A speedy version of the Shakespearean canon is anything but stuffy as the Reduced Shakespeare Company does its thing at the Arsht Center.
December brings the birth of a South Florida company, Unhinged Theatre. Most of the artists involved in the professional troupe are or were students at Florida International University, and the aim is to stage plays that are experimental and engaging, with a focus on ensemble work, according to company member Denisse Schwartz.
While the world of dance has The Nutcracker, theater has A Christmas Carol as its most-produced holiday show. Some large cities have dueling versions, but this season in South Florida, Actors' Playhouse has the major production of the Charles Dickens classic.
![Reed Martin, left, and Austin Tichenor, right, with former Reduced Shakespeare Company member Adam Long) perform <em>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]</em>.](http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/11/26/11/132-stage_wkend28_shakes.bigthumb.prod_affiliate.56.jpg)
Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor are smart, funny guys who don't think you have to be a scholar or sit for several hours to enjoy the work of William Shakespeare. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] is all about proving that thesis, as the two perform all 37 of the Bard's plays (at least a bit of each) in 97 minutes. The show runs through Jan. 18 in the Carnival Studio Theater at...
Avi Hoffman's New Vista Theatre Company has just kicked off its season with a musical that is, as they say in the wedding biz, something old and something new.
Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor appreciate the works of the greatest playwright the English language has ever produced (OK, arguably the greatest) as much as any Bard-besotted scholar. But that doesn't mean that either man believes the plays of William Shakespeare need to be done reverently. Or even as written.
It is the morning of Christmas Eve, but despite the presence of a sad little tree adorned with tiny lights, the chilly stone house that two grown brothers share is anything but festive.
North Miami's M Ensemble Company continues its exploration of August Wilson's work with Joe Turner's Come and Gone, one of the most challenging scripts in the late playwright's celebrated 10-play ``Pittsburgh Cycle.''
Richard Jay Simon is a gambler. Not the kind who spends every spare hour in a casino, though he's good enough that he once played in the World Series of Poker, and he has a Fantasy Football team in a league with other South Florida theater types.
''It takes a village to put Edna together,'' says Harvey Fierstein, back on Broadway for the final weeks of Hairspray. ``But the people who help put me together can now do it faster.''
W.C. Fields famously turned up his bulbous nose at working with scene-stealing children and dogs. If he were still around to be cast in the show that has just opened at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, he'd have something else to add to his professional enemies list: a flying car.
Michael Yawney paints a sympathetic picture of Anita Bryant -- brilliantly portrayed by Mary Jo Cortada.
In Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, friends and relatives gather for cards, booze, stories and an old-fashioned scare on Christmas Eve in Dublin. Dennis Creaghan, John Felix, Gregg Weiner, Christian Rockwell and Ken Clement star in the recent Broadway hit at Mosaic Theatre, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Bldg. 3000, Plantation. The show runs through Dec. 14, with performances at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $35 ($29 for seniors 65 and older, $15 for...
Playwright Michael Yawney spent the last three years crafting a comedy about Anita Bryant's 1977 campaign to repeal Miami-Dade County's first gay-rights ordinance. Yawney never expected that on the eve of its world premiere Thursday in Miami, 1,000 Homosexuals would be so relevant.
Already this season, families have journeyed to Oz together. This week and next, they'll watch a special car take wing to rescue an old man from some family-phobic villains. And soon they'll be able to see the return of a red-haired orphan, a collection of singing cats, athletic performers leading them on a jungle adventure.
First plays seldom spring fully realized from a writer's imagination. In her program notes for The Gates of Choice, now getting its world premiere at New Theatre, playwright Michelle Rosenfarb mentions her play's journey from short story to screenplay to multiple drafts of what has finally wound up onstage.
Coming up on the 33rd annual ceremony, the Carbonell Awards board votes to suspend the program in 2009 to regroup.
If you have post-Summer Olympics withdrawal, Cirque du Soleil's latest offering to Miami, Corteo, could give you the fix you need.
In the world premiere of Michelle Rosenfarb's The Gates of Choice, Valentina Izarra plays a young Israeli woman facing the future of an arranged marriage, only to find a forbidden love that alters her life. The play is at New Theatre, 4120 Laguna St., Coral Gables, through Dec. 14. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday (additional shows 5:30 p.m. Nov. 23, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7). Tickets are $40 ($35 Thursday and Sunday evening; student rush tickets $15 for those under...
Cirque Du Soleil returns to Miami with Corteo, created and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca. Corteo, which means 'cortege' in Italian, is a festive parade imagined by a clown. The clown pictures his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere, watched over by quietly caring angels. Like other Cirque productions, the show aims to meld acrobatics, grace, power and comedy. This is Corteo's last stop in the United States before moving its production -- 63 artists from 20 countries -- to Japan in...
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