Miami-born, and internationally produced, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has been enthusiastically endorsed locally by GableStage’s artistic director Joseph Adler. The Coral Gables company has presented four of McCraney’s scripts — two original works and two adaptations of Shakespeare — including the current Choir Boy, the writer’s most naturalistic, accessible and, arguably, … [Read more...]
Timely and absorbing, ‘Selma’ brings man and movement alive
At an advance screening of Selma in Boca Raton this week, there was something in the air that deviated from the normally passive experience of moviegoing. A communal energy hung as thickly as smog in the air-conditioned auditorium. Some of it was hopeful: Audience members clapped along to the protest songs on the movie’s soundtrack, shook their fists when appropriate, and … [Read more...]
Timely and absorbing, ‘Selma’ brings man and movement alive
At an advance screening of Selma in Boca Raton this week, there was something in the air that deviated from the normally passive experience of moviegoing. A communal energy hung as thickly as smog in the air-conditioned auditorium. Some of it was hopeful: Audience members clapped along to the protest songs on the movie’s soundtrack, shook their fists when appropriate, and … [Read more...]