Events: Theater
“The AMPARO™ Experience”
Immersive Theatrical Performance Concludes Its Eighth Month Run in Miami on Sunday, November 24
Written and directed by Abre Camino Collective, the new face of The AMPARO™ Experience includes the addition of Tony and Emmy-winning executive producers, The Broadway Factor (American Sun, Kinky Boots), and was made possible by a team of over 120 - outfitting an entire set from the ground up, engineering sound and lighting, designing costumes, building a cocktail bar, writing, directing, rehearsing, and promoting this innovative experience in less than three months.
Location
Historic Villa in Downtown Miami
221 NE 17th Street,
Miami,
FL
33132
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A MidSummer Night's Dream
Nov 15, 2019 to Nov 17, 2019 - at 12:00 PM - English
A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway
lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows,
the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles,
mistaken identities and transformations... with hilarious, but dark consequences.
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Shakespeare's most famous romantic comedy will be captured live from
the Bridge Theatre in London. Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones),
Oliver Chris (Green Wing, NT Live: Young Marx), David Moorst (NT Live: Allelujah!)
and Hammed Animashaun (The Barber Shop Chronicles) lead the cast
as Titania, Oberon, Puck and Bottom.
Directed by Nicholas Hytner, this production of A MidSummer Night's Dream will build on the success of his immersive staging of Julius Caesar (NT Live 2018).
The Bridge Theatre will become a forest - a dream world of flying fairies, fogs and
moonlight revels, surrounded by a roving audience following the action on foot.
Location
Coral Gables Art Cinema
260 Aragon Avenue,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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Ring of Fire
- The Music of Johnny Cash
- Created by Richard Maltby, Jr.
- Conceived by William Meade
From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. Performed by five incredible actor/singer musicians who play 20 different instruments, this exciting musical features the songs “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and more than two dozen classic hits. This portrait of The Man in Black is a foot-stompin’, crowd-pleasin’ salute to a unique musical legend, climaxing in a final concert that will both move and exhilarate.
Location
Actors' Playhouse
280 Miracle Mile,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Miami New Drama opens its season at the Colony Theatre with The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a new play based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Thornton Wilder that Time Magazine calls "One of the Best novels of the 20th century." Adapted for the stage by and starring six-time Obie Award-winner David Greenspan, The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a lyrical fable of fate and love about five travelers in colonial Peru whose lives intersect in an epic and unexpected way.
Tickets: $39 – $100.
Location
Miami New Drama
1040 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Book, Music & Lyrics by Rupert Holmes
A hilarious musical whodunit by Rupert Holmes which won the Tony Award in 1986 for Best Musical. Loosely based on Charles Dickens’ famous unfinished novel, it takes audience participation to new heights by letting you directly effect the play’s outcome by voting for whomever you think murdered the unfortunate young Edwin Drood. Presented as a “first night” performance during the Christmas season by the The Music Hall Royale, a troupe of decidedly hammy Victorian actors, this witty, tuneful, and affectionate recreation of a bygone theatrical age is a perfect beginning to your holiday season.
Location
Ring Theatre
1312 Miller Drive,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
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The Wolves
This Pulitzer Prize finalist centers on the lives and experiences of nine high school girls through their weekly Saturday morning pre-game soccer warmups, using their team and relationships as a metaphor for survival in 21st Century America. Different personalities and backgrounds clash, as these young women navigate the bumpy terrain of being a teenager living in America today. This stunning new work, highly theatrical and still true to life, is one of the most anticipated titles in the current American theater season.
Location
Carnival Studio Theater
1300 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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22:22
Nov 16, 2019 & Nov 17, 2019 - at 5:30 PM - English
When he lived in Mexico City, Jorge Consejo's first acting teacher was Odin Dupeyron. They would form a creative friendship. One of Dupeyron's introspective plays, "22:22" had a universal message, so why should it just be limited to the language it was written in.
Consejo and Dupeyron thought that the well-known Mexican playwright's "22:22", would be worthwhile for English speaking audiences to see.
Tickets are $40 and $50.
Location
Koubek Center
2705 SW 3rd St,
Miami,
FL
33135
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Dos Hermanas y un Piano by Nilo Cruz
Nov 21, 2019 to Nov 24, 2019 - at 8:00 PM - Spanish
Miami-Dade County Auditorium presents Dos Hermanas y un Piano, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Passion infiltrates politics when a lieutenant falls in love with a woman he’s assigned to watch under house arrest.
Part of the Brand New: Fresh/Local & On.Stage Series.
