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A Full English BreakfastFifty years on from its premier production in London, Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter still amuses in its latest reincarnation at the Promethean Theatre.
Oscar Night at Smith & WollenskySmith & Wollensky played host to Miami’s only officially sanctioned Oscar Party that benefited the Miami Beach Cinemateque.
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Red Bull: The Art of the Can ExhibitionMarch 3-14 | Ocean and 9th, Miami Beach
Miami International Film Festival Opening Night CelebrationMiami Film Fest kicks off with a bang!
Cool Nights, Hot Jazz at the Bass
Miami International Film Festival
Festival of 115 Films Runs March 5-14
by James Cubby
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Miami International Film Festival, a 10-day festival that showcases 115 films from 45 countries, opens on March 5. This year's Festival includes five world premieres, 22 North American premieres and 14 U.S. premieres with competition categories that include Ibero-American, World, DOX, Cutting the Edge, and Shorts. Films screening this year include the dramas City Island, starring Miami favorite Andy Garcia, his daughter Dominki Garcia-Lorido and Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife); Please Give, starring Amanda Peet, Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt; documentary films, including the international film festival circuit premiere of The Beatles on Record by Bob Smeaton and the U.S. premiere of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Brigitte Berman.
This year the Festival will...more
Confessions of A Jewish Shiksa...Dancing On Hitler's Grave!
Sheridan’s One-Woman Show at The Colony
by James Cubby
Shiksas are a popular subject in Jewish comedy so one might expect humorous dialogue from the one-woman show titled Confessions of A Jewish Shiksa...Dancing On Hitler's Grave! Of course the Dancing On Hitler’s Grave part seems to imply that there’s a serious side to this play and indeed there is. This is Frannie Sheridan’s story. She’s the author and performer.
Confessions of A Jewish Shiksa...Dancing On Hitler's Grave! is about a nice Catholic girl (our shiksa) who grew up with a mixed set of traditions like Manischevitz-spiked eggnog at Christmas which led her to discover that her parents were Holocaust survivors but had decided to hide their Jewish heritage. There was much more to discover than just the fact that her parents were Jewish. “My parents escaped Europe and the...more
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MAZ Arts Calendar
Theatre, art exhibitions, music, dance, and events for the weeks of March 3 to 18.
Arts Reviews
South Pointe Towers on the tip of Miami Beach has kicked it up a notch with their revitalized Gallery at South Pointe.
Manny About Town
I caught saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia’s act at the Van Dyke Cafe (on Lincoln Road in South Beach) the other night. You have to check out his clave sound. He is HOT!
MAZ Arts Blog
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is now accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest that aims to bring South Florida together through the arts. Have a big idea for the local cultural scene? Submit it through March 15 at KnightArts.org. Artists and art advocates interested in applying for the challenge’s third round also are invited to a town hall meeting at 5:30 p.m. March 9 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, 260 NE 59th Ter. Miami Program Director Dennis Scholl, who leads the challenge, will answer questions. “Dream big. We want your ideas to push the envelope and enrich this community culturally,” Scholl said. So far, 51 individual artists, small nonprofits and the area’s largest institutions have won funding from the challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge’s application is designed to be simple to attract a wide range of applicants, including those who are not traditional foundation grant seekers. There are only three rules: The idea is about the arts; the project takes place in or benefits South Florida; and applicants must find other funding to match the Knight Foundation grant. Individuals, nonprofits and for-profit organizations are eligible to apply. For more on the Knight Arts Challenge, visit www.KnightArts.org.
Theatre Reviews
Fifty years on from its premier production in London, Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter still amuses, puzzles and ultimately shocks, or perhaps not, in its latest reincarnation at the Promethean Theatre.
Artist Spotlight
This week's Artist Spotlight is on painter Yves Lanthier.
A View From a Broad
In terms of my favorite artists, individuals I considered cool, hip and worth knowing, Norman Rockwell was not on my list.
MAZ Interview
Wicked, the smash Broadway hit that's the musical tale about what happened in Oz before Dorothy landed, returns once again to the Arsht Center of Performing Arts.
Editor's Picks
Miami Light Project's Here & Now celebrates its 11th year, Orchestra Miami Presents 75th Anniversary Production of Porgy & Bess, and Arts Activist Rhoda Levitt Honored with “Champion of the Arts” Award.
