Ken Clement, Shane R. Tanner, Mara Gabrielleand Joey Zangardi in Mack and Mabel.By Hap ErsteinAfter first-rate productions of A Little Night Music and The Drowsy Chaperone, and now a very credible mounting of the problematic Mack and Mabel, we are going to have to stop being so surprised when the Broward Stage Door Theatre delivers satisfying entertainment.The … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 20-22
Tilda Swinton as the title character in Orlando.Film: Tilda Swinton broke into the wider consciousness back in 1992 with her star turn as Orlando, the androgynous hero/heroine of Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending novel of a Tudor-era Zelig who begins as a debonair male court poet in 1588 and ends up in 1928 as a married woman. In Sally … [Read more...]
Theater review: Stage Door’s ‘Chaperone’ delivers the daffy goods
The Broward Stage Door cast of The Drowsy Chaperone.By Hap ErsteinBroward Stage Door Theatre has a tendency to overreach with its musicals, biting off a beloved, not-quite elaborate show and not quite delivering on the pleasures we once enjoyed with it.Now, however, it is presenting a modest little show, the intermission-less The Drowsy Chaperone, a multiple Tony … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 2-5
Marisa Berenson, Pippo Delbono, Tilda Swinton,Alba Rohrwacher, Mattia Zaccaro, Flavio Parentiand Maria Paiato, in I Am Love.Film: There is an alternative to the vampires and werewolves of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the sci-fi fantasy of The Last Airbender. It’s I Am Love, a sensuous film from debuting Italian director Luca Guadagnino with a starring performance by Oscar … [Read more...]
Theater review: ‘Knish Alley’ good concept, but play needs work
A scene from Knish Alley.By Hap ErsteinPart historical fiction and part shameless collection of vintage punch lines, South Floridian Tony Finstrom’s Knish Alley is a good idea for a play still waiting to be developed.The script, being premiered at Coral Spring’s Broward Stage Door, has already had several readings at area theaters, yet it still seems at least one draft away … [Read more...]