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Let’s face it—the winter holiday season is a wacky time of year. Long to do lists, longer lines, crazy parties, crazier co-workers, cranky clerks, crankier relatives. It’s exhausting, and it warrants comic relief! The Vanguard has the perfect antidote: MIXED NUTS, the next installment in the Vanguard’s 2016 Comedy Series. Comprised of 10 brand new, short comedies, MIXED NUTS will give you … +

Mathematics, science, and machines are the original sources in the imaginary world of Mexican artist Manuel Felguérez. The artist is a devoted reader of science fiction, a tendency that has influenced the poetics and themes of his work. To express the issue as such from the outset will facilitate the undertaking of examining his sculptures and his latest paintings. Felguérez career has … +

Music & Lyrics by Todd Almond Directed by Kevin Newbury Featuring Todd Almond & Courtney Love Experience Courtney Love & Todd Almond up close in the intimate 200-seat Carnival Studio Theater! Kansas City Choir Boy is a theater piece told entirely through music about love unexpectedly altered by fate. A mystery told through flashbacks, the show tells the story of two lovers … +

The angelic voices of Seraphic Fire sing carols in the experience of Seraphic Fire’s traditional Christmas concerts. Three world premiere carol settings by Susan LaBarr James K. Bass, associate conductor. The audience will be surrounded in the beauty of Gregorian chant, glorious English Christmas carols, and the favorite Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, as the ensemble welcomes the season with festive style. … +

Brandon Opalka’ new solo exhibition is a series of contemporary landscape paintings inspired by the Northern California coast. This exhibition depicts a natural world facing dark days, in the year of our National Park System’s Centennial. Opalka moves from one medium to another with the same fervor, whether posed by a brush or a spray can, applied with an air compressor or … +

HistoryMiami Museum will host one of the most popular art events in recent years: the Miami Street Photography Festival. The festival will feature world-class photographers, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, photo walks, and portfolio reviews. Legendary photographers Richard Kalvar, Alex Webb, Rebbeca Norris-Webb, Maggie Steber, Jill Freedman, and Matt Stuart will be this year’s featured guests. Now in its fifth year, the Miami Street … +

Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Teen Arts Council (PTAC) presents SHORTS! a mobile teen film festival. Created and curated by teens, the films will be on view for one day only in Midtown during Miami Art Week. PTAC put out a national call for filmmakers between the ages of 13 – 19 years old to discover what inspires and drives teens across the … +

Elephant Gerald is an elephant: lumbering, formally attired, prone to melancholy. Piggie is (what else!) a piggie: perky, smiley, full of fun. Total opposites? No way! In Mo Willems’s beloved, award-winning, bestselling children’s books, Elephant Gerald and Piggie are best friends! And in We Are in a Play!, a brand-new vaudevillian romp of a musical, Elephant Gerald and Piggie sing and dance … +

Three world premiere carol settings by Susan LaBarr and James K. Bass as associate conductor. Currently in their 15th Season Seraphic Fire sing timeless carols in the absorbing experience of Seraphic Fire’s traditional candlelight Christmas concerts. Performing throughout South Florida and on national tours, Seraphic Fire is regarded as one of the preeminent professional vocal ensembles in the United States. Led by … +

A little girl’s dreamlike journey to the magical Land of the Sweets with the Sugarplum Fairy. The cast features star professional dancers and students from Miami Youth Ballet. Guest artists include former Miami City Ballet dancers Jennifer Kronenberg and Carlos Guerra. Main Stage https://vimeo.com/71162120 South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 Street Miami FL 33189 786.573.5316 www.smdcac.org

Bridget Everett has been called “the most exciting performer in New York City” on the cover of the Village Voice, and “raw and riotous” by The New York Times. Her film, theater and television credits include “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Two Broke Girls,” Sex And The City, “Trainwreck”, “Girls” and the off-Broadway smash “Rock Bottom”. Everett has headlined the U.S. extensively and has … +

Founded by legendary dancer and former Prima Ballerina of The Bolshoi Theater Ballet, Maya Plissetskaya, The State Ballet Theater of Russia, now under the direction of award-winning dancer and Moiseyev dance company soloist Nikolay Anokhin, presents one of the greatest classical ballets of all time. This full-scale production, set to the music of Tchaikovsky and based on Russian folklore and German legend, … +

Bach’s monumental achievement, “a cathedral of sound”, is widely considered one of the greatest choral works ever written. Heroic, sublime, pastoral and infectiously joyous, Bach’s B minor mass takes listeners on a journey they will never forget. Hailed as “a cathedral of sound,” this masterpiece is widely considered one of the best choral works ever written. Don’t miss the Master Chorale’s moving … +

Carmen is a must-see for both opera aficionados and new opera-lovers. This traditional production features two exciting mezzo-sopranos in the lead role—the Spanish María José Montiel and the American Tara Venditti—who are becoming well known worldwide for their interpretations of the famous gypsy. If you’ve never seen Carmen, you won’t believe how much of the music you know from movies, television, shows, … +

Trumpet player, arranger, composer, producer, and educator, Melton has performed with some of the top names in jazz including the Count Basie Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Woody Herman Orchestra, Bobby Watson, Jaco Pastorius, George Cables, John Hicks, Charlie Mingus Dynasty, and Gunther Schuller, among many others. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 770 NE 125th Street (Joan Lehman Building) North … +

Enrique’s work blurs the distinction between image and object, and between painting and sculpture. The polished complexity of Enrique’s paintings and the linear, snaking nature of his sculptures set up a tension between object and void. Their repetition when installed in groups owes much to the influence of minimalist work from a half century ago. Jorge Enrique (Havana,Cuba. 1960) He began his … +

The 77th season of Waterfront Playhouse will start with the timeless music of Burt Bacharach in concert. The six-time Grammy Award winner and winner of three Academy Awards is a master of hit songs. Directed by Danny Weathers with the musical direction of Jim Rice. A line-up of Key West’s best vocal talent will present another concert starring Jodyrae Campbell, Mary Falconer, … +

Featuring some of the most talented young performers in South Florida Miami Children’s Theatre is “re-telling” the Wizard of Oz. This production has all the fun and spunk of the recent NBC live theater production of The Wiz directed by Damaris Lopez Canales. Miami Children Theater 11155 SW 112 Avenue. Alper JCC. Suite 501 Miami, FL 33176 305.233.2206 www.miamichildrenstheater.com

Tied Stone on view Fredric Snitzer Gallery displays Alexandre Arrechea’s latest productions. The exhibition includes new explorations of the artist in his quest for common grounds between art, design and architecture. Alexandre Arrechea (b. Cuba, 1970) graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana in 1994, he was a founding member of the collective Los Carpinteros (1994-2003). Among his solo … +

Adrienne Arsht Center Knight Concert Hall The Cleveland Orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Gil Shaham, violin BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture BARBER Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 “One of today’s finest violinists” – The New York Times Superstar Gil Shaham tackles Barber’s gorgeous Violin Concerto, once thought impossible to play due to its fiendishly challenging finale. The program concludes with one of Shostakovich’s … +

The Hot Sardines return with their yuletide classics and a twist on New York, Paris, and New Orleans jazz. This troupe is led by chanteuse and washboard player Miss Elizabeth and joined by her Prohibition era band that includes tapper “Fast Eddy” Francisco. Experience beloved chestnuts like “White Christmas” and “Please Come Home for Christmas,” Edith Piaf’s “Le Noël de La Rue” … +