The best things to do in Miami this week

Jungle Island's enchanting nighttime wonderland returns for a third year with over 40 all-new lantern installations inspired by fairytale worlds and kawaii culture, plus a first-ever Holiday Village and marketplace (Nov 14–Jan 5) featuring more than 100 Christmas trees, food stands with holiday treats like elephant ears and mulled wine, a bazaar with seasonal crafts and gifts and a 30-foot decorated centerpiece tree. 

The NYC-imported Smorgasburg, Miami's largest outdoor food market, returns to its Wynwood outpost for a new season featuring over 40 vendors (including 10 new concepts) and more shaded areas for noshing. Graze from a variety of local street foods, international fare, healthy options and inventive creations from the likes of Acai Way, Korean Kitchen, Kabuki Soba, The Lazy Oyster, La Picaña Grill, Lechona Truck, Tio Paella, Puro Chocolate, Cool & Creamy Truck and more.

This bustling vintage market enters its 32nd season on South Beach's famed Lincoln Road. Approximately every other Sunday (check their calendar for exact dates), 125 vendors convene along the promenade to showcase their wares and barter with discerning shoppers. Find everything from mid-century furniture to Art Deco decor and more. The long-running weekend social presents a solid mix of 19th and 20th-century memorabilia and unique collectibles. While you're there, stock up on locally grown produce, fresh flowers and artisanal goods from the Lincoln Road Farmer's market, which occurs every Sunday from 9am to 6pm.

Rev your engines! The legendary RuPaul's Drag Race returns for its 17th season, and Willy's Neighborhood Bar in Wynwood is throwing weekly watch parties to catch all the action. Miami's own glam queen Patent Pending hosts on Friday nights with Drag Race Happy Hour kicking off at 6pm (giving you ample time to get lubed up before the show at 8pm). For a full-throttle night, stick around after the credits for F Word Fridays in the backyard.

Once a Green Book hotel during the Jim Crow era, the Historic Hampton House was a place of refuge and revelry for Black travelers in Miami, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Josephine Baker and Muhammad Ali. Starting December 2, the historic inn will present Invisible Luggage, a powerful exhibition that explores themes of journeying, memory, displacement, and freedom through the lens of 50+ modern and contemporary artists such as Jacolby Satterwhite and Marina Abramović, Awol Erizku and Ming Smith, Suzanne Jackson, Cecilia Vicuña, Hugo McCloud, and Frank Bowling. Join the opening night celebrations on Monday, December 2nd and hear from Invisible Luggage curators Beth Rudin DeWoody, Laura Dvorkin, Maynard Monrow, Zoe Lukov and Auttrianna Ward. 

One of the foundational productions in the peak era of the jukebox musical, this four-time Tony winner charts the historic rise and personal struggles of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons through two decades of the vocal group’s pioneering explorations of four-part harmony. “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man” are among the irrepressible earworms. Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables (305-444-9293, actorsplayhouse.org). Jan 22–Feb 23: 8pm Wed–Sat, 3pm Sun; $60–$70.

The final show in LakeHouseRanch’s third season of provocative plays in intimate settings, Mackenzie Raine’s world-premiere comedy takes its name from four artists, selected for different reasons, who are enlisted to design and build a new American flag. As a consensus choice grows more elusive, Raine takes an absurdist look at patriotism and symbolism in the 21st century. LakehouseRanchDotPNG.com at Main Street Playhouse, 6812 Main St, Miami Lakes (lakehouseranchdotpng.com). Jan 24–Feb 2: 8pm Fri–Sat, 2pm Sun; $20.

This lavish showcase geared towards all automobile enthusiasts, from connoisseurs to the car-curious, takes over the lush fairway of the JW Marriott Turnberry Resort’s championship golf course for a fourth year with more than 200 classic and contemporary whips. Unlike some of the more standard, stuffy Concours shows around the world, the Motorcar Cavalcade judging panel pairs experts with VIP celebrities and athletes for entertaining and unabashedly subjective evaluations. Even more unusual, both classic and modern vehicles compete in the same classes to secure their prized trophy. This year's judges have yet to be revealed, but last year included Motorsports Hall of Fame racing legends Lyn St. James and Tommy Kendall, among others. Early pricing tickets for the general public are now available, starting at $95 for a Concours Access Pass, $395 for Concours All Inclusive and Concours VIP for $795 per guest.  

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner upon its 1967 Broadway premiere, this hulking portrait of domestic dysfunction from playwright Edward Albee is considered among the undisputed masterpieces of the second half of the 20th century. A late middle-aged couple flees an indefinable sense of terror to cohabitate with their best friends, whose own problems, from divorce and alcoholism to potential infidelity, are all too tangible. Island City Stage, 2304 N Dixie Highway, Wilton Manors (954-928-9800). Jan 16–Feb 9: various show times; $48.

Fresh from Broadway—where it won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play—Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ searing dark comedy is set on a decaying plantation in the cicada-filled environs of Arkansas, where a family has gathered to quarrel over their departed patriarch’s inheritance. When an estranged brother appears unexpectedly, and buried relics resurface among the clutter, the already fractious reunion reaches a boiling point. GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave, Coral Gables (305-445-1119, gablestage.org). Jan 31–Feb 23; various show times; $25–$80.