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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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  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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  Dance

  Poems, drawings inspired new piece Chouinard is bringing to Colony Theatre

  Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard’s work is cunning, ultra-stylized and visually stunning, imbued with a beautiful strangeness and ominous psycho-sexuality. She has garnered a following in Miami, thanks to Tigertail Productions, which presents her Compagnie Marie Chouinard for the third time this weekend at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach.
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  Classical music review

  Seraphic Fire explores Spanish treasures in wide-ranging program

  Seraphic Fire is celebrating 500 years of Spain in Florida with a unique overview of music from “The Golden Age of Spain.” Artistic Director Patrick Quigley has done considerable research into Spanish vocal music of the 14th through 16th centuries, unearthing scores that have rarely been performed by contemporary choral ensembles.
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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.
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  Arts marketing

  Smart marketing, community engagement help fuel Seraphic Fire

  Surviving, let alone thriving, in the performing arts is a daunting proposition, but Miami’s Seraphic Fire seems to have been on a fast track over the past year and a half.

• 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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  Theater Review

  ‘An Iliad’ turns epic poem into a solo show

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

• Classical music review

  New World players show depth and virtuosity in concerto program

  The New World Symphony’s depth of talent routinely comes through in the rich tone, range of color and virtuoso execution with which the young musicians perform the orchestral repertoire. But every year, a few members, chosen competitively, perform as soloists. The annual concerto concert took place at New World Center in Miami Beach Saturday evening .
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  Andai shows impressive podium skills in varied Miami Symphony program

  Guest conductor Daniel Andai chose Aaron Copland’s original 13-piece chamber version of An Appalachian Spring for the Miami Symphony Orchestra’s concert at Florida International University’s Wertheim Auditorium. Shorn of the thick instrumental textures of the later arrangement for full orchestra, this familiar work proved the highlight of an excellent program Saturday night that also traversed late Richard Strauss and a Mozart masterwork.
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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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  In real life, he plays a Miami-Dade judge — on stage he’s Man of La Mancha

  By day, William Altfield is a Miami-Dade County judge.
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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.

• 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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  Theater Review

  A fashion-forward ‘Priscilla’ hits the stage

  Three divas on a bus take a back seat to costumes at Miami’s Arsht Center.
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  Theater Review

  McPhillamy reigns over ‘Exit the King’

  Palm Beach Dramaworks gives its audiences an accessible Eugene Ionesco play.
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  Maltz Jupiter Theatre sweeps musical Carbonells

  GableStage, Zoetic Stage honored for plays during 37th annual ceremony.
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  Classical Music Review

  Pintscher leads New World in bracing program of German modernists

  "Sounds of the Times" at New World Center presented complex music by three of today’s top German composers conducted by the youngest of them, Matthias Pintscher. In a tribute to his late teacher, Hans Werner Henze, Pintscher put the New World Symphony through its paces for an adventurous audience.
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  South Florida Arts Scene

  Indian musicians to play at Cultural Arts Center

  You don’t have to be an initiate of Indian culture to appreciate the beauty and power of its music or the talents of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain, who play the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center this week.
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  In ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ at Miami’s Arsht Center, wild costumes rule

  Disco divas journey through the Outback in wild costumes in a Broadway musical at the Arsht

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