Like many art institutions and organizations in this time of COVID-19, the Cultural County for Palm Beach County has shifted its offerings online, with a summer lineup of free virtual programming, including art exhibitions and the performing arts. Their six-performance music series began in June with “A Jazz Tribute to Musicals” featuring Yvette Norwood-Tiger and continues … [Read more...]
Jupiter teen, child star sees bright theater future ahead
For Skye Alyssa Friedman, there’s no down time, even in this moment of COVID-19. These days, the Jupiter resident is busy finishing her home-school classes, logging in to video classes on Zoom, interviewing with prospective colleges, reading plays, taking online dance classes and filming audition tapes. But perhaps that’s nothing new for the red-haired 18-year-old who’s … [Read more...]
Local arts organizations hopeful even as future looks bleak
By Jan Engoren When the Cannes Film Festival is canceled and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is projected to lose $100 million after closing down because of the coronavirus, the impact on the arts and culture all over the world is significant. And Palm Beach County is no exception. While many sectors are suffering, arts organizations and cultural … [Read more...]
Coronavirus fears shut Four Arts, Book Festival; other venues staying open
The Society of the Four Arts will close until further notice Friday, cutting short its arts and education season, and the Palm Beach Book Festival scheduled for next week has been canceled. Both are casualties of the worldwide COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic. “Coronavirus conference canceled in New York because of coronavirus,” read the headline in New York’s tabloid … [Read more...]
‘This will be the place to be’: Boynton shows off Town Square progress
In its centennial year, transformation is well underway in downtown Boynton Beach after a grass-roots effort to save the old Boynton Beach High School from demolition and turn it into a destination and cultural arts center called Boynton Town Square succeeded in 2018. The project is a public/private partnership between the city of Boynton Beach and E2L Real Estate Solutions … [Read more...]
Kips Bay house showcases brilliant interior design
Decorator Show House – a staple in New York City since 1973, has returned to Palm Beach for its third iteration. This year’s plantation-style home, nicknamed “Bamboo Hill,” situated at 260 Palmetto Lane in the South End neighborhood of West Palm Beach, a block from the Intracoastal Waterway, is owned by renowned Swedish interior designer Lars Bolander. “The Kips Bay … [Read more...]
McKeever’s ‘fable’ of unexpected love on stage at Levis JCC
The Levis JCC Sandler Center has kicked off its 2019-20 black box theater lineup with local playwright Michael McKeever’s Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors, presented by West Boca Theatre Company and running through Dec. 22. “We’re thrilled to present ‘Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors’ as our stellar season opener,” says Alan Nash, assistant director for the Sandler Center. … [Read more...]
‘Rescuers,’ at Levis JCC, hails those who saved Jews from Holocaust
The Levis JCC Sandler Center in Boca Raton’s fall exhibit, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, brings back a show that first ran in 1996. With updated panels and imagery, the revamped exhibit explores stories of kindness, compassion and heroism and features an interactive component whereby attendees will be able to contribute their own personal stories of … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2019-20: ‘Firebird,’ new local works among dance season highlights
From dancing gauchos to stately ballerinas and innovative tap dancers to body-bending modern movement-makers, South Florida’s 2019-2020 dance season takes off in full swing by early October. With holiday staples such as The Nutcracker, venerated classics such as The Firebird and new programming including Puremovement American Street Dance Theatre in venues from Miami to West … [Read more...]
Artist Prusa maps the infinite through painstaking silverpoint
What if Stephen Hawking had been an artist? What would his theories look like as physical representations of the universe and the cosmos? Carol Prusa, a Boca Raton artist and professor of painting and drawing at FAU, just might have that answer. In her new exhibit for the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Carol Prusa: Dark Light, curated by Kathleen Goncharov, the senior curator … [Read more...]