For a photography competition extending a $20,000 trophy, this edition of Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers is decisively not very thrilling. Don’t tell museum officials, but we think we know how this one ends. The experimental, the pretty, the safe and the emotional are sharing a large white room inside the Norton Museum of Art through Jan. 15. The four contemporary … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2016
‘Manchester by the Sea’: Enduring grief, finding grace
Throughout Manchester by the Sea, women fall, sometimes literally, at the feet of Casey Affleck’s brooding handyman. While on the job — albeit in the unromantic pursuit of unclogging a toilet — he overhears a client confessing her attraction to him, on the phone to a friend, through the bathroom walls. It leads to nothing more than a generous tip. At a bar, a comely female … [Read more...]
Arts buzz: Carols in Delray, Maltz’s big plans
DELRAY BEACH — A holiday music tradition that began in Australia makes its debut Saturday in Old School Square when three major pop performers of the 1970s and 1980s will headline an outdoor concert. The Little River Band (Cool Change, Reminiscing), Stephen Bishop (On and On) and Kim Carnes (Bette Davis Eyes) will perform songs of the season as well as other hits in the … [Read more...]
Master Chorale’s Bach largely a triumph
By any reasonable measure, staging J.S. Bach’s epic Mass in B Minor with a community chorus is a remarkable achievement. And Brett Karlin, who directs the Master Chorale of South Florida, was not to be deterred from mounting a performance of this, his favorite choral composition. He put his 121 singers through numerous extra rehearsals, brought The Symphonia Boca Raton in … [Read more...]
Good performances kick Wick’s ‘Sister Act’ into high gear
Twenty-four years ago, Whoopi Goldberg had a sizeable movie hit with Sister Act, playing a nightclub singer hiding out from thugs in a Philadelphia convent. Like so many popular movies, it was turned into a stage musical, arriving on Broadway in 2011, running almost a year and a half. But — as with every other show that season — it was overshadowed by the monster success of … [Read more...]
At Stage Door, ‘Sweet Charity’ still has legs after all these years
By Dale King It’s hard to believe that Charity Hope Valentine has been around for a half-century. But the unlucky-in-love taxi dancer whose well-intentioned intentions often go sliding off the rails is back in a delightful and cute production of Sweet Charity, now being performed at the Broward Stage Door Theatre. Charity first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1966 in … [Read more...]
Wick’s ‘Sister Act’ offers escapism with a heart
Ask Patrece Bloomfield, who is making her Wick Theatre debut in Sister Act as Delores Van Cartier – a/k/a the Whoopi Goldberg character in the 1992 movie – how she got the role and she will answer in two words, “Divine intervention.” How appropriate for a musical that takes place largely in a convent. Bloomfield was appearing in a theme park show at Universal Studios in … [Read more...]
‘Christine’ lingers in sensationalism it deplores
Sarasota newswoman Christine Chubbuck, who infamously shot herself on camera in 1974, may be a tragic footnote in the history of regional television. But in 2016, her paragraph is growing larger. In one of those weird confluences of cinematic synchronicity — like 2005’s pair of Truman Capote biofilms, or this year’s dueling French and Anglo-American takes on Florence Foster … [Read more...]
Dietz’s new play focuses on six degrees of uncertainty
For more than 20 years, Lou Tyrrell has been producing the plays of Steven Dietz, first at Florida Stage (Lonely Planet, Private Eyes, Yankee Tavern) and now at his current company, Florida Atlantic University’s Theatre Lab. Beginning Dec. 2, he brings to the region Dietz’s latest work, This Random World, described as a comic look at missed opportunities, a play that turns … [Read more...]
This year’s Art Basel will be even bigger
By Sandra Schulman It’s big and getting bigger — Art Basel Miami, the imported fair that has revitalized the South Florida and international art scene is running through Dec. 4 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Outside the doors of the main fair there are dozens of satellite fairs, parties, outdoor art parks, parades, film, and some extreme fashion this year. The … [Read more...]