By Robert Croan Welcome to Paris in the 1730s, during the reign of Louis XV. To open its 2023-24 season, Seraphic Fire, directed by Patrick Dupré Quigley, presented two rarely heard works from … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Mexico’s Minería orchestra, pianist Montero get Kravis classical season off to fine start
By Márcio Bezerra The Classical Concert Series at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach opened its season Monday with a concert by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería of … Continue reading...
ART
2023-24 Season in Palm Beach County Art: Major collections, diverse exhibits mark art season
By Sandra Schulman It’s been a long hot summer, so the cool breeze of a new art season is a welcome relief. Major collections figure in shows at the Norton, while the Boca Museum conjures up a … Continue reading...
At only 9, Lighthouse Point girl makes waves in NFT digital art space
LIGHTHOUSE POINT — With titles such as Blended Flame, Crazy Rooster, and Spilled Spaghetti, 9-year-old Lighthouse Point digital media artist Lia Naro expresses her vision of the world through her … Continue reading...
DANCE
New dancers help reinvigorate MCB’s Balanchine, Tharp in ‘Fall Mix’
I caught the Fall Mix performances by Miami City Ballet at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 5 and it was a satisfying starter for what is being offering up for the 2023-24 season. … Continue reading...
2023-24 Season in Dance: A rich and varied lineup on tap
The lineup for the upcoming season of dance in Palm Beach County is looking full and varied. Sprinkled throughout our regular favorite dance events, there will be some not-to-be-missed repeats of last … Continue reading...
THEATER
Don’t be a Scrooge: LWP’s ‘Christmas Carol’ is delightful
By Dale King Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the author’s legendary tale of a wretched money-hoarding soul who finds lifesaving redemption with help from ghostly apparitions who appear to him … Continue reading...
‘Berlin Diaries’ gets first premiere at Boca’s Theatre Lab
As she began to write what became The Berlin Diaries, Andrea Stolowitz knew two things. One, the play would be based on the journals of her great-grandfather, Max, who escaped Germany in 1939 and came … Continue reading...
FILM
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Scorsese’s innovatory masterpiece
The autumn of Robert De Niro’s extraordinary career has been a period of prolific emptiness — an assembly-line churn of comedies about dirty and eccentric old men whose titles are as interchangeable … Continue reading...
The View From Home: ‘Hardcore’ is an ethnographic odyssey into a bygone culture
If you feel like you need a shower after watching Paul Schrader’s 1979 crime drama Hardcore (newly reissued on Blu-ray, Kino Lorber, $17.42), then the movie has done its job. Skeevy even by Schrader … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Palm Beach Poetry Festival to return, but in North Carolina
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival will return in two years — but not in Delray Beach. Or Palm Beach County. Or Florida. With the passing of the festival founder and director Miles Coon in May 2022 … Continue reading...
‘Maps and Legends’: Author chronicles life of seminal indie band R.E.M.
In a storied irony, the band that achieved its highest-charting single with “Losing My Religion” would begin its wobbly launch toward rock superstardom in a church in Athens, Georgia. It was April … 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
Palm Beach Poetry Festival to return, but in North Carolina
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival will return in two years — but not in Delray Beach. Or Palm Beach County. Or Florida. With the passing of the festival founder and director Miles Coon in May 2022 … Continue reading...
Flamingo Clay Studio fights to save its life
LAKE WORTH BEACH — The Flamingo Clay Studio is in a fight to save its life. The non-profit artist cooperative, which also runs the Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery, provides space for hundreds of … Continue reading...