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Teatro Avante will perform Raquel Carrio's adaptation of Vigilio Piñera's <em>Aire frio</em> July 22-25.
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HISPANIC THEATER FESTIVAL

On with the show, despite tough times

The plays, the companies and the experience change from year to year. But Mario Ernesto Sánchez knows that pulling together Miami's International Hispanic Theatre Festival -- the 24th edition begins Wednesday -- involves certain constant challenges.

  • <em>Some Kind of Wonderful!</em>

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    `Some Kind of Wonderful!' at Florida Stage

    Summertime, and the entertainment is musical at Manalapan's Florida Stage. Bill Castellino and Christopher McGovern -- the duo who created the theater's hit show Cagney! -- have put together a 'theatrical concert' of songs from 1960-65. Some Kind of Wonderful! features numbers made famous by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, the Beatles and various Motown artists. In the Florida Stage cast are, from left, Barry Tarallo, Irene Adjan, Michelle Pereira, Dana Dawson and Eric Collins. Performances...

  • Angel Perez creates five distinctive gay Latino characters in <em>Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown</em>.

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    Review | 'Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown' a riot of L.A. characters

    As swan songs go, Guillermo Reyes' Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown is both a simple and affecting farewell from Fort Lauderdale's Sol Theatre Project. The company's founding partners, Robert Hooker and Tony Priddy, are moving, so it's likely that Reyes' solo show will be the last from Sol with its funky space and eclectic artistic history.

  • John Rodaz and Maria Banda-Rodaz are small-theater pioneers who run Area Stage at the Riviera Theater in Coral Gables.

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    Staging their lives: A theater family returns with a new company

    John Rodaz and Maria Banda-Rodaz ''met cute'' (as they say in the movie biz) two decades ago. He was tidying the lobby of the former Lincoln Road shoe store he had turned into a 49-seat theater called Area Stage. She was on a business trip from her native Ecuador and thought the little theater -- and the guy sweeping it -- looked interesting. She went in to chat. They fell in love, married and became partners in life and theater. Photo Gallery Available

  • Raul Esparza smiles in his dressing room at the Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park.

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    Hot Broadway star tackling Shakespeare

    Raúl Esparza is one of the hottest leading men on Broadway, slipping effortlessly between musicals and plays, and picking up tons of acclaim along the way. Photo Gallery Available

  • Herman Carabali, left, Christina Alexander and Paul Bodie in <em>I Just Stopped By To See the Man</em> at M Ensemble.

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    Review | Third wheel undermines 'I Just Stopped By to See the Man'

    Watching M Ensemble's new production of Stephen Jeffreys' I Just Stopped By to See the Man is both stirring and frustrating. Whenever Paul Bodie as a presumed-dead music legend and Christina Alexander as his on-the-run daughter are onstage, the play sings with the depth of feeling Bodie's character brings to the blues. That's the stirring part, and happily, it dominates the production of a play that was done by Chicago's edgy Steppenwolf Theatre in 2002.

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    'I Just Stopped By to See the Man' at M Ensemble

    Stephen Jeffreys' I Just Stopped By to See the Man is a tale of opportunity and devilish temptation. Herman Carabali, Paul Bodie and Christina Alexander star in the play about an English rock star trying to convince a blues great long thought to be dead to appear with his band. The play runs at the M Ensemble Actors Studio, 12320 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami, through July 19. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $25 ($20 for students and seniors...

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    'Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown' at Sol Theatre Project

    Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown features five characters, most of them Latino and gay, and offers a grand opportunity for the right actor to display his versatility. Angel Perez takes on the challenge of Guillermo Reyes' solo show, playing a naive young immigrant, a kept man, a lonely kid, a Cuban restaurateur and a stuffy English instructor. The show goes on at 8 p.m. every Friday and Saturday through July 18 at Fort Lauderdale's Sol Theatre Project, 1140 N. Flagler Dr. Tickets...

  • Marco Ramirez, Alex Fumero and Lucas Leyva have put together an event that's part play, part concert -- and it comes with free drinks.

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    'Toners in Time' not just a play -- it's an adventure

    Three young Miami playwrights script an event to launch their 305-centric theater company. Video Available

  • Sally Bondi is a Midwesterner mad for crafts in <em>The New Century.</em>

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    Review | 'New Century': Laughs plentiful almost to the end

    With few exceptions (Noises Off, for example), comedies aren't quite as funny the second time around. You know the story, the setups, the punch lines. That element of hilarious surprise is missing. Photo Gallery Available

  • Arnaldo Carmouze, left, and Arturo Fernandez play damaged brothers in Ground Up & Rising's <em>On an Average Day</em>.