Location
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
2901 West Flagler St,
Miami,
FL
33135
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Lorca: Flamenco y Contemporáneo by Silvia Esteban
Main Street Players presents the first show of their 2019 -2020 season, Lorca: Flamenco y Contemporaneo by local playwright and director, Silvia De Esteban.
The show walks through the most significant works of the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, a magical journey navigating through his characters and stories. His theater, poems, and songs are uniquely intertwined under the aroma of a Spanish guitar and the broken voice of flamenco. Actors with different nationalities and accents will set up a performance that will bring the audience closer to the soul of the acclaimed writer and poet. Humor, surprises, pain, and sorrow converge in a show aimed to keep Lorca's work and passion for the theater alive. This show will be performed entirely in Spanish.
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The production manager is Lianne Gregori, and the cast is as follows:
- Aniluli Munecas
- Anna Sobero
- Shakti Maal
- Odel Iglesias
- Francisco Porras
- Eliu Ramos
- Jorge Gordillo
- Carlos Fabian Medina
- Roderick Randle
- Felipe Carvajal, guitar player
Lorca: Flamenco y Contemporaneo runs November 29 - December 15. Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for students, seniors, (65+) and military personnel. Theatre League/Industry $20 with i.d. at the door only. Tickets may be purchased in advance at website, or at the door 60 minutes prior to showtime.
Location
Main Street Playhouse
6766 Main Street,
Miami Lakes,
FL
33014
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Ordinary Americans by Joseph McDonough
GableStage Producing Artistic Director Joseph Adler and Palm Beach Dramaworks Producing Artistic Director William Hayes are pleased to announce that their companies will be working together to co-produce the world premiere of Ordinary Americans, a play by Joseph McDonough based on actual events in the lives of Gertrude Berg and Philip Loeb, stars of television’s groundbreaking sitcom, The Goldbergs, which premiered on CBS in 1949.
- As previously announced, Ordinary Americans will be staged at PBD from December 6 - 29, 2019.
- It will then move on to GableStage from January 18 - February 16, 2020.
Hayes will direct, and South Florida favorite Elizabeth Dimon will star as Berg. The rest of the cast and artistic team will be announced at a later date.
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“We’re thrilled to be working together and excited about bringing this play to both our audiences,” said Hayes and Adler in a joint statement. “We have enormous respect for each other’s work; we share the same views when it comes to the kind of theatre we want to be associated with. The DNA between the two theatres is very similar. We both try to pick plays that you won’t forget about when the lights come up, plays that people will still be talking about the next day. That’s our goal. If we can rattle the cage and maybe change someone’s viewpoint, that’s exciting. We also think that partnering is the right message to send to the community. We believe that theatres are collaborative rather than competitive, and this is a way to lead by example. It’s important to come together and show there’s a new way to think as theatre companies. And with Ordinary Americans, we have a meaningful story to tell the world that is particularly powerful at this moment in history.” It is believed to be the first co-production between two South Florida theatres.
The play is set in the early 1950s and centers on the tribulations faced by Berg and Loeb as they struggle to save their show, their careers, and their friendship in the face of McCarthyism, anti-Semitism, and the political climate of the country. Berg (1899 – 1966) was a seminal figure in American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century and one of the most significant artists in television history, yet she is largely forgotten today. She was known to millions around the country as Molly Goldberg, a character she created for her 1929 radio show, The Rise of the Goldbergs, which aired first on NBC and later on CBS until 1945 (with a break between 1934 and 1938). In addition to starring as the matriarch of a Jewish family living in the Bronx, Berg wrote almost every script for the radio show and then for the TV series, which ran through 1957 on different networks. She was also the show’s producer, and the first recipient of an Emmy Award for Lead Comedy Actress.
“She owned her own show,” said McDonough. “She was like Oprah before Oprah. In those days, for a woman, especially a Jewish woman, to do all that she did was incredible. And she never shied away from the fact that her characters were Jewish, which was also important. Yet the family’s appeal was that they were just ordinary Americans.”
“I have vivid memories of watching The Goldbergs on television,” said Adler. “I loved Gertrude Berg, and I realized early on that she was more than just the actress. She created the show, she was a writer, she was a brilliant woman. To my knowledge, she created the first television series that depicted Jewish family life in America. The critical thing about that show is it was loved by Jews and non-Jews because it was really about family. And it’s remarkable that it was being aired way back then, because at the time the country was riddled by anti-Semitism.”
