A speedy version of the Shakespearean canon is anything but stuffy as the Reduced Shakespeare Company does its thing at the Arsht Center.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
When it comes to putting the ''fun'' in ''fundraiser,'' few events are more joyous and artistically appropriate than The 24-Hour Theatre Project.
This being the 21st century, most of us probably know a couple or two who met online. Maybe even a happy couple or two. The hopeful duo out on a first date in Adam Szymkowicz's Nerve, the new show from The Naked Stage, is giving face-to-face romance a try after some cyber foreplay. But judging from the 75 minutes or so we spend watching them try to connect, the happy-couple thing doesn't seem to be in the cards.
If you consider the weekend that Antonio Amadeo, Katherine Amadeo and John Manzelli are about to have, you have to give them props for having nerve. Or taking risks. Or maybe for being just crazy enough to think they can pull off opening the play Nerve at their small theater company, The Naked Stage, and putting on South Florida theater's most buzzed-about fundraiser between Friday and Monday.
Adam Szymkowicz explores the unpredictable world of online dating in Nerve, the latest offering from the always-creative Naked Stage. Real-life spouses Katherine and Antonio Amadeo play Susan and Elliot, people who arrive for their Internet-aided match with different expectations -- not to mention a puppet and a bit of modern dance.
One of Miami's much-honored play-writing sons, Tarell Alvin McCraney, will see all three of his buzz-generating Brother/Sister Plays -- The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water and Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet -- produced at the Tony Award-winning McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J., this spring. In support of the ambitious project, the McCarter has just been awarded $90,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts' Outstanding New American Play Project, one of only two grants bestowed in the...
The stage version of a movie classic dutifully retells the story without bringing its own fresh magic to the process.
A real-life love triangle is at the center of William Mastrosimone's 'Dirty Business,' now getting its world premiere at Florida Stage and worth a road trip, if only to catch the dazzling performance of Gordon McConnell.
Inspired by the music and the passions it stirs, 'Mixtape' is a 10-piece collection of plays, poetry, a short film and a photo 'play.' Most of the work in this eclectic show by Miami's Mad Cat Theatre Company is brand-new, and it gives the acting company -- Erik Fabregat and Sofia Citarella, above, Paul Tei, Joe Kimble, Erin Joy Schmidt and Troy Davidson -- a real workout. See it at The Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, through Nov. 22. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday...
There's a brick road separating the two venues that make up Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. It isn't yellow, but if you follow it into the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House this week, you'll wind up in that magical place called Oz.
A play about a young girl's tragic death doesn't fulfill its potential, despite its resonance.
Mad Cat offers an ambitious combination of styles and pieces in its newest original work.
As love triangles go, the one at the center of William Mastrosimone's Dirty Business was both sensational and monumentally dangerous. And it really happened, though Mastrosimone brings a dramatist's imagination to retelling the story.
With politicians badgering their way into our consciousness every chance they get these days, it's easy to tell that the presidential election is upon us. On television, at the movies, in the newspapers, on the Internet, politics rule.
An eclectic mix of theater, poetry, film and music adds up to the newest original show.
Though Wicked is still selling out on Broadway and on tour, it's good to remember that without The Wizard of Oz there would be no show about the witches of Oz. The original tale about the Scarecrow (Noah Aberlin), Dorothy (Cassie Okenka), the Cowardly Lion (Jason Simon) and the Tinman (Chris Kind) kicks off the touring Broadway season at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd. Performances are 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday...
David Mamet crafts a farce about a scheming president desperate for reelection, a library or both.
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