Florida Agenda

By BOB KECSKEMETY After a long, hot summer, fall is approaching and so is South Florida’s theater and culture season. Broward County has one of the largest and most diversified theater seasons south of Broadway itself, and why shouldn’t it? With so many New Yorkers migrating to South Florida every year, our “snowbirds” deserve a [...]

A film review by Warren Day A positive stereotype that both heterosexuals and homosexuals hold about gays is that they’re more creative than most and without them theater would be half what it is. If that’s true, then why is it so hard to come up with a substantial list of great gay plays – [...]

By JARED PILSBURY New York recently became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage. The ruling has opened new business opportunities for florists, wedding planners and club artists, many of whom are now clamoring to moonlight as wedding singers. “Weddings are big business,” confirms Kristine W, who ranks as one of today’s most popular gay [...]

By Warren Day Compared to the frat boy romps and comic book heroes that have deluged us in 2011, “Crazy, Stupid Love” seems like a mature comedy, even though it’s basically a story of adults acting in very immature ways. Heterosexuals can do that, you know. It certainly has one of the better casts of [...]

And Restores Innocence to the Superhero Movie A Film Review by WARREN DAY If you were born past 1938, you’re a part of the comic book hero generation, for it was that year Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1, with Batman coming out in 1939.  And then, in 1941, Captain America. So almost every [...]

A Stage Review by WARREN DAY There’s a long and cherished tradition in the American theater to base comedies around one or more eccentrics, going from “You Can’t Take It With You,” to “Auntie Mame,” to even big musicals like “Hello Dolly” and “The Producers,” to current productions like “The Addams Family.” Yet, not every [...]

A Film Review by Warren Day Photo: Harry Potter fans, young and old, will all be sorry to see the series end. However, J.K.?Rowling has not said this is “The End”… What’s next? Photos courtesy, Warner Brothers Pictures By any standard, it’s one of the biggest phenomena in publishing and movie  history. Over 450 million [...]

A Stage Review by WARREN DAY Not all unique plays make for a good evening in the theater, and certainly most good evenings are with plays that aren’t all that unique. Yet a production company in South Florida, known as Infinite Abyss, obviously believes there’s no reason you can’t have both, as they are once [...]

A Film Review by WARREN DAY Millions will find “Horrible Bosses” laugh-out-loud, grab-your-sides and slap-your-leg funny. That’s for sure, and for most people, that’s all they require of a summer comedy and they’ll feel no need to look underneath the  carpet. Certainly this movie is a far better successor to last summer’s “The Hangover” than [...]

Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain star in “The Tree of Life” from Fox Searchlight Pictures By Warren Day All of us, critics and movie lovers alike (they aren’t always the same you know), usually end up judging a film by concluding it lacks something. But once in a while (a very rare while), [...]