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    Review | 'On an Average Day' has mystery, power

    The past shapes the present, giving us tools and regrets, coloring our lives. Or sometimes, forever poisoning them. Playwrights know that bringing siblings together to deal with their shared past can make for explosive drama. Sam Shepard did it in his violently comedic True West, Suzan-Lori Parks in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, Neil LaBute in his unsettling In a Dark Dark House. And John Kolvenbach does his own exploration of that volatile territory in On an Average Day. Photo Gallery Available

  • Kim Ehly plays an American activist in the Gaza Strip in <em>My Name Is Rachel Corrie</em>.

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    Review | 'Rachel Corrie': Political controversy obscures artistic flaws

    My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a play that has caused the blood to boil of too many people who have neither seen it nor read it. If you actually see the new production by the Alliance Theatre Lab in Miami Lakes, you'll soon realize that although Corrie's pro-Palestinian point of view is clearly and unapologetically presented, the protests and censorship efforts aimed at the play have made it far more famous than its artistic quality would merit.

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    'The New Century' at GableStage has a crackerjack cast

    If two of the three pieces that make up Paul Rudnick's The New Century at GableStage seem familiar, it's because City Theatre did them as stand-alone short plays during past Summer Shorts festivals. No matter. Artistic director Joseph Adler has a crackerjack cast -- from left, Daniel Landon, John Felix, Jehane Serralles, Patti Gardner and Sally Bondi -- and this bunch knows how to wring the laughs from Rudnick's tales of a gay cable TV host, a Jewish mother and a crafty midwesterner...

  • Kim Ehly stars in <em>Rachel Corrie</em>.

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    Controversial play 'Rachel Corrie' opens in South Florida at last

    Rachel Corrie was a passionate American activist, a young woman who had cared about the larger world since she was a child. As a fifth-grader in Olympia, Wash., she said this in a speech about world hunger: ``We have got to understand that people in Third World countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We have got to understand that they dream our dreams, and we dream theirs. We have to understand that they are us. We are them.''

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    Playwright's elusive dream: Conquering his hometown of Miami

    Already a rising star in the theater world, Alvin McCraney hasn't given up on one of his few unfulfilled dreams: opening a theater company in his hometown of Miami. Photo Gallery Available

  • A performer from Argentine troupe De La Guarda's show Fuerza Bruta, which opens at the Arsht Center June 11th for an 8-week run.

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    Review | Shifting show puts the senses in a spin

    Fuerza Bruta may mean Brute Force. But the show that opened at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday night is more surreal wonderland than bruising attack, a fabulously disorienting trip to a watery world where life rushes at you from all sides. Photo Gallery Available

  • Kim Ehly in <em>My Name Is Rachel Corrie</em>

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    'My Name Is Rachel Corrie' at Main Street Playhouse

    My Name Is Rachel Corrie, the Katherine Viner-Alan Rickman play woven from the diaries and e-mails of an American activist who lost her life in the Gaza Strip, is a play that stirs protest. Plantation's Mosaic Theatre planned a production of Rachel Corrie two years ago but scrapped it after a barrage of complaints about what some claim is the script's pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli bias.

  • John McGlothlin and Larry Buzzeo, wearing prison uniforms, are surrounded by cast members, from left, Richard Weinstock, Ted Dvoracek, Terry Cuzzort, Michael Perry and Larry Brooks.

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    Review | Missteps aside, 'Bent' a riveting story

    The quality of the work at Fort Lauderdale's Rising Action Theatre has been a sometime thing -- sometimes good and engaging, sometimes woefully inadequate -- so hearing that the company would be staging Martin Sherman's challenging Bent is bound to stir a mixture of hope and fear.

  • Carlos Orizondo and Ivette Vinas will keep you guessing - and entertained.

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    Review | Revelations from the past jeopardize couple's future in 'Molotov Kisses'

    ''This is a story with a message,'' repeat the actors in the new production of Tu ternura Molotov (Molotov Kisses) that opened last weekend at Area Stage at their new home in Coral Gables.

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    Review | New company takes on Russian classic 'The Seagull' -- in Spanish

    While playwrights often adapt classics in order to take creative liberties, Fabián De Cárdenas, artistic director of the new company Dream Theatre Productions, offers audiences a Spanish-language adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull that is deliberately faithful.


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