Although the operatic art form is enjoying a period in which edgy productions are much more common, you still have to go some distance to find one that’s closer to experimental. But that’s what composer Carson Kievman has done with his new opera, Intelligent Systems, which premiered last week at the SoBe Institute of the Arts and presents its final performance tonight in the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
NPR’s Ulaby to speak on arts journalism; Maltz launches young professional training
FORT LAUDERDALE — Neda Ulaby, arts and culture reporter for National Public Radio, will speak June 24 to the closing session of the Broward County Cultural Divison’s Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute. Ulaby, whose talk is called “Arts Journalism in a Fractured Cultureverse,” reports on arts, digital media, entertainment and cultural trends for NPR’s Arts Desk. Born in Amman, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 12-14
Theater: Slow Burn Theatre goes less edgy for the summertime, with more popular fare to mark its final production in West Boca before moving its operations permanently to the Broward Center. Aiming at the entire family, the company serves up Little Shop of Horrors, the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical about a nerdy florist, his self-esteem-challenged girlfriend and an alien … [Read more...]
‘Jurassic World’ has gritty message amid dino mayhem
It seems we’re in a cinematic summer of dangerous, apocalyptic rides. Tomorrowland, after all, is a movie based (sort of) on a real theme park, while Jurassic World is a movie based on a fictional one — the original Jurassic Park in Jurassic Park. Depicting, as it does, a bigger, bolder, more super-sized dinosaur adventure park than the Spielberg original, Colin Trevorrow’s … [Read more...]
Sol Theatre brings spirit of Dickens to Boca with ‘Edwin Drood’
Palm Beach Arts Paper Staff What happened to Edwin Drood? Has he disappeared? Been murdered by his uncle? Traipsed off to Egypt to pursue his studies? Or even gone incognito? Such is the plot of the Sol Children Theatre production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a play written by Rupert Holmes based on Charles Dickens’s last, unfinished novel. The answer will be up to the … [Read more...]
The bling’s the thing in sparkly exhibit at Delray Center’s Cornell Museum
By Lucy Lazarony The art of Bling: Art That Shines, does just that: It shines, sparkles, glitters and glows. And some pieces even light up. It’s art that gives you a lift. Pop artist Camomile Hixon proclaims “YES” in one painting and the word “DREAM” is repeated 17 times in another. There are wildly colorful works such as Ashley Longshore’s paintings of Kate Moss and Audrey … [Read more...]
Delray SQ, Aleida deliver impressive Danielpour at Mainly Mozart
For two centuries or more, the string quartet has been the favored medium for a composer’s most intimate, profound thoughts. In his series of quartets, the American composer Richard Danielpour has explored themes of the Holocaust (No. 3, Psalms of Sorrow) and farewell (No. 6, Addio), and for his Quartet No. 7, which received its world premiere May 31 in Coral Gables at the … [Read more...]
‘Love & Mercy’ director Pohlad kept the ‘Brians’ independent
Although crippled by mental illness throughout much of his career, Beach Boys’ lead singer/songwriter Brian Wilson was not diagnosed as schizophrenic. Yet in the musical biopic, Love & Mercy, opening locally this weekend, he is portrayed by two very different actors — Paul Dano as the unstable, volatile Wilson in the 1960s and John Cusack as the later, near-catatonic Wilson in … [Read more...]
Community theater: Dated ‘Barefoot in the Park’ holds up well at Delray Playhouse
By Dale King In just a few days, the Delray Beach Playhouse will close the doors on its 68th season. Summer camp kids will take over the venue for a while, then the theater opens again for its 69th season of live mainstage performances in October. There’s still time to catch the final show of the season. Barefoot in the Park, an endearing early-career effort from prolific … [Read more...]
Hilarious ‘Spy’ leaves no secret-agent bit unscathed
In the aftermath of Zero Dark Thirty, you’d think that any film set among the inner workings of the CIA would be a lightning rod for controversy. Not so with Paul Feig’s Spy, a gleeful, anarchic, outrageous sendup of spy-game bombast. The fact that Feig’s presentation of the CIA’s operational compound in Langley, Va. is routinely assailed by CGI bats and mice — and that those … [Read more...]