Adrienne Barbeau had forgotten how prescient her bio was. “The strangest thing is I went to my website to cut and paste from my bio and the intro talks about what an eclectic career it has been. And I say there, ‘All that’s left to do is be a radio disc jockey or a circus performer,’” she says with a throaty laugh. The woman who came to the nation’s attention as Bea Arthur’s … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
Maltz’s ‘Foreigner’ takes top play at 39th Carbonells
A feather-light comedy and a dark musical were named the year’s best productions at Monday night’s 39th annual Carbonell Awards for excellence in South Florida theater. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s mounting of Larry Shue’s farce The Foreigner won in the play category and Miami’s Zoetic Stage prevailed among the musicals for Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins. … [Read more...]
BodyTraffic closes Duncan season in spectacular style
By Tara Mitton Catao Have you ever wondered what contemporary performing art is coming out of Los Angeles — that jaded bastion of entertainment — these days? What is fresh and authentic? Your question would have not only been answered but also splendidly fulfilled if you had seen BodyTraffic perform this past weekend at the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth. This terrific … [Read more...]
Director Jacquot explores love, with obstacles
French writer-director Benoît Jacquot’s work was little known outside his country until three years ago, when his Farewell, My Queen, a period-perfect look at Marie Antoinette and her reader servant, became an international hit. His follow-up is the contemporary Trois Coeurs (Three Hearts), which opened locally this past weekend, a melodramatic tale of a romantic triangle … [Read more...]
All-sculpture show riveting at the Cultural Council
By Lucy Lazarony At the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, the walls of the main gallery have gone white. Not a single piece of two-dimensional art is on display. Instead, the focus is on the three-dimensional art of acclaimed sculptors and Palm Beach county residents Alexander Krivosheiw, G.E. Olsen and Jeff Whyman. Krivosheiw expresses himself through hand-forged … [Read more...]
Amid the goofing, a standout Marie at PB Opera’s ‘La Fille’
Palm Beach Opera wrapped up its significant 53rd season with humor, choosing to follow its February world premiere exploration of post-World War II Holocaust survivors in New York (Enemies, a Love Story) with a lighthearted bel canto comedy. It’s been nearly 40 years since Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment has been performed at Palm Beach Opera, the last time with the legendary … [Read more...]
Lynn Phil’s ‘Eroica’ caps off strong concert in vivid style
Longtime patrons of the Lynn Philharmonia will be aware that the group has enjoyed large audiences for years, even in the days before the Wold Center was built and the student orchestra was somewhat smaller. But it was good this past weekend to hear that pointed out on stage by Edward Atkatz, a Lynn professor and former principal percussionist with the Chicago Symphony … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 27-29
Music: The Argentine-born violinist Tomás Cotik has had a busy career in South Florida since earning his doctorate at the University of Miami, including sitting second-chair violin in the Delray String Quartet. Among his fields of study is the music of Franz Schubert, and he and pianist Tao Lin have just released a second disc of the composer’s music for violin and piano, … [Read more...]
Director Boorman unveils long-awaited sequel to ‘Hope and Glory’
Englishman John Boorman has directed 22 films, and is probably best known for Point Blank and Deliverance, two of his early, violent dramas. But in 1988, he earned three Oscar nominations — best picture, best direction, best screenplay — for Hope and Glory, his autobiographical memoir of growing up amid the shelling of London during World War II. Now, 26 years later, comes a … [Read more...]
‘Three Hearts’: Star-cross’d lovers, in a triangle
A Parisian tax inspector misses his train home, finds himself stranded in a French province, meets a young lady for a memorable night, agrees to rendezvous with her in a week’s time, misses their date but somehow, through the magic of the movies, winds up marrying the sister he never knew she had. That’s the 30-second pitch of Three Hearts, the engaging if implausible romantic … [Read more...]