint off stage for a nip. “One pianist named Paige Turner, 18 costumes, a horned helmet, spear, light saber and a lotta Puccini later, the diva duet becomes a duel. The aim is laughter. That’s the premise of Duelling Divas, a comedic entree into the world of grand opera.”
“A SMASH HIT!” WPBF-TV News 25 “An inspired stand-out in operatic theatre.” Ocala Magazine “See how high art and high camp combine!” Miami New Times
Tickets on Ticketmaster: $35, $22.50, $10
Miss Twinkleton’s Schools For Sensitive Boys Presents The Nutcracker: Men In Tights!
Friday, December 19, Saturday, December 20, 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, December 21, 3:00 p.m.
The Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
305.674.1040 www.miamigaychorus.org
Tickets: $30, $25, $20, $15
The Miami Gay Men’s Chorus December Concert will be packed with the kind of humor and irreverence (with some sprinkles of nostalgia and sensitivity) you’ve grown to love from this All Volunteer Chorus.
See The Music, Hear The Dancing Performance and Benefit Dinner January 29, 2009 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County Knight Foundation Arts Partnership Grant Provides Funding for the Program
On January 29, 2009 Miami City Ballet and The Cleveland Orchestra will join forces to launch an unprecedented multi-year collaboration. It begins with a one-night-only performance, See The Music, Hear The Dancing, at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Ziff Ballet Opera House in Miami. The program features two ballets by George Balanchine: Symphony in Three Movements set to music by Igor Stravinsky and Symphony in C with music by Georges Bizet.
To celebrate this collaboration, an elegant benefit dinner will be held immediately after the performance, on-stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall, which is the venue directly across from the Ziff Ballet Opera House. The event proceeds will go to benefit both organizations. Tickets for the performance and dinner are $1,000 and can be purchased by contacting Rebecca Interian at (305) 929- 7000, ext. 1445. Tables are also available for purchase. Cocktail attire is suggested.
Approximately 300 distinguished artists and guests of both organizations are expected to attend including the Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet Edward Villella and the Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst.
The event is chaired by Jan R. Lewis and Dr. Margaret Eidson. The host committee includes: Adrienne Arsht, Ana Codina Barlick & Robert Barlick, Jr., Audre & Don Carlin, Lora & Fred Drasner, Dr. Margaret & Mike Eidson, Hector Fortun, Marvin Ross Friedman & Adrienne bon Haes, Pamela Garrison & R. Kirk Landon, Jan R. & Dan Lewis, Frances Sevilla-Sacasa, Penny & Roe Stamps, and Janet & Richard Yulman.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is the presenting sponsor and has awarded the project a grant from the Knight Foundation Arts Partnership, a five-year $40 million initiative to transform the South Florida arts. The effort includes endowment grants to leading arts institutions, plus a community-wide contest to fund the best arts ideas.
Knight Foundation promotes journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of communities in the United States where the Knight brothers once owned newspapers. Knight Foundation invests in ideas and projects that can lead to transformational change.
CALENDAR LISTING:
Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 7:30p.m.
See The Music, Hear The Dancing Miami City Ballet/The Cleveland Orchestra Performance and Benefit Ziff Ballet Opera House, The Adrienne Arsht Center
Juan Francisco La Manna, conductor
TCHAIKOVSKY “Polacca†from The Sleeping Beauty
STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements
MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture (“Fingal’s Caveâ€), Opus 26
BIZET Symphony No. 1 in C Major
Choreography by George Balanchine
The Presenting Sponsor for See the Music, Hear the Dancing is The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Performance Tickets: $19-$175 – Call (305) 949-6722, or (305) 929-7010.
Order online at www.arshtcenter.org or www.miamicityballet.org.
For Benefit Tickets, please call Rebecca Interian at (305) 929-7000, ext. 1445.
All proceeds from See The Music, Hear the Dancing will benefit Miami City Ballet and The Cleveland Orchestra
Venue Information:
1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami
Miami City Ballet Box Office phone: (305) 929-7010
Adrienne Arsht Center Box Office phone: (305) 949-6722
MONDAY
December 15, 2008
The hottest party in Miami just got hotter as this week, The Chat Noir Club welcomes DJ Anthony Attalla. The talented DJ/Producer brings his skills back to Miami for his last show in South Florida for 2008.
Two parts circus, One part Burlesque, a pinch of class, and a dash of trash – – Don’t miss The Chat Noir Club.
Doors open 10 pm. Show starts at 11pm.
Admission: $20
Table Reservations: 305.674.4444
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, January 9 – 10 – 11, 7:00 p.m.
Flamingo Park, Meridian Avenue + 12 Street
Shakespeare’s MACBETH
Produced by Shakespeare Miami
All performances are free no tickets required
Friday, January 9, Opening Night, 7:00pm performance
Saturday, January 10, 7:00 pm Performance
Sunday, Â January 11, 7:00 pm Performance
Do… Bring a blanket or low beach chairs. There is no “seating” at Shakespeare in the Park. An extra blanket comes in handy because sometimes it gets a little nippy.
Do… Bring a picnic. Â Pick up a dinner ‘to go’ from a local Restaurant or have your neighborhood market make up a gourmet picnic for you!
