Jason Edelstein and Rick Pena in Blood Brothers.Theater: In only two seasons, Boca Raton’s Slow Burn Theatre Company has forged a reputation for producing edgy musicals outside the mainstream. The show that got its co-founders, Matthew Korinko and Patrick Fitzwater, interested in creating and running their own troupe is Blood Brothers, the cult hit that opened in … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2011
Weekend arts picks: April 22-24
Theater: In only two seasons, Boca Raton’s Slow Burn Theatre Company has forged a reputation for producing edgy musicals outside the mainstream. The show that got its co-founders, Matthew Korinko and Patrick Fitzwater, interested in creating and running their own troupe is Blood Brothers, the cult hit that opened in London in 1988 and is still running there. OK, so maybe “cult” … [Read more...]
Film review: Documentary captures exceptional New York eye
A scene from Bill Cunningham New York. By John ThomasonLess than two years after The September Issue probed the life and work of fashion kingmaker Anna Wintour, a new documentary offers a look at another figure residing in the nexus of fashion and print journalism.In Bill Cunningham New York, which opens Friday in South Florida, the subject is New York Times fashion … [Read more...]
Documentary captures an exceptional New York eye
Less than two years after The September Issue probed the life and work of fashion kingmaker Anna Wintour, a new documentary offers a look at another figure residing in the nexus of fashion and print journalism. In Bill Cunningham New York, which opens Friday in South Florida, the subject is New York Times fashion photographer Cunningham, a man just as iconoclastic – and more … [Read more...]
Music review: Tchaikovsky quartet ends Delray SQ season in winning style
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).By Greg StepanichOn the verge of an eighth season that will include a new recording and a world premiere, the Delray String Quartet sounded confident, polished and vibrant as it finished up its seventh season Sunday afternoon in Miami.Closing its fifth and final series of programs at St. Stephen’s Espicopal Church in Coconut … [Read more...]
Tchaikovsky quartet ends Delray SQ season in winning style
On the verge of an eighth season that will include a new recording and a world premiere, the Delray String Quartet sounded confident, polished and vibrant as it finished up its seventh season Sunday afternoon in Miami. Closing its fifth and final series of programs at St. Stephen’s Espicopal Church in Coconut Grove, where the competition from the Taste of the Grove festival … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 15-17
Robin Wright as Mary Surratt in The Conspirator.Film: Sure, he won an Oscar 30 years ago for making Ordinary People, but Robert Redford remains an underrated director. To see how he can bring history alive, involving and even a little instructive, check out The Conspirator, his take on the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as seen through the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 15-17
Film: Sure, he won an Oscar 30 years ago for making Ordinary People, but Robert Redford remains an underrated director. To see how he can bring history alive, involving and even a little instructive, check out The Conspirator, his take on the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as seen through the conspiracy trial of Mary Surratt. The luminous Robin Wright plays the … [Read more...]
Theater preview: ‘God of Carnage’ exposes the beasts within
Kim Ostrenko, Nick Santa Maria, Kim Cozortand Michael Serratore in God of Carnage.By Hap ErsteinThere is a lot more carnage then there are signs of God in Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Tony Award-winning best play, God of Carnage, which opens this evening at the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton.As she did with her earlier acclaimed comedy Art, Reza enjoys … [Read more...]
‘God of Carnage’ exposes the beasts within
There is a lot more carnage then there are signs of God in Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Tony Award-winning best play, God of Carnage, which opens this evening at the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton. As she did with her earlier acclaimed comedy Art, Reza enjoys conjuring up adults moved by circumstances to act childishly. In that earlier play, it was three men, long-time friends … [Read more...]