Theaters

Following sell-out shows in the Northeast, Rockin’ Road to Dublin is coming to Fort Lauderdale on their first national tour. It comes as the new sensation that combines the art of an Irish dance show, the power of a Rock-N-Roll concert, with the finish of a Broadway theatrical production. Starring World Champion Irish dancers Scott Doherty and Ashley Smith, the cast includes … +

It’s Tchaikovsky’s best opera and the most popular Russian opera ever written. Tchaikovsky is famous for The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and The 1812 Overture, but he also wrote the romantic and lyrical opera Eugene Onegin. It’s a love story, but can love overcome youthful foolishness. The Story: The self-centered Onegin carelessly rejects the love of an adolescent girl, Tatyana. When she grows into a beautiful woman, he … +

The African Heritage Youth Theatre presents a playwriting workshop with young, New York-based playwright Deaon Griffin-Pressley. Deaon Griffin-Pressley is a New York City based playwright, actor, director and teaching artist (originally from Fort Lauderdale, Florida)  He has studied at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in Oxford, England.  Upon graduating he has featured in many of Shakespeare’s classics with many Off Broadway … +

Carousel is a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, it was Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s personal favorite of all their musicals and it was dubbed “the best musical of the 20th Century” by Time Magazine. This poignant and heartbreaking story presents a faithful Julie and her brutish husband Billy, is considered one of the most powerful books in musical theatre history with memorable … +

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

Broadway and TV star Adam Trent exemplifies a new generation of magician. As one of the stars of the hit Broadway show ‘The Illusionists’, which shattered box office records during it’s 2014/2015 run, as well as his appearances on Good Morning America, America’s Got Talent, Disney Channel, ABC, among others. Described as Justin Timberlake meets David Copperfield, his audience interactive performances are … +

FUNDarte presents the debut in Florida of Chiflón, the Silence of Coal by Chile’s Silencio Blanco Theatre Company. To keep working, a young miner must travel to Chiflón del Diablo, one of the most dangerous mines in Chile. Based in part of a story by distinguished Chilean author Baldomero Lillo, and devised during trips to the mining town of Lota, it reflects … +

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

Concluding a spectacular season on June, 2016 and including the participation at The International Young Dancers Festival in Indonesia, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida prepares its new 2016-2017 season with four programs summoning the best of international ballet works. Under the artistic direction of Vladimir Issaev, the company is ready to embark on the season’s line up with rehearsals by Mid-August. The … +

Directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín (No, The Club), Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity … +

Set in Madrid during the Bourbon Restoration, Luisa Fernanda contains some of the most inspired numbers of Spanish lyrical genre, with enormous popularity since its premiere at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid on March 26, 1932. The assembly has been co-produced with the Washington opera, and has a magnificent cast of performers led by Plácido Domingo. Recorded live at Teatro Real de … +

Narrated by Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley, The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. This documentary film by Otto … +

Inspired by the true-life story of Sarah “Saartjie” Baartman, the play Venus provides a fictional account of her life abroad in 19th century London. She is lured away from her home in South Africa with the promise of riches and is put on display for British and Parisian audiences. After being sold to the owner of a sideshow known as The Mother-Showman, … +

Ritmo Jondo is a flamenco-inspired classic created in 1953 by José Limón Dance Company. This piece sets up a counterpoint of masculinity and femininity that has had significant impact on modern dance and has powerful contemporary meaning. Along with Ritmo Jondo, two original pieces choreographed by Dance NOW! Co-Directors Diego Salterini and Hannah Baumgarten will be on the program. Dance NOW! Miami, … +

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 … +

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

Kansas City Choir Boy is a theatricalized concept album about love altered by unexpected fate. The show tells the story of two lovers in small town America who separate when one goes in search of destiny and then disappears. Borrowing themes from ancient myth, the show features songs by acclaimed composer/lyricist Todd Almond performed by rock icon Courtney Love and Almond. They … +

Comedian Louis CK’s new tour across North America will include 4 performances in Miami. He announced officialy the tour dates and places coming on the heels of the massive success of his latest international comedy tour, which sold-out crowds in some of the biggest venues worldwide from Paris, to Scandinavia, to the UK, to Eastern Europe, and all the way down to … +

Million Dollar Quartet is the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the famous photo and phenomenal true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time in their careers. On December 4, 1956, these four young musicians were gathered together by Sam … +

Zoetic Stage opens the 2016-2017 Theater Up Close Season with the newest world premiere from multiple Carbonell Award-winning, internationally produced playwright, Michael McKeever, author of Daniel’s Husband and Clark Gable Slept Here. After is here directed by Stuart Meltzer. The Campbells and the Beckmans have been good friends and neighbors for years. When a senseless act of violence turns their perfect lives … +

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