Do… Bring the family. Â Our shows are perfect for kids 8 and up. This production is a little more for older children. Â There is realistic violence in this play including Swordfights, verbal abuse and of course, Macbeth loses his head in the end. There is a lot of blood and there are scary witches, too, so it is not a good show for toddlers.
Do… Bring some cash or a check to throw in the donation basket! All funds go to our education programs
Don’t … Bring tall chairs unless you plan to sit towards the back of the field.
Don’t …Bring Dogs. Â With picnics and people sitting on the ground, dogs tend to annoy other patrons in the park.
Don’t… Go back stage to visit friends or family members No one is permitted backstage without a staff ID.
Do… Find an usher to send flowers or notes back stage, the actors appreciate it.
Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”
Saturday & Sunday, December 13 & 14 at 7 p.m.
Broadway Musical Theatre presents the magic of Broadway in the Disney Classic “Beauty and the Beast.” This might be one of the sweetest introductions to the world of live theater you could give your child. The fairy tale story of lovely Belle who falls for the ugly Beast offers a lesson on the nature of true love. Throw in a magical castle full of dancing tableware, a snotty candlestick and a very maternal teapot, and you’ve got an enchanting story that kids and grownups alike can love. Tickets are $25 and $20.
Ransom Everglades Theater
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove
786-223-9663
Dance Now! Ensemble presents: Celebration of Light
Saturday, December 13, 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, December 14, 3:00 p.m.
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
305-975-8489 www.dancenowmiami.org
$25 general; $20 advanced; $15 students/seniors
Inspired by the common theme present in many of the winter holidays, the Dance Now! Ensemble presents three world premieres, including “Following the Light”, a reflection on light, both in its literal and metaphorical significance.
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is also showing at Adrienne Arsht Center December 19-21 & 23. Click here to order online or call (877) 929-7010 toll free.
Enjoy a Holiday Brunch and The Nutcracker on 12/20
ee The Nutcracker at Broward Center December 12-14
or at Adrienne Arsht Center December 19-21 & 23.
Click here to order tickets online or call 305.929.701
Miami City Ballet
Ophelia & Juan Js Roca Center
2200 Liberty Avenue
Miami Beach, Miami
33139
All 37 Shakespeare Plays in Just 97 Minutes!
All 37 Plays in Just 97 Minutes of Pure Hilarity!
London’s longest-running comedy – the show that has kept American audiences laughing for years! The Reduced Shakespeare Company© in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) premieres in Miami at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater!
Imagine Shakespeare meets “Saturday Night Live” in an irreverent, fast-paced romp! Praised by the Los Angeles Times as “wildly funny” and by the Montreal Gazette as “the funniest show you are likely to see in your entire lifetime!”
NBC’s “Today’s Show” says, “If you like Shakespeare, you’ll like this show. If you hate Shakespeare, you’ll LOVE this show!”
MCB’s Upper Room Members: Join us on Saturday, November 22 for a
pre-performance Bacardi reception, latin-inspired Open Barre performance,
and after party at Aero Bar (across the street from our Miami Beach Studio Theater).
Click here to order online or call (305) 929-7010
To see photos from MCB’s Upper Room’s last event at The Setai, click here
To join MCB’s Upper Room (free membership), contact Rebecca Interian at
305.929.7000 x 1408 or e-mail rinterian@miamicityballet.org
http://www.miamicityballet.org/tickets.php
Miami City Ballet
Ophelia & Juan Js Roca Center
2200 Liberty Avenue
Miami Beach, Miami
33139
Also coming up at Miami City Ballet:
Open Barre Dance Series – See the Latin Side of MCB: 11/21-22 at MCB Studio Theater
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker –
12/14-16 at Broward Center, 12/19-21 & 23 at Adrienne Arsht Center.
Click here to order online or call (305) 929-7010.
Miami City Ballet
Ophelia & Juan Js Roca Center
2200 Liberty Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
www.miamicityballet.org
A Unique Experience.
Hurry, these tickets will sell out!
They make great holiday gifts for clients and staff!
Email us at: info@familycounseling.org
Family Counseling Services
Cirque Du Soleil
Miami City Ballet’s Upper Room
Upper Room After Party at the Setai
Saturday, October 18
7:00 PM – 12:30 AM
Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami
The Setai, 2001 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach
price: $29-$95
rsvp/contact: rinterian@miamicityballet.org or call (305) 929-7010
MCB’s Upper Room is celebrating the opening weekend of Program I in serious style. Mix and mingle with Miami City Ballet’s trendsetting group of art-savvy young professionals.
7pm: Cocktails & pre-performance talk
8pm: Super Human Performance of Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room, alongside George Balanchine’s Swan Lake Act II and The Four Temperaments
11pm: Get groovin and start sippin the complimentary “Upper Room” cocktails by VEEV at The Setai
Free Night of Theater
Thursday October 16
Theatres stretching from West Palm Beach to Coral Gables will be opening up their doors for a Free Night of Theater next week with performances ranging from large scale musicals to American classics to world premieres. The Theatre League is coordinating the event in South Florida with the following theatres participating: Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, GableStage; The Jesus Quintero Studio; Mosaic Theatre; The Promethean Theatre; Shakespeare Miami; and The Women’s Theatre Project. This ongoing project, established in 2003, resulted in some 80% attendees last year being first-time theatregoers!
Various Theatres in South Florida
954-577-0778 (Andie Arthur)
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