Miami Light Project’s (MLP) Here and Now 2012 program opens tonight at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse with commissioned works by a diverse group of South Florida-based performing and multimedia artists. The unifying theme of Here and Now 2012, which includes the use of 3-D mapping technology, a glimpse into terror
We all think we know the spunky English girl who falls down a rabbit hole and emerges in a trippy dream world. Fernando Calzadilla, who co-wrote an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic English fairy tale “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”
If you haven’t been to “Pulse” at the New World Symphony, you haven’t experienced one of the most exhilarating and energetic fusions of live electronica with classical music anywhere. For four hours last Friday night, the famed New World Center turned into a mega nightclub, a new age spacecraft, where a nebulae
In the heart of midwinter, every year since 1886, our city cuts loose for the “coolest celebration on earth,” the St. Paul Winter Carnival. It’s the oldest winter festival in the nation and a fantastically, even ridiculously varied civic celebratory mish-mash: there are curling and snow plow competitions, as befits the season, as well as [...]
A fascinating selection of work from master costume designer Jack Edwards’ storied career — sketches, photographs, news clippings and theatrical ephemera, window displays and couture, as well as 30 complete costumes — is now on view at the University of Minnesota’s Goldstein Museum of Design in the exhibition, “Character in Costume: A Jack Edwards Retrospective.” [...]
On Q Productions’ “Season 3: The Sound of Music” gets better with every show. “The Amen Corner” is a poignant and unforgettable story about human nature, suffering and our relationship with God — or one could say religion. Watching the performance, you realize it is set in another time, but incredibly James Baldwin’s three-act play [...]
One of the casualties of Tigertail‘s (a Knight Arts grantee) “Tool is Loot” is that it didn’t connect with the audience. At times interesting and bizarre, funny and absurd, emotional yet dry, the performance poses a vexing question for even the most patient viewer: what’s
Next Sunday, Jan. 22, the New World Symphony will host its fourth annual kid-friendly “It’s a Family Affair!” featuring a concert and a hands-on “21st century musical wonderland.” This is the event for parents and kids, especially
It’s difficult to communicate the experience of watching Theatre Unbound’s “24:00:00 Xtreme Theatre Smackdown.” I was entertained by this new incarnation of the feminist company’s popular annual event, the 24-Hour Play Project. From what I could tell, everyone in Saturday’s audience for the one-night-only show enjoyed the silliness and scrappy, low-fi spectacle of the evening’s [...]
If you want to see the future of the arts in America, YoungArts Week will give you a glimpse into that future. This year, 152 of America’s brightest young artists from the visual, literary and performing arts
