WIRED ON THE ARTS: JUNE 7 - 20
BY JAMES CUBBY
JUNE 7 - 8 Summer in Miami continues with an impressive roster of entertainment. Venues like the Hard Rock Live, the Fillmore Miami Beach, the Colony
Theatre, and the James L. Knight Center bring us a variety of music, including rock band ZZ Top, the Count Basie Orchestra, Argentine pop singer Diego Torres, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Miami Gay Men’s Chorus, and salsa legends Ruben Blades and Gilberto Santa Rosa. Miami’s theatre season seems like it never ends, as venues like the Broward Center, the Arsht Center, Main Street Playhouse, GableStage and New Theatre offer productions of Hair, A Streetcar Named Desire, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), Summer Shorts, Dirty Little Secrets, and Fool For Love. Fans of dance will be treated to a special evening of flamenco with “Senderos Flamencos.” Miami continues to live up to its reputation as City of Festivals with Out in the Tropics, a GLBT Performing Arts Festival, and The Miami International Piano Festival’s Four Hands Two Pianos. Miami’s summer is already hot with this incredible lineup of entertainment.
CONCERTS
THEATRE
The legendary rock band, ZZ Top, brings their music to the Hard Rock Live on June 8 at 8 p.m. ZZ Top has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. The legend of Count Basie lives on with the Count Basie Orchestra, directed by Dennis Mackrel, who will perform at the Coral Gables Congregational Church on June 9 at 8 p.m. Argentine Grammy Award-nominated pop singer and composer Diego Torres comes to the Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theatre on June 11 at 8 p.m.
The Broadway revival of the musical Hair continues its run at the Au-Rene Theater of the Broward Center thru June 19. The electrifying musical includes hit songs like “Aquarius,” “Easy to be Hard,” and “Let The Sun Shine In.”
Blood, Sweat & Tears, known for hit songs like “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel,” and “And When I Die,” bring their incredible “jazz-rock” sound to Hard Rock Live on June 16 at 8 p.m. Miami Gay Men’s Chorus pays tribute to boy bands like The Temptations, Beatles, Beach Boys, Bee-Gees, Village People, Queen, Wham, and NSYNC in their newest show, Let’s Hear it for the Boys!, on June 17 & 18 at the Colony Theatre. Visit www.miamigaychorus.org for more information. Salsa legends Ruben Blades and Gilberto Santa Rosa bring their Una Sola Salsa Tour to the James L. Knight Center on June 18 at 8 p.m.
City Theatre’s hilarious Summer Shorts series, with headliner Jai Rodriguez, continues at the Arsht Center through June 26. Summer Shorts presents the nation’s hottest short plays featuring a talented cast of actors. The Alliance Theatre Lab presents Sam Shepard’s play Fool For Love through June 29 at the Main Street Playhouse. City Theatre and Out in the Tropics present Dirty Little Secrets, Jai Rodriguez’s hilarious, provocative and irreverent musical revue, running June 10-24 at the Arsht Center. Jai Rodriguez, star of stage, television, and film, is best known as one of the stars of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. GableStage at the Biltmore brings the hilarious play In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity, running thru June 12. New Theatre presents the modern classic A Streetcar Named Desire, the tale of a fading Southern belle and a sexy beer-chugging barbarian, thru June 19.
COMEDY Comedian Joel McHale, star of the hit series Community and The Soup, brings his humor to Hard Rock Live on June 11 at 8 p.m.
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Actor’s Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables 305.444.9293 or www.actorsplayhouse.org Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Downtown Miami 305.949.6722 or www.arshtcenter.org Aventura Arts & Cultural Center 3385 NE 188 St., Aventura 954.462.0222 Broward Center for the Performing Arts 201 Southwest Fifth Ave., Ft. Lauderdale 954.462.0222 or www.browardcenter.org Casa Panza Cafe 1620 SW 8th St., Miami www.claritafilgueiras.com Colony Theatre 1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach 786.397.7717 Coral Gables Congregational Church 3010 DeSoto Blvd., Coral Gables 305.448.7421 www.communityartsprogram.org The Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach 877.598.8690 or www.livenation.com
DANCE Fans of Flamenco will not want to miss “Senderos Flamencos,” a special evening of dance presented by Clarita Filgueiras - Flamenco Puro at Casa Panza Café on June 11. This production fuses the fire of the best of contemporary Spanish and American Flamenco.
VENUES
EVENTS Out in the Tropics, a GLBT Performing Arts Festival, returns with an impressive lineup of award-winning, cutting-edge artists from around the world from June 9-19. Various locations throughout Miami Beach. For a schedule, visit www.outinthetropics.com. The Miami International Piano Festival brings Four Hands Two Pianos, with Jorge Luis Prats & Misha Dacic, to the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center on June 12 at 8 p.m. The Rhythm Foundation and Little Haiti Cultural Center present Big Night Little Haiti, a celebration of kreyol jazz and the arts, at the Little Haiti Cultural Center Plaza on June 17. For more info visit http://bignightlittlehaiti.com.
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GableStage at the Biltmore 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables 305.445.1119 or www.gablestage.org Hard Rock Live 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood 954.327.7625 www.seminolehardrockhollywood.com James L. Knight Center 400 SE 2nd Ave., Miami 305.416.5977 or www.jlkc.com Little Haiti Cultural Center Plaza 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami 305.672.5202 Main Street Playhouse 6766 Main St., Miami Lakes 305.558.3737 www.mainstreetplayers.com