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Beliefs and Responsibility Grapple In Miami New Drama’s World Premiere Birthright

How do deeply held beliefs – religious, social, moral — guide us, persist, deteriorate or see us mutate as time and events challenge their truth and erode the bond among those raised on them. Birthright at Miami New Drama is an overwhelming, dense, heroically ambitious study of young people defining their identity and grappling how it copes with the modern world.

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Is Artist Acting Like A Dog Or Believes It Or What: Premiere Asks Questions Inside Satire

Obviously, the attention-getting element of Bad Dog is the sight of a Miami New Drama actor dressed in a jock strap and a few yellow straps, inhabiting the bizarre essence of a performance artist assuming a dog persona. But it is only one memorable aspect of the world premiere of Bad Dog , the complex comic satire with thematic underpinnings by Harley Elias..

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MiND Escorts You Through 3rd Immersive: Lincoln Road Hustle

Miami New Drama’s third immersive Lincoln Road Hustle is mounted in, on and around the titular locale — a logistically and artistically challenging tale reflecting the cultural and economic vibe of the area.

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Report From New York: A Wonderful World Begun In Miami Bows On Broadway

To begin with, yes, A Wonderful World is an exuberant trumpet call of a musical tracking the life of the legendary Louis Armstrong that will entertains tens of thousands of people as it remains a welcome option for Broadway audiences likely for years. That said, if you are looking for an in-depth incisive inquiry into the complex artist, this is not it.

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Feature: MND Explores ‘Dangerous Days’ & Aftermath Of Arthur McDuffie’s Death

A preview look at Dangerous Days, a play at Miami New Drama about the 1980s tumult following the acquittal of four officers by an all-white male jury for the beating of Arthur McDuffie.

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Feature: The Arts Meld in Miami New Drama’s The Museum Plays

Michel Hausmann is again creating theater away from Miami New Drama’s home at the Colony Theatre.  Joining forces with Miami’s Rubell Museum, it premiered The Museum Plays, six commissioned short works inspired by pieces in the Rubell’s collection. 

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Two Sisters and a Piano at Miami New Drama

By Raquel V. Reyes Two Sisters and a Piano, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, is the play we need now. It is beautifully written, well-performed, and masterfully staged. This Miami New Drama production is as perfectly …

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Immigrants’ Journey Captured in Glorious Song and Story in Return of MND’s Papa Cuatro

Rarely has immigrants’ connection to their past and future been so fully realized in a passionate embrace as in this premiere of Papá Cuatro at Miami New Drama. It is, by turns, alternately rousing, soulful, humorous, thrilling; but always a moving celebration of Venezuelan music refracted through the backstories of world-class exiled musicians.

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Miami New Drama’s Evocative ‘Create Dangerously’ Resounds For Haitians, Educates All of Us

With music, dance, humor, drama and storytelling,Create Dangerously at Miami New Drama reaffirms the glory and agony of Haiti’s tumultuous culture that should resound with Haitian-American immigrants, while passionately educating the rest of the audience to the joyful and painful realities most of us have just read about in news accounts.

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Teens Deal With Tumultuous ’80s in Defacing Michael Jackson At Miami New Drama

Michael Jackson never appears in the incisive Defacing Michael Jackson, although his influence is infused into the journey at Miami New Drama stage. But Aurin Squire’s insightful tale recreates a portrait of black teenagers growing up in the tumultuous Opa-Locka in 1984 amid race riots and the transformation from ghetto to multi-ethnic suburbia.

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