By Robert Croan Mozart’s Don Giovanni was special from the time of its premiere in Prague in 1787: a great drama told in great music, with the combination amounting to something more than either … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
‘Fantastique’ swaggers at Lynn, while Nakamatsu plays it cool
By Dennis D. Rooney Although unmentioned by him in his prefatory remarks, Guillermo Figueroa’s scheduling of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique with the Lynn Philharmonia on the weekend before … Continue reading...
ART
Season Preview 2019-20: O’Keeffe, Rembrandt shows highlights of PB County’s season
By Sandra Schulman Women in the arts is the season’s theme in Palm Beach County. The stylish life of Georgia O’Keeffe gets the museum treatment at the Norton, and women’s undergarments are the … Continue reading...
Lighthouse ArtCenter takes a close look at the ink
By Myles Ludwig Deep in the heart of Tequesta, in the land of Lettuce Ware lovers and the birthplace of B-list movie star Burt Reynolds, I came upon an attractive tribe of tattooed ladies. These … Continue reading...
DANCE
Season Preview 2019-20: ‘Firebird,’ new local works among dance season highlights
From dancing gauchos to stately ballerinas and innovative tap dancers to body-bending modern movement-makers, South Florida’s 2019-2020 dance season takes off in full swing by early October. With … Continue reading...
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...
THEATER
Maltz’s new ‘Dracula’ successfully Stokers the fires of silliness
To paraphrase that renowned philosopher Monty Python, “And now for something completely silly.” To open its 2019-20 season, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre has commissioned a new spoofy take on Bram … Continue reading...
Slow Burn’s production turns so-so ‘Shrek’ into a winner
How can you tell that the pot-bellied, antenna-eared green ogre named Shrek and assertive, yet incurably romantic Princess Fiona are meant for each other? They fart and burp with compatible pride. … Continue reading...
FILM
Non-stop weirdness of ‘Greener Grass’ hides tragic core
Speaking about his 1938 classic Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hawks later said that the film “had a great fault, and I learned an awful lot from that. There were no normal people in it. Everyone you met … Continue reading...
Poignant look at dementia screens Wednesday in Delray
When West Palm Beach filmmaker Eric Gordon moved back in with his parents to help care for his father, who was starting to show signs of dementia, he did not expect it to become the subject of his … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Season Preview 2019-20: Literary events show South Florida’s culture isn’t written just in the sand
By Christina Wood The annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest held in Key West isn’t exactly what you could call a literary event. (But, if you’re interested, Sloppy Joe’s Bar will host the 40th … Continue reading...
Gripping ‘Nickel Boys’ tracks racism’s reach in the Panhandle
Colson Whitehead won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his novel The Underground Railroad, a compelling story of slaves escaping from Southern plantations on a fictional … 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
‘Rescuers,’ at Levis JCC, hails those who saved Jews from Holocaust
The Levis JCC Sandler Center in Boca Raton’s fall exhibit, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, brings back a show that first ran in 1996. With updated panels and imagery, the … Continue reading...
Delray resident helps charities with weekend art show at Convention Center
By Dale King Ingrid Robinson has an adage that directs her life: “Go big – or go home.” Barely a year ago, the recently resettled resident of Kings Point in Delray Beach launched Artists and … Continue reading...