Performing Arts

Multi-Awarded "Fuácata or a Latina's Guide to Surviving the Universe" by Actors' Playhouse
Jul 15 - Aug 16, 2020

This one-woman tour-de-force brings more than 20 characters to glorious life, by weaving together tales of love, marriage, immigration and identity through eccentric stories and whimsical song. Multiple Carbonell Award Winner Elena María García is magical on stage, blending observant humor and poignant moments with sociopolitical commentary. FUACATA finds endless humor in what it means to be a Latina in today’s America. … +

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"The Great Leap" on stage at Colony Theater by Miami New Drama
Apr 23 - May 1, 2020

The Great Leap is acclaimed Bay Area playwright Lauren Yee’s comedic drama about a swaggering American basketball coach who brings his university team to Beijing for a 1989 exhibition game against a Chinese former protégé determined to prove himself. Their competition is upended by an ambitious Chinese-American high school star and the tragedy of the Tiananmen Square protests. Yee’s story of political … +

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La Cage aux Folles, on stage at Riverside Theatre
Mar 10 - 29, 2020

Winner of multiple Tony Awards® – Best Musical in 1984 and Best Musical Revival in 2005 and 2010 – La Cage Aux Folles remains one of Broadway’s all-time biggest hits. After twenty years of un-wedded bliss, Georges and his male partner, Albin, get the thrilling news their son is getting married. The only problem is the bride-to-be is daughter of a bigoted, straight-laced … +

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A Wonderful World by Miami New Drama at Colony Theater
Mar 5 - 13, 2020

A world-premiere musical about jazz legend and singular American icon Louis Armstrong, with songs recorded and made popular by Armstrong, and original book by Aurin Squire, the multi-talented Opalocka-raised playwright and TV writer (This is Us, The Good Fight), and co-author of last season’s hit Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy.) A Wonderful World, traces Armstrong’s odyssey, the musical genre he helped define, … +

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"As You Like It" by National Players at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
Feb 7, 2020, 8 PM

By William Shakespeare Directed by Jason King Jones Banished from the only home she’s ever known, Rosalind escapes to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia and their fool Touchstone. While disguised as a man, Rosalind meets fellow outcasts in the forest, including the dashing and lovesick Orlando. Determined to woo him, Rosalind persuades Orlando in her male disguise to win … +

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"Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom" by Culture Shock Miami at MDCA
Feb 7, 2020, 8 PM

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom tells the moving, true story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, one of the youngest participants in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.  Infused with the stirring music of the Civil Rights Era, the performance lets audiences of all ages experience what it took to struggle nonviolently and how it felt to be part of changing American … +

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MAMMA MIA! at Actors' Playhouse
Jan 22 - Feb 23, 2020

Over 60 million people worldwide have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel good show. A mother, a daughter, three possible dads and a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget. A large cast, nonstop laughs and explosive dance numbers, told through the story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs, propel thisenchanting … +

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Multi-Awarded "Thoroughly Modern Millie" at Riverside Theatre
Through Jan 26, 2020

Winner of six Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp that takes you back to the height of the Jazz Age. When Millie Dumont arrives in New York City from Kansas, she quickly finds an exciting new world filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a villainess audiences love to hate. Based on the 1967 film … +

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World Premiere of “The Cubans” at Colony Theatre
Wed Jan 23, 2019 - Sun Feb 16, 2020

The mission of developing and presenting new work by Miami artists continues with the debut of the first play by Cuban-American playwright and actor Michael Leon. The Cubans turns the classic American family drama into a quintessential Miami story – a poignant, humorous exploration of the fraught generational dynamics and struggle for identity in a Cuban-American family. When Christy returns to Miami for a … +

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World Premiere of "The Cubans" at Colony Theatre
Jan 23 - Feb 16, 2020

As part of Miami New Drama’ mission of developing and presenting new work by Miami artists continues, the first play by Cuban-American playwright and actor Michael Leon debuts.  The Cubans turns the classic American family drama into a quintessential Miami story – a poignant, humorous exploration of the fraught generational dynamics and struggle for identity in a Cuban-American family. When Christy returns to … +

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The Play that Goes Wrong at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Tue Dec 10, 2019 - Sun Dec 15, 2019

The Olivier Award-winning comedy direct from London’s West End. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a Broadway show — a ramshackle set, a leading lady with a concussion, and a corpse that can’t play dead. It’s a classic murder mystery… and it’s … +

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Around the World in 80 Days at Waterfront Playhouse
Thu Dec 12, 2019 - Sat Dec 28, 2019

Stampeding elephants, raging typhoons, runaway trains! The original amazing race at Waterfront Playhouse. Previews of this play will happen on Dec 11-12, 2019 The story follows two travelers that grow to a trio and then a foursome as they fight their way through countless obstacles to reach home. The main characters are Phileas Fogg , a ruthless perfectionist who cares more about the … +

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Lorca: Flamenco & Contemporáneo by Main Street Players
Fri Nov 29 - Sun Dec 15, 2019

Lorca: Flamenco and Contemporary is a walk through the most significant moments of the work of the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, a magical journey navigating through his characters and stories. His theater, poems, and songs are uniquely intertwined under the aroma of a Spanish guitar and the broken voice of flamenco. Actors with different nationalities and accents, will set up … +

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HAIR in Concert at Waterfront Playhouse
Fri Nov 22, 2019 - Mon Nov 25, 2019

By Gerome Ragni and James Rado with music by Galt MacDermotThe international musical hit that changed the sound and the face of the Broadway musical. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical’s profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, … +

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Ring of Fire on stage at Actors’ Playhouse
Wed Oct 30, 2019 - Sun Dec 8, 2019

From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. Performed by five incredible actor/singer musicians who play 20 different instruments, this exciting musical features the songs “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and more than two dozen classic … +

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Bailey Hall: The Forgotten Kingdom – Guy Mendilow Ensemble
Oct 29, 2019

The Forgotten Kingdom uses evocative music and story to ignite imaginations. Guy Mendilow and his international musical collaborators bring audiences on a musical trek through a lost world, a journey through former Ottoman lands starting in Sarajevo and winding through Salonica. The music and storytelling conjure voices lost to war, recorded in a language blending archaic Spanish with Turkish and Greek. As … +