Events: February 22, 2026
My Underground Mother
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM - English
Please come and enjoy this screening from Director. Producer, Writer: Marisa Fox at this years 40th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. SPECIAL GUESTS: Marisa Fox.
"You think you know your mother until you don't," says filmmaker Marisa Fox. Tamar was a New York doctor's wife who claimed she fled her native Poland on the cusp of World War II and was never a Holocaust "victim." Twenty years after her death, Fox, now a journalist and mother, learns Tamar had a secret identity and chases down leads that span the globe, uncovering a story of Nazi trafficking and a defiant band of sisters in a women's forced labor camp. Dogged research, extraordinary archival imagery and staggeringly candid interviews reveal a portrait of a woman who dared to be the hero of her own story, transforming herself from Nazi slave to freedom fighter, from refugee to spy and saboteur, ultimately reinventing herself as a matriarch in America. A real-life story of a daughter coming to terms with a woman who went to extraordinary lengths not to be defined by trauma.
Location
Savor Cinema
503 SE 6th St,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33301
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Land of the Mustaches
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM - English
SPECIAL GUEST: Rutanya Alda
For the children and women of all wars, it never leaves.
Land of the Mustaches is an autobiographical story of a young girl growing up in the Displaced Persons refugee camps with her mother and grandmother after World War Two left them starving and stateless, and her father’s disappearance into Stalin’s notorious Gulag labor camps in Siberia with only what he was wearing the day he was abducted two hard paths that parallel each other until they finally merge into one story: The ultimate celebration of resilience and the human spirit.
Location
Savor Cinema
503 SE 6th St,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33301
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California Scenario
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM - English
Please come and enjoy this screening from Director James Takata. Which is one of our Feature Drama Films in this years 40th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
When single parents Jacob and Laura separately bring their struggling children to Noguchi's sculpture garden to grapple with shared family legacies of survival, they discover the possibility of building something new together... one day.
Location
Savor Cinema
503 SE 6th St,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33301
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South Florida Pride Youth Band Season 15 Presented by FLoatarama
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM - English
Comprised of more than 80 students who represent dozens of public and private high schools throughout Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, the South Florida Pride Youth Band will join forces with members of the South Florida Pride Concert Band, the bridge-building musical powerhouse which has been entertaining the South Florida community for 40 years.
Tickets are $45 and can be purchased at website.
Location
The Parker Playhouse
707 Northeast 8th Street,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33304
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Davóne Tines: Anthem
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM - English
Davone Tines leads a powerful program as part of NWS's annual I Dream a World festival. Race, social justice and belonging are at the heart of this program that explores America's Civil Rights Movement and beyond.
Location
New World Center
500 17th Street,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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From Venezuela to the American Southwest - Coral Gables Museum
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM - English
Carreño String Quartet in B minor (1896), Beach String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 89 (1921),
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate Pisachi (Reveal) (2013)
María Teresa Carreño García (1853-1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, soprano, composer, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pianist and was often referred to as the "Valkyrie of the Piano". She frequently performed the works of Norwegian composer and pianist Edvard Grieg (1843–1907). Carreño composed approximately 75 works for solo piano, voice and piano, choir and orchestra, and instrumental ensemble.
Amy Beach (1867-1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era.
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (born 1968) is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist. His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture and ethos. Tate has had several commissioned works, which have been performed by major orchestras in Washington, DC; San Francisco, Detroit, and Minneapolis. When the San Francisco Symphony Chorus performed and recorded his work Iholba' in 2008, it was the first time the chorus had sung any work in Chickasaw or any American Indian language. His Metropolitan Museum of Art commission, Pisachi (Reveal), is featured on ETHEL String Quartet's album Documerica.
Location
Coral Gables Museum
285 Aragon Avenue,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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American Folk - Miami Beach Community Church
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM - English
Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley leads this celebration of American folk song traditions, featuring tunes known and loved such as This Land is Your Land and Simple Gifts, as well as Ingram Marshall’s Hymnodic Delays, a piece based on 18th century American folk hymns.
This Land is Your Land, Simple Gifts, Farther Along, My Darlin’ Clementine, and more! Bring the whole family to this American folk song celebration. The pure-toned voices of Seraphic Fire take you on a 75-minute journey through America’s folk music roots. We’ll also sing Ingram Marshall’s Hymnodic Delays, perhaps Seraphic Fire’s most requested piece, based on 18th century American folk hymns.
Location
Miami Beach Community Church
1620 Drexel Ave.,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Dear Evan Hansen
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 3:00 AM - English
- Book by Steven Levenson
- Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Winner of the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen is a profoundly contemporary coming-of-age story about the fragility of life and the need for human connection. Evan Hansen, a teenager struggling with severe anxiety, has always felt invisible. But when a sudden tragedy thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, he finds himself presented with an unexpected opportunity: the chance to reinvent himself.
