Busy as an adjunct theater professor at Florida Atlantic University, Lynn University and Broward College during the school year, Bruce Linser has to confine his freelance directing to the summer months. No sooner had he opened his production of Once Upon a Mattress at FAU’s Festival Rep, then he began rehearsals for The World Goes ’Round, MNM Productions’ revue of songs … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2016
Everybody into the glam: Harry Martin’s photos
By Lucy Lazarony Harry Martin, an Emmy-award winning New York TV news anchorman and journalist, began taking underwater glam photography about three years ago. “Basically think of it as a fashion shoot underwater,” Martin says. An exhibition of Martin’s dream-like underwater images are on display at the Boynton Beach Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd., through Sept. 9. … [Read more...]
Jupiter’s Guanabanas expanding its Latin vibe
Since 2008, Guanabanas in Jupiter has stood out among South Florida nightclubs through the mix of its tropical atmosphere, a gourmet menu featuring fresh local seafood, and an emphasis on live music that includes bookings of unique artists from local to international — plus a state-of-the-art sound system that limits volume to accommodate the city’s strict noise … [Read more...]
PBCMF 3: A Dutch rarity, and chamber music from a film composer
The fascist darkness that covered the world of the 1930s and 1940s had well-documented effects on artistic life, and while we now celebrate the artists whose work either survived or reflected it, there were many other creators whose efforts are now shrouded in obscurity. Such a one was Rosalie Wertheim, a Dutchwoman whose gender worked against her as a composer and whose … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 29-31
Film: Any Woody Allen movie is a much anticipated event and Café Society – his 46th feature film – is no exception. Not a home run, but more of a solid double, it casts Jesse Eisenberg as the Allen surrogate schlemiel, who leaves the Bronx for 1930s Hollywood, takes a job in the office of his talent agent uncle (Steve Carell) and promptly falls for Carell’s secretary/mistress … [Read more...]
‘Bad Moms’: Breaking witlessly through the crass ceiling
You probably don’t know the names Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. That’s because these writers-for-hire have penned some of the most barrel-scraping comedies of the past 12 years, the sort of movies you wouldn’t even watch on a 14-hour flight: The Martin Lawrence vehicle Rebound, the Yuletide stink-bomb Four Christmases, the bro-tastic romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the … [Read more...]
Soloists, new work provide mega-meal at Miami Music Festival
MIAMI BEACH — You can’t say Michael Rossi doesn’t give you enough to listen to. Saturday night at the New World Center, the head of the Miami Music Festival presented an orchestral concert dedicated to the eminent Polish-born violinist Ida Haendel that featured parts and wholes of five concertos, a massive tone poem and a world premiere. In addition, there was a presentation … [Read more...]
‘Indignation’ stars step into Roth’s challenging world
Indignation, opening locally Aug. 5, is adapted from a novel by the venerable Philip Roth and has thematic similarities to Goodbye, Columbus, another Roth book that came to the big screen 47 years ago. Featured in Indignation is Logan Lerman, 24, as a working-class Jew from New Jersey, who heads off to college in Ohio, where his studies are interrupted by an unstable, but … [Read more...]
Ambitious Mainly Mozart finale doesn’t always work
By Kevin Wilt The Miami Chamber Music Society closed out its 2015-2016 season with the Mainly Mozart Festival, which opened with the namesake composer, but featured many others. The first work on the July 1 program was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate (K. 165). Taking the stage for the performance was a string quartet made up of members of the Metropolitan … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 22-24
Art: As it since 1951, the Boca Raton Museum devotes its summer exhibition to the All Florida Invitational, which this year features 31 artists from around the state. Cognoscenti of the local art scene will recognize some familiar names, but there are also five early-career artists being singled out by the judges who chose the work for the exhibit. The Invitational opened last … [Read more...]