A&E Spotlight

South Florida is adding Bollywood to its budding cultural repertoire. Two recent sold-out concerts at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts has encouraged Prakash “Kash” Patel to continue inviting famous Indian artists to perform, with the next in early September. When he’s off the clock as president and founder of Asta Parking, a professional

Ask Suzi Fierstein Cruz if she’ll ever give up entertaining and she’ll tell you she already did it once—and isn’t ready to do it again anytime soon. The Coconut Creek resident performs in the musical duo Cruzin’ with her husband, Steve. She also performs a one-woman musical comedy act, which includes impersonations of everyone from

Theater presents Broadway-style shows for 25 years Theatergoers in South Florida most likely can’t remember a time when Stage Door Theatre wasn’t presenting live theater in what was previously a cineplex behind a strip mall on Sample Road in Coral Springs. But Dee Wilson-Bunn says she’ll never forget the day her career changed from professional

During his first-ever acoustic tour last year, legendary rocker Peter Frampton would turn to his writing partner, Gordon Kennedy, and quip, “So people pay so much a month to stream songs, and we get how much?” To which Kennedy would reply, “Nothing.” That exchange explains, in part, why Frampton joined other songwriters on Capitol Hill

Art is Sharonda Richardson’s icebreaker. Creating keeps her balanced. Writing is her pipeline to communication—and she has a lot to say. In March, the poet—best known by her stage name, Eccentrich—took her stories to Dallas, where she competed in the international Women of the World Poetry Slam. She placed 14th out of 96 poets representing

The little playhouse has fulfilled its potential as a big player on Miracle Mile On the east side of one of Coral Gables’ busiest and historic streets, the marquee of the Miracle Theatre dominates the 200 block of Miracle Mile. For the past 22 years, Actors’ Playhouse has presented live theater inside the art deco-styled

Before he was tearing up stages in Nashville and London, guitarist Joey Frevola was shredding on “Guitar Hero” in Coconut Creek. The guitar-simulating video game offered a glimpse into the world of classic rock. As a 12-year-old, whenever he heard a cool song on the game, he would put down the plastic instrument and learn

Though Alyson Moriarty had performed at community events in Coral Springs, Parkland, Deerfield Beach, Boca Raton, and the Starz of the Future Talent Competition in West Palm Beach, she hadn’t sung in her hometown of Coconut Creek until this year. Moriarty, 18, performed at Coconut Creek’s Butterfly Festival after winning the city’s first “Creek Idol”

Original shows such as “Hats On, Hats Off,” “Everything and the Kitchen Sink,” “Strutting Our Stuff,” and this year’s Township Theater Group production, “Movin’, Groovin’, No Snoozin’ ” all begin with an epiphany. “We create all of our own material,” says Myrna Kranis, the troupe’s president. “We take well-known songs, and we write parodies. We

Santiago Medina began studying for a professional art career at age 5 in Colombia. As with his grandfather and great-grandfather, Medina was trained as an artist in the atelier system, a European practice in which young artists serve apprenticeships with art masters. He worked  after school and on weekends in the studio of master painter

In the nearly 30 years since Chazz Palminteri wrote and performed “A Bronx Tale” as a one-man show in Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical tale about an Italian-American boy (Calogero) caught between the working-class values espoused by his father (Lorenzo) and the allure of organized crime embodied by the neighborhood mob boss (Sonny) has taken on

When Becky Rosa sees an image of Winnie-the-Pooh, she doesn’t think about the teddy bear and his friends having adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood. She obsesses over what’s really in Pooh’s “hunny” jar. The London-born artist and clothing designer shares this aside toward the end of a candid interview on a bench outside of