Florida Grand Opera closed its 78th season on May 11 with a beautifully sung, attractively presented mounting of Jules Massenet’s Werther, which many scholars of French opera consider to be the … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Garbage brings out the sun during a soggy SunFest Sunday
By Hali Neal There was a brief two-hour window on a rainy Sunday where it actually looked like SunFest was going to live up to its name. That window was when the Wisconsin rockers by the name … Continue reading...
ART
Comics-influenced art at Boca Museum more about bold heart than bright colors
To widen perceptions of comics and contemporary art has a cost. A new exhibition inspired by superheroes takes the masks off and throws lightweight topics out the window in favor of troubling themes. … Continue reading...
Art: The 2019 Summer Season
By Sandra Schulman It’s sure to be a long hot summer, so the cool quiet of museums and galleries offer a welcome retreat. With more of a year-round population in South Florida, cultural centers are … 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
Lead actors keep madness of ‘Blue Leaves’ in canny check at Dramaworks
By Dale King The House of Blue Leaves, the darkly seriocomic John Guare play, is appropriately apt as the finale for Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 19th season. The show that packed the West Palm Beach … Continue reading...
Dramaworks sees profundity in dark comedy of ‘Blue Leaves’
Palm Beach Dramaworks is closing out its 18th season uncharacteristically with a comedy – John Guare’s 1971 dark farce, The House of Blue Leaves. But director J. Barry Lewis insists it is not a … Continue reading...
FILM
‘Non-Fiction’: What we talk (and talk and talk) about
When is there too much a good thing? This question looms over Olivier Assayas’s exhaustively intelligent Non-Fiction, a zeitgeist-targeted ensemble comedy stuffed with so many statements about the Way … Continue reading...
‘Journey to a Mother’s Room’: Masterful character study illumines quiet lives
The Spanish import Journey to a Mother’s Room opens on a two-shot that wordlessly crystallizes the relationship between its characters. The mom of the title, Estrella (Lola Dueñas), is asleep on her … Continue reading...
BOOKS
‘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...
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...
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
The 2019 Summer Arts Season is here
A few years back, there was a regular series of organ recitals at Palm Beach’s Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church that took place in July and August, when temperatures in South Florida are at their … Continue reading...
Remembering terror on an island of tears
By Myles Ludwig The bombings in Sri Lanka didn’t surprise me. I’ve long known it to be a violent country, its savage beauty riven by communal, religious, ethnic and racial conflicts and a … Continue reading...