In an unlikely pairing that is getting top reviews, actor Bill Murray, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and films like Ghostbusters and Lost in Translation, has joined forces with a classical music trio led by renowned German cellist Jan Vogler, his wife and violinist, Mira Wang, and pianist Vanessa Pérez in a mélange of songs, music and literary readings. They … [Read more...]
Festival of the Arts Boca offers Battle, Perlman, Tinti, Haass, ‘E.T.’ — and Bill Murray
With its starting dates moved up a couple weeks this season, the 12th annual Festival of the Arts Boca opens Feb. 23 with a renowned American operatic singer and closes March 4 with a classic Steven Spielberg movie accompanied by a live orchestra. Opening the festival at the Mizner Park Amphitheater will be soprano Kathleen Battle, a five-time Grammy Award winner who will … [Read more...]
Canvas outdoor art show coming to Lake Worth
The week before Art Basel descends on Miami on Dec. 7, the Canvas Outdoor Museum Show will descend upon the city of Lake Worth from Nov. 26 to Dec. 2. Founded in 2015 by art curator Nicole Henry, the event has run in West Palm Beach for the past two years. Canvas artists will turn the city’s streets into an outdoor museum, with giant murals, shipping containers, art … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Film Festival focuses on the independent lens
Over the years, the Palm Beach International Film Festival has had its share of celebrity visits and Hollywood glam. But that’s not what Randi Emerman wants you to remember about the 17th edition of PBIFF. “The focus of this year’s Palm Beach International Film Festival (PBIFF) is on the film,” says Emerman, director of the festival. “Pure and simple, our emphasis is on … [Read more...]
For 25 years, Duncan Theatre has been cutting-edge
If you lived in Palm Beach County 25 years ago, to get your culture fix you went to the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth or the “leaky teepee,” the familiar name for the West Palm Beach Auditorium, which earned that name from its pointy roof and less-than-watertight conditions. The leaky teepee lives on in lore and memory, but the county’s cutting-edge performing arts house, the … [Read more...]
Maltz Jupiter Theatre celebrates decade, looks to endowment
All in all, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s 10th anniversary season is shaping up to be a milestone for the largest regional theater in South Florida. The Maltz recently passed the 7,000-subscriber mark, counts 70,000 theatergoers annually, and earlier this month announced the launch of a $10 million endowment campaign. Last month, the theater received 25 Carbonell nominations, … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Poetry Festival again inspires versifiers from all over
Outside the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach’s Old School Square, Cara Nusinov posed for a photograph by the sculpture she designed to pay homage to poetry. “Art makes poetry touchable,” she said as she stood by the Polka Dot Poetry Peacock, which she created for an art-in-public-spaces project in Coconut Grove. “I imagine people enjoying the poems affixed to the peacock and … [Read more...]
Singer Holmes celebrates inspirations, PB Pops celebrates 20th
The last time Clint Holmes appeared with the Palm Beach Pops, he sang Broadway show tunes and songs associated with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. “The audience went crazy. We got a high volume of letters requesting him back,” says David Quilleon, executive director of the Pops. This season, the Pops celebrates its 20th anniversary, having given its first concert in 1992 … [Read more...]
In short time, Arts Garage makes itself vital part of cultural scene
On a recent Saturday evening, crowds at the Delray Beach parking structure that doubles as the Arts Garage were jumping and jiving to the New Age/neoclassical piano sounds of composer and artist Jace Vek. Vek, a two-time Emmy award winner and Pittsburgh native, was accompanied by soprano Kat Yarbrough and tenor Matthew Farmer, who does double duty himself as the programming … [Read more...]
South Florida-born filmmaker returns with ‘Seducing Charlie Barker’
Amy Glazer made her directorial debut as a teenager at Miami Beach Senior High School, where she directed another student named Mickey Rourke in his first play. Now a playwright, independent filmmaker and a professor of film, television, radio and theater at San Jose State University, she’s returned to South Florida this month to screen her new film, Seducing Charlie Barker, … [Read more...]