By Sandra Schulman The biggest Art Week in Miami happens in early December, when the world-class art circus that is Art Basel Miami rolls into the big-top Miami Beach Convention Center from Dec. 6-9. But there are also dozens of satellite fairs, outdoor sculpture exhibits, fair tents on the beach, parties and new shows in the museums that get started earlier in the week of … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2018
‘Library Book’ is one for the bibliophiles
Susan Orlean was living in New York in 1986 when she heard the shocking news that the Los Angeles Public Library had been destroyed by a monster fire. More than 1 million books were burned or damaged, while 350 firefighters battled the blaze for seven hours. Orlean was raised in a book-loving family where her mother took her to a library near their home in … [Read more...]
Puppets add new dimension to classic ‘Beauty’ at the Maltz
With the Broadway successes of Avenue Q, War Horse and King Kong, puppetry is having an extended moment. For an art form dating back to 3000 B.C., it’s now getting its due as puppets take center stage at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s current production of Beauty and the Beast, the fairy tale of a young maiden who falls in love with a prince-turned-beast who can be freed only … [Read more...]
Secretive artist-prankster Banksy featured in Miami show
By Sandra Schulman Exhibiting art without permission? Two can play that game. The work of Banksy, the mysterious British street artist, will be featured in an exhibit opening Saturday at Magic City in Miami. It is organized by Banksy’s former art dealer Steve Lazarides, with whom he had a falling-out a decade ago. But Lazarides has more than 80 pieces Banksy created … [Read more...]
MCB’s season opener promises much, and delivers
To put it succinctly, Miami City Ballet’s Nov. 17 show at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts was a terrific launch for the upcoming dance season, not just for MCB but for all the excellent dance that comes to Palm Beach County and South Florida. Even though it is still early in the season, Dreyfoos Hall was filled with a larger-than-usual audience that was … [Read more...]
TV’s Struthers happy to be back on stage in ‘Annie’
Playing Gloria Stivic, daughter of Archie Bunker, on the ’70s sitcom All in the Family brought stardom and two Emmy awards to Sally Struthers. But at her core she is a stage performer. “I started out in live theater,” she says during a rehearsal break from Annie, opening this Saturday night at Boca Raton’s Wick Theatre. “I went to the Pasadena Playhouse College of … [Read more...]
The Lady Vanishes: Lee Chang-dong’s masterful, unclassifiable ‘Burning’
Lee Chang-dong’s Burning begins with a meet-cute and ends with a murder. What happens in the middle is a steady, bravura mutation from quirky romance to woozy mystery to psychodrama to stark tragedy, all of it playing magisterially against a changing South Korea. This filmmaker is most famous in the west for his 2010 masterpiece Poetry. If you’ve seen that celebrated … [Read more...]
Soprano Caballero subs beautifully as Mimi in FGO’s fine ‘Bohème’
By Robert Croan When the rock musical Rent opened on Broadway in 1996, the point of reference for many viewers was Giacomo Puccini’s opera – premiered a century earlier – La Bohème. Jonathan Larson’s musical was an updated version of the opera’s libretto, though with entirely new music. Fast forward two decades: at the Nov. 15 performance of Puccini’s La Bohème in the … [Read more...]
At FAU, a ‘Frankenstein’ of the mind as well as body
By Dale King Student actors at Florida Atlantic University have brought the Frankenstein story to life in a frightening retelling of the novel written exactly 200 years ago by Mary Shelley, wife of English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and daughter of pioneering feminist thinker Mary Wollstonecraft. This show differs markedly from versions popularized since the … [Read more...]
Edward Steichen at the Flagler: Long-gone stars still pull us in
Actors, writers, dancers, and politicians all dressed to the nines – cane in hand, bobbed cut, slicked hair, bow ties – have shown up at the Flagler Museum for the ultimate after-party. Missing from this one is the duck pouts, the flashing cameras and the red carpet. Those prone to platonic love or being starstruck, guard your hearts. Everybody looks deliciously attractive … [Read more...]