28 OctOber 3-9, 2024 miaminewtimes.com | browardpalmbeach.com New Times | music | cafe | culture | Night+Day | News | letters | coNteNts | Month XX–Month XX, 2008 miaminewtimes.com MIAMI NEW TIMES | MUSIC | CAFE | FILM | ART | STAGE | NIGHT+DAY | METRO | RIPTIDE | LETTERS | CONTENTS | OCTOBER 2024 Area Stage’s Alice and the Mad Tea Party With Giancarlo Rodaz still at the helm of Area Stage, the company continues experimenting with taking familiar works and restaging them imaginatively. Its next production, Alice and the Mad Tea Party, runs from October 3-20 at its black-box theater at the Shops at Sunset Place. The original play was conceived and directed by Rodaz, who puts the audi- ence in the middle of a party hosted by the Hatter, March Hare, and Dormouse. It prom- ises to be an unpredictable night of theater with plenty of audience interaction. Area Stage’s upcoming season also includes an en- core run of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and the world premiere of the horror fantasy Lady Miasma. Thursday, October 3, through Sunday, October 20, at Area Stage’s Black Box, 5701 Sunset Dr., Ste. 286, Miami; 305-666- 2078; areastage.org. Tickets cost $65. New World Symphony Season Opener For its season-opening performance, the New World Symphony is getting some help from actress Daisy Ridley. She steps into the role originally written for Audrey Hepburn in Mi- chael Tilson Thomas’ musical melodrama, From the Diary of Anne Frank. Artistic direc- tor Stéphane Denève leads the orchestra. It is the first South Florida performance of the piece in more than 30 years, premiering in 1990. NWS will also perform Dmitri Shosta- kovich’s “Symphony No. 5,” inspired by Rus- sian literature. The season continues with a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins (October 19 and 20), Grammy Award-winning conductor Xian Zhang (Oc- tober 26), a Veterans Day concert (November 9 and 10), violinist Leonidas Kavakos (De- cember 14 and 15), Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances (January 18 and 19), and more. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 5, and 2 p.m. Sunday, October 6, at New World Center, 500 17th St., Miami Beach; 305-673-3330; nws.edu. Tickets cost $40 to $225. Seraphic Fire’s “A Brief History of Western Music” Miami ensemble Seraphic Fire is taking you to school for its first performance of the season. “A Brief History of Western Music” sees artistic director Patrick Dupre Quigley giving audiences a crash course on the history of Western music with chorus, period instruments, and cello. You’ll experience everything from Medieval chants to passionate Romantic numbers. The evening includes performances of Gregorio Allegri’s “Miserere,” “Lobet den Herrn” by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Igor Stravinsky’s “Ave Maria.” The ensemble’s schedule also includes “A Seraphic Fire Christmas” (December 7-15), “Renaissance: the Capilla Flamenca” (January 16-19), and “Baroque: Angels Behind the Walls” (April 10-13). 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 10, at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 2401 SW Third Ave., Miami; 8 p.m. Friday, October 11, at Church of the Little Flower, 2711 Indian Mound Trl., Coral Gables; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 12, at All Saints Episcopal, 333 Tarpon Dr., Fort Lauderdale; 305-285-9060; seraphicfire.org. Tickets cost $45 to $65. Island City Stage’s The Fantasticks South Flori- da’s premier LGTBQ theater company re- turns for its 13th season with The Fantasticks. Its South Florida premiere features a twist, with a reimagined version by original libret- tist and lyricist Tom Jones featuring two young gay leads. The show is loosely based on Edmund Rostand’s 1894 play The Romancers, and during its original run at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, The Fantasticks logged a record-breaking 17,162 performances. Island City Stage’s production is directed by Andy Rogow, with Jonny Lee Jr. and Kevin Hincapie in the lead roles. The company’s 2024-25 season also includes Ed- ward Albee’s A Delicate Balance (January 16-February 9), Fat Ham by James Ijames (April 3-May 4), The Dying Gaul by Craig Lu- cas (May 22-June 15), and At The Wedding by Bryna Turner (August 21-September 21). Thursday, October 17, through Sunday, Novem- ber 17, at Island City Stage, 2304 N. Dixie Hwy., Wilton Manors; 954-926-9800; islandci- tystage.org. Tickets cost $50 to $65. “Hearst: Lampooning the King of Yellow Journalism” William Randolph Hearst didn’t build his publishing empire by playing nice. He used “yellow journalism” — over-the-top stories of sex and scandal — to sell papers and position himself atop the pack. In the exhibition “Hearst: Lampooning the King of Yellow Journalism,” the Wolfsonian examines the criticism Hearst received from caricaturists for trying to sway public opinion. The show was curated by Florida International University history students Gisselle Mestre Delgado and Thiago Abad- Sanchez under the guidance of FIU adjunct professor Dr. Francis