A behind-the-scenes look at the play/musical/performance piece Fuerza Bruta now playing at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida. Award winning documentary film director Richard Fendelman with goLIVEmiami.com Jeile Marie talks to cast, crew and audience.

ArshtCenter Miami, June 2 - June 21, 2009 She's Back! Following a sold-out international tour, the super hot musical that had all Miami singing and dancing last summer returns to South Florida with a hit parade of Celias greatest songs, including La vida es un carnaval y La negra tiene tumbao. If you missed it last summer, heres your chance to discover what everyone was talking about! Or see it again and relive the astonishing life and music of the sensational salsa diva, from her humble beginnings in Cuba to international fame and fortune. Its an amazing journey, brought to life by a remarkable company of singers, dancers, and musicians, featuring Anissa Gathers as Celia in the role she was born to play! (Sun-Sentinel). Lasts seasons record-breaking run at the Knight Concert Hall sold out! Buy your tickets for this years repeat production now, while you still can! NOTICE: Tuesday and Wednesday performances contain bilingual dialogue (English and Spanish) while others are spoken exclusively in Spanish. All songs, however, are sung in Spanish during every performance.

June 9 - July 5 at the Arsht Center in Miami: LOOK UP—and experience a non-stop collision of dynamic music, jaw-dropping acrobatics, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery that resembles nothing less than a mash up between aerial theater and a late-night dance party! From the creators of the smash-hit De La Guarda, Fuerza Bruta will transform the Lynn Wolfson Stage into an alternate universe with flying dancers, pumping beats, engaging dream sequences and a multidimensional swimming pool above the heads of the audience. The visuals are spectacular! The effects are stunning! Visit fuerzabrutamiami.com for video, music and more from Fuerza Bruta!

Arsht Center, Miami, February 20, 2009 The Count Basie Orchestra performs their classic arrangements, many of which originally featured the legendary Ella Fitzgerald. Joining the orchestra for this special evening is 2008 Grammy Award-winning vocalist Patti Austin.

Arsht Center, Miami January 16th, 2009 Latin jazz all-stars celebrate the cross-cultural feast of intoxicating Afro-Cuban rhythms and virtuoso performances exemplified by the music of Machito and Tito Puente. The line-up includes the pioneering Cuban-born trumpet star Chocolate Armenteros, renowned timbalero Orestes Vilato, Grammy Award-winning trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval, Latin Grammy-winning flutist Nestor Torres, fellow flutist and Grammy Award winner Dave Valentin, star percussionist Sammy Figueroa, Latin Grammy Award-winning vocalist Albita and the Machito Orchestra. Additional stars to be announced. This concert will be dedicated to the memory Israel Cachao Lopez.

Wednesday, November 26 2008 to Sunday, January 18 2009 at the Arsht Center, Miami London's Longest Running Comedy! The Reduced Shakespeare Company© in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London's longest-running comedy - 10 years at the Criterion Theatre. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "wildly funny" and by the Montreal Gazette as "the funniest show you are likely to see in your entire lifetime".

Arsht Center, Miami November 7, 2008 Legendary jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck is joined by the Cuban-born Grammy-winning jazz great Paquito D'Rivera and the world's premier contemporary jazz all-star group Fourplay, featuring Bob James, Larry Carlton, Nathan East, and Harvey Mason.

Miami, Friday, December 12th, 2008 - Arsht Center presents: In honor of the musical movement that became known as bossa nova when it emerged from Brazil on to the international scene made famous by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa and João Gilberto, this performance stars three of bossa novas major creators and interpreters: guitarist/producer Oscar Castro-Neves , Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Ivan Lins and multi-award-winning singer/pianist Eliane Elias .

Broadway at the Arsht Center in Miami! The 2008 season begins with a brand new production of the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Travel with Dorothy and Toto down the yellow brick road to a glittering art deco Oz, complete with munchkins, flying monkeys, and a wicked witch. There's dazzling choreography, lavish special effects, and those classic songs introduced in the beloved MGM movie are guaranteed to send you over the rainbow! October 28 - November 2, 2008

Arsht Center, Miami, presents: Jazz JAZZ ROOTS - A Larry Rosen Series November, 2008 through April, 2009 These groundbreaking concerts constitute the most ambitious series of jazz performances ever produced in the history of South Florida. The greatest stars, legends, and pioneers of the jazz world will bring their signature sounds to the acoustically brilliant Knight Concert Hall. Sonny Rollins, Ramsey Lewis, Paquito D'Rivera, Patti Austin, Bob James, Arturo Sandoval, Albita and Ivan Lins are just some of the extraordinary artists who will converge in Miami to perform in JAZZ ROOTS, beginning with the first concert on November 7, 2008, and continuing with a unique lineup each month through April 2009. Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center, Miami.

Arsht Center, Miami July 25 — August 17, 2008 Join the party! Get up and dance when the Knight Concert Hall is transformed into the hottest nightclub in town, featuring Miami's own sizzling timba band, Tiempo Libre, and the hottest dancers north of Havana. Be among the first to experience Miami Libre -- the new dance extravaganza which tells the story in, English and in Spanish, of a musician's search for love and liberty. The show celebrates Cuban music and the millions who carry it in their hearts, no matter where they go. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes!

Arsht Center, Miami July 25 — August 17, 2008 Join the party! Get up and dance when the Knight Concert Hall is transformed into the hottest nightclub in town, featuring Miami's own sizzling timba band, Tiempo Libre, and the hottest dancers north of Havana. Be among the first to experience Miami Libre -- the new dance extravaganza which tells the story in, English and in Spanish, of a musician's search for love and liberty. The show celebrates Cuban music and the millions who carry it in their hearts, no matter where they go. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes!

SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW Adrienne Arsht Center Miami July 24 through August 17 "ENORMOUS FUN!" -- Wall Street Journal FOLLOWING SOLD-OUT ENGAGEMENTS IN BUENOS AIRES, MEXICO CITY, BARCELONA, MADRID, LONDON AND NEW YORK, NOW IT'S MIAMI'S TURN TO GET BLOWN AWAY! A cross between Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group, this entertainment phenomenon created by Slava, the original Cirque's clown genius, is an awesome theatrical experience and a profoundly moving spectacle full of wondrous images, delightful comedy, haunting music and snow—lots and lots of snow. Slava's Snowshow has "stage effects that are dazzling" (Daily Mail) and a "finale that blows you away!" (Mail on Sunday).