Performing Arts
Heidi 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.
read moreStéphane Denève, the Second Artistic Director in New World Symphony History
STÉPHANE DENÈVE debut concert will offer a sense of where the new NWS artistic director will lead the fellows, introducing new works that he wants to explore together with the musicians and audiences.
read moreFilmmaker Phil Grabsky Presents the Arts
PHIL GRABSKY is a BAFTA-winning British documentary filmmaker who has received multiple awards for his directing, writing, producing and cinematography.
read moreIcon Impacts Opa-Locka Teens in World Premier of Miami New Drama’s “Defacing Michael Jackson”
CHRISTINE DOLEN: “When Aurin Squire was growing up in a neighborhood near Opa-locka in the 1980s and ‘90s, the future playwright-screenwriter and his friends revered consummate entertainer Michael Jackson as the idol he was, an ever-evolving King of Pop.”
read moreThe Betsy Hotel’s Overture to Overtown
STÉPHANE DENÈVE debut concert will offer a sense of where the new NWS artistic director will lead the fellows, introducing new works that he wants to explore together with the musicians and audiences.
read moreArturo Chacón-Cruz, Internationally Renown Tenor
ARTURO CHACÓN-CRUZ (b. 1977) is a native of Sonora, Mexico. He is considered one of the top operatic tenors of his generation.He established himself as a leading man appearing in the most renowned theaters and concert halls across the globe. He has sung over 60 roles in 30 countries.
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