Michelle F. Solomon | ArtburstMiami

Playwright Sheri Wilner-Deering was doing research for her next play. It was the Fall of 2025 and she wanted to write about women who stood up to powerful men. She started searching and found material in court records, all in the public record, including a 2006 Palm Beach grand jury proceeding, where two survivors testified, and a New York hearing after Epstein’s death in 2019, where 23 survivors gave statements. Those accounts became the basis for “The Does,” which will be presented in a staged reading in Miami on Sunday, Oct. 4.

The one-act is being presented by LakehouseRanchDotPNG and directed by Brandon Urrutia, co-founder and artistic director of the Miami Lakes-based company, as a fully staged workshop production. It offers an opportunity to see a play while its writer is still exploring what works and what needs more attention.

Gina Montét may be opening her newest play in Boca Raton, but “Baker Street Beginnings” grew out of her work and people she met in Miami-Dade County. Theatre Lab premieres the play on Saturday, Sept. 5 at Florida Atlantic University

A new exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami didn’t begin with the idea of a collector lending paintings to a museum. It began with a realization.

“Margaritaville is kind of like the gateway to thinking about a certain kind of straight white culture in Florida, but then maybe the U.S. more broadly,” Gone says.

Made famous on film by Ryan Gosling, Miami’s Wulf Clark steps into one of romance’s most iconic characters.

The institution known for almost two decades as HistoryMiami Museum is changing its name to the Museum of Miami to reflect a countywide “museum without walls” mission.

Seraphic Fire has been presenting candlelit choral programs for two decades—long before the recent wave of branded “candlelight concerts” made the ethereal experience seem like something new.

Now in its third year, Batiste’s Montreux Jazz Festival Miami has expanded venues and lineups with two additional nights at the Miami Beach Bandshell along with its premiere venue at The Hangar in Coconut Grove.

Before he ever stepped into the title role of “Dear Evan Hansen” on Broadway, Kendall and Palmetto Bay native Stephen Christopher Anthony sat in the audience at the Music Box Theatre and was spellbound.

The Key Biscayne Film Festival was an idea that emerged during the planning of what would probably have been a hit with television audiences — a reality show about life on Key Biscayne. Isabel Custer and Maite Garrido wanted to make a documentary reality series starring the characters that live on the island.

While the Miami Jewish Film Festival, this year celebrating its 29th edition, has continued to grow, the number of films it presents as well as the South Florida venues it draws crowds to, this year it’s unveiled a segment entitled “Made in Florida.”