The fall brings a better class of films with it, and particularly so this year with a handful of major directors, like Damien Chazelle, Barry Jenkins and Steve McQueen, checking in with their follow-up releases after such acclaimed efforts as La La Land, Moonlight and 12 Years a Slave. And any season that features a newly completed film by the late Orson Welles has to be … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2018
Season Preview 2018-19: Books
South Florida has a perhaps surprisingly strong books culture, and not just because it has been home to major writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston. It also is home to Books & Books, a remarkably successful Miami-based chain of independent bookstores, and as the Miami Book Fair it helped found has grown, newer players have appeared on the scene to celebrate … [Read more...]
Delray’s Spady Museum celebrates Harlem Renaissance, poet Hughes
What’s it like to hear “Stormy Weather” performed by Ethel Waters at the Cotton Club in 1920s Harlem or Cab Calloway belt out his classic “Minnie the Moocher”? Or perhaps listen to Billie Holiday as she sings at the Hot Shot Club? Or, how about swinging the night away at the Savoy Ballroom, the largest dance hall in Harlem, known for its rootin’-tootin’ root beers and best … [Read more...]
McTeer does remarkable star turn in ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’
It is a given of Theresa Rebeck’s new, thought-provoking, though overstuffed new play, Bernhardt/Hamlet, that 19th-century stage diva Sarah Bernhardt was one of the greatest actresses who ever lived. To cement that point, she is played in the Roundabout Theatre’s premiere production by the stunning Janet McTeer (A Doll’s House on Broadway, Tumbleweeds on the silver screen), … [Read more...]