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  Theater Review

  Faith is a battleground in ‘Savannah Disputation’

  Though well-acted, Evan Smith’s comedy doesn’t pay off for Zoetic Stage.
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  Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of April 14

  The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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  New York

  A guide to Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn

  With the movie 42 bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
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  Performing arts

  New World Symphony, Miami City Ballet collaborate on evening of new works

  Two young artists are at the center of the adventurous “New Work” program the New World Symphony will present April 20. Choreographer Justin Peck, 25, created a pas de deux for Miami City Ballet for the occasion, and Zosha Di Castri, 28, composed a piece the orchestra will premiere.
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  THE ENVIRONMENT

  Tortuga Music Festival offers something for everyone — even the turtles

  Nearly two dozen musicians will put their toes in the sand at the inaugural Rock the Ocean Tortuga Music Festival, a two-day beach-front event meant to raise awareness of the environment.
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  music

  Jay-Z posts pop-up rap about Cuba trip

  Just days after his trip to Cuba with wife Beyonce, rapper Jay-Z released Open Letter, a song about the controversy surrounding the trip.
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  Concert review

  Taylor Swift’s ‘Red’ tour lights up AA Arena

  The best revenge Taylor Swift could have against media sniping, celebrity ex-boyfriends and Kanye West-style haters would be that, after Justin Bieber and a generation of boy bands have fallen into oblivion, she makes the transition from teen prodigy to grown-up star.
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  Theater Review

  A less snappy ‘Addams Family’ is back

  The touring production at the Broward Center fails to invigorate a not-so-hot musical.

• Dance review

  Glover, Davis shine in tribute to tap icons

  The late tap master Gregory Hines called Savion Glover “the greatest tap dancer who ever lived.” And Glover’s near flawless SoLe Sanctuary performance on Saturday at the Adrienne Arsht Center made this clear. An innovative musician, Glover uses his metal-clad shoes as instruments. Performing with him was Miami’s own tap sensation, Marshall Davis Jr.
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  Music review

  Cubafest closer showcases Gema Corredera’s luminous talent

  The annual Global Cubafest closed with a concert that beautifully expressed the event’s goal of celebrating and exploring Cuban music throughout the diaspora.
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  Theater Review

  ‘An Iliad’ turns epic poem into a solo show

  Avi Hoffman climbs a mountain of a text in Outré Theatre’s production.
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  Latin music

  Musicals, video-game score on Gustavo Santaolalla’s overflowing plate

  Gustavo Santaolalla never stops forging into new territory. The Argentine producer of seminal Latin rock artists including Juanes, Café Tacuba and Molotov, composer of Oscar-winning scores for the movies Brokeback Mountain and Babel and co-founder of the tango-fusion group Bajofondo has a host of new projects in new genres including a dance musical, a video game, an animated film — and a winery.
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  Movies

  The cult of ‘The Shining’

  The documentary ‘Room 237,’ which explores the bizarre theories surrounding the 1980 horror classic, is being screened at O Cinema Wynwood.
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  Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of April 7

  The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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  Television reviews

  Quirky ‘Granite Flats’ a charmer; ‘Kalman’ plumbs Holocaust loss

  ‘Finding Kalman.’ 5:30-6 p.m. Sunday. WPBT-PBS 2.‘Granite Flats.’ 8-10 p.m. Sunday. BYUtv.
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  Theater

  Arsht’s 2013-14 ‘Up Close’ series boasts 2 world premieres

  The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is raising the curtain on its 2013-2014 Theater Up Close programming, partnering again with Miami’s Zoetic Stage, the House Theatre of Chicago and the University of Miami for an eclectic season — including a pair of world premieres — in the center’s Carnival Studio Theatre.
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  Public television

  Perspective on ‘Downton Abbey’ from niece of the creator

  Before you grumble to Jessica Fellowes about the startling death toll on the most recent season of Downton Abbey, know that the writer was just as shocked as you were at some of the developments.
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  Theater Review

  M Ensemble delivers a lively, sultry ‘Blues’

  Six strong singers power a collection of classics, though history is barely addressed.
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  Juanes is back, re-energized and determined to keep life in balance

  The only instrument you notice walking into Juanes’ sun-dappled home on Key Biscayne is an upright piano, covered with lesson books for his daughter Paloma, 7, who on this weekday morning is sprawled on a sofa, along with siblings Luna, 9, and Dante, 3, in pajama-clad, spring-break bliss. The 16 Grammy Awards, racks of guitars and other trappings of the 40-year-old Colombian rock star’s career are in his recording studio upstairs.

• Picking one last fight with Roger Ebert

  Film critic Roger Ebert, who died of cancer Thursday at age 70, reviewed thousands of movies over the years for the Chicago Sun-Times and his television show. His often cutting reviews ("I've seen audits that were more thrilling," he said of one lifeless picture) in turn triggered thousands of arguments.

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