Theatre

Embark on a soul-stirring expedition through the rich tapestry of Black history and music at Harmony of Heritage 2024. Join us for an immersive experience that transcends time, weaving through pivotal eras from the 2nd century AD to the present day. Each epoch unfolds with captivating performances, highlighting the resilience, creativity, and cultural contributions of the Black community. From the melodious echoes of the Old World to the rhythmic beats of the Jazz Age, witness a celebration that pays homage to the spirit, strength, and harmonious legacy of Black heritage. Engage in this cultural odyssey, where music becomes a gateway to understanding, appreciation, and unity. Save your seat for a night that resonates with the heart and soul of Black history.

North Miami, Florida – JCAT Youth Actors will transport Miami to a “world of pure imagination” with their production of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka JR., a musical based on Roald Dahl’s timeless children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, on January 28, 31 & February 1 & 4 at the Alan & Diane Lieberman Theater. In Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka JR., a world-famous reclusive candy man named Willy Wonka announces that he will offer the tour of the lifetime through his secret chocolate factory to five children who find a golden ticket in one of his world-famous candy bars. One ticket-holder will also win a lifetime supply of chocolate. Against all odds, an impoverished but sweet-natured boy named Charlie Bucket wins a golden ticket. He and his fellow tour members — the spoiled-rotten Veruca Salt, gluttonous Augustus Gloop, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde and television junkie Mike Teavee — spend a day traveling with the mysterious and marvelous Willy Wonka and his crew of Oompa Loompas through the fantastical factory. The children encounter marvelous sights and tastes along the way, including giant nut-selecting squirrels, fizzy lifting drinks, Everlasting Gobstoppers, and a chocolate river. But each stop proves to be a test, as only one can go on to win the Wonka prize. Directed by JC Gutierrez & Megan Zorrilla Musical Direction by Rachel Weiss Choreography by Luli Brindisi Set Design by Juan Bautista

When Ben leaves his lucrative associate’s job at a New York law firm to join the Israeli Defense Force, his family must reexamine its secular Jewish identity and positions on the state of Israel. Wicked Child is a play about how politics can test familial bonds and what we owe our community. "[It's] a play about whether political belief can destroy familial bonds, how Jewish families educate their children about Israel and how much we owe to our people," says David Rosenberg, playwright of Wicked Child. Step into the complex world of Wicked Child, where family and faith collide around the dinner table.

La obra se desarrolla en un hospital. La pintora, el personaje principal, ha caído en un estado de depresión después de haber perdido a su hija por causa de una enfermedad y  por no tener suficiente dinero para pagar el combustible necesario para sobrevivir el invierno de New Jersey. El psiquiatra responsable del caso, se da cuenta que el arte es vital en la vida de esta artista y pueda ser lo único que  la podría salvar de su estado fatal.  ¿Podrá el arte encaminar otra vez la vida de esta pintora?  Este es el tema que cuestiona la obra: el arte como una herramienta de salvación. - The play is set in a hospital. The painter, the main character, has fallen into a state of depression after losing her daughter to an illness and not having enough money to pay for the fuel needed to survive the New Jersey winter. The psychiatrist in charge of the case realizes that art is vital in this artist's life and may be the only thing that can save her from her fatal state. Will art be able to put this painter's life back on track? This is the theme of the play: art as a tool for salvation. - Presentado en espanol con traduccion simultanea de audio en ingles. Presented in Spanish with simultaneous audio translation in English.

Throughout Fairy Tale Forest, vital pieces of treasured tales have gone missing. Time to call in Gordon Gumshoe, Fairy Tale Detective! Get ready for a hilarious adventure with "Gordon Gumshoe, Fairy Tale Detective"! Vital pieces of treasured tales have gone missing in Fairy Tale Forest, and it's up to Gordon to solve the case. This fairy tale spoof is a great jumping-off point for creative writing experiences for students and teachers alike. With puppetry, magic, slapstick comedy, and audience participation, Gordon navigates the caper of a lifetime, complete with tantalizing twists and crazy characters. Join in the fun as the young and young-at-heart help Gordon crack the case and save the fairy tales from being lost forever! When: Saturday January 13 @ 11:30 AM Where: Sandrell Rivers Theater 6103 NW 7th Ave Miami, Fl, 33127 Tickets: $5

The team behind Area Stage's award winning immersive productions of Disney's Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid are proud to present a new, epic staging of Lionel Bart's classic musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning show is one of the few musicals to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece by actors and audience members alike. The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft that he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family

Madrid. 1987. Pepa, Candela, Marisa, Lucia, and Paulina are having a very VERY bad night. Maybe the gazpacho can save them? A gritty, funny, full-of-heart musical based on Pedro Almodóvar’s internationally acclaimed film. Join us for a rollicking night as we officially launch FIU’s new musical theatre programs!

In 1986 Vienna, a young Jewish pianist arrives to study; but before he begins his piano instruction, he must first take singing lessons from the harsh, anti-semitic Professor Mashkan. As the play unfolds through the poetry of Heinrich Heine and the music of Robert Schumann, secrets are revealed, and these two men from different generations find they have much more in common than they think. Directed by playwright Jon Marans, this 1996 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize is a play with music that stars two actors who are classically trained pianists.

It’s Art Basel and the stakes are high for the gallery Mariana runs in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami. And when Mariana’s movie-star mother tries to help out, things get even more complicado. A fast paced, cafecíto-induced comedy about art and success—and mothers and daughters. Join the party, embrace life’s twists and turns, and mark your calendar for this uproarious new comedy. Winner of the Steinberg and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards.

Based on the acclaimed book ‘The Year of Dangerous Days’, Miami New Drama brings to life a story that the New York Times called ‘a timely and searing account, utterly absorbing.’ It’s the dawn of 1980. Miami is about to find itself in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons. A future Pulitzer Prize winning reporter follows up on a tip. Could a police report about a traffic accident actually be a cover-up for a homicide? When Edna Buchanan begins to follow the trail, she can’t possibly know it’s a story that will end in murder, riots and a city on fire. She’s already got plenty of problems; a close relationship with a police department she now has to investigate, a murder rate that has tripled in two years and a new intern with priorities of her own. As Buchanan writes the stories that will push the city past its limits, she’s challenged on two other fronts. Fidel Castro sends 125,000 refugees to Miami, including Cuba’s prison population. At the same time, Colombia exports both cocaine and violence to Miami. Buchanan has sworn to follow every murder in town, but how can one woman pursue the biggest story of her career while keeping up with an impossible spiral of crime? As the city simmers, some are intent on putting out fires, others on finding scapegoats. In Buchanan’s world, where cops are her best friends and toughest enemies, things soon come to a boil.