Mad Cat Theatre Company Presents VARRY HARRY
Mad Cat Theatre Company continues its 18th season with a musical review! Inspired by Harry Nilsson's 1971 television special for the BBC entitled The Music of Nilsson, his unreleased documentary Did Somebody Drop His Mouse? and the documentary A Touch of Schmillson in the Night, Mad Cat Theatre Company illuminates the songs of the Grammy Award Winning troubadour Harry Nilsson. An intimate evening inside the studio of a man trying to organize his life by creating the perfect set list. Join Mad Cat for this fly on the wall experience.
Mad Cat Live! to Perform Black Sabbath Vol. 4 at The Gleason Room
Mad Cat kicks off their 18th season with their popular concert series Mad Cat Live performing Black Sabbath's Vol. 4. Mad Cat Live is a series dedicated to presenting transitional albums by major artists and deconstructing them in order to place them into a current context. Sabbath's Vol.4 is a perfect fit for the series, as it marked a tipping point for the band; pushing their creative limits as well as driving them into a state of drug abuse, paranoia, and violence. Just in time for Halloween, this limited engagement will be a must-see live event for fans of Sabbath; a heavy metal band who began their dramatic 50 year history in Birmingham, England as a jazz-blues quartet called Earth, only to find themselves evolving into one of the most influential bands in the history of hard rock. Breathing life into today's generation of punks and rockers, Black Sabbath provided a response to the punctured love bubble of the 60s, an angry war cry to all things soft, light, and filled with pretense. The audacity of their rebellion in the face of a changing nation, is all the more relevant today.
Mad Cat Live! performs The Eagles' ON THE BORDER
Mad Cat adds programming to its 17th season with the latest iteration of Mad Cat Live! A concert series devoted to presenting the deep cuts of the music world reintroduces albums by esteemed artists into the current context.
Mad Cat Continues Season with Vaclav Havel's Subversive AUDIENCE and PROTEST
Mad Cat continues its 17th season with a production of two of Vaclav Havel's sharp political dramas AUDIENCE and PROTEST. The subversive Czechoslovakian playwright, Prime Minister & President, Vaclav Havel was a in danger of being declared a 'social parasite' by the neo-Stalinist regime of Gustav Husak when he wrote AUDIENCE & PROTEST back in 1975 & 1978. His plays had been banned and, in the time of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic of 1974, writers faced imprisonment if they did not have a stamp in the employment box of their Citizen Identification passport. Havel solved this problem by finding a job as a brewery hand. Havel rolled barrels in the basement of a regional brewery in Trutnov and the experience profoundly changed his writing. His work in the brewery suddenly gave him back the refreshing existential perspective 'from below, from where the absurd and grotesque dimensions of the world are always more plainly visible.' And then an incident occurred on the job that gave him the inspirational seed for what is his best loved, and arguably finest, play, AUDIENCE. Havel claimed the piece was written quickly and easily 'from the hip,' opening up a new way of working in the theater for Havel - writing his first autobiographical play.
Photo Flash: Meet the Band! Mad Cat Live! Performs Neil Young's ON THE BEACH
The acclaimed Mad Cat Live! Band returns with their performance of Neil Young's fifth studio album, originally released in 1974, On The Beach. An album argued to be Young's most coveted selection in his canon, On The Beach wasn't released on CD until 2003. The album is the third installment in Young's self-proclaimed 'Ditch Trilogy' and follows Young's disenfranchisement with the record industry and the state of the country at large. An unparalleled album for die-hard Neil Young fans. Scroll down to meet the band!
Photo Flash: Meet the Band! Mad Cat Live! Performs Neil Young's ON THE BEACH
The acclaimed Mad Cat Live! Band returns with their performance of Neil Young's fifth studio album, originally released in 1974, On The Beach. An album argued to be Young's most coveted selection in his canon, On The Beach wasn't released on CD until 2003. The album is the third installment in Young's self-proclaimed 'Ditch Trilogy' and follows Young's disenfranchisement with the record industry and the state of the country at large. An unparalleled album for die-hard Neil Young fans. Scroll down to meet the band!
Mad Cat Live! Band to Peform Neil Young's ON THE BEACH at Miami Theater Center, 8/12-14
The acclaimed Mad Cat Live! Band returns with their performance of Neil Young's fifth studio album, originally released in 1974, On The Beach. An album argued to be Young's most coveted selection in his canon, On The Beach wasn't released on CD until 2003. The album is the third installment in Young's self-proclaimed 'Ditch Trilogy' and follows Young's disenfranchisement with the record industry and the state of the country at large. An unparalleled album for die-hard Neil Young fans.
Mad Cat Theatre Company to Stage MIXTAPE 2, Begin. 1/3
After the contagious success of Blow Me by Jessica Farr at our new home at the Miami Theater Center, Mad Cat Theatre Company is pleased to present MIXTAPE 2: UMMAGUMMA FORZA ZUMA! a collection of new works by various local artists and familiar faces. In 2008, Mad Cat released its first MIXTAPE featuring a mix of new plays and films steeped in nostalgia. Now, six years later, Mad Cat is back with a new mix of plays and films, MIXTAPE 2: UMMAGUMMA FORZA ZUMA!, a theatrical stew that is very much embedded in the present. MIXTAPE 2: UMMAGUMMA FORZA ZUMA! is about having the right mixture of mojo needed to make it through a metamorphosis. This collection of new works features pieces by Jessica Farr, Elena Maria Garcia, Theo Reyna, Deborah L. Sherman, Andres Solorzano, Paul Tei, and Kristina Wong as well as new films by Molly Gandour, George Schiavone and Matt Corey, Karelle Levy and Michael Landsberg, Wet Sock Ensemble (Erik Fabregat, Ralph de la Portilla and Ted Chambers), and Darin Gray of the band On Fillmore.
Carbonell Award Nominations Announced
A musical about a war-time romance and a controversial play that took audiences to the depths of humanity top the list of nominees for the 35th annual Carbonell Awards, celebrating the best shows and performances in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.