Coachella and Lollapalooza are sold out. Bonnaroo’s nearly there, too. But eager fans need only be patient: Wait a few years and chances are you’ll have a star-studded music festival of your own within driving distance.
Southern white men don’t usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution.
The week ahead at the movies and on TV
Though well-acted, Evan Smith’s comedy doesn’t pay off for Zoetic Stage.
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.
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.
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.
Just days after his trip to Cuba with wife Beyonce, rapper Jay-Z released Open Letter, a song about the controversy surrounding the trip.
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.
The touring production at the Broward Center fails to invigorate a not-so-hot musical.
The annual Global Cubafest closed with a concert that beautifully expressed the event’s goal of celebrating and exploring Cuban music throughout the diaspora.
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.
Avi Hoffman climbs a mountain of a text in Outré Theatre’s production.
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.
The documentary ‘Room 237,’ which explores the bizarre theories surrounding the 1980 horror classic, is being screened at O Cinema Wynwood.
The week ahead at the movies and on TV
‘Finding Kalman.’ 5:30-6 p.m. Sunday. WPBT-PBS 2.‘Granite Flats.’ 8-10 p.m. Sunday. BYUtv.
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.
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.
Six strong singers power a collection of classics, though history is barely addressed.
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