Performers in colorful costumes laugh and pose together onstage during a 1972 Toronto production of “Godspell.”
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From ‘Godspell’ to ‘SNL’: documentary traces how a Toronto cast shaped comedy

Before Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Gilda Radner became comedy fixtures, they shared a stage in Toronto in a 1972 production of “Godspell.” A new documentary argues that the 14-month…

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The humor of concrete comes to Coral Gables Art Cinema

“The History of Concrete” opens Friday at the Coral Gables Art Cinema for an eight-screening run through Thursday, Oct. 8, with six performances followed by a prerecorded conversation between director…

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Woman in a red ballroom dress extends her arm toward a dance partner in a dark scene from Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!.
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Sundance award winner about grief and ballroom dance opens at Gables Cinema

Coral Gables Art Cinema opens “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” on Friday with a red carpet night that puts the film’s subject on the floor before the lights go down: a…

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Black-and-white portrait of historian Marvin Dunn smiling with his hand resting beneath his chin.
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Rosewood massacre history comes to Coral Gables in two Marvin Dunn documentaries

More than a century after a white mob destroyed the predominantly Black community of Rosewood, Florida, two documentaries by historian Marvin Dunn will bring the town’s history — and physical…

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Four masked medical workers in surgical attire lean over a patient during a hospital procedure.
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‘American Doctor’ follows three physicians from Gaza hospitals to Congress

Three American physicians — one Palestinian American, one Jewish American and one Zoroastrian American — traveled to Gaza to treat patients in overwhelmed hospitals. A new documentary follows what they…

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A man and woman in period clothing and straw hats pose together against a painted Paris street backdrop in a scene from An American in Paris.
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Coral Gables to screen ‘An American in Paris’ free for residents Sept. 5

Coral Gables residents can spend Saturday morning in postwar Paris — at no charge. The city’s Adult Activity Center will present the 1951 musical An American in Paris at the…

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Composite image showing actors Hugo Diego García and Ester Expósito in a scene from “Drawn Together,” author Mercedes Ron, and the cover of the English-language edition of her novel “Drawn Together.”
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Before it streams, ‘Drawn Together’ screening/book signing brings Mercedes Ron and stars to Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Before “Drawn Together” reaches Prime Video viewers around the world, Coral Gables audiences will get an early look at the romantic thriller alongside the author…

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CatVideoFest returns to Coral Gables Art Cinema, with ticket sales helping local furry felines

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables Art Cinema is once again turning its screen over to the internet’s favorite subject. CatVideoFest 2026, a feature-length compilation of cat videos, returns…

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Graphic for “News Without a Newsroom” showing the title in bold black and gray lettering above rows of empty newsroom desks, with the letter “A” highlighted in red.
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A UM filmmaker’s documentary on local news decline returns to Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff After premiering last year at the University of Miami’s Bill Cosford Cinema, “News Without a Newsroom” returns to Coral Gables Sunday for a 1 p.m….

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Black-and-white archival photograph of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat and long skirt riding a dark horse among tall stone columns, with handwritten script layered in the background.
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‘Letters from Baghdad’ brings directors to Coral Gables to discuss the ‘female Lawrence of Arabia’

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Ten years after it began its festival life, a documentary that reconstructs Gertrude Bell’s role in the making of modern Iraq largely through letters, diaries…

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