Downtown’s Good Vibes
Tampa Tribune – It started out as a circled date on the calendar: May 4. The occasion: the Saturday night performance of “War Horse” at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts. It ended with hailing a late-night cab on Tampa Street.
Variations, as it turned out, on a theme.
The Tony Award-winning “War Horse” was as promised. It was enchanting and moving, a marvel of evocative, period-piece design and spectacular effects — most notably, of course, the equine puppetry. Expertly manipulated and choreographed, the horses fascinated as characters capable of animation as well as nuance. My wife and I exchanged subtle fist bumps for remembering to bring binoculars.