Theatre

Directed by Choreographer/Transdisciplinary artist Alexey Taran and multimedia artist Carla Forte, the 305 & HAVANA INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FEST is a festival that promotes the art of improvisation in performance and film. This year 305 & Havana International Improv Fest presents screenings and performances that deepen into the art of improvisation, bringing together performing artists, filmmakers and audiences across the city. Every year, the festival commissions Miami-based artists to present a new improvisation work. This year, the choreographers Maya Billig and Cecilia Benitez have been commissioned by Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film.

Marty's Back in Town is a comedic-drama about the ups and downs of a dysfunctional family and their relationships with each other and with the “black sheep” who is coming home after 10 years. "Though MARTY'S BACK IN TOWN frames the tale of one family, shake many a family tree and you'll likely find the same nuts"... Stage Magazine "A wonderful portrayal of family dynamics...Very entertaining, I loved it!"

Thriller, the Pepsi fire, drug wars, and a white family moving into a Black neighborhood: It’s 1984 and we are in Miami Dade County’s Opa-Locka and life is about to get a whole lot more confusing for a group of kids who want to be the ‘King of Pop.’ Defacing Michael Jackson is about growing up, hero worship, and how we see ourselves.

Turned towards an organic incarnation whose common thread is the departure-return report from the native island, the territory of origin, Frénésies starts slowly with a misguided character "I had the ocean as far as the eye could see but I was without horizon", sometimes candid: Thomas (twin in Aramaic). He meets his inverted double, free and without attachment, real or not, to the public to decide, Bilal (the name of the Patron saint of the muezzins, the one who sublimates reality by sacralizing it. It also represents water in Arab culture, the elusive, the intangible, the one who overflows, who flies, who engulfs), who will do it juggling disturbing and ecstatic situations during the course an unforgettable trip on American roads. Everything contributes to tighten the room towards a philosophical, mystical climax, an intimate ritual to reconnect with oneself, with one's roots, thus becoming a new genre: an initiatory road-theatre.

Madre es la travesía de una mujer milenaria en su eterna lucha por encontrar el cuerpo de su hijo. Es el reflejo de las miles de mujeres que, siendo víctimas de la barbarie, se aferran a la fortaleza de sus corazones para seguir buscando. Quizás no se les devuelva la paz, ni el cuerpo, ni un nombre escrito en la historia, mucho menos el de ellas, pero son las únicas que se niegan a detenerse. En celebración de los 50 años de carrera de la destacada actriz Adriana Barraza, este unipersonal multidisciplinario que integra música, danza y teatro, es un homenaje a todas las madres heroínas que han luchado y siguen luchando en contra de la desaparición forzada. *** La obra de teatro es presentada en español

90 min No intermission Mild adult language As a door slams in 1879 Norway, a young wife and mother leaves behind her family, freeing herself from the shackles of traditional societal constraints. Now, 15 years later, that same door opens to reveal Nora, a changed woman with an incredibly awkward favor to ask the people who she abandoned. Lucas Hnath’s bitingly funny sequel to Ibsen’s revolutionary masterpiece unfolds in a series of bristling stand-offs that reveal in Nora’s world, much like our own, behind every opinion there is a person, and a slamming door isn’t just an end, but also the chance for a new beginning.

Next to Normal Music by Tom Kitt Book & Lyrics by Brian Yorkey Directed by Stuart Meltzer Next to Normal is a deeply moving musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score, and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as one of the year’s 10 best shows by critics at publications across the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Dad's an architect. Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal. Their daughter and son are bright, wisecracking teens. They appear to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal, because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.

Aesop’s classic fable of The Adventures Of Tortoise And Hare: The Next Generation continues a decade later. The Next Generation features Tortoise Junior and Lil’ Hare, with dazzling visuals, poignant storytelling, and creative music – from classical to pop. La clasica fabula de Aesop, The Adventures Of Tortoise And Hare: The Next Generation, continua una decada despues. The Next Generation presenta a tortuga Junior y a la pequeña liebre con imagenes deslumbrantes, narraciones conmovedoras y musica creativa – desde musica clasica hasta pop. Admission is free; but a ticket is required.

Enredos y traiciones is a theatrical piece in verse that gives voice to one of the texts, precursor of feminism, of Spain's Golden Age of literature. It is a comedy in which six women fight for free love with humor and intelligence.

Antiheroes Project, in collaboration with the MDC's Koubek Center presents As Miamense as possible, a program of three theatrical premieres , dramatic readings and a theoretical symposium