From left: Michael McKeever, Nicholas Richberg and Angie Radosh, in Stuff.By Hap ErsteinProlific and eclectic. You’re never quite sure what you’re going to get with a Michael McKeever play. But if you don’t like one, don’t worry, there will be another along in six months.As it happens, the Davie-based playwright-performer is serving up a winner currently with his … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 1-6
J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci in The Music Never Stopped.Film: The British neurologist Oliver Sacks’ popular case studies have made good fodder for Hollywood (1990’s Awakenings), and in The Music Never Stopped, one of Sacks’ essays (The Last Hippie) is the source of the story. Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), long estranged from his father … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 18-20
Emma Stone in Easy A.Film: When Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter, he never imagined it would become the inspiration for a high school comedy such as Easy A, but screenwriter Bert V. Royal plants his tongue firmly in cheek and comes up with a wise, wise-assed morality tale set at Ojai (Calif.) High, about a misfit named Olive who lies about losing … [Read more...]
Theater feature: New Miami theater troupe draws impressive talent
By Hap ErsteinVocabulary fans, the word for today is “zoetic.”It’s an adjective, meaning “pertaining to life,” so it is not a bad name for a new live stage company, unless you happen to worry that theatergoers in South Florida will not buy tickets for a troupe it cannot pronounce or spell, let alone know what it means.Still, welcome Zoetic Stage, the … [Read more...]
Theater review: ‘Dangerous’ a risky, provocative undertaking for Caldwell
David Rudd, Harriet Oser and Marta Reiman in Dangerous.By Hap ErsteinBe forewarned: Michael McKeever has gone from suite to nasty.Last sighted at the Caldwell Theatre with Suite Surrender, a very audience-friendly farce reminiscent of Ken Ludwig, the Davie playwright now returns with an icy, mean-spirited, but darkly seductive drama called Dangerous, his “deconstruction” of … [Read more...]
Theater preview: ‘Dangerous’ is McKeever’s walk on the dark side
David A. Rudd and Marta Reimanin Caldwell Theatre's production of ‘Dangerous.’By Hap Erstein If you think you know Davie playwright Michael McKeever from last season’s knockabout farce Suite Surrender, or even such older comedies as Open Season or 37 Postcards, think again.The diminutive, prolific advertising copywriter-turned-dramatist is in a distinctly darker mood … [Read more...]