The possibilities have burgeoned with the population. You can sample Southern home cooking as authentic as any this side of the Mason- Dixon line and kosher fare to compare with New York’s best. But the real gastronomic news in Miami is the explosion of interest in ethnic food-Cuban cuisine first and foremost, but also Mexican, Haitian, Greek, Indian, Japanese and Thai.

South Dade farmers supply chefs with a bounty of fresh fruit and vegetables, and offshore waters provide plenty of fish and shellfish. Everglades frog legs turn up on some menus and you may just come across alligator meat. It’s farmed out in the glades, though consumption is, for the time being, limited.

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Greater Miami loves a show. Broadway hits come to Coconut Grove Playhouse, while the big Broadway musicals open at the Miami Beach Theater of the Performing Arts. Less commercial off- Broadway fare is the province of the South of Broadway group, based downtown at the Knight Center.

The South Florida Theater Company brings Shakespeare to the gardens of Vizcaya for two months of open-air performances every winter. Teatro Avante, Teatro Bellas Artes and other Hispanic theatre groups stage both popular and experimental plays.

You’ll have a fascinating evening ahead of you, if your Spanish is up to it.

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