From touring Broadway musicals to regional theater and cutting-edge grassroots productions, the theater scene in Greater Miami & Miami Beach is a shining star. The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is arguably the heart of Miami’s performing arts cultural landscape. It’s home to Miami City Ballet, the Florida Grand Opera and the Miami Symphony Orchestra. With three theaters on its campus in Downtown Miami, the center also hosts touring productions of Broadway musicals as well as dance, comedy, jazz and cabaret shows. A perennial highlight is City Theatre’s Summer Shorts: America’s Short Play Festival, featuring exciting new works staged at the Arsht Center.
At the historic Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road in South Beach, Miami New Drama is dedicated to producing world-premiere works by both local and visiting playwrights that shine a light on Miami’s diverse cultures. In Mid Beach, the Faena Theater is a dazzling venue for cabaret dinner theater and touring musical acts.
Coral Gables is a local theater hub with both the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theater and GableStage at the Biltmore. Both regional theaters produce classic and contemporary plays and musicals.
Watch a performance at the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater Cultural Arts Complex in Historic Overtown. The award-winning Fantasy Theatre Factory at the Sandrell Rivers Theater offers outreach programs and performances geared toward children and families in Liberty City.
And in South Dade, The Moss Center is a beacon for the performing arts as well as theater, dance and music by local and touring companies.
