http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Theater 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:04:43 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1344116.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1344116.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Like a shiny toboggan wedged on wet snow, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular needs a little push. The traditional holiday revue, which runs in New York through Dec. 30, essentially repeats last year's program, which varied little from the show in 2007. It isn't just a return visitor who might feel that some of the old routines are indeed showing age. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341298.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341298.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Christopher Durang is at the height of his satirical powers in his newest play, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. If you think the title is weird, consider the family at the play's center: Dad (Dave Corey) collects butterflies and may be working for a shadow government; daughter Felicity (Sharon Kremen) discovers she has married a possible terrorist (Nick Duckart) while she was drunk; and Mom (Barbara Bradshaw) frequents the theater in a vain search for normalcy. Durang's riff on America's love affair with violence opens at 8 p.m. Friday at Mosaic Theatre in the American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Bldg. 3000, Plantation. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 13. Tickets are $37 ($31 for seniors 65 and older, $15 for students). Call 954-577-8243 or visit www.mosaictheatre.com. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341685.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341685.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 26 Miles by Pulitzer Prize finalist Quiara Alegría Hudes. Artistic director Ricky J. Martinez is staging the play, about a Cuban-American mom, her long-estranged Jewish daughter, and the bonds they forge as they head west together. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday- Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday (additional shows at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 6 and Dec. 13). The play runs through Dec. 20 at New Theatre, 4120 Laguna St. in Coral Gables. Tickets are $40 Friday-Saturday and Sunday matinee, $35 other shows (student rush tickets $15). Call 305-443-5909 or visit www.new-theatre.org. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335578.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335578.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Beneath the elegant façade, obscured by the opulent trappings of wealth, a scandal is brewing. A respected, successful man known for his charitable works and his familial generosity has been using other people's money to buy a rich man's lifestyle. He has been found out by someone who trusted him, worked with him. And now the younger man, possessed of this ruinous knowledge, must decide whether to bring a carefully constructed house of cards tumbling down. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335527.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335527.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In his glowing review of Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, a New York Times critic last month wrote of the musical revival's ''satisfying pairing of a him and a her.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1334442.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1334442.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Marco Ramirez is a wildly imaginative playwright whose writing acknowledges a fundamental reality: If you want to entice the under-30 crowd into experiencing theater, you'd better give 'em something exciting in a form that really speaks to them. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1329242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1329242.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Macon City: A Comic Book Play, a new work getting its first production by The Naked Stage. Jasmine Fluker and Hugh Murphy are in the play, along with Naja Corbett, Jason DeWitt and Giordan Diaz. David Hemphill, Scott Genn and Alyn Darnay round out the cast. They portray citizens of an American metropolis, folks just trying to survive after their decaying city is abandoned by its crime-fighting superheroes. The play opens Friday in the Pelican Theatre on the Barry University campus, 11300 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday (no Thanksgiving performance), and the play runs 'til Nov. 29. Tickets are $25 (seniors 60 and older pay $18, students $12). Call 866-811-4111 or visit www.nakedstage.org. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1328393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1328393.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00 EST How much you enjoy Legally Blonde the Musical -- and loads of people do -- will probably depend on your tolerance for things kitschy and adorable. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1324960.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1324960.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Becky Gulsvig has been awash in pink, onstage anyway, since she began playing various roles in the cast of the musical Legally Blonde during its Broadway run from mid-2007 until the fall of 2008. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322692.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322692.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play of a certain era: early Mamet, post-sexual revolution, pre-AIDS.<p/> Written in 1974, the play flits from one short scene to the next, providing a snapshot of twentysomething big city ``romance'' and serving as a window into the younger Mamet's mind. This is a work that is funny, foul-mouthed and more than a little misogynistic; still enjoyable, but a harbinger of better things to come from a talented playwright. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322569.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322569.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Her face has, hmmm, changed over the years, but the way she talks is vintage Joan Rivers. ''Someone told me -- and I hate the term -- stars have very distinct voices. You know Cher, immediately. You know Liza, immediately,'' says Rivers, who performs Wednesday night in Miami. ''When I was a little girl, I picked up the phone and someone said, 'Little boy, put your mother on.' I almost died. Now, Chastity Bono would have loved that!'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1317465.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1317465.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Voysey Inheritance has its first preview performance at 2 p.m. Sunday. Mamet's version of Harley Granville-Barker's 1905 drama about a wealthy clan undone by the patriarch's Ponzi scheme (Bernie Madoff, anyone?) stars Peter Haig as the owner of the family-run investment firm. Also in the large cast are Terry Hardcastle, Lourlene Snedeker, Stephen G. Anthony, Kathryn Lee Johnston, Jim Ballard, Katherine Amadeo, Cliff Burgess, Dennis Creaghan, Marta Reiman, John Felix and Dan Leonard. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1318322.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1318322.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For all that most American theater fans know, playwright Martin McDonagh is in a league of his own when it comes to spinning Irish tales wrapped in humor and terror. Think again. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1312747.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1312747.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST At first, The Walworth Farce looks like a routine the Three Stooges might have dreamed up -- if Larry, Curly and Moe had been Irish, that is. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1305915.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1305915.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT If Quentin Tarantino wrote a play for the Three Stooges, the result might look a lot like Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, a darkly comic play running Wednesday through Nov. 7 in the Carnival Studio Theater at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Raymond Scannell and Tadhg Murphy, part of the cast from Ireland's Druid Theater Company, play sons who ritualistically act out a version of their family's story for their demanding, housebound father. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1304691.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1304691.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Color Purple took its time -- 27 years, to be exact -- making the journey from the pages of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the stage of Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Its fleeting run ends Sunday, but as the cheering crowd affirmed at Tuesday's opening, the musical is abundantly worth the wait. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1302124.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1302124.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT You know those joke-filled chain e-mails everyone gets? Maybe the one that uses bits of Jesus' biography to explain why the son of God was Mexican or Jewish or Irish, or the one that tries to make you laugh as it explores how older women's body parts start to resemble Jell-O. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1300093.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1300093.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The battle between Neil LaBute's boy-men and the women who put up with them rages on in Reasons To Be Pretty, the playwright's first script to hit Broadway -- and, for GableStage, the first resounding success of the new South Florida theater season. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1296950.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1296950.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Celie, the central character in Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, lives a life most folks would consider unendurable. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1299056.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1299056.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Seth Rozin's Two Jews Walk Into a War, a new comedy now launching a premiere-filled season at Florida Stage, has been likened by folks at the Manalapan theater to earlier plays by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple or The Sunshine Boys, take your pick) and Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot).