New Theatre has become a company that takes its name literally: Under artistic director Ricky J. Martinez, the intimate Coral Gables theater has shifted its emphasis to new work, with three world premieres on its schedule for this season.
To twist an old ad slogan, you don't have to be Jamaican to love The Harder They Come. But truth be told, in order to absorb all the cultural resonances in the stage version of Perry Henzell's famous 1972 movie, you almost have to be Jamaican.
William Shakespeare's most pointed battle of the sexes happens in The Taming of the Shrew, the comedy that kicks off the season at Coral Gables' New Theatre this weekend. Rusty Allison, Israel Garcia and Stephen Neal play members of a traveling theater company who serve up a Commedia dell'Arte-style Shrew.
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff was in a Kingston recording studio when Perry Henzell, a Jamaican director whose company made commercials, came into the session to meet him.
`South Park' co-creator Trey Parker's musical at Nova Southeastern University about a real-life Colorado cannibal is gross -- but great.
Back in his college days, South Park co-creator Trey Parker made a weird-but-hilarious movie titled Cannibal! The Musical. Based on the true story of Alferd Packer, whose ill-fated 1873 expedition in search of gold led to an infamous incident of American cannibalism, the stage version sends up several musical classics. Jeffrey Bower, Matthew Chizever, Lindsey Forgey and Andy Quiroga are among the many actors in the Promethean Theatre's production of this musical with bite. The show runs through Sept. 6 in the University Center Black Box Theatre at Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Ave., Davie. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Tickets are $25 ($15 for seniors 65 and over, $10 for students under 25). Call 866-811-4111 or visit www.theprometheantheatre.com.
Madonna famously made her Broadway stage debut in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow more than 20 years ago, but both the Material Mama and Mamet's script have hardly aged at all. The playwright's canny evisceration of the movie business remains a deliciously entertaining, crudely potent, testosterone-fueled romp.
By the end of the first scene in Matthew Lopez's taut, 90-minute play The Whipping Man, a Confederate soldier is getting his gangrenous lower leg amputated by two of his family's former slaves.
Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet's entertaining evisceration of the movie business, opens this weekend at GableStage with a pair of Carbonell Award-winning actors delivering the acid-laced dialogue. Paul Tei, left, and Gregg Weiner go mano-a-mano over which script to pitch to studio heads, with Amy Elane Anderson as the not-so-innocent temp who becomes a player in the drama. The show begins at 8 p.m. Saturday at GableStage in the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables, where it runs through Sept. 13. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday (no evening show this Sunday). Tickets are $37.50 on Thursday and Sunday evenings ($35 for seniors), $42.50 other shows (students $15). Call 305-445-1119 or visit www.gablestage.org.
Playwrights, novelists and other creative types observe the world differently. Looking at elephants shifting in the confined space of an old-fashioned zoo or being prodded to perform in a circus, most folks feel anything from fascination to outrage.
The Women's Theatre Project has scored a world premiere with Terry Lawrence's Speaking Elephant, opening this weekend at Sixth Star Studios, 505 NW First Ave., Fort Lauderdale. The play features two of South Florida's most compelling actors, Angie Radosh, left, and Sally Bondi, as Wanda and Winky, a pair of aging Asian elephants who are to be moved from the Detroit Zoo to a sanctuary in California. The South Florida-based Lawrence raises multiple issues, both animal and human, in her inspired-by-fact play. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, and the play runs through Aug. 30. Tickets are $25 (some $10 student tickets available). Call 866-811-4111 or visit www.womenstheatreproject.com for information.
If you heard that a South Florida theater was getting ready to open Molie`re's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman), you might wonder which crazy company would be taking a chance on a large-cast classic in the middle of summer.
In the early 20th century, a Yiddish theater troupe travels from England to the United States, hoping for a better life -- and, just maybe, success in New York. That's the subject of Knish Alley! by South Florida playwright Tony Finstrom. The comedy, inspired by acting legends of the Yiddish theater, gets its world premiere this weekend at the Broward Stage Door Theatre, 8036 W. Sample Rd., Coral Springs, where it runs through Aug. 30. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m...
Theaters love to tout world premieres, those gambles that can confer prestige, create buzz and lead to continuing benefits if a show takes off. Yet more often than not, a ''world premiere'' is nothing more than a new work that needs work.
For his first show since succeeding Caldwell Theatre Company founder Michael Hall as artistic director, Clive Cholerton is tackling nothing less than a world premiere. Vices: A Love Story is a dance- and music-driven piece about people in their 20s and 30s, spun from a story by Ilene Reid and Michael Heitzman, with choreography by Emmy winner A.C. Ciulla.
The pleasures and perils of marriage are the focus of Married Alive! -- the Sean Grennan-Leah Okimoto summer musical opening this weekend at Actors' Playhouse. The show stars Julie Kleiner and Jason Parrish as newlyweds, Gary Marachek and Marcia McClain as a long-married couple. The wedded bliss and battles unfold in the Balcony Theatre in the company's home at 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, through Aug. 16. Performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (Thursday-Saturday beginning July...
If you were a teen in the early 1960s, what do you remember about summer? Cruising to the burger joint, going to the drive-in but not watching much of the movie? Maybe it's the music, the oldies that transport you right back to those days when your biggest worry was whether your parents would ground you for getting home after curfew.
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.
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...
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.
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