Location
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
280 Miracle Mile,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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Teatro Avante presents Lear
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM - Spanish
Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this contemporary reimagining explores the collapse of patriarchal power through the King's fractured memory. As time stalls and repeats, conflicts and the cost of power resurface, with the jester emerging as a truth-teller whose voice can no longer be silenced. Lear's memory becomes a battlefield-open, looping, and raw.
Part of Miami-Dade County Auditorium's Away From Home Series, a program that consists of off-site events at alternative venues with community partners while MDCA is temporarily closed for renovations.
Location
Westchester Cultural Arts Center
7930 SW 40th St.,
Miami,
FL
33155
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English Only
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 at 12:00 AM - English
A battle over language that reshaped a city. Miami New Drama presents the World Premiere of English Only from January 29 to February 22, 2026, at the Colony Theatre. This is a gripping portrait of Miami at a cultural and political breaking point.
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Set in 1980 Miami, the theatrical production of English Only unfolds in the turbulent aftermath of the Mariel Boatlift, when more than 125,000 Cuban refugees arrived on South Florida’s shores, reshaping the region overnight and igniting a fierce political battle over identity, language, and belonging. As tensions mounted, a grassroots movement emerged to make English the county’s sole official language, sparking a heated showdown with activists fighting to preserve Miami-Dade’s bilingual future. The newly formed grassroots group, Citizens of Dade United, led by Emmy Shafer, launched a campaign designed to end the county’s official bilingual policies and remove Spanish from government documents, communications, and civic life. Standing in opposition was young attorney Manny Diaz of the Spanish American League Against Discrimination, who recognized that this was not just a symbolic gesture but a direct attempt to reshape political power, civil rights, and the identity of a city transformed by immigration and fear.
English Only is the first theatrical work to dramatize a ballot initiative to remove Spanish as the official language, offering a gripping, human portrait of a city at a crossroads. As Miami reemerges at the forefront of national conversations, the moment feels especially meaningful. “This is a story about power, fear, and the fight to be heard,” says Nicholas Griffin, journalist, author, and playwright whose work, including Dangerous Days, has long explored the forces that shape Miami. When Miami New Drama’s artistic director, Michel Hausmann, came to Griffin, he was immediately attracted to the idea. “The debates at the heart of English Only are not relics of the past. They are the very conversations shaping Miami today,” says Michel Hausmann. “The chance to illuminate a defining moment in Miami’s history, with all its tension and humanity, was impossible to pass up.”
The remarkable cast bringing English Only to life on the Colony Theatre stage is led by Andhy Mendez as Manny Diaz; the ensemble also features Rene Granado, Carmen Pelaez, Linda Mugleston, and Laura Faye Smith as Emmy Shafer, along with an outstanding supporting company. Together, this group of actors delivers depth and emotional clarity to Nicholas Griffin’s world premiere, creating performances that feel both intimate and urgently of the moment.
This production continues the Miami History series that Miami New Drama has undertaken in recent years, which brings pivotal moments from our community to the stage, including Elián, Dangerous Days, and Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy.
WHEN: Dates: January 29 - February 22, 2026
WHERE: The Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL
SHOW DATE & TIMES: Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.
TICKETS: $40-$90 Tickets will be available through The Colony Theatre box office and website.
ABOUT MIAMI NEW DRAMA
Founded by visionary playwright and director Michel Hausmann, Miami New Drama is the largest bilingual professional theater company in the United States, dedicated to producing socially relevant, artistically ambitious new work. Since 2016, MiND has been the resident company at Miami Beach’s historic Colony Theatre, premiering more than 20 groundbreaking plays and musicals. Notable world premieres include 7 Deadly Sins (Drama League Award), A Wonderful World (Tony Award–nominated, Broadway), The Cuban Vote, Lincoln Road Hustle, Birthright, The Museum Plays, Elian, and the first-ever multilingual adaptation of Our Town. The company has received national recognition, earning honors such as the Thornton Wilder Prize, multiple Knight Arts Challenge Awards, and the Silver Palm Award.
Location
Colony Theater
1040 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Luminosa - A Journey Through Light - Jungle Island
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 from 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM - English
Bucket Listers is excited to partner with Luminosa to offer you an exclusive event series, Luminosa - A Journey Through Light!:
Price List:
- Adult: Starting from $29.33 (incl. fees)
- Child: Starting from $17.42 (incl. fees)
- Senior (65+), Military, Student: Starting from $18.55 (incl. fees)
- Group Ticket (min. of 6): Starting at $21.63 (incl. fees)
- Family Bundle (2+2): Starting from $83.61 (incl. fees)
- All ages are welcome, children 3 and under enter free
- All tickets come with access to Jungle Island (Holiday Village)
Time slots are entry windows only. The Luminosa experience lasts longer than 30 minutes, and guests are welcome to explore at their own pace after entering.
Enjoy a night filled with:
- Live Music
- Entertainment
- Delicious Food & Drinks
- Chinese Cultural Entertainment
- & Much More!
Location
Jungle Island
1111 Parrot Jungle Trail,
Miami,
FL
33132
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