By AARON KRAUSE When it comes to musicals, A Bronx Tale is not one of the great ones. Still, it’s a crowd-pleasing, familiar tale populated by characters we care about. Surely, you don’t have to be Italian or African-American to feel a kinship with folks such as Calogero, Sonny, Lorenzo, Jane, and a host of other colorful […]
By SCOTT BENNETT “Married to Math” is a film made as if it were a mathematical equation with unknown expressions of value being moved towards a solution. Created by Nina Zaretskaya, this documentary presents three mathematicians from the former Soviet Union who released the artistic expression of their youth after the distraction of their training […]
By ALAN SMASON With the current COVID-19 pandemic creating new and interesting virtual meeting places, university campuses have been marked by responsiveness and ingenuity. Last spring’s virtual classes at colleges and universities across the nation and around the world, for example, sprang up within weeks of the initial shutdowns. Today, with networking and infrastructure now […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) By the time Lorraine Hansberry died in 1965 at the tender age of 34 from pancreatic cancer, she had already made history. Her award-winning play, A Raisin in the Sun, about an African-American family attempting to move out of a redlined slum and into a well-to-do white neighborhood was […]
By AARON KRAUSE CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The two characters with opposing views in “Dry Powder,” a scorching, relevant, riveting and unpredictable comic-drama set in the high-stakes world of big-city finance, might as well wear protective helmets and faceguards. There’s enough verbal combat to leave the combatants bloody and bruised if the power of the […]
By AARON KRAUSE An author who penned a play about a couple’s grief following the disappearance of their 7-year-old adopted son has won a prestigious honor bestowed upon an emerging female playwright. Lauren Yee won the 2016 Francesca Primus Prize for her play “In a Word.” The award is jointly sponsored by the American Theatre […]
By AARON KRAUSE FT. LAUDERDALE — If you need extra incentive to advocate for arts funding in the wake of the proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities as part of President Trump’s budget, what better way to receive that added drive than by experiencing the Renaissance? […]