Theaters

Last December, just before the holidays, I spoke with Dance NOW! Miami founders and creative directors Diego Salterini and Hannah Baumgarten about Miami Open Stage, their new quarterly open stage series showcasing local talent at the Little Haiti Cultural Center.

University of Miami. February 15 through 25, 2012. Stage Door is a witty and stylish 1937 American comedy centering around a group of aspiring actresses crammed into a theatrical boarding house in Manhattan while awaiting their big break on Broadway’s Great White Way. Stage Door showcases love affairs, betrayals, snappy wisecracks, rejections, drama, despair, and plenty of delicious comedy.

From March 3 through April 1, 2012. Chicago police officers Joey and Denny are longtime partners and best friends. Joey is single and lonely, and Denny is married with children; but both men have flaws and serious problems. Introverted Joey struggles with a drinking problem and secretly loves Denny’s wife, Connie; angry tough-guy Denny can barely disguise his racism and cheats on … +

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Jan 18 through Feb 12, 2012. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three 2009 Tony Awards®, Next to Normal explores how one suburban family copes with crisis. With powerful lyrics and an electrifying pop-rock score of more than 30 songs, this intense, emotional and ultimately hopeful musical aims right for the heart with its story of a family coming … +

“August: Osage County is flat-out, without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.” The New York Times It’s August in … source

The Waterfront Playhouse kicked off their award-winning 72nd Season with “It Takes Two — An Evening of Duets”- a two night concert that stared over 25 of Key … source

From Dec 28, 2011 through Jan 8, 2012. For Mad Cat Theatre Company’s 12th season, Miami’s very own original gangbusters fighting for your right to see new work with a healthy dose of why not attitude theatre company will be back at The Light Box at the Goldman Warehouse with an inventive new play Macbeth and the Monster by Angela Berliner which … +

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From Sept 2011 through Apr 2012. The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre Arts presents its 2011-2012 Season which started on September with Night Train to Bolina, a play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Miami native Nilo Cruz. Mr. Cruz will be in residence with the Department of Theatre Arts for five weeks, working … +

From Oct 16 through Nov 20, 2011. After the Revolution is the story of the brilliant, promising Emma Joseph who proudly carries the torch of her family’s Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her grandfather, much revered for refusing to “name names” during the McCarthy hearings.

From Nov 2011 through May 2012. The PlayGround Theatre has lined up an exciting eighth season for all ages announcing the return of three critically acclaimed productions from the theatre’s repertoire to highlight the 2011-2012 season. Opening with The Red Thread, the season will continue with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.

From Nov 10 through 27, 2011. The Alliance Theatre Lab is closing its 2011 Season with Kenneth Lonergan’s critically acclaimed play Lobby Hero. This Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play nominee tells the story of Jeff, a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown out of the navy.

From Oct 14 through 30, 2011. New Theatre continues it’s “family” theme season with the National New Play Network’s Rolling World Premiere of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, running October 14 through 30, 2011. This timely and controversial work examines the lives of two all but abandoned teens having to create a makeshift family and its values while getting through … +

Miami’s Mad Cat Theatre Company is currently running its last show of the season, So My Grandmother Died, Blah Blah Blah, and it’s a real crowd-pleaser. Daringly blending a motley assortment of off-the-wall characters with a script that’s both emotionally deep and gut-wrenchingly funny, writer-director Paul Tei has yet again brought some new and wacky life to the city’s theater scene. If … +

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From Sept 3 through Oct 2, 2011. GableStage at the Biltmore is presenting the Florida Premiere of “The Brothers Size”, a play written and directed by Miami’s own Tarell Alvin McCraney starring Teo Castellanos, Ryan George and Sheaun McKinney. Set in the Louisiana bayous, the play explores the struggles of two brothers who walk the line between law and liberty, locked in … +

From Sept 14, 2011 through Apr 28, 2012. The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre Arts presents its 2011-2012 Season which kicks off on September 14, 2011 with Night Train to Bolina, a play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Miami native Nilo Cruz.   Mr. Cruz will be in residence with the Department of Theatre … +

From Jul 15 through Aug 14, 2011. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre closes the successful 2010-2011 season with the world premiere of See Jane Run!, a new musical by Maribeth Graham and Dana P. Rowe.