Powerful is the word for The Power of the Dog, a contemporary, revisionist Western that streamed on Netflix, which led the field when Academy Award nominations were announced this morning. It galloped away with 12 nominations, including best picture, director (Jane Campion), actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), supporting actors (Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee), supporting … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2022
Frost string trio opens Flagler Museum music series
It’s been quiet, musically speaking, at the Flagler Museum over the past year as COVID-19 silenced the annual chamber music programs at Whitehall. Since 1999, the mansion-museum in Palm Beach has welcomed some of the leading chamber music groups on the world scene, especially young string quartets such as the Dover, Calidore, and New Orford, all of whom have played the … [Read more...]
DB Playhouse’s ‘Respect’ a delightful tribute to the journey of women
By Dale King As the undisputed Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has sung repeatedly with deep sisterly inspiration, all women want “is a little respect.” Eight ladies have taken to the stage at the Delray Beach Playhouse this month to “tell it like it is” — the history of women in America, that is, in a finely tuned, thought-provoking and often humorous story of how women … [Read more...]
Maltz returns with ‘I Hate Hamlet,’ a valentine to the theater
Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. In Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, novelist Charles Condamine is haunted by his peeved ex-wife Elvira. And in Paul Rudnick’s comic valentine to the theater, I Hate Hamlet, TV star Andrew Rally – nervous about taking on one of Shakespeare’s greatest roles – is persuaded to accept … [Read more...]
Roots guitarist/singer Osborne gives Boca crowd something to sing about
If the concept of a Sweden-born roots music artist seems like an oxymoron, Anders Osborne dispelled that notion in quick order during his Jan. 22 appearance at the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton. The singer, guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter appeared solo to a capacity crowd for the second consecutive night at the venue, and displayed the elements of blues, R&B and … [Read more...]
Parsons Dance offers memorable return to the theater at Duncan
It’s just shy of two years since the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth Beach went dark. The immensely popular annual Modern Dance Series hadn’t finished when the theater shut down because of COVID-19, but on Jan. 15, the doors were wide open to welcome its loyal audience back as it kick-started its 2022 season with Parsons Dance. And what a kick it was to be back in the theater … [Read more...]
The View From Home: A shattering colonialist neo-Western, and ennui on the French Riviera
The most innovative foreign-language films often are not the ones jostling for the five coveted slots on the Academy Award ballot. They’re the films with miniscule if any distribution, that drop on DVD or a streaming service with little fanfare. Memory House (Film Movement, $24.95 DVD, $3.99 digital rental), the stunning debut from Brazilian writer-director João Paulo … [Read more...]
Flagler Museum to feature six concerts by University of Miami musicians this season
Tucked away in Coral Gables, several miles southwest of the city it’s named for, the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami (www.frost.miami.edu) is the linchpin of all South Florida musical institutions of higher learning. Renamed for arts patrons Phillip and Patricia Frost in 2003, its program actually goes back 95 years. Saxophonist Paul Chafin (1930-2008) … [Read more...]