By Myles Ludwig The Palm Beach Jewelry Art and Antique show now at the Palm Beach County Convention Center is a gem in an elegant setting. It is chock-full of goodies, so many I spent more than two hours just walking, looking and chatting and found myself so bedazzled I didn’t have the stamina for the connected fine crafts exhibits that I usually enjoy. Foreign languages … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2018
Powerful ‘If I Forget’ stuns at GableStage
These days, we cling to our memories, worried that without them we will drift into dementia. But in his latest controversial book, fictional professor of Jewish studies Michael Fischer argues that American Jews need to forget – forget the Holocaust and stop obsessing over it for the sake of their mental health and general well-being. Not surprisingly, perhaps, he … [Read more...]
Vulgar, shocking ‘Reservoir Dolls’ brings Tarantino to Pompano
By Dale King Reservoir Dolls, Outré Theatre Company’s live stage performance inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs, casts female actors in the roles portrayed in the movie by men. While the concept of imagining how women would act in similar ultra-violent situations is intriguing, the show – playing at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center through Sunday — is … [Read more...]
Prima Trio brings zest and brilliance to Flagler series
By Dennis D. Rooney The Prima Trio is composed of Anastasia Dedik, piano; Gulia Gurevich, violin and viola; and Boris Allakhverdyan, clarinet. They met while students at the Oberlin Conservatory and founded the trio in 2004. They appeared Feb. 6 on the Flagler Museum Music Series for a second time; their debut was in 2009. Unlike the piano trio, the repertoire for … [Read more...]
Sharp FAU cast does well by Gunderson’s ‘The Revolutionists’
There are several things you can count on in a play by Lauren Gunderson. It will center on women with a feminist bent, it will have crisp, witty dialogue yet make plenty of serious points and it will self-reflectively keep reminding us that we are watching a play, what theater folks call “meta.” Certainly that is the case with The Revolutionists, a tongue-in-cheek … [Read more...]
One-time live music promoter branches out into beer
Bands and beers are practically the twin engines that drive the clubs and restaurants in any live music scene. And North Palm Beach-based James Noble has blended performers and brews for more than a decade in Palm Beach County, in both traditional and his current not-so-customary ways. From 2005 to 2012, the 59-year-old Noble was the proprietor of the Orange Door in Lake … [Read more...]
Kander and Ebb catalog gets entertaining take at Delray Playhouse
By Dale King Musical revues have become popular fare at community and regional theaters of late. They’ve been staples the past few years at Broward Stage Door Theatre, particularly themed compilations created by Michael Leeds and/or Kevin Black. The Wick Theatre had such success with a show called Beehive last year that one of its performers, Mallory Newbrough, has been … [Read more...]
Seeing art, and yourself, in Cornell’s ‘Looking Glass’
By Lucy Lazarony The art in Looking Glass intrigues and invites. You’ll find yourself wondering just how an artist created a piece. And you’ll see your reflection peering back as you take a closer look. Melanie Johanson, curator of the Cornell Art Museum, says Looking Glass is the most interactive of all the shows she’s curated. She calls it “immersive.” Viewers of the … [Read more...]
Soprano Chambers makes a splendid Salome for FGO
By Robert Croan “A 16-year-old girl with the voice of Isolde.” That’s how composer Richard Strauss described the requirements for the title part of Salome, his magnificent one-act opera that shocked audiences at its premiere in Dresden in 1905. He was referring to the biblical daughter of Herodias, who danced for the lecherous Herod and in return demanded the head of … [Read more...]
Unlikely partnership of comedian and cellist born on an airplane
In an unlikely pairing that is getting top reviews, actor Bill Murray, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and films like Ghostbusters and Lost in Translation, has joined forces with a classical music trio led by renowned German cellist Jan Vogler, his wife and violinist, Mira Wang, and pianist Vanessa Pérez in a mélange of songs, music and literary readings. They … [Read more...]