By Dale King Summers are usually fairly quiet for the Palm Beach Opera, much less hectic than the regular season that will launch in December with a rising-stars concert followed after with three … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
PBCMF IV: Charming American work tops festival finale
By Dennis D. Rooney The fourth and final program of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival’s 27th season was composed of a local premiere and two works of 20th-century composers on its first half, … Continue reading...
ART
MOCA’s ‘Monarchs’ delves into human, butterfly migration
By Sandra Schulman A group exhibition called Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, now at The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), uses the … Continue reading...
Nomadic Murals, at Boca Museum, find a home in our hearts
Picasso, Mirò, Dalí, Chagall, Raphael and Rubens experimented with it, but tapestry is still not the sexiest medium in the world of art. Given the right time, space and lighting, however, this ancient … Continue reading...
DANCE
‘Concerto DSCH’ a spectacular MCB season sendoff
Alexei Ratmansky is undoubtedly the leading choreographer in the ballet world today, clearly poised to become the next Balanchine. So what better place was there to see one of his most acclaimed … Continue reading...
Buck and Boogz’s ‘woke’ dance at Rinker inspires, astonishes
The impact of the March for Our Lives was felt across this divided country and around the world. People of all ages took time March 22 to show their support, and I couldn’t have had a better … Continue reading...
THEATER
Young thespians learn ‘Mockingbird’ lessons at Maltz
By Janis Fontaine It’s no easier to talk about race today than it was in 1960 when Harper Lee’s acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published, or in rural Alabama in 1936, when the novel … Continue reading...
Broward Stage Door ends Margate residency with sparkling Sedaka
By Dale King Breaking up is hard to do, opined pop music legend Neil Sedaka in a hit tune he released in 1962, then re-issued in slower ballad style in 1975. The Broward Stage Door Theatre is … Continue reading...
FILM
‘The King’ will leave you cryin’ all the time, and not about Elvis
I try to keep President Trump out of film reviews, I really do. But in documentaries, especially the ones that purport to explore the Way We Live Now, 45’s presence is unavoidable. Eugene Jarecki’s … Continue reading...
‘Eighth Grade’ gets real with the digital generation
If, like me, you have no unearthly idea what’s going through the mind of the average representative of Generation Z at any given time — heck, I don’t even understand millennials, and I am one — then … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Authentic South Florida flavor makes murder mystery tell
By Sharon Geltner “I was living through the worst time of my life. I was going to kill myself.” That statement is not from the west Broward mystery, The Other Side of Everything, the debut novel … Continue reading...
Rather reports on state of nation, and it’s grim
By Myles Ludwig Veteran newsman Dan Rather took the stage at the Palm Beach Convention Center to a standing ovation at the Palm Beach Book Festival on April 14. He was being honored as the … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
#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...
Erin Manning: In search of the Flagler spirit
Erin Manning took over as executive director of the Flagler Museum earlier this year from the retiring John Blades, coming to Henry Flagler’s 1902 Whitehall mansion from the Historical Society of … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
Arts briefs: Alswang to retire from Norton; Danis departs at FGO
WEST PALM BEACH — Hope Alswang, who has led the Norton Museum of Art since April 2010, will retire in March after it reopens following its massive expansion and renovation by the eminent British … Continue reading...
At Max Planck, investigating the mystery of memory
By Myles Ludwig As a writer, I depend upon my memory a great deal, not so much for facts and figures so easily abundant by click, but certainly for flavor. For making something out of nothing, so … Continue reading...