By Dennis D. Rooney Guillermo Figueroa conducted the Lynn Philharmonia in its first concert of the season Sept. 25 in the Wold Performing Arts Center, on the campus of Lynn University in Boca Raton. The program presented one novelty, Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral, and two staples of the classical repertoire, Tod und Verklärung (Op. 24), by Richard Strauss, and Ludwig … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2022
FAU Theatre Lab’s retake on Red Riding Hood delights in wonder of theater
Vital to the vocal interaction between the performers in Allison Gregory’s Red Riding Hood and the preschool and elementary aged audience members at Florida Atlantic University’s Theatre Lab is the tots’ familiarity with the classic fairy tale. Granted that they have never seen it presented in such an offbeat and playful manner, but --- at the opening matinee, at least --- they … [Read more...]
Master Chorale’s Turing cantata makes moving, powerful impression
By Robert Croan It’s an encouraging sign, that the Sept. 18 concert by Master Chorale of South Florida was sold out. It was a free event in Fort Lauderdale’s Sunshine Cathedral, sponsored by the Our Fund Foundation in partnership with Stonewall National Museum and Archives, but reservations were required and there was an overflow at the door, with people hoping for … [Read more...]
Boca Museum documents dignity of historic Pearl City neighborhood
Black Pearls, which opened this month at exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art for a four-month run, features work by Washington, D.C.-based photographer Reginald Cunningham that highlights the historically Black community of Pearl City, founded in 1915 in east Boca Raton. Featuring photographs and first-person accounts by current residents and the descendants of the … [Read more...]
‘Mariano’ at PAMM: One name, many identities
How do you convey the depth of a radically disruptive artistic output produced under as simple of a name as Mariano? You build a sense of enigma around said name, as Pérez Art Museum Miami has done for the first major retrospective of the work of Cuban artist Mariano Rodríguez (1912-1990) in the United States. A darkly lit gallery tucked away on the second floor of the … [Read more...]
Far above the world: ‘Moonage Daydream’ an astonishing immersion in Bowie
Jean-Luc Godard, who departed this world last week at 91, once quipped that “a story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” This concept, a once-radical rebuke to the logic and coherence of classic Hollywood cinema, can seem quaint by today’s outsider art — who says we need to have these elements at all? Godard himself became more of a … [Read more...]
Guest troupe’s ‘La Cage’ a crowd-pleaser at Delray Playhouse
By Dale King A theatrical production long delayed by the COVID pandemic has finally opened for a two-weekend run at the Delray Beach Playhouse. Three months before DBP officially begins its 75th season, the venerable venue on Lake Ida turns its stage over to the Barclay Performing Arts Theater for a run of Jerry Herman's gender-bending musical, La Cage aux Folles. A … [Read more...]
A few good (and bad) men: Warhol’s Mao and Gropper’s cartoons
A cartoonist, a pop-art icon, an American president, and the leader of China’s Communist Party walk into a bar. What time is it, one asks. 19:72. Time is up. An ongoing exhibition out of Fort Lauderdale broaches the lethal subject one should avoid at the dinner table and ignites a debate on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal. More than religion. More than … [Read more...]
‘Clerks III’: Tired re-tread shows franchise needs at last to check out
Like the classic horror villain who won’t stay dead, the clerks of Clerks have suited up once more in the blue-and-yellow garb of the Quick Stop in suburban New Jersey. Twenty-eight years have passed since Kevin Smith introduced the characters in his low-budget indie debut, and their station in life is pretty much the same. Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) … [Read more...]
‘Barbarian’: Scary monsters, super creeps
In a different movie, it could be the beginning of a meet-cute. Thanks to a glitch in the system, two young, attractive, presumably hetero strangers have booked the same Airbnb house for the same night. Left with scant alternatives — there is, conveniently enough, a medical convention in town that’s consuming all of the hotel rooms — they must make it work by sharing the house. … [Read more...]