Drama

This April, Jersey Boys, named “the most exciting musical Broadway has seen in years” by the Chicago Tribune, makes a triumphant return to Miami, April 4 through 9. And this summer, Slava’s Snowshow, a visual and musical extravaganza  described as “eye-catching” and “dazzling” by the Miami Herald, returns to South Florida following two critically acclaimed engagements. Other highlights coming to the Arsht … +

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. … +

“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 … +

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 … +

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Olivier Award for Best Musical, and hailed by critics as one of the first truly modern works of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George has become one of the most acclaimed musicals of our time. Inspired by Georges Seurat’s landmark painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of … +

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 … +

Island City Stage opens it’s fifth season with the regional premiere of Topher Payne’s “Perfect Arrangement” which The New York Times heralded as a “clever canape of comedy” during its premiere Off-Broadway last fall at Primary Stages. It’s 1950 and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying … +

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, … +

Area Stage Company presents Our Town by Thornton Wilder, featuring actors below the age of 18 in a production of Stage II. Our Town is considered a staple of American theater. This Pulitzer Prize-winning- is a drama in three acts -produced and published in 1938- that became a classic portrayal of small-town American life. Through flashbacks, dialogue, and direct monologues the characters … +

Buyer and Cellar now starring Chris Crawford, was considered the most talked-about comedy of last year’s Off-Broadway Season, winner of the 2013 Drama Desk Award is a one-man tour-de-force. An underemployed Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu basement. What follows is a riotously funny new play that gets every comedic element right, ultimately questioning the price of fame. … +

Now in its seventh edition FUNDarte’s Out in the Tropics performance series will feature artists who address gender, sexuality and issues of interest to the art community and their allies. La otra voz is a work about the homo-erotic love affair of two men, written and directed by Spanish playwright Manuel De. Based on the acclaimed monodrama La Voix Humaine by Jean … +

From the author of Making God Laugh, which the audiences fell in love with, comes Sean Grennan’s newest comedy, this one with inspirational dramatic resonance. The Tin Woman is moving theatrical experience involving a postoperative heart transplant recipient struggling with her own survival guilt, who decides to meet the family of the late donor, their son. The grief of the late donor’s … +

From the author of Making God Laugh from two seasons ago, comes Sean Grennan’s newest comedy, this one with inspirational dramatic resonance. The Tin Woman is a rich, funny and moving theatrical experience involving a postoperative heart transplant recipient struggling with her own survival guilt, who decides to meet the family of the late donor, their son. The grief of the late … +

Miami City Ballet’s Open Barre events take place at the MCB Studios on South Beach. Watch performance excerpts with the MCB Dancers, meet Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez, and go behind the scenes with special guests in a fun, intimate setting! Friday, February 5, 2016 | 7:00pm Saturday, February 6, 2016 | 2:30pm Saturday, February 6, 2016 | 7:00pm MCB’s new production of … +

The Area Stage Company (ASC) plays The Nether by Jennifer Haley, a virtual wonderland where a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination. Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out … +

The Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, one of the most applauded ballet companies in South Florida, continues their successful 2015-2016 season with the presentation of the classic Christmas Ballet most anticipated by the whole family, “The Nutcracker”, performing in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale under the direction of the Master Vladimir Issaev. “The Nutcracker” ballet, the most popular holiday treat of all, tells … +

“Yellow Dream Road” examines the relationship between Miami and Havana; written in Miami by visiting Cuban dramaturge and playwright Rogelio Orizondo from Cuba; directed by renowned director Carlos Diaz of Havana’s Teatro El Publico; and performed byLili Renteria, Mabel Roch, Javier Fano, Mabel Valiente , and Alegnis Castillo among others. About Carlos Díaz Born in Havana, Cuba, (1955) and a graduate of … +

Artists from the U.S, Latin America and Spain, led by the world renowned master teacher, choreographer, soloist and Artistic Director Ilisa Rosal, 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 … +

To celebrate the presence of Hispanic American culture in the United States, FUNDarte present Miami’s first Hispanic Arts Festival for Children and Youth. Spanning one week and several cultural venus in the city, the festival will include academic talks, musical concerts, and plays. The festival will close with a Children’s Art Gala on October 3 at Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Tickets to this … +

Proudly presenting the world premiere of Tsunami, a poignant docudrama, based on transformative stories of Japan. This new play introduces us to the resilient people behind the front-page horrors of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster that occurred in 2011. The actors from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds find a common theatrical language to retell the stories gathered from interviews conducted by … +

One of the most acclaimed productions of its season, an enchanting three-character silent movie opera. In Moscow, in 1926, a housing crisis rages. In a cramped apartment, Ludmilla, a put-upon housewife, lives in dreamy complacency with her cheerful despot of a husband, Kolya. When Kolya’s handsome comrade, Volodya, arrives from the country, but can find no lodgings, Kolya offers him their sofa. … +