On the cusp of the 1950s, sharing a ship with countless other European immigrants en route to the brighter pastures of Ellis Island, Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) falls ill. Whether it’s from food poisoning or seasickness, the result is the same: a peaked scramble down dank corridors, seeking the relief of a random janitor’s bucket with which to dispense of the material flowing, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 12-14
Theater: Slow Burn Theatre goes less edgy for the summertime, with more popular fare to mark its final production in West Boca before moving its operations permanently to the Broward Center. Aiming at the entire family, the company serves up Little Shop of Horrors, the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical about a nerdy florist, his self-esteem-challenged girlfriend and an alien … [Read more...]
Lou Tyrrell stepping down from Theatre at Arts Garage
For the past three decades, Louis Tyrrell has been producing new, often American, plays at Florida Stage and more recently at its informal offspring, Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach. On Monday, three days after he opened Allison Gregory’s world premiere, Uncertain Terms, the final play of the theater company within the performance venue’s fourth season, he unexpectedly … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘Ghost, the Musical,’ ‘Million Dollar Quartet,’ ‘The Trouble With Doug’
You want proof that Broadway tours across the nation are starving for product? Head to the Broward Center during the next week and get a look at Ghost, the Musical, as muddled and lifeless as any show that someone thought warranted a national showcase. In 2012, this movie-to-stage transfer eked out almost a five-month run in New York after garnering a dismissive set of … [Read more...]
Sundays: It’s always Media Time somewhere
By Myles Ludwig Consider time. Time, as in “Hey kids, what time is it?” If you are part of my generation, you most certainly know the answer to that question. It was lodged in our collective frontal lobes. Why, its Howdy Doody time, of course: 5:30 p.m. on Monday-Friday everywhere in our East Coast world. Glowing twilight, descending darkness, time to dismount and park our … [Read more...]
Hot water bottles at the theater: How Britain coped in wartime
The current exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art, Keep Calm and Carry On: World War II and the British Home Front, is a paean to two kinds of British spirit: Fighting and forward thinking. Despite the many hardships of war, the political and cultural leadership of the country found ways to “muddle through’’ by setting up new ministries to cope and plan a vision for the … [Read more...]