“Treasures of the Mission Road,” Seraphic Fire’s final program of its 10th anniversary season, offers a fascinating foray into the musical world of Latin America during the late Renaissance and Baroque.
Miami dance-theater choreographer Rosie Herrera will make her New York City debut in January at a venue that could launch her on a much larger stage.
Puerto Rican saxophonist David Sánchez is a leading figure in a generation of musicians who are changing the sound of jazz by bringing to the table their own musical heritage.
Theater can be overwhelming for children with autism disorders — too loud, too bright or dark, too much going on. That’s why Playground Theater is presenting a “sensory friendly” version of its popular original play A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings on Saturday.
At the conclusion of the New World Symphony’s magnificent performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony Saturday evening, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas stood facing the orchestra, ignoring the standing ovation from the audience behind him. Gazing down from the podium, he clasped his hands together and raised them several times to the young musicians, as if in tribute to their performance.
Stars and box office power don’t always equal Broadway’s best theater experiences.
In Donald Margulies’ ‘Time Stands Still,’ the war in Iraq has repercussions back home when a photojournalist (Deborah L. Sherman) is injured in a roadside bombing, returning to the United States to figure out a future with her foreign correspondent boyfriend (Steve Garland). The play opens this weekend at GableStage in the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables, where it runs through June 3. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday (no evening show this Sunday). Tickets are $37.50-$50. For information, call 305-445-1119 or visit www.gablestage.org.
When Michael Tilson Thomas raises his baton Saturday evening to lead the New World Symphony in a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in Miami Beach, it will be 100 years since the work premiered in Vienna.
Spanish-language production examines the censorship, and resulting desperation, of one writer under Stalin.
The Mainly Mozart Festival opened its annual spring season with “A Journey Through Viennese Art Song,” traversing excerpts from the lieder of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler and Hugo Wolf and a complete performance of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op.52.
Nominations for the 66th annual Tony Awards celebrate two modest Broadway shows.
In its 47-year history, the Miami Children’s Chorus has performed at the Super Bowl and Carnegie Hall, with pop stars and the Florida Grand Opera, in Europe and Latin America. But it has never undertaken a performance like the one it will present Sunday of Brundibar, the fabled children’s opera originally staged in a Nazi ghetto that has become an emblem of tragedy and tenacity.
Instruments of torture, precious gems and a dark journey into the interior of a twisted, lonely soul took up the evening Friday in Miami Beach, as the New World Symphony performed Bartók's opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Pulling razor blades from his mouth is one of the milder things actor-magician Dennis Watkins does in ‘Death and Harry Houdini’, Nathan Allen’s play about the life and death-defying daring of America’s master illusionist. The House Theatre of Chicago’s production is in the Carnival Studio Theater at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., through May 20. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday (2 p.m. matinee this Saturday only). Tickets are $40-$50. Call 305-949-6722 or visit www.arshtcenter.org.
Actor-magician Dennis Watkins is driven and charismatic in the House Theatre production.
The modest but entertaining horror flick spoof comes to Coral Springs.
Chicago’s House Theatre returns to the Arsht with a death-defying legend.
Actress Terri Girvin tries to cope and keep the peace in her Empire Stage solo show.
The New World Symphony’s final chamber concert of the season was devoted to the many faces of musical Americana, from 19th century romanticism to modified atonality by a student of Schoenberg. Along the way, neo-classicism, populist jazz and the gentler side of 21st century modernism made appearances. Read the review here:
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