Performing Arts
A Family of Writers
PETER ALSON’s is the author of seven books, including the novel, “The Only Way To Play It,” and the memoirs, “Take Me to the River” and “The Vig.”
ALICE O’NEILL is a screenwriter who wrote for “Billions” on Showtime for three seasons, and has created and developed series for ABC Signature, Freeform, and Paramount Television.
EDEN ALSON is the 17 year-old author of 2 novels. Her first novel, “The Novice Twins,” was published when she was in 8th grade. Her second novel, “Far From Here,” was published in 2023.
World Premiere of “Plague Play”
“Plague Play” opens the second season – all world premieres – for LakehouseRanchDotPNG. The company’s name may be a little unwieldy (it evolved from a road trip artistic director Brandon Urrutia and set designer Indy Sulliero once took), but its purpose is clearly defined and something scarce in South Florida theater: producing absurdist and experimental works.
read moreIlisa Rosal Adapts Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire” for the Flamenco Stage
The Miami flamenco company, Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, adapts “Streetcar Named Desire” for the dance stage in “Deseo” (“Desire”) opening Saturday, Aug. 19 at the Miami Dade County Auditorium. “Deseo” anchors the original play’s drama of powerful personalities in the passion and codes of flamenco.
read moreRichard Milstein, A Lifetime of Embracing the Arts
RICHARD MILSTEIN is the Chair of the Adrienne Arsht Center Trust (AACT) Board of Directors. He has been an active member of the Arsht Center Trust Board of Directors since 2008. Milstein is a partner at Akerman LLP. He is a former chair of the Miami Foundation and of Inter Professional Council, founding president of Bet Shira Congregation and a member of the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council.
read moreMichael Ching: From Opera to Opry
MICHAEL CHING is an American composer, conductor, and music administrator. He is best known nationally as the composer of innovative operas, including his a cappella adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (2011). His other major operas include “Buoso’s Ghost” (1996), “Corps of Discovery” (2003), “Slaying the Dragon” (2012), “Speed Dating Tonight!” (2013), and “Alice Ryley” (2015). He wrote the librettos of many of his own operas. He also writes & performs Country music.
read moreHeidi Paster Harf + Ezra Axelrod Make “Torah Tropical”
HEIDI PASTER HARF is a photographer from Eastern Long Island, who spent the last 15 years photographing daily life in Cali, Colombia, where she lived for two decades. EZRA AXELROD is creative director of ThisTopia, producing Colombian film projects focused on countercultures, regenerative psychoactive plant economies, and social and environmental justice.. Together they made the film “Torah Tropical.”
read moreAllen Klein & Bliss Hebert: A Lifetime of Making Opera
ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN (1938-2023) is the only American designer to have focused his career exclusively to the production of design for the opera stage, and together with BLISS HEBERT as director, has created more than seventy new productions. BLISS HEBERT (b.1930) has staged over three hundred productions of one hundred operas with forty-one different opera companies.
read moreMiamian Edwidge Danticat’s Book “Create Dangerously” Becomes an Important Work of Theatre
“Create Dangerously” is a book and play blending memoir, essays and stories about the courage of Haitians at home and in exile. The play will run for the month of May at Miami New Drama at the Colony Theatre on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road.
read moreStephanie Doche, Operatic Mezzo-soprano
STEPHANIE DOCHE has rapidly created an important place for herself among today’s rising mezzos. A singing actress of outstanding technical and interpretive skill, Doche (rhymes with posh) has starred in leading roles nationwide, distinguishing herself in diverse styles and repertoire.
read moreEarth Day 2023
In recognition of EARTH DAY, 2022, we have curated a group of video interviews and stories from the ArtSpeak archives from prominent people in the arts, who help raise awareness and offer solutions for CLIMATE CHANGE and SEA LEVEL RISE, which are particularly threatening to Miami and South Florida.
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