Rami Maymon. Miriam Böhm. Delphine Fawundu. Renato Osoy. The names might not mean much to us now, but they are the future of photography. This is one future that is looking bright, but first it needs to survive a little competition. It was great news when, earlier this year, the Norton Museum announced it was bringing back the Rudin Prize award, and the exhibition that … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2014
Delray arts center becomes comedy outpost
Catch a Rising Star, the iconic New York City comedy club that gave rise to such household names such as Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Rosie O’Donnell and Chris Rock, has opened in two venues at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. With its Twitter hashtag #RTL (Ready to Laugh), the center’s vintage gymnasium hopes to reach out to younger audiences, those … [Read more...]
At FAU: An absurdist 90 minutes with Martin’s ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’
By Dale King To describe Steve Martin’s absurdist play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as thought-provoking is an understatement. It’s like saying Hamlet is about a mixed-up kid. Perhaps the best barometer of the show being staged through Sunday at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is the audience. On opening night last Friday, the 90-minute, no-intermission production … [Read more...]
Brilliant lead performance elevates sensitive, sincere ‘Theory’
OK, so there are a few cringe-worthy moments in The Theory of Everything, a muted and respectful biopic about an intellectually towering icon. The real Stephen Hawking, who is played in the film in a career-defining embodiment by Eddie Redmayne, would not stand for the sentimental score that attends the aftermath his on-screen diagnosis of ALS — the sweeping sadness that … [Read more...]
Late review: Delray SQ vividly brings Herrmann, Ravel to opener
Bernard Herrmann was proud of the film scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock, and some of the music the American composer created in the 1950s and 1960s for the British master of suspense has become justly celebrated in its own right. The Delray String Quartet opened its 11th season Nov. 2 at the Colony Hotel in Delray Beach with a program of three works that included a suite … [Read more...]
A heightened sensation: Redesigned, bigger ‘Phantom’ comes to Broward
The rule of thumb in theater, as in most endeavors, is simply this: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So why would one restage and redesign the longest-running show in Broadway history, The Phantom of the Opera, which won Tony Awards for its original direction, its scenery, lighting and costumes, as well as three other categories? For Laurence Connor, the director of this … [Read more...]
Late review: In Grieg sonatas, Joshua Bell finds riches
The splendid American violinist Joshua Bell has been making something of a study of the three sonatas of Edvard Grieg in his regular recital tours. Although the Third Sonata is the most well-known of the three, he was very excited about the Sonata No. 2 when he took it out on a tour a few years back, as he told me during an interview at the time; he said in some ways he liked … [Read more...]
Footnotes: A night with The Dancers’ Space
Editor’s note: This is the first of an occasional series of short notes on local dance by dance writer Tara Mitton Catao. By Tara Mitton Catao Saturday night, in support of the local dance scene, I went to the Duncan Theatre to see create.Dance.florida. Eight works were presented by 45 dance artists. Although there was a great variety in the caliber of the performers and the … [Read more...]
Beethoven, Bernstein, bluegrass, plus Ford, Friedman and Franks: 9th Boca fest announces lineup
By Lucy Lazarony The ninth annual Festival of the Arts Boca will feature its own version of the 3 Bs — Beethoven, bluegrass and Bernstein — as well as a lineup of authors that includes four Pulitzer Prize winners. The festival, which will take place March 6-15 at Mizner Park in Boca Raton, will begin with a showing of the film West Side Story with live orchestra and close … [Read more...]
Hersch’s ‘My Coma Dreams’ vividly explores world between jazz life and death
An old, valid cliché says that art imitates life, but New York City-based jazz pianist Fred Hersch’s new DVD My Coma Dreams (Palmetto) artistically goes more than one step beyond that. The 90-minute video, filmed at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York City, includes a conductor leading an 11-piece musical ensemble with Hersch, an actor playing dual roles of … [Read more...]