Film: Now that journeyman actress Melissa Leo has won an Oscar (for The Fighter), she should gain the clout to get her films general distribution, but t hasn’t happened yet. That is why her first-rate performance as a drug-addicted mom struggling with submitting herself to a rehab clinic in Why Stop Now is opening locally at the Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park, even in this … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 6-10
Theater: It is not easy getting attention for a play when the mainstream media will not even print the title, but Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat (C’mon, Wheel of Fortune fans, you can figure it out) managed to eke out a respectable run on Broadway last season and be nominated for Best Play. It is described as a high-octane verbal cage match about love, … [Read more...]
Weekend picks: Dec. 25-28
Dance: This is normally the time of year when we'd expect to see Ballet Florida's Nutcracker in Marie Hale's indelible, lovely production. Ballet Florida, sadly, is no more, but there is still a Nutcracker at the Kravis over Christmas. The Moscow Classical Ballet's version of Tchaikovsky's immortal 1892 ballet opened Christmas Eve, and continues tonight and Saturday. The … [Read more...]