Tiny, Halloween, Seattle (1983) by Mary Ellen Mark. Not if, but when you visit the ongoing photography exhibitions at the Norton Museum of Art and the Society of the Four Arts, look for beauty in expected and unexpected places. The subject of the photographs that make up Norton’s Tiny: Streetwise Revisited does not want us to pity her, but it can’t be helped. A teen should … [Read more...]
Brutal and deep, ‘A War’ engages on fields of suspense, ethics
We’re just minutes into Tobias Lindholm’s A War when the first IED explodes in a heretofore tranquil stretch of desert in Afghanistan. The 21-year-old soldier struck by the device dies moments later, leaving his fellow-troops shaken, grieving and enraged — questioning the direction of their mission, fighting a deluge of tears and snot, asserting that they’re not cut out for … [Read more...]
Wick revives Kander and Ebb’s ‘Curtains’
In the out-of-town tryout within the musical 42nd Street, the leading lady merely breaks her ankle. In the tryout depicted in Curtains, a so-so show from 2007 by the renowned composer-lyricist team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, the leading lady is murdered offstage during the curtain calls. That fictional leading lady, Jessica Cranshaw, is a classic triple threat — she can’t … [Read more...]
Neave Trio proves ‘bright, radiant’ at Flagler
The Neave Trio: Mikhail Veselov, Eri Nakamura and Anna Williams. By Kevin Wilt On Feb. 9, the Neave Trio played an historic concert at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum as part of the museum’s 2016 Music Series. The occasion was marked by the return of the original Steinway grand piano Flagler bought for his wife, after it had been sold in the 1920s when the Whitehall estate … [Read more...]