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For Orlando artists Mila and Gina Makarova, working together on and off stage is family time

Whether it's Orlando Ballet, Phantasmagoria or an Opera Orlando production, this mother and daughter depend on each other.

By Seth Kubersky

May 8, 2024

Fans of the classical arts craving something outside the familiar canon have a cornucopia to choose from in the coming weeks, thanks to Opera Orlando and the Orlando Ballet. First, Philip Glass and Robert Moran's The Juniper Tree, an operatic adaptation of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, comes to the Dr. Phillips' Pugh Theater on May 10 and 11, featuring the Phantasmagoria performance troupe and original puppets by Nic Parks...

Gina and Mila Makarova

The Bureau on International Drive rolls out the Underground Game Show, a brand-new entertainment offering fiendishly difficult questions

A terrific alternative for those who find escape rooms anxiety-inducing.

By Seth Kubersky
May 1, 2024
Precocious playwright Ciara Hannon returns to Orlando as the Fringe’s new special events producer

But first, a revival of her 2021 hit 'An Adele Horror Story'

By Seth Kubersky
Apr 24, 2024
Dancer-choreographer Clymene Aldinger left for NYC over a decade ago, but her work retains a deep Orlando connection

She's still collaborating with her secret weapon, Kurt Rambus

By Seth Kubersky
Apr 12, 2024
MSC cruises have an intimate, Eurocentric approach to leisure sailing

Dining, drinking and decompression seasoned with a dash of charming eccentricity

By Seth Kubersky
Apr 4, 2024
SeaWorld celebrates its 60th birthday with a pair of revamps: a gentle remake of Tassie’s twin water slides, and a total makeover with new Penguin Trek

Fans are buzzing about the bounty of new attractions that's promised to blossom at the area's top two theme park resorts

By Seth Kubersky
Mar 27, 2024
Orlando tattoo artist and improv comedian Chris Trovador premieres 'Ink Addicted'

The show conveys his journey through clowning, live painting and spoken word

By Seth Kubersky
Mar 20, 2024
Two fresh Orlando productions featuring songs and stories you haven’t seen or heard before, both with strong women anchoring the tale

See 'Belladonna: The Musical' and 'Scalia/Ginsburg' this weekend

By Seth Kubersky
Mar 12, 2024
Outrageous Orlando improv crew Mama’s Comedy Show leaves I-Drive

Friday night starts their run at their new home: Ten10 Brewing

By Seth Kubersky
Feb 28, 2024
When Zeitgeist has thoughts about the future of Orlando’s biggest economic engine, we listen

Ryan Harmon and Joe Lanzisero collectively boast nearly 80 years of experience in the themed entertainment industry

By Seth Kubersky
Feb 14, 2024
New Orlando venue Judson's Live is the last piece of the Dr. Phillips Center's puzzle — and perhaps the best

It's the first space at the Dr. Phil I feel fully at home

By Seth Kubersky
Feb 7, 2024
Change is in the air at Disney World, with a revamped Cirque du Soleil show and a final bow for the Country Bear Jamboree’s classic repertoire

The only thing theme park fans hate worse than aging attractions not being updated is when aging attractions are updated

By Seth Kubersky
Jan 31, 2024
Orlando playwright Ashleigh Ann Gardner restages her techy thriller 'Qualia' at the Renaissance Theatre

And, possibly, at the Edinburgh Fringe as well in the near future

By Seth Kubersky
Jan 24, 2024
Epochal endings and brand-new beginnings for Orlando Fringe

Executive director Alauna Friskics leaves just as the rebooted winter fest and arts incubator get off the ground

By Seth Kubersky
Jan 10, 2024
In 2023 the lack of accessible performance space became ever more acute, as our town’s emerging talents struggle to find stages

2023 Year in Review

By Seth Kubersky
Dec 27, 2023
EPCOT's new 'Luminous' fireworks show goes for old-fashioned visceral impact

It earns the highest theme-park show compliment: It's worth dealing with the post-closing traffic jam

By Seth Kubersky
Dec 20, 2023
Orlando mezzo-soprano Michaela Wright sings a recital with a feminine focus at Timucua

There will be Handel, yes, but not 'Messiah'

By Seth Kubersky
Dec 13, 2023
Hanukkah treats at the theme parks and a cabaret of Jewish-penned Christmas songs

Plus other local Festival of Lights offerings for fellow members of the tribe and their pals

By Seth Kubersky
Dec 6, 2023
New-to-Orlando dispensary Insa Cannabis offers gourmet-style edibles

Chef Julian Rose's THC sweets have more in common with high-end chocolates and confectionery than the stereotypical skunky stoner spacecake

By Seth Kubersky
Nov 22, 2023
New York duo The Coldharts discuss their Poe Triptych at Orlando Fringe ArtSpace

Also: how COVID changed their lives, and why they think Orlando Fringe is building a ‘neo- vaudeville’ circuit

By Seth Kubersky
Nov 16, 2023
Orlando's Little Radical Theatrics takes on the modern question of 'Rocky Horror'

To wit: Can this once-shocking artifact of the 1970s still speak to a younger generation unfazed by sexual fluidity?

By Seth Kubersky
Nov 8, 2023
Much-imitated, rarely equaled modern dance troupe Pilobolus comes to Orlando

Their touring show 'Re:Creation' makes a stop at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday

By Seth Kubersky
Nov 2, 2023
Opera Orlando’s ‘Tosca’ takes shape, with plenty of midnight oil burned before the final reveal this weekend

The design team is bringing Puccini’s classic tale set in Napoleonic Wars-era Rome to life

By Seth Kubersky
Oct 25, 2023
Orlando expat's latest piece gives a close look at what it takes to survive as an artist

In which our arts columnist performs in Brian Feldman's 'Dishwasher 2: I Pay You'

By Seth Kubersky
Oct 18, 2023
Nearly every notable Orlando haunt since the ’90s has one thing in common: Dan Carro

The attractions designer has contributed to Gatorland, Terror on Church Street, Skull Kingdom, and many more

By Seth Kubersky
Oct 11, 2023
New walk-through ‘Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana’ is the most pleasing and educational addition to EPCOT in ages

By Seth Kubersky
Oct 4, 2023

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