Theatre Lab play to get summer production in Martha’s Vineyard BOCA RATON — A two-person play that had its premiere at Florida Atlantic University’s Theatre Lab will be taking the stage this summer at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in Massachusetts. To Fall in Love, by Jennifer Lane, debuted at Theatre Lab in November 2021, and starred Theatre Lab’s producing artistic … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2023
Broadway veteran Langel launches new theater company
Broadway performer-author-acting coach Jodie Langel is about to add another role to her crowded résumé and life — executive director and founder of a new theater company. This June, she launches the Boca Raton-based Off-Glades Theater Company, whose mission is “to promote and produce musical theater in South Florida for the cultural development of young people in the … [Read more...]
Out of Africa: Stunning photos of wildlife at Four Arts
Greeting visitors both on their way in and on their way out of the 2022 Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards, now on display at the Society of the Four Arts, is the striking, close-up image of Duke, an orphaned caracal. Shot by South African photographer Jon Warburton at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the image captures the cat … [Read more...]
Cultural Council’s Biennial focuses on Palm Beach County creators
The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s latest exhibit, the 2023 Biennial, highlights the diversity and breadth of work created by artists living and working in the Palm Beaches. On display through June 24, the juried show highlights more than 30 artists displaying work that spans various mediums, including video, painting, photography and sculpture. “There’s an … [Read more...]
Challenging two-hander ‘Topdog/Underdog’ packs punch at Dramaworks
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has more important things on her mind, but one takeaway from her 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, Topdog/Underdog, is surely to be careful when you name your children. For their father, as a perverse joke, named his two African-American sons Lincoln and Booth. As a result, they have been pitted against each other throughout their lives and … [Read more...]
‘Square Dance’ falls flat, but ‘Symphony’ soars in MCB’s season closer
What could be more apropos for Miami City Ballet than to finish off their performance season with a program that highlighted George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins? The strong performance on May 13 at the Kravis Center gave pause for reflection on the different styles of the two iconic choreographers. As usual, the company’s dancing was in top form in this last program, … [Read more...]
SFSO presents fulfilling concert of piano trios
By Robert Croan Summer With the Symphony, South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s three monthly chamber music concerts — one program per month in Miami with a repeat in Fort Lauderdale — is virtually the only classical music to be heard here in the off-season. Showcasing the orchestra’s accomplished first-desk players, each event comprises two or three works for a total of … [Read more...]
‘You Hurt My Feelings’: A comedy of creatives with a profound message
So you married an artist. It may be the absolute perfect union of love and companionship. But what happens when you genuinely don’t like your other half’s work? That’s the pivotal question in Nicole Holofcener’s unassumingly profound seventh feature You Hurt My Feelings, the latest of her piercing comedies about stuck New York creatives. But it’s not the only question in … [Read more...]
Pires makes stellar showing at PB Symphony’s finale
By Márcio Bezerra After a disappointing cancelation last year, the audiences of the Palm Beaches finally were able to hear the esteemed Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires perform with the Palm Beach Symphony. The ensemble — completely reinvented since the arrival of Music Director Gerard Schwarz — presented its last performance of the season Monday night to an unusually … [Read more...]
Kravis exec’s beach read explores scandalous side of fundraising
By Sharon Geltner Royal Coconut Beach Lunch Club, the debut novel by a powerhouse Kravis fundraiser, is sold as a gossipy, scandalous, island tell-all. But in one respect it resembles the Brad Pitt movie Fight Club. “The first rule of Fight Club is, you don’t talk about Fight Club.” Although the publicity mentions “Palm Beach” four times, the novel doesn’t mention … [Read more...]