Carbonell Award-winning director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge never shrinks from a challenge. In fact, she is drawn to the risks of re-conceiving the musicals of the great stagers, like her acclaimed take on Gower Champion’s Hello, Dolly! at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre two years ago and her current look at Jerome Robbins’ work on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, … [Read more...]
New Miami chamber music group makes an important debut
It could be that the audience at the University of Miami’s Gusman Hall on Sunday afternoon was witness to the birth of a musical organization that will take South Florida into the kind of direction only the New World Symphony has gone heretofore. And it may be too early to tell. But the event, ostensibly the closing day of the 20th Mainly Mozart Festival, inaugurated a concert … [Read more...]
Dance companies reimagine Romeo, chronicle women in workplace
It would be difficult to count the number of different artistic adaptations of the story of Romeo and Juliet that have appeared since William Shakespeare’s play first trod the boards in the late 16th century. But its apparently permanent appeal likely stems from its central idea of an all-consuming love, and, well, that’s something we can all relate to. “It’s a tragic story, … [Read more...]