Rebecca Trionfo and Alexander Sargent in Renaissance Way. (Photo by Alex Srb) The spring concerts of the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton always begin with an introduction of the graduating class of dancers, who come to the mic, tell the audience who they are and where they’re from, and reveal their future plans, which are always very impressive. It’s a charming tradition … [Read more...]
‘Popstar’ gives pop music deflation it deserves
Andy Samberg in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. To paraphrase The Clash, phony Biebermania has bitten the dust. In the cheeky mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Andy Samberg’s Conner Friel, AKA Conner-4-Real, imagines an older, unwiser Bieber — one liberated from adolescent demographics if not behavior, extravagantly tatted and gold-chained, monumentally … [Read more...]
BodyVox gives Duncan audience fun, engaging evening
By Tara Mitton Catao In the third installment of its popular modern dance series, the Duncan Theatre veered away from the companies of iconic modern dance makers and presented BodyVox. The eight-member troupe from Portland, Ore., is the creation of the husband-and-wife team of Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland and showcases their choreography. Both share the same professional … [Read more...]
Community theater: Sharp cast gives ‘Other People’s Money’ grit, tension at Delray Playhouse
By Dale King Other People’s Money is a gritty drama, a modern-day tale of greed and financial seduction with just a smidgen of mirth. The 1989 play by Jerry Sterner attracted sold-out crowds to the Delray Beach Playhouse through most of its three-week run, which ended Sunday. The production focuses on the planned hostile takeover of a long-established, but out-of-date, … [Read more...]
Clooney gives breakthrough performance in riveting ‘Descendants’
For an actor as compelling as George Clooney, he’s the kind of matinee idol who has been asked only on the rarest of occasions to stretch his abilities behind his chiseled-hunk personality type. My two favorite performances of his – in Michael Clayton and Up in the Air – were both Clooneyfied: minor deviations from his smooth, fast-talking persona. Even his Batman was less … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 9-11
Film: Emerging Cinemas at Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park has a treat for all children of the ’60s (which I proudly proclaim includes me). It is the hallucinogenic documentary Magic Trip, a celebration of author/guru Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and his infamous 1964 cross-country ramble in a wildly painted school bus, with his posse of apostles aboard. Too young to … [Read more...]
Central performance redeems shaky ‘Anita’
How’s this for a premise: When a terrorist attack separates a Down syndrome-suffering woman from her caring and infinitely patient mother for the first time in her life, she is forced to confront a harsh outside world, emotionally connecting with the derelicts she encounters and vice versa. Healthy and full of real-world nutrients, Anita is the kind of film that’s more good … [Read more...]
Zero’s story gives Brochu his finest ‘Hour’
Opportunity rarely knocks twice, but here it is rapping, offering another chance to see the remarkable Jim Brochu as actor-comedian-blacklist-victim Zero Mostel in the one-man show Zero Hour, opening tonight at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre through Oct. 24. Brochu first brought the show to the area in 2008, at the Broward Stage Door in Coral Springs, prior to his triumphant … [Read more...]
‘Completely Hollywood’ gives its actors plenty of room for laughs
Twenty-three years ago, three irreverent wags devised a breakneck evening of comedy, The Compleat Wrks of Wlm Shkspr (Abridged), which mercilessly spoofed the timeless works of the Bard yet -- here’s the inspired part -- required almost no knowledge of his plays and characters. No wonder it became an international hit, spawning subsequent giggle fests about the Bible, American … [Read more...]