Palm Beach County has lost one of its key producing troupes, as Slow Burn Theatre Company moves its operation to the Broward Center’s Amaturo Theater. But from the selection of Big Fish as its initial offering there, and from the skilled rendering of the problematic material, the five-year-old group demonstrates that it is more than ready to leave its high school auditorium … [Read more...]
The View From Home 43: New releases on DVD and Blu-ray
For decades, Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate has been remembered mostly as a monument to megalomania, rife with stories about its director hemorrhaging time, money and miles and miles of film to shoot his exacting vision. Heaven’s Gate went so over budget so much that it crippled its distributor, United Artists, and inspired an entire book – Final Cut – about its calamitous … [Read more...]
‘Sunday,’ in concert version, succeeds at Caldwell
Clive Cholerton, the new artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, is nothing if not a risk taker. If the first two shows he’s produced – including the world premiere of an extraordinary melding of dance and song called Vices: A Love Story – didn’t make that point, his new one surely does: a concert version of Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim’s … [Read more...]