Palm Beach Dramaworks paints a gentle portrait of five Irish sisters in a lovely season closer.

Kemal Gekic made his South Florida debut at the Miami International Piano Festival in 1999, and in the intervening years has become a familiar presence on the local concert scene. His Sunday afternoon recital on the concluding day of this year’s festival, however, was one of his most impressive solo performances to date.

Thinking Cap Theatre tackles a shattering play about lesbian lovers in Kenya.

An imagination-fueled British hit has a young man’s male and female lovers squaring off.

New Theatre’s Ricky J. Martinez debuts the second play in his ‘Island Trilogy’

Japanese sisters Ayaka and Yuka Yamamoto, who have been performing together for four years as Duo Yamamoto, won the gold medal and $25,000 top prize Thursday night at the 12th Dranoff International 2 Piano Competition in Coral Gables. The pair triumphed with their interpretation of Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor.

Twenty-year old Russian pianist Nikolay Khozyainov demonstrated substance over style in the opening concert of the Miami International Piano Festival’s Discovery series, delivering a compelling evening of masterworks that revealed a young artist more concerned with music than notes.

Russian baritone Alexey Lavrov offered a generous sampling of Russian and Italian opera arias and songs by German, French, Russian and Italian composers in a terrific recital that closed the Friends of Chamber Music season Wednesday night.

At dinner-party-like ‘atelier nights,’ Copperbox chef Gabriela Machado is wowing diners with her artful food

Miami choreographer, performer, producer and teacher Octavio Campos, who has mentored countless South Florida artists, begins a two-week residency on Monday at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Legendary founder Mikhail Baryshnikov was so struck by Campos’ performances with the Rosie Herrera Dance Theater that he invited Campos to start creating a work at BAC.

Falling in love means taking a risk, and Rudi Goblen takes plenty of risks in his new solo theater piece, PET.

At the opening concert of the Mainly Mozart Festival, the most interesting work was not by Mozart. It was by the Hungarian composer Ernõ Dohnányi, whose long life took him from the rich musical world of late 19th century Budapest to a grave in Tallahassee, where he died in 1960 after several years at Florida State University. Although Dohnányi’s reputation has faded somewhat, his works are still played, and on Sunday the Amernet String Quartet gave an intense, committed performance of his String Quartet No. 2.

Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre couldn’t be better situated to stage Ken Ludwig’s country club farce, The Fox on the Fairway.

Palm Beach Dramaworks paints a gentle portrait of five Irish sisters in a lovely season closer.

Thinking Cap Theatre tackles a shattering play about lesbian lovers in Kenya.

New Theatre’s Ricky J. Martinez debuts the second play in his ‘Island Trilogy’

An imagination-fueled British hit has a young man’s male and female lovers squaring off.

At dinner-party-like ‘atelier nights,’ Copperbox chef Gabriela Machado is wowing diners with her artful food

Theatrical magic and artful puppetry power the Royal National Theatre’s award-winning production.

The Dranoff event showcases duo pianists and student poets at the Arsht Center.

Despite common threads, the stories of two tragic teens don’t mesh in the new AAPACT production.

Playwright and journalist Janet Langhart Cohen, wife of former defense secretary William S. Cohen, imagines a meeting between Anne Frank (Zasha Shary) and Emmett Till (Shawn Burgess) in ‘Anne & Emmett.’ The African American Performing Arts Community Theatre is presenting the memory play about the two famous teen victims of hatred and prejudice at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, 6161 NW 22nd Ave., Miami, through May 12. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Regular tickets are $20 ($25 for Saturday’s opening performance; $15 for first weekend Friday and Sunday performances). Call 305-456-0287 or visit www.aapact.com.

The actor brings dimension and depth to a fearful guy in Miami Beach Stage Door’s production.

James Sherman’s Beau Jest is well-suited — maybe ideal — for the core audience at Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs.

Cannonball Miami is bringing L.A. artists here to create work and waves

Falling in love means taking a risk, and Rudi Goblen takes plenty of risks in his new solo theater piece, PET.

Voracious virtuosity has propelled Rudi Goblen to the top of Miami’s live-arts scene

Something subtle but crucial was missing from Dances at a Gathering, the evanescent Jerome Robbins masterpiece Miami City Ballet is dancing for its fourth and final program of the season. The obvious pieces were in place at Saturday’s performance at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale: the 10 dancers executed the choreography well, sometimes thrillingly so.

Viewers of Thursday night’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, broadcast live from Coral Gables on Telemundo, might get a strong feeling of déjà vu. On stage will be longtime salsa-pop favorite Marc Anthony (that was him, too, in 2012, 2011 and 2010), pop diva Paulina Rubio (a repeat from 2012 and 2010) and reggaeton star Don Omar and veteran Mexican pop-rockers Mana (both appearing for the third year in a row).

Natalie Cole looked and sang like a diva at the inaugural Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame gala at the New World Symphony on Tuesday night, delivering a lovely rendition of Acercate Mas (Get Closer) in a “Unforgettable” style duet with video of her father Nat King Cole. “It’s not easy being first, and Dad was a first in so many ways,” Cole told the audience at the New World Center on Miami Beach, as she accepted the Premio Pionero Desi Arnaz on behalf of her father, who was friends with the famous Cuban actor and singer. Nat King Cole was revered in Cuba for recording three albums of Latin American songs. “I can only imagine Desi and my Dad are looking down on us.”

The pas de deux Justin Peck created for Miami City Ballet was just one element of the New World Symphony’s “New Work” evening, but Chutes and Ladders, vibrantly performed by Jeanette Delgado and Kleber Rebello, made a vivid impression even amid the rich array at New World Center Saturday.

The debate over immigration is highly political, but for the Los Angeles-based group La Santa Cecelia, the issue is painfully personal. Lead singer Marisol Hernandez’s parents came to L.A. from Mexico without papers, and accordionist Jose “Pepe” Carlos is undocumented.

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.

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.