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...]
Teens in summer Maltz program tackle ‘Romeo and Juliet’
By Jan Engoren What do teenagers know about love? Apparently, a lot, as the original Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed teenagers. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, teen students are getting the chance this month to show they know what it’s all about in a youth production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, the plot – if you’ve … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Book Festival, at FAU this weekend, features Albom, Orlean
Everything good that’s ever happened to Mitch Albom happened in Detroit. Or so the best-selling author of books like Tuesdays With Morrie says. He’s likely to talk about that next month at Florida Atlantic University, when he joins the lineup for the fifth annual Palm Beach Books Festival. The one-day festival, set for March 16 at FAU’s University Theatre, will feature … [Read more...]
Kips Bay house in West Palm shows designers at their best
For the second year in a row, the high-profile Kips Bay Decorator Show House, a design showcase staple in New York City since 1973, comes south to Palm Beach bringing with it cutting-edge design trends, high-end and high-tech fixtures, original artwork and antiques. The Show House, which opened Saturday and runs through Feb. 20, offers an opportunity for interior design … [Read more...]
Puppets add new dimension to classic ‘Beauty’ at the Maltz
With the Broadway successes of Avenue Q, War Horse and King Kong, puppetry is having an extended moment. For an art form dating back to 3000 B.C., it’s now getting its due as puppets take center stage at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s current production of Beauty and the Beast, the fairy tale of a young maiden who falls in love with a prince-turned-beast who can be freed only … [Read more...]
‘Downton Abbey’ settles in at CityPlace for the season
For Anglophiles and fans of the PBS series Downton Abbey, wait no longer – the characters, the costumes, the Old World glamour and melodrama are arriving in South Florida in time for season. Just off a successful New York City run, NBCUniversal International Studios, along with Imagine Exhibitions, is bringing Downton Abbey: The Exhibition to CityPlace in West Palm Beach, … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2018-19: Books
South Florida has a perhaps surprisingly strong books culture, and not just because it has been home to major writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston. It also is home to Books & Books, a remarkably successful Miami-based chain of independent bookstores, and as the Miami Book Fair it helped found has grown, newer players have appeared on the scene to celebrate … [Read more...]
Delray’s Spady Museum celebrates Harlem Renaissance, poet Hughes
What’s it like to hear “Stormy Weather” performed by Ethel Waters at the Cotton Club in 1920s Harlem or Cab Calloway belt out his classic “Minnie the Moocher”? Or perhaps listen to Billie Holiday as she sings at the Hot Shot Club? Or, how about swinging the night away at the Savoy Ballroom, the largest dance hall in Harlem, known for its rootin’-tootin’ root beers and best … [Read more...]
Unlikely partnership of comedian and cellist born on an airplane
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...]