The Miami Heat must really want to not have the second seed in the Eastern Conference, because they came out and completely crapped themselves last night in a 90-85 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.With Dwyane Wade and his hobbled thigh on the bench, the Heat turned the ball over 16…
If you believe the film Amadeus, composer Antonio Salieri killed Mozart for being too awesome. In one scene, Salieri shares an arrangement with Mozart, who thinks it’s simply meh. Mozart then turns it into a march and uses it in his own opera, The Marriage of Figaro. Following Figaro’s massive…
The Sparrow at the Arsht Center through May 1
Whether chronicling the total badassness of the Miami Hurricanes’ football dominance during the ’80s in The U or exploring the highs (ahem) and lows of our city’s dubious marriage with cocaine trafficking in Cocaine Cowboys, filmmaker Billy Corben knows how to mine the depths of the Magic City’s rich and…
Take Stephen King’s Carrie, Edward Scissorhands, and add a dash of ancient mythology, and what you have is one of the more original and unique productions to hit theatres in some time. The Sparrow, a musical play conceived and originally performed by the House Theatre of Chicago, opens this week…
Emily Book returns to her hometown ten years after a tragic school bus accident took the lives of her entire second-grade class and left her the lone survivor. Now, preparing to spend her senior year attending the town’s high school, she must come to grips with being not only the…
O, Miami: Poetry fest wants to bring verse to Miami’s masses
Miami theater this week: Brotherly love, family dysfunction, and tasty pastries
P. Scott Cunningham is the founder of the University of Wynwood and, with a little help from his friends, is launching the first-annual O, Miami poetry festival this month. O, Miami’s goal is simple: to poetry bomb the entirety of Miami-Dade county’s roughly 2.5 million inhabitants every day for the…
It’s Christmas morning for the Heat Haters Dick Biters Brigade! Because the lowly 15-58 Cleveland Cavaliers took down and exacted revenge on LeBron James and the Miami Heat last night in a 102-90 win.The Heat were outplayed and out hustled on both ends of the floor. And even though they…
With the NBA playoffs just a few weeks away, it’s that time of year when we get a whole lotta Dwayne Wade and his towering deeds of heroic awesomeness all up in our faces. And even though D-Wade has made his name around these parts as a pretty righteous ass-kicker,…
There are nights when the Miami Heat completely annihilate an inferior opponent and leave them buried in their wake of awesomeness by twenty or thirty points. Last night was not one of those nights.The Heat had to rally hard and overcome an eleven-point deficit in last night’s 100-94 win over…
The Carbonell Awards are basically the Oscars for South Florida theater. And if all goes well this year, Actors’ Playhouse and GableStage are gonna kick all the other local thespian companies in the pants. Actors’ Playhouse, in particular, leads all theaters with an amazing 11 nominations for its 2010 production…
Superior Donuts at GableStage is a sweet treat
TMZ has pictures of Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne dancing around with fake boobs on his vacation in the Bahamas.And because the Dolphins are a shrill, smug, stuffy organization (because they like to think they’re the New England Patriots, you see), they’re none too happy with the photos…
Born to a Jewish father and a Puerto Rican mother, and raised in West Philly, playwright Quiara Hudes had plenty of sources to inspire her to write the Tony Award winning In the Heights, which opens March 29 at the Arsht Center for a limited six-day run. Showcasing hip-hop, salsa,…
Playing at the GableStage at the Biltmore, Superior Donuts is Tracy Lett’s enjoyable follow up to his Pulitzer Prize winning August: Osage County (currently playing at the Actors’ Playhouse). If August: Osage County is a cauldron of familial complexities and dizzying dysfunction, then Superior Donuts gives us quite the opposite. It’s…
Showcasing hip-hop, salsa, merengue, and soul music, the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical In the Heights will hit the Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House for a six-day run. The musical takes viewers on an eclectic musical journey through a Dominican-American neighborhood in Washington Heights, New York. It’s filled with colorful…
August: Osage County at Actors’ Playhouse is a riveting study in family dysfunction
Just ten days ago, the Miami Heat were in the midst of a five-game losing streak that included a season sweep at the hands of the Chicago Bulls and a press conference where head coach Erik Spoelstra told everyone that his players were crying after a loss. In the mix…
Set in Uptown Chicago, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts, which opens this Saturday at GableStage at the Biltmore, tells the tale of Arthur, a former 60s radical and owner of a rundown donut shop, and the offbeat friendship he shares with Franco, his young African American employee…
Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-Tony Award winning play, August: Osage County, which opened last night at the Actors’ Playhouse, is a satisfyingly complex dramedy where dense family psychodrama takes center stage.The emotionally charged and darkly funny play, about a dysfunctional family forced to come together and deal with some thorny baggage,…
