Connie Fernandez and Clay Cartland in Smoke. Sexual attraction can be benign, but more often than not — at least onstage — it is a prelude to a tug-of-war power skirmish. That is how it plays out in Kim Davies’ sadomasochistic Smoke, a kinky two-character tango which fittingly bookends a season that began with Sex with Strangers. We are starting to wonder about the personal … [Read more...]
O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey’ brings out the impeccable in Dramaworks
Michael Stewart Allen, John Leonard Thompson, Dennis Creaghan and Maureen Anderman in Long Day’s Journey into Night. (Photo by Samantha Mighdoll) There is something about the great works of American drama that brings out the best in Palm Beach Dramaworks, as exemplified by its powerful, impeccably performed production of Eugene O’Neill’s epic autobiographical masterwork, Long … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘Daniel’s Husband’ and ‘Constellations’
What South Florida’s theater community has long needed were playhouses where a hit show could transfer for an extended run. Now suddenly, just in time for the holiday season, we have two such gifts. The Arts Garage has moved its sensual season opener, Sex with Strangers, to the new Palm Beaches Theatre, a/k/a the former Florida Stage and Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. And Fort … [Read more...]
The View From Home 71: A French ‘Twin Peaks,’ Czech surrealism, Hitch, Ibsen, Schiller and more
Li’l Quinquin: We’re barely 10 minutes into this three-and-a-half-hour Bruno Dumont epic (Kino, $22.99 Blu-ray, $19.99 DVD), and surrealism has gripped us for the long haul: A helicopter airlifts a cow from its resting place in a seemingly inaccessible bunker, a shot as majestically strange as the Christ statue hovering over the Roman aqueduct in La Dolce Vita. Only this symbol … [Read more...]
Schubert Ensemble makes long-overdue visit to Florida
Britain’s Schubert Ensemble came to the Flagler Museum for a night of music-making Tuesday; two familiar works and a couple of rarities made up their program. As winners of the coveted Royal Philharmonic prize, Best Chamber Group Award in 1998, and shortlisted in 2010, this led to high expectations. There’s no greater honor in British music. The Royal Philharmonic Society, … [Read more...]
The View From Home 31: New releases and notable screenings, Oct. 11-Nov. 1
Here’s the long and short of it: Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ documentary The Shock Doctrine (Zeitgeist, $26.99) attempts to explain, in 80 minutes, what journalist Naomi Klein proposed in her 600-page best-seller of the same name: that the neoliberal, free-market capitalistic ideas of Milton Friedman are the root cause of our economic perils yesterday, today and … [Read more...]