Hayes admits that he knew very little about Berg until Dimon told him of her long-time desire to play the television pioneer. “Beth knew she was suited to playing the role and she’d been trying to get someone interested in writing a play about Gertrude Berg for years,” Hayes said. “I watched a documentary about Berg and read her biography, and as I learned more and more about her I couldn’t believe nobody had written a play about her. I couldn’t get her story out of my head; it became an obsession. So I commissioned the play out of The Dramaworkshop, our lab for developing new work. I asked Joe to write it because he became as fascinated by the subject as I was.”
Ordinary Americans was developed in The Dramaworkshop, and last January it received a reading at PBD as part of the first New Year/New Plays Festival. “I think the strength of the play – and several people who attended the reading said this – is that it’s the first time that McCarthyism is personalized, where we actually see it destroy a good person,” said Hayes, referring to Loeb. “It makes it a more powerful message because you get to know and like someone, and you see the destructive power of fear and paranoia. And as you watch this fear and paranoia and anti-Semitism, the parallels to today are unmistakable.”
Hayes approached Adler about co-producing the play, and Adler was immediately receptive. “I jumped at the chance,” he said. “It’s such an important story. On one level it’s pure Americana, which is to say it’s a play about a minority in this country, and an artist who was able to depict family life within that minority in such a way that it had a universality. At the same time, these people are persecuted for their religion and their politics. The blacklist is a blight on our history, and I don’t think most people today are aware of how many people’s careers were destroyed, or the number of people who killed themselves. It’s a story that needs to be told.”
- GableStage is a non-profit, professional theatre and is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the South Florida Theatre League, Florida Professional Theatres Association, Florida Cultural Alliance, Dade Cultural Alliance, Americans for the Arts, and The Drama League, as well as Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce, Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, and the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
- Palm Beach Dramaworks is a non-profit, professional theatre and is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the South Florida Theatre League, Florida Professional Theatres Association, and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.
Locations
Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St,
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
GableStage, Inc.
1200 Anastasia Avenue,
Coral Gables, FL 33134
The Nutcracker
Saturday, Dec 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM - English
Thomas Armour Youth Ballet's production of The Nutcracker is Miami's oldest presentation of the holiday classic and has been enjoyed by over 300,000 audience members over 42 years. The cast is a celebration of Miami's diversity, featuring students from all five TAYB locations, dancers from New World School of the Arts, and internationally known guest stars. Don’t miss this timeless classic this holiday season! Part of the Miami-Dade County Auditorium's Very Merry Holiday Season Series.
Location
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
2901 West Flagler St,
Miami,
FL
33135
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Climate Change Theatre Action | Miami Beach
Monday, Dec 9, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - English
An evening of short climate change plays and conversation. What role will you play to save our home?
In community with City Theatre, Miami New Drama, the Miccosukee School, and Love the Everglades Movement, Mangrove Creative Collective is organizing a Climate Change Theatre Action’s 2019 Lighting the Way play reading series.
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Featured playwrights are:
- Madeline Sayet, BLOOD ON THE LEAVES
- Hassan Abdulrazzak, LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF
- Jordan Hall, THE DONATION
- Georgina Escobar, A DOG LOVES MANGO
- Alister Emerson, SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING
Additionally, audiences will hear a new play Mangrove Creative Collective has developed with the students at the Miccosukee School, which will lift up the voices of our local indigenous population and illuminate their continued stewardship of the land and water.
Location
Colony Theater
1040 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Climate Change Theatre Action | Miami Beach
Monday, Dec 9, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - English
An evening of short climate change plays and conversation. What role will you play to save our home?
In community with City Theatre, Miami New Drama, the Miccosukee School, and Love the Everglades Movement, Mangrove Creative Collective is organizing a Climate Change Theatre Action’s 2019 Lighting the Way play reading series.
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Featured playwrights are:
- Madeline Sayet, BLOOD ON THE LEAVES
- Hassan Abdulrazzak, LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF
- Jordan Hall, THE DONATION
- Georgina Escobar, A DOG LOVES MANGO
- Alister Emerson, SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING
Additionally, audiences will hear a new play Mangrove Creative Collective has developed with the students at the Miccosukee School, which will lift up the voices of our local indigenous population and illuminate their continued stewardship of the land and water.
Location
Colony Theater
1040 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
(Map)
Mamma Mia!
Jan 22, 2020 to Feb 23, 2020 - various times - English
- Music and Lyrics by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
- Book by Catherine Johnson
Over 60 million people worldwide have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show. This sunny and funny tale follows the story of a young woman's search for her birth father on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. A large cast, non-stop laughs and explosive dance numbers, told through the story telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs, propel this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship into one of the most unforgettable musicals of all time.
