By Dennis D. Rooney The Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival’s 28th season opened last weekend with a program that contained two concertinos, a sonata and a nonet. None of them could be described … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Something for everyone as PB Chamber Music Fest opens 28th season
In this summer’s version of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, the music ranges widely from canonical string and piano quartets to rarities for unusual combinations of instruments, as well as … Continue reading...
ART
Norton’s movie poster show a summer must-see
By Myles Ludwig The movie poster is a metaphor in design, albeit with a specific purpose: A kind of Coming Attractions on paper. Coming Soon, the new show at the Norton (it opened Friday and … Continue reading...
Astronaut’s images at Photo Centre paint our world in cosmic colors
By Myles Ludwig The vivid colors of the cosmos are on display at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, which is currently exhibiting a wondrous series of pictures captured by retired astronaut Scott … Continue reading...
DANCE
Beautiful, visually lavish ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ ends MCB season
The visually lavish production of George Balanchine’s evening-length ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream closed out Miami City Ballet’s 2018-19 season in the Palm Beaches last week. This revisit of … Continue reading...
Paul Taylor troupe sublime in late master’s dances
At last, Esplanade. The Paul Taylor Dance Company performed an exuberant version of what is generally considered Taylor’s most popular work to a very enthusiastic audience March 23 in Lake Worth. … Continue reading...
THEATER
Delightful ‘Sister Act’ wraps FAU’s Summer Rep
By Dale King Mirth and glitz mingle with murder, mobsters and fine vocals in Sister Act, the musical that’s wrapping up the two-play Summer Rep schedule at Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton … Continue reading...
Entr’Acte returns with strong ‘Spamalot’
By Dale King Monty Python’s Spamalot is back, and winning over audiences at the venerable Crest Theatre in Delray Beach. While the run of the show is limited – it opened June 20 and concludes … Continue reading...
FILM
‘Yesterday’: Fixing a memory hole, rom-com style
Back in April, I interviewed Daniel Hartwell, founder of the inaugural Beatles on the Beach Festival, which would soon descend on Delray Beach. I asked him to reflect on why the Beatles remain so … Continue reading...
Woodstock doc: The friends we all need a little help from
Like the seasoned storyteller he is, documentarian Barak Goodman opens his new film Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation in media res, with the most alarming visuals and most calamitous … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Journalist Brooks finds service is the true road to character
New York Times columnist David Brooks won wide praise for his 2015 book The Road to Character, which celebrated the happiness found in personal achievement. He now believes he was … Continue reading...
‘Palm Beach Wife’ a fun beach read, but could have been edgier
By Sharon Geltner The heroine of A Palm Beach Wife, Faith Harrison, lives in a stunning, $10 million mansion on the Intracoastal in Palm Beach. She doesn’t wrinkle or gain weight. She wears … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
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...
#MeToo and the young actress: Three FAU thespians view the road ahead
By Janis Fontaine The #MeToo movement that exploded onto the cultural scene in 2017 with allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein – who was indicted this week on … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
West Palm tries to make a construction summer ‘i-coneic’
By Sandra Schulman Construction is never fun. But the city of West Palm Beach is making lemonade out of construction lemons this summer with a lineup of orange cone-themed events and activities … Continue reading...
Schwarz named director of Palm Beach Symphony; Spady Museum gets NEA grant
PALM BEACH — Gerard Schwarz, who led the Seattle Symphony to national prominence in his 26 years with the orchestra, has been named artistic and music director of the Palm Beach Symphony. Schwarz … Continue reading...