Love can be a burdensome, vexing mesh of pain, longing, fighting, displaced passion, and angst. In short, love can be a real pain in the ass. Unless, of course, it’s happening to other people. Then it can be entertaining as hell. Get your fill of one couple’s tale of forlorn…
Summer Shorts 2011: No shortage of comedy, drama, and the provocative
In addition to last year’s annual Summer Shorts festival, City Theatre premiered Camp Kappawanna, the family rock musical penned by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb (the show is back for a return engagement this year). This year’s festivities, however, is not so kid-friendly. The 16th anniversary of Summer Shorts calls for…
If you’re a fan of low scoring games, low-percentage shooting and sleep depravity, then Game 1 of the NBA Finals was the game for you!LeBron James scored 24 while Dwyane Wade added 22 and Chris Bosh went for 19 as the Miami Heat took down the Dallas Mavericks 92-84 to…
Every single person that has ever uttered or written or tweeted or thought the word “LeBrick” can help themselves to a dick chipotle. Because with 3:12 remaining in the game, and the Heat down by 12, LeBron James obliterated the Chicago Bulls’ vaunted defense like an ass-kicking machine with the…
It’s the timeless tale of fading beauty, the working class of old New Orleans, rape, and a dude in a wife beater shirt who belts out one of the most famous scenes in stage and film history (“Stella!”). A Streetcar Named Desire was the play (and film) that launched Marlon…
Be sure to add “Watch seven plays” to your summer to-do list, right after “Finish reading A Game of Thrones” and “Go parasailing.” Impossible, you say? Not when City Theatre’s 16th annual Summer Shorts hits the Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater this Thursday and runs through June 26. This year,…
Miami theater this week: Hitchcock, Streetcar, and vibrators
Big night in Miami tonight. On one side, the Miami Heat hosting the Chicago Bulls in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. On the other, the Miami-Dade elections. What’s a good Miamian to do? Watch the game? Check on the election results?Well, don’t fret, good citizen. Just stay with us…
The Miami Heat took down the tough Chicago Bulls 96-85 in an Eastern Conference Finals Game 3 that featured tough defense, gay slurs, Miami fans berating Charles Barkley, LeBron James obliterating Kyle Korver, and Chris Bosh exploding all over Chicago’s face. The Heat now have a 2-1 lead in the…
In Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, the Miami Heat had zero answers for the Chicago Bulls and their insane rebounding prowess, sharp shooting, monster dunks and screamy faces. But in last night’s Game 2, the Heat answered with the one-two punch of LeBron James and the ball obliterating…
It was the film that launched Marlon Brando’s career, and the play that earned Tennessee Williams his first Pulitzer. It is a timeless tale of fading beauty, the New Orleans working class, rape, and a dude in a wifebeater who belts out one of the most famous scenes in showbiz…
The 39 Steps at Actors’ Playhouse crams an entire film onto the stage
Well that was rough. Apparently Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau screened Hoosiers for his team while Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra showed his guys Atlas Shrugged prior to their Game 1 Eastern Conference Finals showdown. Because the Heat were out muscled, and out-hustled by the swarming Bulls, resulting in the…
Adapted for the stage by Patrick Barlow, and directed by Jim Helsinger, a talented four-member cast playing 150 different characters delivered a satisfyingly witty and fast-paced version of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s first masterpieces at last night’s Actors’ Playhouse opening production of The 39 Steps.Hitchock’s original 1935 film set the…
LeBron James has taken a lot of shit this year. Mainly because he decided to exercise his perfectly legal right to join another team through free agency. SO EVIL! And then he went and celebrated his signing with the Heat in front of the local fans with a fire works…
Celebrity Autobiography at the Arsht Center May 12-15
Of all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, his 1935 classic The 39 Steps would probably be the most difficult to bring to the theater stage. Yet that is exactly what the Actors’ Playhouse is doing by presenting one of Hitch’s first masterpieces. It’s a spy thriller that has it all: murder,…
They had to overcome overtime, bad officiating, the national media’s sudden infatuation with a one-armed man, “retarded-gate,” Chris Bosh’s supposed “softness,” LeBron James’ inability to close out games, a losing streak in Boston that’s lasted since 2007, and a building full of obnoxious fans, but the Heat took down the…
After roughly 5,836 days in between games, the Miami Heat finally resumed their Eastern Conference semi-final series against the Celtics in Boston. The end result wasn’t as awesome as Games 1 and 2, in that the Heat got creamed pretty badly.But the good news is Erik Spoelstra finally went with…
Celebrity Autobiography, which opened Thursday for a limited two week run at the Arsht Center, features comics such as Rachel Dratch and actors like Sharon Gless reading verbatim selections from actual memoirs of celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Burt Reynolds and Tiger Woods.And the hilarious end result confirmed pretty much what…
Ah marriage. Nothing wrecks your sex drive, puts on the pounds, and generally makes you a loathsome miserable bitter human as efficiently as marriage. Of course there’s that whole thing about growing old and dying alone you have to contend with if you don’t get married. Screw you, Universe!In honor…
