“The minute a man puts on a dress, something very theatrical happens. It’s funny.” So says visual artist David Rohn in explaining his latest creation: the pilot episode for the very theatrical Adora Adora, a television sitcom he wrote, directed, and in which he has a minor acting role. The…
There’s only one genuinely dramatic moment in Cloud Tectonics, but, boy, is it a doozy. A man leaves a room and re-enters it moments later. His clothes are different. He’s carrying letters written while he was away. To him, two years have unfolded in the interim. To the characters on-stage…
Think Parrot Jungle and you naturally imagine birds (and maybe bird droppings). A cockatoo riding a bicycle on a high wire, an Amazon parrot counting out loud, and other winged wonders rolling around on tiny skates. But the 62-year-old attraction contains more than just squawking technicolor avian daredevils. Two years…
thursday june 25 Launched from New York nocturnal haunts such as Save the Robots, the Palladium, and the Limelight to mixmaster-extraordinaire status, DJ Këoki lands at Groove Jet (323 23rd St., Miami Beach) tonight at 11:00 to show off his beat-heavy and hauntingly sampled brand of electronica. He’ll spin tunes…
Too many post-Woody Allen movies have been made about “sex in the head.” The smart, engaging Out of Sight is an action comedy about love in the head. The real thing ignites between bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) and U.S. marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez) when she stumbles into…
There will always be a Britain, and very likely there will always be movies about the pluck and sacrifice demonstrated by the little people during World War II. Not Billy Barty-type little people — though surely there must have been a few of them involved — but the simple, salt-of-the-earth…
The 1967 screen musical Doctor Dolittle, which starred Rex Harrison, was a commercial disaster for its studio, 20th Century Fox. The new nonmusical Fox version, starring Eddie Murphy, isn’t in the same overblown category as the original film — its disasters are more mundane. It’s a kiddie comedy that really…
By day Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a sales representative for the G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company. By night she’s an aspiring writer and a tireless promoter working to help her comrades in art who just can’t get a break. “The artists really just want to do their work,” notes Gordon-Wallace, who speaks…
Sun, surf, sand, and classical music. Four things you don’t necessarily think of together. But Florida Philharmonic conductor James Judd doesn’t think the way most people do. For the second year in a row, the maestro has been a guiding force behind the second annual Beethoven by the Beach, a…
No matter if you’re a Christian, Buddhist, Darwinist, or one of those folks who stick a Jesus-as-fish icon on your car, you must accept the fundamental tenet that we as a species are of the ocean. Whether by God’s hand or some other primal force beyond human cognizance, the cool…
thursday june 18 Attention all you hep cats and the rest who take to heart Duke Ellington’s 1932 tune “It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing.” The band Seven Foot Politic is riding the swing-ska-rock wave, popularized by Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, into…
The X-Files is a movie that answers questions…. No, wait a minute: The X-Files is a movie that asks questions…. All right, The X-Files is a movie that makes me wanna ask some questions, like: What the hell does “Fight the future” mean? Look, I can understand “The truth is…
Hurricane Streets comes on like a tough cookie but ends up just plain stale. First-time writer-director Morgan J. Freeman (no relation to actor Morgan Freeman) plies the kind of beat-up, trash-can naturalism that went out with Sal Mineo films like 1957’s Dino. Set in New York City’s Lower East Side,…
It’s Christmas vacation, 1958. The movie my dad has chosen for a first-grade pal and me to see is the new Disney live-action adventure Tonka, starring Sal Mineo as a young Sioux named White Bull who traps and domesticates a clear-eyed, spirited wild horse named Tonka. Having seen The King…
Imagine country-western heartthrob Clint Black inhabiting the body of Wagner’s romantic hero Siegfried and you’ll get the spirit of Das Barbecu, the Hee Haw-inspired adaptation of Wagner’s Ring cycle. Yes, that particular Ring cycle. It’s the same nineteenth-century opera series (Die Gotterdammerung, Das Rheingold, Siegfried, and Die Walkurie) that retells…
Q: How many gay men does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Two. One to screw in the bulb, and one to shriek, “Faaabulous!” Q: How many lesbian feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Not funny! Darn straight it’s not. Fortunately Miami…
thursday june 11 Even though Masterpiece Theater is on hiatus for the summer, you can still satisfy your craving for a cinematic period piece at the Alliance Cinema (927 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach) during Views of Merchant-Ivory: Three Continents, Fourteen Films. This festival, which began last week, highlights some of…
“It’s like eating a great meal: You don’t always like every single thing on your plate, but you’ve got to taste everything, and you might like it.” So says Sheldon Schwartz, director of the Florida Dance Association, referring to the mind-boggling variety of offerings that constitute the Florida Dance Festival,…
Rule number one: When crafting a thriller, make sure the audience can relate to, identify with, or empathize with at least one of the characters. Rule number two: Make sure the characters’ motivations are clear. Fail in either area — or, worse, in both — and you end up with…
By June 28, the end of its third season, City Theatre’s Summer Shorts festival will have put on 48 new plays on its main stage, about three times the number of productions from your average professional company. In fact, as you read this, fifteen premieres of black-out sketches, comic monologues,…
thursday june 4 Suffering from a chronically short attention span? Then you’ll love City Theatre’s Summer Shorts. Two different programs consisting of comedies, musicals, and dramas, each less than twenty minutes long, will alternate over the next four weeks at the Ring Theatre on the University of Miami campus (1380…
In a perfect world, Mario Ernesto Sanchez would be able to squeeze an entire troupe of Colombian actors through the tight door of immigration regulations for visiting artists, but this year he’s happy to have a clown. “I haven’t been able to bring a group from Colombia for the past…
