This Week and Weekend's Musts
MUSIC
New World Symphony
Honeck: Mahler 4
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
J. Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus; Haydn: Symphony No. 93; Mahler: Symphony No. 4.
Conductor Manfred Honeck makes his triumphant return in a program of orchestral gems from his homeland, Austria.
New World Symphony, New World Center, Michael Tilson Thomas Performance Hall, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Stage
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 (also free Wallcast in Soundscape Park)
2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Seraphic Fire at Christmas: Timeless carols and a reading of the famed 1823 American poem.
8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 12
Church of the Little Flower, 2711 Indian Mound Trail, Coral Gables
Ocean Drive Promenade Series
5 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14
Lucia Nuñez
The smooth sounds of vintage jazz and Bossa Nova drift through Ocean Drive as Lucia Nuñez performs at this week’s Ocean Drive Promenade Music Series in Lummus Park. A Miami-based singer and guitarist, Nuñez is known for her cool, expressive tone and graceful movement between English, Spanish and Portuguese. Her set combines the sophistication of classic jazz with the warmth of Brazilian rhythm, capturing a cosmopolitan style that feels perfectly at home in Miami Beach.
Ocean Drive Promenade Music Series, a free, weekly concert series presented by the Ocean Drive Association. Pack a picnic blanket or lawn chair to stake out your seat on the lawn.
Lummus Park between 14th Street and 14th Place. Rainy-day location is inside The Betsy Hotel.
THEATER
Miami New Drama
"Here There Are Blueberries"
Co-written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, “Here There Are Blueberries” got its start at Miami New Drama as a workshop and is now a critically acclaimed play that tells the true story of a Nazi-era photo album sent to the Unite States Holocaust Museum.
The show runs from Friday, Nov 14 through Sunday, Dec. 14 at the Colony Theatre, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach.
Info at www.miaminewdrama.org
"Frozen: The Musical"
Slow Burn Theatre Company
Dec. 13-Jan. 4
Broward Center for the Performing Arts Amaturo Theater, 201 DE 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale
Info at www.slowburntheatre.org
"Left on Tenth"
Delia Ephron's bestselling memoir
Through Sunday, Dec. 21
$60 to $95
Information: (305) 445-1119 or www.gablestage.org
Read the review at www.miamiartzine.com
ART
Locust Projects
LA ESQUINITA (Little Corner) by Tara Long (Taralong.overdraft.fee). A large-scale installation juxtaposing Florida’s “Big Sugar” era with today’s Big Tech boom through confectionery and decaying materials, exploring how both industries reshape local culture. Curated by Lorie Mertes.
297 NE 67th St., Miami
Mindy Solomon Gallery
"Who By Fire,” Zoe Buckman solo exhibition
Through Jan. 10
Mindy Solomon Gallery, 848 NW 22 St., Miami
The Wolfsonian-FIU
"World's Fair Visions of Tomorrow"
Through Feb. 22
The wonders of 19th- and 20th-century world's fairs—towering architecture and dazzling displays of the latest in technology, science, industry, and art—promised fairgoers a bright and modern future. Featuring Wolfsonian collection works such as posters, books, souvenirs, and one of the first consumer TVs, World's Fairs: "Visions of Tomorrow" spotlights the centerpiece pavilions, spellbinding attractions, and uplifting themes that drew millions to cities from Paris to Spokane, often during times of crisis and change. The exhibition leads up to contemporary artist Marco Brambilla's new video installation, After Utopia (opening fall 2025), which imagines a virtual expo of iconic structures from fairs held across time and around the globe.
Information and ticket prices here.
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum-FIU
Agustín Fernández
The Alluring Power of Ambiguity
Through Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026
Cuban-born Agustín Fernández (1928–2006) was a modern master, incorporating a non-dualistic visual language of figuration and abstraction. Juxtaposing anatomical images with subdued coloration, Fernández is an artist difficult to position within the color-saturated Cuban canon. His ambiguous forms are evocative of flesh and eros, represented through a monochromatic palette. Resonating with the broader modernist movement, Fernández’s work explores themes of exile, separation, and abandonment.
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University MMC, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami.
Information: 305-348-2890 or frost.fiu.edu
God Made Bob, Bob Made Rock
Primary Gallery
Solo installation by Miami-based artist Robert Lorie in response to Primary's outdoor sculpture garden. God Made Bob. Bob Made Rock., explores the intricate interplay between the natural and the manufactured. Using concrete, mortar, grout, and pigment, Lorie reconstructs the visual and tactile language of mineral formations, blurring the lines between geological phenomena and human intervention.
Primary, 7410 NW Miami Court, Miami
Info at thisisprimary.com
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