Theaters

Merriment is a word we don’t use much in the 21st Century, but that is the precise adjective to reflect the madcap abandon, tireless physical comedy and unflagging enthusiasm that makes a success of New City Players’ edition of Twelfth Night. Certainly, some of the younger cast members are better than others at navigating Shakespeare’s verbiage (although none are as ham-handed as … +

Finding Neverland is Broadway’s biggest new hit and the winner of Broadway.com‘s Audience Choice Award for Best Musical. Directed by visionary Tony winner Diane Paulus, Finding Neverland tells the incredible story behind one of the world’s most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Playwright J.M. Barrie struggles to find inspiration until he meets four young brothers and their beautiful widowed mother. Spellbound by the … +

Centro Cultural Español in Miami (CCEMiami) and Microtheater Miami present the new season Out of the Container, dedicated to the LGTBQ community through June 25, 2017. The programming offers drama and comedy with 12 plays inspired by themes such as sexual identity, gender politics and other topics related to LGBTQ. Out of the Container will premiere Teatro Sorpresa, produced by filmmaker Abraham … +

AHYT Reborn is a variety show with both classical and contemporary monologues, scenes, and musical theatre. This will be the company’s first performance in three years. The show includes selected scenes by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Eric Coble, and Katori Hall. Also, poetry selections from Mari Evans and Tupac Shakur. The African Heritage Youth Theatre is the in-house youth acting apprenticeship program … +

America’s Short Play Festival returns in 2017 with an all new line up of the best ten-minute plays and amazing mini-musicals in the country. Considered Florida’s Best Summer Show! it celebrates the diversity of Miami through laughter starring a company of South Florida theatre all-stars. This season features all new collection of scripts penned by the country’s best writers including the hilarious … +

National Theatre Live is a groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre live from the London stage to cinemas around the world including the Coral Gables Art Cinema. Twelfth Night starts with a ship that is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out … +

It Shoulda Been You aka “the wedding of the year” is an entertaining musical comedie that comes direct from Broadway to Miami. The bride is Jewish. The groom is Catholic. Her mother is a force of nature; his mother is a tempest in a cocktail shaker. And when the bride’s ex-boyfriend shows up, the perfect wedding starts to unravel faster than one … +

A film performed in real time with overhead projectors, shadow puppets, actors in silhouette, and live music. The film’s setting is the mid-century American Southwest and is inspired by the music of Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and Patsy Cline. Lula Del Ray is a mythic reinvention of the classic coming-of-age story. There will be an O, Miami Poetry Festival Free Closing Night … +

Broward College brings the Fringe Festival back to South Florida for the third year in a row. The three-day event is set to be held on Friday April 21st – Sunday, April 23rd. This diverse, cutting-edge, and uncensored live theater event aims to fuse the art scene with the local community by bringing the true nature of creation to the stage and … +

Written and Directed by Nathan Allen Magic by Dennis Watkins Reappearing by popular demand following a sold-out run in 2012! Bold, visually stunning and highly entertaining, Death and Harry Houdini delivers a roller coaster ride through the life of the legendary Harry Houdini! Death and Harry Houdini is reappearing on stage with The House Theatre of Chicago, the great Chicago company that … +

From Nobel Prize Laureate Harold Pinter, The Caretaker is a powerful exploration of social class and the human condition. This tangled tale of two brothers and the mysterious stranger who enters their world crackles with absurd comedy that comes to profound tragedy. The Caretaker sold out runs in both New York and London, and remains one of Pinter’s most celebrated and performed … +

Retiro by Natalia Lassalle is both documentary video and live performance, is a journey into the lives of women over 65 years of age across Miami, Puerto Rico and Québec. Retiro melds the autobiographical with the surreal to illustrate the volatility of time, the reconstruction of memories, and the process of aging in women. An exploration of what it means to be … +

On May 8, 1938, Hitler arrives in Rome to meet with Mussolini. While Italy celebrates the rise of Fascism, an over-worked housewife and a mysterious bachelor meet by chance. Based on Ettore Scola’s 1977 Oscar-winning Italian film Una Giornata Particolare, Award-winning artists Ana Graham and Antonio Vega tell this epic story using minimalistic elements that celebrate the powerful imagination of the theater. … +

Inspired in Ibsen’s A Doll’s house, La Casa de la Muñeca by Ballet Flamenco La Rosa is an original Flamenco ballet by Ilisa Rosal. This production features guest artists from Spain such as La Sentío, Oscar de los Reyes and Eloy Aguilar, singer Alicia Morales and guitarist Israel Heredia. With its exquisite vocals and guitar melodies, this flamenco is at once sensual … +

“The Caretaker” at the Arsht Center! By Harold Pinter Directed by Stuart Meltzer From Nobel Prize Laureate Harold Pinter, The Caretaker is a powerful, exhilarating exploration of control, social class and the human condition. Hailed by critics as richly poetic, this tangled tale of two brothers and the mysterious stranger who enters their world crackles with absurd comedy that comes to resemble … +

Orchestra and Chorus of MIAMI LYRIC OPERA Pablo Hernandez  Chorusmaster Jeffrey Eckstein  Conductor Raffaele Cardone  Artistic and General Director Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American Navy officer, opportunistically engages a marriage broker to find him a house and a wife. A 15-year-old young Geisha, named Butterfly is introduced to him. She falls immediately in love with Pinkerton, converts to Christianity and banishes her relatives … +

On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami Dade County Auditorium March 24 & 25, 2017, 8:30 p.m. March 26, 2017 – 5:00 p.m. Copperbridge Foundation and FUNDarte, in association with Miami-Dade County Auditorium, present 10 Million by the Cuban Theater Company, Argos Teatro, at the On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami Dade County Auditorium. Written and directed by Carlos Celdrán (Winner of the Cuban National … +

“ASTONISHING. ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON.” – The Associated Press “A SURE-FIRE, ACTION-PACKED HIT.” – The Huffington Post Political intrigue takes center stage at Actors’ Playhouse in the Tony Award-winning drama All The Way by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. This riveting behind-the-scenes look at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s (LBJ) tumultuous first year in office in the wake of President … +

Following its 2013 hit Botanica, MOMIX returns with their latest production Opus Cactus, bringing the landscape of the American Southwest to life with illusionistic style, dynamic images of lizards and fire dancers, conjuring up a world of surrealistic images. Known internationally for presenting works of remarkable inventiveness and physical beauty, MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists founded and directed by Moses Pendleton. … +

City Theatre is excited to take its shorts on the road for two special productions of CITY SHORTS from February 10 – 12, 2017 at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center and February 16 – 17, 2017 in the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. City Theatre, well known nationally for its production of short plays, and … +

This one-woman tour-de-force performance brings more than 20 Latina characters to glorious life on stage by weaving together tales of love, marriage, immigration, and identity through eccentric stories and whimsical song. A world premiere collaboration between Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer and highly celebrated, three-time Carbonell Award-winning Cuban-American actress Elena María García, ¡FUÁCATA! finds endless humor in what it means to be Latina … +