Theater: Opening this weekend at Palm Beach Dramaworks is Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, a play with music depicting a solo club act by jazz and blues legend Billie Holiday at a rundown Philadelphia lounge, just months before her death in 1959. Hooked on heroin, she is coaxed through a dozen of her iconic musical numbers by her longtime pianist. Tracey Conyer Lee, who had … [Read more...]
‘My Old Lady’ darker, deeper than bland trailer indicates
On a recent trip to the movies, I couldn’t help but notice once again how the art of movie trailers has sunk into a sewer of desperate pandering — of milking every last comic line from a cinematic cow whose udders are running on empty. The first trailer that popped up on the screen was The Skeleton Twins, which is ultimately a sobering drama about severely damaged twin siblings … [Read more...]