ORLANDO — It was pouring on Monday night. Standing safely inside the Amway Center, glancing out the panoramic windows on the terrace level, I watched downtown Orlando get positively soaked from the kind of torrential downpour more typical of the rainy season in June than of February. The skies seemed dark and ominous, almost threatening, [...]
ORLANDO – It says something about our continued national fascination with the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” that not only have generations been raised on the adventures of Dorothy in the land of Oz, but that L. Frank Baum’s classic story continues to inspire artists today. Director Sam Raimi’s new movie “Oz the Great [...]
ORLANDO – Decades after Hollywood established the practice of taking hit Broadway musicals and turning them into Academy Award-winning movies, the opposite trend has proven to be equally durable, most notably through the efforts of Disney. The theme park giant, which launched the first feature-length animated movie in 1937 with “Snow White and the Seven [...]
MAITLAND — Until his death on Jan. 3, 2005, William Erwin “Will” Eisner was one of the nation’s most respected comics writer and artists, who gave us The Spirit character and comic book, and the man who was considered to have played a leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature [...]
WINTER PARK — There’s a moment in William Mastrosimone’s dramatic piece “Extremities” that, in most other productions, would seem like a toss-off line, hardly done for dramatic effect. In this play, though, the simple exchange between Raul and Patricia instantly grabs you by the throat — and squeezes hard. Quite simply, Raul eats a piece [...]
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