By Tara Mitton Catao The Duncan Theatre’s dance season came to a resounding finish with the explosive performance on Friday night of the Philadelphia-based Koresh Dance Company. Artistic director and choreographer Roni Koresh unleashed a movement vocabulary that was a fascinating flurry of endless invention. As the show unfurled, one got a tremendous sense of the artistic … [Read more...]
Stiller’s inventive ‘Mitty’ avoids the hard edges
In updating James Thurber’s six-page short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty to modern times, director-star Ben Stiller plants his titular dreamer in a scenario all too familiar and scary for middle-aged members of the Fourth Estate. Stiller’s Mitty works for a print magazine that is transitioning to an online-only publication, a move that will result in massive layoffs. … [Read more...]
Busy, smart ‘Giovanni’ ends FGO season in entertaining style
FORT LAUDERDALE – More so than most operas, Don Giovanni presents its audience with a puzzle: Is it a tragedy or a comedy? The Romantics of the 19th century saw it as an exercise in decadence and darkness, and until recently it was common to leave out the final scene, and end the opera with the licentious Don dragged screaming into Hell. But surely seeing it as a comedy, if … [Read more...]
Inventive production, fresh singers make most of PB Opera’s ‘Orfeo’
You have to give Palm Beach Opera credit for knowing how to fall back on basic theatrical precepts when faced with having to present fewer mainstage productions than it wants to. Actually, it’s hard to tell that this is a company that has cut one full production, so varied and diverse have been the shows offered in its stead. This month, instead of a mainstage presentation, … [Read more...]