(Photo – June Raven Romero looks into your virtual soul in the Miami performance of Long Distance Affair.) Theater, at its core, is about human connection – something we’re all longing for in this time of Covid-19 driven isolation. In Long Distance Affair, a Zoom-powered, continent-hopping theater production which runs through Saturday May 30, PopUP…
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As Good As it Gets – Seeing Theatre in London for the First Time
This is not Miami. But I can’t resist sharing impressions from my first experience of seeing theatre in London. Particularly The Hunt, a riveting new play at The Almeida, a small, highly regarded venue that’s roughly the equivalent of an Off Broadway theater. I’ve never seen acting of such intensity, depth and nuance, nor a…
Our Story Here and Now with One Night in Miami
With One Night in Miami, the riveting play that just kicked off Miami New Drama’s second season, artistic director Michel Hausmann hits straight to the heart of his troupe’s mission – presenting work that’s central to Miami. Not only because of the play’s uniquely Miami story. But because that story speaks to and for a…
Desire and difference – Miami New Drama’s Queen of Basel remakes a classic
The rich, oblivious, self-centered white girl. The dark-skinned Cuban guy seething with ambition and anger. The desperate Venezuelan woman who fled the violent chaos of her home country. We think we know these characters, just like they think they know each other. But by the end of Queen of Basel, the new production from Miami…
Dark and Dazzling – Dance, Theater, and Truth-telling in Bill T. Jones’s Analogy/Lance
Note: This performance was unfortunately canceled on Friday Jan. 5th, after the snowstorm in the Northeast sidelined the company’s flights, making it impossible for them to get to Miami. Ticketholders can receive a refund at point of purchase. For further questions, call the Arsht Center box office at 305-949-6722. Moving bodies are at the heart…
Qué Pasa, USA? returns – Miami’s Nostalgia for Cuban Nostalgia
Miami’s most culture-defining, groundbreaking TV series is coming back as a stage show. No, not Miami Vice. It’s Qué Pasa, USA?, the bi-lingual story of a multi-generational Cuban immigrant family that made legions of Cuban-Americans – and hyphenated immigrants after them – feel at home in their new country. Now Que Pasa, created and broadcast…
An Our Town for our town.
The moment during Saturday night’s opening of Miami New Drama’s rendition of Our Town, the quintessentially American Thornton Wilder play, that felt most familiar was the one you might have expected to be the most “foreign.” Mrs. Gibbs (the charismatic and marvelously vital Chantal Jean-Pierre) and Mrs. Webb (the formidable Carlotta Sosa), stood side by…
The French singer Edith Piaf owes much of her iconic status to having endured and triumphed despite her brutal upbringing – abandoned by her mother, raised in a brothel – and terrible losses throughout her short life. She transmuted her pain and strength into her music, creating a cathartic passage through heartache and beyond. The…
Natasha Tsakos Invents the Future
Creative moldbreaker Natasha Tsakos is a singularly original Miami artist who’s been showcased in the kind of forums where you rarely find artists: TED, Google, IBM, the United Nations. She’s made her name, and her work, uniting her two loves, technology and performance; equally enthusiastic about the profound human power of traditional theater and the…
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