By Kylie Phillips Simultaneous sun showers and sullen skies set a befitting air of dreary surprise Monday evening as Emilie Autumn, a classically trained violinist with a past as unstable as the weather, brought the dark allies of the Victorian era to the stage at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. Autumn’s Fight Like a Girl Tour is named after her newest album, released … [Read more...]
A great night for Francophiles, if not Oscar predictors
The best thing that happened to the Oscars this year is that Brett Rattner shot off his mouth with some wince-inducing homophobic comments a few months ago and was forced to resign as the telecast’s producer. Then his designated emcee, Eddie Murphy, walked out in a show of solidarity. That led Brian Grazer to the rescue, a man who understands how to move the usually lumbering … [Read more...]
‘39 Steps’ a night of inspired silliness, suspense
So many shows on Broadway these days stem from movies, productions that get slapped onstage, bypassing any new injection of imagination. And then there is Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, a frantic, frisky adaptation of a 1935 spy thriller from the master of suspense, reduced -- or possibly elevated -- to a sly comic romp by four actors sprinting through the film’s plot, … [Read more...]