The classical season looks mostly normal this year, with COVID protocols in place and venues opening back up. There are a host of major artists and groups coming to the county this year, from … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Season Preview 2021-22: The season in opera
It may be that the biggest news of the American operatic world has been the drama over at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, which has only just settled things with its crews after 18 months of COVID … Continue reading...
ART
Armory Art Center hosts COVID Memorial Quilt
On display at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach through Dec. 6 is the exclusive South Florida exhibit of the COVID-19 Memorial Quilt, with 19 panels commemorating people from all over the world … Continue reading...
At the Norton, it’s TGIF: Thank God it’s Frida
In the universe of Mexican art, one petite star has shined consistently bright despite the eclipse caused by male counterparts. If it were a constellation, its shape would be a thick unibrow and its … Continue reading...
DANCE
Dancer’s memoir rips off backstage bandages, entertainingly
So much time has passed since the curtains on stages were drawn closed and the doors of theaters were shut tight. Needless to say, those of us who thrive on the live performances of the local dance … Continue reading...
Season Preview 2021-22: The season in dance
By Dale King South Florida dancers of every ilk — sidelined for more than a year by a show-stopping coronavirus pandemic — have been polishing their skills, dance shoes and ballet slippers, … Continue reading...
THEATER
Appreciation: Sondheim made the musical into fine art
In 1994, a stark black-and-white cover of New York magazine asked, “Is Stephen Sondheim God?” The cheeky question tacitly acknowledged that the then 64-year-old was the reigning composer-lyricist … Continue reading...
At LW Playhouse, ‘Earnest,’ with an LGBTQ Palm Beach twist
By Dale King Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest has been modified and repackaged in many different ways since it first hit the London stage on Valentine’s Day 1895. Lake Worth … Continue reading...
FILM
‘Mayor Pete’: Amazon doc fosters respect for rising Democrat
Like Robert Drew’s landmark Primary, Jesse Moss’s Amazon Prime documentary Mayor Pete is an insider’s portrait of a campaign for the Democratic nomination: the eternal political sausage-making of … Continue reading...
‘Antlers’: Societal decay is the other monster
There is a literal monster in Scott Cooper’s Antlers, namely the wendigo: a mythological spirit from indigenous American lore that craves human flesh, sprouts horns and possesses people. But as with … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Dancer’s memoir rips off backstage bandages, entertainingly
So much time has passed since the curtains on stages were drawn closed and the doors of theaters were shut tight. Needless to say, those of us who thrive on the live performances of the local dance … Continue reading...
‘Putting It Together’: How Sondheim and Lapine painted their masterpiece
When encountering a fully satisfying musical, it is hard to imagine the difficulties it endured on its way to Broadway. Think of Fiddler on the Roof or Hello, Dolly! – both a shambles in their … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
Norton’s new CEO: The museum as hub for creativity and dialogue
Early into a recent interview, it becomes clear why Ghislain d'Humières landed the job of director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art. A native of France with a last name that exudes harmony and … Continue reading...
Writer T Kira Madden: Leaving Boca, opening doors for ‘Fatherless Girls’
The tattoos dotting T Kira Madden’s arms may not symbolize everything you need to know about her, but they unlock a number of doors. They include likenesses of the Hawaiian islands, her ancestral … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
Armory Art Center hosts COVID Memorial Quilt
On display at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach through Dec. 6 is the exclusive South Florida exhibit of the COVID-19 Memorial Quilt, with 19 panels commemorating people from all over the world … Continue reading...
New sculpture on Boca’s ex-IBM campus a symbol of art and science
Jutting up from the green grass with the blue sky and Marcel Breuer’s iconic IBM building as backdrop, Virginia artist Hubert Phipps’s monumental stainless steel sculpture, Rocket, brings a touch of … Continue reading...