This Week and Weekend's Musts

DANCE

The Daniel Lewis Dance Sampler

A Collection of Companies

8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17

The Dance Sampler showcases exciting short pieces and excerpts and launches the season of dance in South Florida. The program features Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, Dance NOW! Miami, Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, Karen Peterson & Dancers, New World Dance Ensemble, Pioneer Winter Collective and Syncopate Collective. The Daniel Lewis Dance Sampler is produced by the Miami Dance Futures in collaboration with Dance NOW! Miami and New World School of the Arts.

New World dance Theater, 25 NE 2nd St., Eight Floor, Miami

Miami City Ballet

Season Opener: American Rhythms

7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16 and 17; 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18.

Miami City Ballet opens its 26/27 Season with a sparkling mixed bill that weaves together classical brilliance, jazzy elegance, and an electrifying world premiere!The program kicks off with George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, then the Company Premiere of Jerome Robbins’ N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz brings the spirit and swagger of American jazz to the stage, with new costumes designed by Zac Posen for GapStudio. The evening culminates in a World Premiere by Tony Award-winning Buena Vista Social Club choreographer and former MCB Principal Dancer Patricia Delgado, featuring original music performed live by Grammy-nominated artist Emily Estefan. 

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami.

Also, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24; 1 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 25, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. 

For more dance listings, check out the calendar.  

MUSIC

Dennis C. Moss Center Cultural Arts Center

Backyard Bash

6 p.m., Saturday Oct. 17.

The Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center kicks off its season with its annual Backyard Bash on featuring an outdoor reggae double-bill.The evening stars The Legendary Wailers featuring Julian Junior Marvin playing Bob Marley classics like "Stir It Up" and "Three Little Birds," alongside multi-Grammy-nominated reggae ambassadors Third World performing a special tribute.  Doors open at 6:00 PM for this lawn-style event, where guests are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs to enjoy food.

Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center is 10950 SW 211 St,, Cutler Bay.

Ocean Drive Promenade Music Series

Johnny Walker

Sunday, Oct. 18 at 6 p.m. 

Johnny Walker is a Miami native who grew up in church, studied theater at Miami Dade College (AA), and The University of the Arts (BFA), Philadelphia PA. In Philly, he rediscovered his roots in music and returned to the Miami music scene with his cousin Roosevelt Collier. Eventually, he started WalkerTown with his brother Big E of the Leeboys. Throughout the year, he works as a featured artist on Virgin Voyages with The Leeboys and plays in Miami with various bands, including WalkerTown and MaddJazz. He lives his life by the WalkerTown moto “anywhere you find a beat.” 

For more music listings, check out the calendar.   

THEATER

GableStage

"Weather Girl"

Ella Olesen is as a California weather girl who struggles to deliver forecasts about a climate-stricken planet with unflinching optimism. Beneath her sunshiny veneer lurks something fantastically primal, something that may be the key to saving us all. Directed by Nicole Stodard.

Show runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 18.

GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables

For information, gablestage.org

 Buena Vista Social Club

Broadway Across Fort Lauderdale

It’s been years since legendary singer Omara Portuondo last entered a recording studio. Once known as the “Queen of Feeling,” her voice was celebrated throughout Cuba – until  she vanished from the spotlight. But when an ambitious young record producer brings her a rare opportunity, the elusive diva must finally reckon with her past. A hit on Broadway, now it's coming to Miami.

8 p.m., Friday, October 16, 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, 1 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18.

Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. 

See more theater and film listings, check out the calendar.

ART

Frost Museum of Art

Modern Cuban Painers from Havana to New York Revisited

(See our story by Irene Sperber)

Through Sunday, Oct. 18.

10975 SW 17th St., Miami, 305.348.2890 and frost.fiu.edu

Perez Art Museum

• “Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Gut" through Nov. 1, 2026
• “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols" through June 6, 2027
• “John Baldessari: The End of the Line" through May 9, 2027
• “This Is America: Selections from PAMM’s Collection" through May 23, 2027
• “Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove” from Oct. 1, 2026-Aug. 1, 2027
• “Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen” from Oct. 29, 2026-Feb. 28, 2027

 

1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami

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