Wherever the late Jerome Robbins is, he should be smiling down on the Wick Theatre. The Boca Raton stage company has mounted that perennial favorite, Fiddler on the Roof and, as the program acknowledges, Norb Joerder has reproduced Robbins’ original direction and Robert Abdoo has reproduced his original choreography. Many have tried to improve on Robbins’ deft, … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2024
Delray goes Fab Four with five-day Beatles on the Beach fest
By Dale King If you’re having a “Hard Day’s Night” and need some “Help” in a big way, you’ll likely find the solution at the annual International Beatles on The Beach Classic Rock Festival, a five-day, city-wide event that returns to downtown Delray Beach from Jan. 24 through Jan. 28. A multitude of Beatles-inspired rock and roll bands will come together to celebrate the … [Read more...]
Ageless, universal ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ comes to The Wick
In the early 1960s, when the creators of Fiddler on the Roof were developing a musical about Tevye the dairyman and his rebellious daughters in 1905 Russia, they assumed it would have limited appeal. To their surprise, Fiddler was embraced by theatergoers far beyond the Jewish community, becoming at one point the longest-running show in Broadway history and an … [Read more...]
Maltz takes on ‘Beautiful’ look at classic pop songwriter
From a shy Brooklyn teenager who composed chart-topping songs that others recorded to a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical chronicles the career and life of one of the pop music world’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters. Following the show’s five-year Broadway run, it now arrives at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in its South Florida regional … [Read more...]
Arts Warehouse artists in the spotlight at Resident Artist Show
By Lucy Lazarony Sixteen Arts Warehouse resident artists are showing their artwork at the 2023 Resident Artist Show in Delray Beach. The exhibit runs through Jan. 20 and an open studio night takes place January 17 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibition features a variety of media including sculpture, oil painting, ceramics, fashion, and even site-specific murals that will … [Read more...]
The View From Home: Two cross-cultural Asiatic adventures, new on Blu-ray
A few years before she directed a soon-to-be pop-culture touchstone in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fran Rubel Kuzui helmed her debut feature Tokyo Pop, a charming picaresque that has languished largely in cult obscurity for 35 years. A 4K restoration, supported through the Jane Fonda Women Directors Fund, opened in New York City and Los Angeles this past August, and … [Read more...]
Jewelry designer Maeda evokes rare worlds in Morikami exhibit
7.7 billion stories are happening on this planet right now at the same time. These are concurrent and endless stories… You may be happy, sad, full of joy or crying in regret. You may be relaxed, nervous, living an ordinary or unordinary life. Everybody lives this moment of life on this planet, Earth, continuously going around the sun. --- Asagi Maeda With miniature figures … [Read more...]
From WeeGee to Avedon: Norton exhibit brings photos with presence
By Sandra Schulman Marilyn Monroe looking lost. Society ladies scowled at by bums. A young Patti Smith leans on an androgynous Robert Mapplethorpe. These are just some of the remarkable famous images in the exhibit Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder, now running at the Norton Museum of Art through March 10. Judy and Leonard Lauder are Palm Beach … [Read more...]
‘Mockingbird’ still makes strong impact in Sorkin adaptation
It is rare these days for a non-musical to receive a national tour. It has to have a superior script and production or a bankable name in the leading role. Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s enduring novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, has both of the former and Richard Thomas as Alabama attorney Atticus Finch provides the latter. Now at the Kravis Center … [Read more...]