Location, location, location. It's recurrently stressed as the prime factor in real estate and startup businesses, but always with an eye toward the present. Joe DeStephan, on the other hand, has both eyes fixed on the future. His Northwood Art & Music Warehouse in West Palm Beach is situated in an industrial region several blocks west of the Northwood section's … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2022
‘Forum’ a loose-limbed delight at the Maltz
The late, great Stephen Sondheim is best remembered for his boundary-busting musicals brimming with angst and ambivalence. But you would never guess that from the first Broadway show to feature both his music and lyrics, 1962’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Sunny and silly, yet displaying early evidence of Sondheim’s verbal mastery and penchant for … [Read more...]
The View from Home: A hit and a miss from Leconte
In its ongoing efforts to excavate the buried corners of contemporary art-house cinema, Cohen Media Group has dug up a pair of little-seen romantic dramedies from France’s Patrice Leconte, at one point among the most acclaimed and distributed directors worldwide. Felix and Lola and Love Street have been collected on a single, and gorgeously transferred, Blu-ray disc ($17.99, … [Read more...]
Older, but still relevant: ‘Twelve Angry Men’ heads to Dramaworks
Although written 68 years ago, Reginald Rose’s jury room melodrama Twelve Angry Men is surprisingly apt to our current social and political Zeitgeist. So says Palm Beach Dramaworks’ producing artistic director William Hayes, who had been planning to revive the play two years from now during the stage company’s 25th anniversary season. “With all that’s going on, the gender … [Read more...]