Location
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
280 Miracle Mile,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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Feos by Teatro y su Doble
Written by acclaimed Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón and inspired by the story "La Noche de los Feos" by Mario Benedetti, Feos is a visual feast of Bunraku-style puppetry. A man and a woman who have spent their whole lives alone and subjected to stares due to physical deformities have a chance encounter in line at a movie theatre. Together they go in search of the light behind the darkness, although nothing is quite as it seems. Incorporating stop motion projections, puppeteering of the highest caliber and a story that challenges audiences to look at their own faults with honesty and acceptance, the production is a unique work of beauty.
Location
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
2901 West Flagler St,
Miami,
FL
33135
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Friday, Feb 7, 2020 at 8:00 PM - English
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom tells the true story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, one of the youngest participants in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, who was jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday. Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the right to vote.
$5 tickets for ages 13 to 22.
Location
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
2901 West Flagler St,
Miami,
FL
33135
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Hamilton
Feb 18, 2020 to Mar 14, 2020 - various times - English
HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.
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With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
HAMILTON’s creative team previously collaborated on the 2008 Tony Award ® Winning Best Musical IN THE HEIGHTS.
HAMILTON features scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe, and casting by Telsey + Company, Bethany Knox, CSA.
The musical is produced by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman and The Public Theater.
The HAMILTON Original Broadway Cast Recording is available everywhere nationwide.
Location
Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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The Trojan Women
Feb 20, 2020 to Feb 29, 2020 - various times - English
By Euripides, Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin
A war to retrieve the beautiful Helen of Troy has ended. The city has been laid to waste; its men slaughtered. Its women have been forced to the beach where the Greeks will soon enslave them as the spoils of war. As they await their fate, Queen Hecuba, her daughter Cassandra and the other women confront the travesties and devastation of war. Ellen McLaughlin’s contemporary adaptation of Euripides’ centuries-old drama is a lucid and humbling perspective on the refugees of war.
Location
Ring Theatre
1312 Miller Drive,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
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Doctor Ouch! - Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
Doctor Ouch ! is a story based on the poems of Kornei Chukovsky about a Doctor that cures animals . The ballet, with music of I. Morozov and choreography by Vladimir Issaev, tells the fun adventures lived by nice Doctor Ouch, when he is called to help the monkeys in Africa who have become very ill. During his journey, he encounters tropical animals and exotic birds while mischievous pirates, make Dr. Ouch’s mission a difficult but hilarious adventure.
Location
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
3385 NE 188 Street,
Aventura,
FL
33180
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Doctor Ouch! - Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:00 PM - English
Doctor Ouch! is a story based on the poems of Kornei Chukovsky about a Doctor that cures animals . The ballet, with music of I. Morozov and choreography by Vladimir Issaev, tells the fun adventures lived by nice Doctor Ouch, when he is called to help the monkeys in Africa who have become very ill. During his journey, he encounters tropical animals and exotic birds while mischievous pirates make Dr. Ouch’s mission a difficult but hilarious adventure.
Location
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
201 SW 5th Avenue,
Fort Lauderdale,,
FL
33312
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Camelot
Mar 18, 2020 to Apr 12, 2020 - various times - English
- Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
- Music by Frederick Loewe
The legendary love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot leaps from the pages of T.H. White’s novel Lerner and Loewe’s award-winning musical. Its Original Broadway Cast Album topped the charts for 60 weeks, with a rich score boasting such gems as "If Ever I Would Leave You," “I Loved You Once in Silence,” "The Lusty Month of May," and of course, "Camelot." This unique, newly revised version focused directly on the leading characters and the classic Arthurian legend reinvents the famous duo’s fantastical masterpiece.
Location
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
280 Miracle Mile,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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enra
Friday, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:00 PM - English
Named after the mythical-shape-shifting and smoke-like Japanese spirit enenra, supergroup enra combines martial arts, rhythmic gymnastics, juggling, classical ballet, street dance and vivid digital art projections to create a supernatural, futuristic theatrical magic, riffing on Japanese pop culture and appealing to audiences worldwide.
Location
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center
10950 SW 211 ST,
Cutler Bay,
FL
33189
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American Idiot
Apr 16, 2020 to Apr 25, 2020 - various times - English
Book & Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong & Michael Mayer,
Music by Green Day
We end our season with a high-octane electric-rock musical with a strong social message. Based on Green Day’s Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, this energy-fueled rock opera features little dialogue and instead relies on the lyrics of Green Day’s albums to execute the story line of three disgruntled men as they flee the constraints of their hometown for the thrills of city life.
Location
Ring Theatre
1312 Miller Drive,
Coral Gables,
FL
33146
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