By Tara Mitton Catao We all know the story. We know about love gone wrong. We have seen it before but we are always willing to be pulled back and re-experience the saga. Love is intoxicating to us all. The great romantic full-length classical ballets epitomized love and its ensuing drama. Every ballet dancer longs to dance these iconic roles. The dancers of today have … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2016
‘Curious Incident’ astonishing, moving
Meet Christopher John Francis Boone, the autistic 15-year-old at the center of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the five-time Tony Award-winning drama that will dazzle your senses and tug on your heartstrings. Adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel, it was then imaginatively directed by Marianne Elliott – who performed similar … [Read more...]
Zimmerman’s Cafe series: modern chamber music goes casual
Pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst and violinist Dina Kostic rehearse for the Zimmerman's Cafe performance at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lake Worth in October. By Dannel Espinoza I recently had the extreme pleasure of attending a one-of-a-kind concert put on by Zimmerman’s Cafe Chamber Music. This organization is following a 300-year-old tradition started in Leipzig by … [Read more...]
Actor Donohoe digging deep to bring ‘Tru’ alive
Palm Beach Dramaworks audiences have seen New York-based actor Rob Donohoe many times before, in such diverse plays as Exit the King, The History Boys and The Pitmen Painters. But they have never seen anything quite like his transformation as manic-depressive gay Southern writer Truman Capote in the one-man show, Tru. Donohoe’s acceptance of the role was the condition that … [Read more...]
‘Curious Incident’ another unlikely triumph for Britain’s National Theatre
Conventional wisdom says that plays cannot make money these days touring the United States. But the National Theatre of Great Britain does not listen to conventional wisdom. Two seasons ago, it had astonishing artistic and commercial success on the road with War Horse, its five-time Tony Award-winning World War I drama about a boy and his equine pal. Now theatrical lightning … [Read more...]
‘Nocturnal Animals’: Thriller hemmed in by rich, airless bubble
In the best scene in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, a holiday drive on a sleepy West Texas thoroughfare becomes an auto-terrorist nightmare straight out of Spielberg’s Duel. When three accelerator-revving rednecks force suburban husband Tony Hastings (Jake Gyllenhaal), his wife Laura (Isla Fisher) and their daughter India (Ellie Bamber) off the road in the coffin-black night, it … [Read more...]
Novelist Brooks brings news from King David’s court to Miami Book Fair
After hearing from topical comedian Trevor Noah Sunday and Democratic strategist James Carville last night, book lovers at the third evening of the Miami Book Fair might have been looking for some literary relief from politics when the widely admired historical novelist Geraldine Brooks took the stage Tuesday. And so it was — until Brooks opened her mouth and spoke. “It’s … [Read more...]
James Carville urges fellow liberals to ‘fight like hell’
James Carville came to the Miami Book Fair on Monday night, and he was, as you might imagine, fighting mad. A longtime Democratic political consultant close to the Clintons, he did not look like or talk like a man willing to give President-elect Donald Trump a chance. “This country is going to get the best ninth-grade civics education ever,” Carville said. “We are in … [Read more...]
Trevor Noah discusses South Africa, but not election, at Miami Book Fair
Trevor Noah, best known as the host of The Daily Show, opened the 33rd edition of the Miami Book Fair with a surprisingly somber appearance Sunday evening that included almost no direct comment on the shocking and bruising results of the recent U.S. presidential election. Yet his anecdotes and observations of growing up during the last years of South African apartheid held … [Read more...]
McKeever’s ‘After’ a taut, powerful look at bullying
Extremely prolific South Florida playwright Michael McKeever has now written two plays ripped from the headlines, yet humanized for increased impact. His earlier Daniel’s Husband, which concerns itself with gay marriage and the legal complexities of that institution, is off-Broadway-bound this spring. His latest, called simply After, is about bullying and school violence. It … [Read more...]