Isabel Signoret (center front) as The Child with the cast of L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. (Photo by Kristin Pulido) The operatic repertory is vast and rich, and some of its greatest gems can be found in shorter pieces. That’s not to say we hear them all that often in South Florida, so the Miami Music Festival’s mounting of two one-act masterpieces that almost never turn up … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2016
Amid sadism of ‘Wiener-Dog,’ Solondz finds meaning in mortality
Greta Gerwig and the pooch in Wiener-Dog. (Photo by Linda Callerus) Wiener-Dog may be Todd Solondz’s most Solondzian movie ever, and there is no image more Solondzian than his tracking shot of a seemingly endless train of dog diarrhea on a city street, scored to Debussy’s Clair de Lune. It’s simultaneously elegant and nasty, beautiful and repulsive, the cheekily contrapuntal … [Read more...]
Big crowd enjoys KCO’s ‘South Pacific’
Avery Sommers and the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida in South Pacific. (Photo by Jeffrey Tholl) By Dale King One of the largest performing arts venues on the Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton is the Carole and Barry Kaye Auditorium. There are hundreds of seats on the floor, more in an elevated section to the rear and bleacher-style seating running up the … [Read more...]
The View From Home 79: Akerman’s swan song, Wenders’ wayward comeback, a John Ford masterpiece and more
A scene from No Home Movie (2015). (Icarus Films) No Home Movie: The tragic coda that followed the completion of Chantal Akerman’s inadvertent swan songNo Home Movie (Icarus, $19.01 DVD) is forever inextricable from the picture itself. The documentary charts the director’s conversations with her 86-year-old mother Natalia during the last months of the latter’s life; Akerman … [Read more...]
News briefs: Norton Museum reopens Tuesday; free admission begins
The 1941 entrance of the Norton Museum of Art. WEST PALM BEACH — The Norton Museum of Art, which has been closed since May 30 to prepare for a three-year construction project, will reopen Tuesday, with admission free until late 2018. The Norton is undergoing a major overhaul and expansion under the direction of the eminent British architect Norman Foster. The museum’s … [Read more...]
Survey of global prison practices illuminating, if short on solutions
Baz Dreisinger is an associate professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the City University of New York, where she founded the Prison-to-College Pipeline program. In this new book, she recounts her travels to nine nations to examine their prison systems and compare them with U.S. incarceration practices. Dreisinger joins a growing chorus of U.S. leaders who … [Read more...]
At the Morikami, paper cuts of another world by very steady hands
From the Moth series, by Hiromi Moneyhun. Solo art shows don’t often turn out to be as good as they are advertised. In the case of Shadows of the Floating World, it is something to be seen to be believed — and even then, we don’t believe our eyes. Celebrating the art of papercutting (kiri-e) now through Sept. 18, the Morikami Museum is showcasing about 22 pieces masterfully … [Read more...]
PB Shakespeare Festival to give ‘Shrew’ a Derby twist
Kelly Lee Hussey and Daryl Willis in The Taming of the Shrew. (Jen Scott Photography) By Steven J. Smith JUPITER — Kermit Christman, founder and executive producer of the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, said his upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew will be set within the pomp, wealth, apparel and amusing societal affectations of the Kentucky … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival set to open its 25th season
Members of the Palm Beach Chamber Festival. If you’re seeking from relief from the summer heat in a cool Sunday afternoon concert of music from woodwinds and strings, check out the front row of the balcony at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach this July. That’s where you’ll find Anton Bernath, who’s been coming to the concerts of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival since it … [Read more...]