Lucas, the protagonist of Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, is fond of horsing around. In the film’s opening scene, which looks like something out of the Grown-Ups movies, Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) and his coterie of male colleagues gather around a dock and strip down to their undies, placing bets on whether one of their pack will jump naked into the freezing November water of the … [Read more...]
New Adès work thrills, but Emerson deserved better from audience
They stand to play, all except for cellist David Finckel. In that, they were just like the youngsters from Palm Springs Middle School who serenaded concertgoers with Christmas carols in the lobby of the Kravis Center on Wednesday night. But there the comparisons end. The four inside the hall were the Emerson String Quartet, who have been together for 35 years. They still … [Read more...]
Rasta Thomas’s Bad Boys – and girl – electrify at Rinker
Each of Rasta Thomas’ three nights at the Kravis Center packed the little Rinker Playhouse to the gills. An imaginative lighting plot kept even the bare black-box stage looking good for the Bad Boys of Dance. And the eight dancers of enormous ability and facility – including Thomas and his wife of two years, Adrienne Caterna-Thomas -- could be mesmerizing in the sheer … [Read more...]