By Tara Mitton Catao The Paul Taylor Company returned to the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth on Friday night, presenting three works that encompassed the range and variety of the great master choreographer who founded the troupe. From dark to light, from humorous interpretation to pure dance movement, the program was drawn from Taylor’s repertory of the 139 dances he has created … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2014
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 18-20
Film: Having delayed its opening until January, the month for dumping sub-par movies on the market, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit will get no awards or be taken the least bit seriously, but this reboot of the franchise based on the late novelist Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst action hero is still pulse-racing entertainment, far better than expected. Chris Pine, the young Captain Kirk of … [Read more...]
Troupe shows the lasting influence of Martha Graham
By Tara Mitton Catao It is a tall order for a dance company to perform, side by side on a single program, the works of an iconic artist such as Martha Graham (who is responsible for shaping and redirecting a whole art form) together with new works by contemporary choreographers who may or may not have been influenced by Martha Graham’s genius. But that is exactly what the … [Read more...]
Boca Museum’s ‘Pop Culture’ gives us images of what we really are
Like a giant slap in the face, the new Pop Art exhibition at the Boca Museum of Art wakes us up from a long hibernation filled with compulsive consumerism habits, celebrity infatuation and overindulgence. The effect, however, is momentary. It may not be enough to change our ways, but faced with a giant hot dog made of mosaics, a thought does come to mind: How did we get to … [Read more...]
Theater roundup 1: ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ brilliantly remade; mixed-bag diversity from ‘Mixtape 2’
It may be unfair, but one is judged by the company one keeps, and GableStage is currently in very good company. Long a booster of Miami-raised playwright-director Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Coral Gables theater is currently presenting this hot property’s latest audacious venture, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. But at least as important as the work — … [Read more...]
Seamless Beethoven, Elgar from the Brentano SQ
In Yaron Zilberman’s film A Late Quartet, which came out in 2012, the soundtrack recording of the Beethoven Op. 131 quartet was played by the Brentano String Quartet, and there were appearances in the film by the actual Brentano cellist, Nina Lee. Newly named the quartet in residence at the Yale School of Music, the Brentanos — violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, … [Read more...]
Good year for movies means good contest for Oscars
What would the Academy Awards be without nomination snubs? Just ask Robert Redford, Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Emma Thompson, some of the prominent stars expected to be in this year’s Oscars race who were missing in action when the dust cloud from Thursday morning’s announcements settled. By most accounts, it was a good year at the movies, with a diverse crowd of popular and … [Read more...]
PBC theaters, Maltz dominate 38th Carbonell nominations
Palm Beach County professional theaters, and particularly the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, dominated this year’s Carbonell Award nominations, which were announced Wednesday. Palm Beach companies received 62 nominations — nearly two-thirds of the total —followed by Miami-Dade with 28 and Broward with eight. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, last year’s big winner, looks poised to have … [Read more...]
Soloist, orchestra, conductor soldier on during a deluge
Rain dominated the Palm Beach Symphony’s performance Jan. 9 at the Flagler Museum. Just when I thought artistic director Ramón Tebar had gotten it right by choosing only string music for the acoustically ripe “Railway Hall” (aka the pavilion on the grounds that houses Henry Flagler’s private rail coach), pouring rain, of enormous volume, hit the glass roof incessantly … [Read more...]
Brief reviews: A taste of the Jewish Film Festival
The Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, now in its 24th year, unspools between tomorrow and Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Frank Theaters at Delray Marketplace (FT) and Cobb Theaters (CT) at Downtown in Palm Beach Gardens, featuring an eclectic array of feature films, documentaries and shorts on various aspects of Jewish culture. Below are brief critical views on a … [Read more...]