Palm Beach Arts Paper Staff What happened to Edwin Drood? Has he disappeared? Been murdered by his uncle? Traipsed off to Egypt to pursue his studies? Or even gone incognito? Such is the plot of the Sol Children Theatre production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a play written by Rupert Holmes based on Charles Dickens’s last, unfinished novel. The answer will be up to the … [Read more...]
The Broadway season, reviewed: ‘Curious Incident,’ ‘Fun Home,’ ‘Something Rotten,’ ‘The Audience’
In the same way that the children’s book War Horse could never be harnessed onstage, Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — the story of an autistic boy’s struggles and eventual triumph over the challenges of everyday life — would seem an unlikely choice for theatrical adaptation. The two plays are not haphazardly compared, for both were … [Read more...]
‘Men, Women and Children’ too preachy to deserve any likes
Earlier this year in this publication, I forgave Jason Reitman for Labor Day, because every great director delivers a clunker now and then. But after viewing his latest, Men, Women and Children, it seems evident that his Midas touch has turned to lead. Unlike Labor Day, however, Men, Women and Children is a movie of hulking ambition, an attempt to comprehend the 21st-century … [Read more...]