By Dennis D. Rooney Wrocław in Poland was the German city of Breslau until 1945, when it and the entire German Province of Lower Silesia were transferred to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
ACO, soloist solid in 30th season debut
By Dennis D. Rooney With a nod toward the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra opened the first concert of its 30th season on Jan. 8 at the Eissey … Continue reading...
ART
At Modern + Contemporary, looking for subtlety amid the anger
By Myles Ludwig If you’re looking for art that fits the temper of the times, you’d find it under the tent at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair in West Palm Beach. The collection of … Continue reading...
In small ink strokes, humanity writ large: Rembrandt at the Four Arts
A striking candlelight effect may be the loudest marking of one of the greatest artists in the history of art, but a new exhibit extinguishes it in favor of his other theatrical — and humane — … Continue reading...
DANCE
MCB in fine form for evening of Balanchine, Taylor
Miami City Ballet adroitly launched its new season with the first of four diverse programs at the Kravis Center earlier this month. With a plethora of new dancers on the roster and some well-deserved … Continue reading...
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...
THEATER
The revolution that ‘Hamilton’ wrought
If Broadway composer, lyricist and performer Lin-Manuel Miranda had not taken a vacation to Mexico during the run of his Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, he might never have written his … Continue reading...
Zoetic triumphs with powerful ‘American Son’
Lawyer-turned-playwright Christopher Demos-Brown, a co-founder of Zoetic Stage, is one of the area’s most prominent dramatists. That status took a quantum leap upward when this South Florida favorite … Continue reading...
FILM
‘Advocate’ offers rare perspective on Israeli-Arab conflict
Of all the complicated geopolitical flashpoints, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is arguably still the most ideologically entrenched, the most bitterly divided, the prickliest to discuss with any … Continue reading...
‘Invisible Life’: Sisters are fighting it for themselves
Set primarily in 1950s Rio de Janeiro, The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão is a film of dew and perspiration, of longing and pheromones. The heat, torrid and constant, causes everything to sweat, … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Poetry Festival salutes the art of saying the unsayable
By Christina Wood Angela Narciso Torres admits she wrote some pretty bad poetry when she was a kid. Unlike countless other teens pouring out their hearts or communing with their angst in late night … Continue reading...
Man-girl love story isn’t about perversion, author insists
By Sharon Geltner Timing is everything. In this #MeToo era, how does an author announce her book, The Best of Crimes, is about a man in love with a 13-year-old girl? With a spoiler on the … 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
Cultural Council changes name, widens mission, debuts logo
Palm Beach County’s arts council is rebranding itself, embarking on a new mission, adopting a redrawn logo and slightly changing its name. Formerly known as the Cultural Council of Palm Beach … Continue reading...
‘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...