Herb Alpert and Lani Hall. By Dale King Herb Alpert’s still got it. At age 80 — 81 as of March 31 — Herb Alpert, the legendary master of trumpet, has been a performer, composer, arranger, songwriter, singer, record producer, record executive, record company co-founder, painter and sculptor. But the audience that took up nearly every seat at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in … [Read more...]
Bulletin from Broadway No. 8: ‘Race’
I had a 6:30 p.m. flight home Saturday, so I wasn’t going to see a matinee, the first time a play would be on that I was not in a theater seat. But a press agent recommended I see David Mamet’s latest play, Race. It’s only 100 minutes long including intermission and I’d heard good things about it, so why not, I figured. Well, one reason is Mamet’s most recent output, a couple … [Read more...]