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...]
‘Hairspray’ and ‘Revolution’: Winning takes on politics and family
As with its production of August: Osage County earlier this year, Coral Gables’ Actors’ Playhouse has attracted some of the best talent in South Florida for its lavish, giggle-inducing production of Hairspray, the Tony Award-winning musical based on John Waters’ slyly subversive 1988 movie about self-esteem in racially segregated Kennedy-era Baltimore. When David Arisco began … [Read more...]