Xavier Luca. Thursday, October 17, through Sunday, January 5, at the Wolfsonian, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-531-1001; wolfsonian.org. Tickets cost $8 to $12; admission is free for Florida residents and children 6 and under. Live Arts Miami Presents Morning/Mourning Mi- ami Dade College’s Live Arts Miami is cele- brating 35 years this season, and as part of its Future Earth Series, it’s presenting Morning/ Mourning at the Art Lab at MDC’s Wolfson Campus. Written by Gelsey Bell and directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, the piece is set in a fu- ture where humans no longer exist and Earth is undergoing a metamorphosis. Through an ensemble of five vocalists and multi-instru- mentalists, you’re guided as the forest grows back, species evolve, and the human-made world fades away. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 17, through Saturday, October 19, at the Art Lab at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Bldg. 1, Miami; liveartsmiami.org. Tickets cost $35. Outshine Film Festival Outshine Film Festival is shifting the way it presents its fall and spring editions. Instead of screening films in Fort Lauderdale or Miami, each edition will spread the screenings between the cities. Af- ter opening at Regal Dania Pointe on October 17, the screening continues at Paradigm Cine- mas Gateway Fort Lauderdale and Savor Cin- ema through October 24 before moving to Miami at Silverspot Cinema and Regal South Beach October 25-27. This year’s opening film is Young Hearts by director Anthony Schatteman. The film explores first love as 14-year-old Elias contends with his feelings for Alex, a cool new neighbor. Other movies on this year’s program include The Astronaut Lovers, The Muleteer, Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, and High Tide. Thursday, October 17, through Sunday, October 27, at various loca- tions; outshinefilm.com. Miami City Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream First premiering as part of Miami City Ballet’s 30th anniversary season, the company rei- magines George Balanchine’s take on the Shakespearean classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream, transporting the tale’s woodland lov- ers to an underwater world off the Florida coast. Instead of fairies, think manatees and seahorses. Miami audiences can catch the production at the Adrienne Arsht Center Oc- tober 18-20 before it moves to the Broward Center November 2 and 3. MCB’s season con- tinues with its Winter and Spring Mix pro- grams (February 14-March 9 and March 28-April 13) before concluding with the world premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Carmen (April 25-May 4). 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 18; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, October 19; and 2 p.m. Sunday, October 20; at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 2, and 2 p.m. Sunday, No- vember 3, at the Broward Center for the Per- forming Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale; miamicityballet.org. Tickets cost $40 to $270. Slow Burn Theatre’s The Witches of Eastwick Fort Lauderdale-based company Slow Burn Theatre opens its season with its production of the musical comedy The Witches of East- wick. With book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe, the show follows three modern-day witches who innocently plot and conjure over a brew of weak martinis and peanut butter brownies. But a charis- matic stranger shows up, and all hell breaks loose — literally. An adaptation of the 1984 novel of the same name, the musical original premiered in 2000 on London’s West End, Slow Burn’s version is directed by cofounder Patrick Fitzwater, with Gail Bennett, Philip Bryan, Lindsey Corey, and Leah Sessa star- ring. The company’s season also in- cludes productions of Anastasia (December 21-January 5), Parade (February 8-23), Something Rotten (March 9-April 13, and The Bodyguard (June 7-22). Saturday, Oc- tober 19, through Sunday, November 3, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-462-0222; browardcenter.org. Tickets cost $72.50 to $115 via ticketmaster.com. Zoetic Stage’s The Pillowman After its acclaimed productions of Frankenstein and Dracula, Zoetic Stage once again tackles the horror genre in its season opener, The Pillowman, a haunting play by Martin McDonagh (writer-director of The Banshees of Inisherin and In Bruges). It premiered at London’s Royal National Theatre in 2003, eventually opening on Broadway at the Booth Theater in 2005. The Broadway production was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two. Zoetic’s production is directed by Stuart Meltzer and takes the stage at the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne >> pxx ON DECK Your guide to the essential events during the 2024-25 season. BY JOSE D. DURAN >> p31 “Hearst: Lampooning the King of Yellow Journalism” Aesop Said So, 1936 / Hugo Gellert (American, b. Hungary, 1892–1985), illustrator / The Wolfsonian–FIU, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
