Art: Industrial man has made a mess of things, and while there are industrial ways to get some of it cleaned up, we have to leave it to the artists to find beauty even in our most careless factory effusions. Opening today at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County in Lake Worth is Re-purposed/Re-Seen, an exhibit of, well, stuff that has been recycled and reworked into objects … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2014
‘Butterflies’ gets its groovy on at Broward Stage Door
By Dale King The comedy Butterflies are Free, which opens the 2014-2015 season at the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs, is not a musical. But music is key to the flow of the action and the meaning of the characters’ lives, particularly Don Baker (Britt Michael Gordon), the central figure in this quirky, slightly dated, but certainly entertaining and worthwhile … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 23-24
Music: Soon, the season will be upon us and there will be almost too many things to cover in the music world. At this time of year, you can find smaller, intimate shows if you know where to look, such as the Boca Steinway Gallery this afternoon. Pianist Asiya Korepanova, a strong and interesting player, returns to the gallery for a concert of music from her native Russia, … [Read more...]
‘Five Star Life’: On the border of freedom and loneliness
Irene, the career woman at the center of A Five Star Life, spends most of her days in laps of luxury around the world. As an inspector of five-star resorts, we see Irene (Margherita Buy) jetting to Paris and Gstaad and Berlin and Morocco and China, traveling incognito and, like a spy, inventing professions when fellow guests inquire about her job. The actual answer to that … [Read more...]
Remembering Bacall: An interview with one tough cookie
I once worked for a newspaper in Washington, D.C. that spent extravagantly to say the least. It preferred to fly me to interview celebrities that I could talk to almost as productively, and certainly more cost-effectively, on the telephone. The thought is prompted by the death this week of the legendary Lauren Bacall, at 89, of stroke complications. Thirty years ago, I flew … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 16-17
Film: Writer-director John Michael McDonagh gives us a present called Calvary, the second installment in a projected trilogy after the considerably lighter The Guard of a few years ago. Both star the impeccable Brendan Gleeson, seen here as the priest of a small, destitute Irish village. He is having trouble herding his flock, a challenge that is intensified by his own crisis … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Price: An actress embarks on career’s Act II
By Dale King Act II of The Theatrical Life of Elizabeth Price is about to begin. Act I started 18 years ago when Price, then 22, with a bachelor’s degree in English from Tulane University and years of stage acting experience, headed west to Los Angeles and a hoped-for career in TV, film and theater. Three years later, “I had given up,” said Price, now a grad student at … [Read more...]
Impressive new dances at Reach/O Dance ‘Heat Wave’
It’s a pity that the annual dance intensive summer show produced by the Reach and O Dance companies only had one performance Saturday night, because this collection of modern, jazz and ballet moves showcased intriguing choreography and some standout individual dancers that more people should have been able to see. The show, called Heat Wave, and which contained a touching … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 9-10
Film: You may remember Swedish director Jan Troell, who made two linked Oscar-nominated films, The Emigrants and The New Land, in the early ’70s. Now 83, he has crafted a stunning, downbeat, history-based film, The Last Sentence, but since the story it relates is Swedish history, it is likely to be unfamiliar to most American viewers. It focuses on a crusading newspaper … [Read more...]
A beautiful visitation for Boca Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’
It’s too easy to compare the appearance of a major ballerina with a local company to the visitation of a swan, especially when the ballet in question is that of Tchaikovsky. And it also minimizes the contribution of the company itself, which in the case of Boca Ballet Theatre would be distinctly unfair. But this past Saturday night’s mounting of Swan Lake with New York City … [Read more...]