Jazz is dead: Take it from a popular touring jam band launched in 1998, or a popular recording label founded in 2017. It's the name of both. The same doomsday outlook has recently been assumed — … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
SFSO presents fulfilling concert of piano trios
By Robert Croan Summer With the Symphony, South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s three monthly chamber music concerts — one program per month in Miami with a repeat in Fort Lauderdale — is virtually … Continue reading...
ART
Out of Africa: Stunning photos of wildlife at Four Arts
Greeting visitors both on their way in and on their way out of the 2022 Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards, now on display at the Society of the Four Arts, is the striking, close-up … Continue reading...
Cultural Council’s Biennial focuses on Palm Beach County creators
The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s latest exhibit, the 2023 Biennial, highlights the diversity and breadth of work created by artists living and working in the Palm Beaches. On display … Continue reading...
DANCE
‘Square Dance’ falls flat, but ‘Symphony’ soars in MCB’s season closer
What could be more apropos for Miami City Ballet than to finish off their performance season with a program that highlighted George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins? The strong performance on May 13 at … Continue reading...
Balanchine’s ‘Divertimento No. 15’ comes off freshest in MCB’s third program
With the catchy title of Fresh & Fierce, Miami City Ballet opened its third program of the season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on April 14-16 (The program was also … Continue reading...
THEATER
Comedian Glaser brings truth-talking to salty standup
Not afraid to storm the barricades, whether the topic is sex, men, dating, pop culture, being a single woman or suffering from anxiety and depression, Nikki Glaser says she wants to speak truth from … Continue reading...
Broadway veteran Langel launches new theater company
Broadway performer-author-acting coach Jodie Langel is about to add another role to her crowded résumé and life — executive director and founder of a new theater company. This June, she launches … Continue reading...
FILM
The View From Home: The bonkers, sex-positive feminism of Imamura’s last film
Still crazy after all these years, Shohei Imamura’s Warm Water Under a Red Bridge premiered in 2001 and would prove to be the Japanese auteur’s final film. Imamura’s oeuvre had spanned 17 features by … Continue reading...
‘You Hurt My Feelings’: A comedy of creatives with a profound message
So you married an artist. It may be the absolute perfect union of love and companionship. But what happens when you genuinely don’t like your other half’s work? That’s the pivotal question in … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Kravis exec’s beach read explores scandalous side of fundraising
By Sharon Geltner Royal Coconut Beach Lunch Club, the debut novel by a powerhouse Kravis fundraiser, is sold as a gossipy, scandalous, island tell-all. But in one respect it resembles the Brad … Continue reading...
‘Designing Broadway’ an intriguing look at theater’s starring sets
To create theater, it is said, all you really need is “two planks and a passion.” While that is true, it negates the creative art of scenic design. That three-dimensional, architectural, … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
Entertainer Cumming’s love of life, theater keeps his career soaring
Although he grew up in Scotland speaking the King’s English, when actor, singer, dancer, emcee, author, reality show host and all-around performer Alan Cumming first came to the United States at the … Continue reading...
Festival of the Arts Boca: Author Fishman wants to warn us about our water crisis
Not one to shy away from large topics, award-winning journalist and author Charles Fishman will bring a whopper to the Festival of the Arts Boca this month. Fishman's talk, which will take place … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
Arts buzz: Theatre Lab, Dina Baker Award, Carbonell scholarships
Theatre Lab play to get summer production in Martha’s Vineyard BOCA RATON — A two-person play that had its premiere at Florida Atlantic University’s Theatre Lab will be taking the stage this summer … Continue reading...
Finally, Charles gets his crown
The years of waiting are over. Charles III will be crowned king on Saturday. One other British monarch, Edward VII, waited 60 years for his chance to be king. Charles waited 73. Their mothers set … Continue reading...