By Dale King At times during the run of the gender-befuddling musical, Victor/Victoria, the audience at the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Margate may feel they are getting a special bargain. Viewers are actually getting two stars – a male lead and a female lead character – in one person. In a nutshell, Victor/Victoria is the tale of a woman disguised as a man who dresses … [Read more...]
Weekend picks: May 19-20
Film: While The Avengers and Deadpool 2 duke it out for the box office booty, see instead a small, human unconventional love story with no superheroes. It is called Anything – OK, a terrible, generic title – but it concerns a recent widower in Mississippi (John Carroll Lynch) who moves to Los Angeles at the urging of his meddlesome sister (Maura Tierney), and settles in tawdry … [Read more...]
SunFest, Day 4: Third Eye Blind and Dafeauxnito
By Hali Neal On the last day of SunFest (May 6), Third Eye Blind went all Depeche Mode for the occasion, dressing completely in black, even on a South Florida afternoon close to summer. Lead singer Stephan Jenkins, hilariously, even had a black water bottle. The only pop of color was Jenkins’ highlighter-yellow tennis shoes. After finishing the anti-suicide anthem … [Read more...]
SunFest Day 3: Ice Cube, 311 in fine form
By Hali Neal Ice Cube, one of the pioneers of gangster rap, was an odd choice to replace 1970s Miami mainstays K.C. and the Sunshine Band (who had a scheduling conflict) on Day 3 of SunFest (May 5), but it proved to be a wise one. He put on an entertaining set while also managing to poke fun at himself: “I bet you thought Ice Cube couldn’t do this s**t no more, huh? … [Read more...]
South Florida composers shine at Zimmermann’s Café
By Dennis D. Rooney The Zimmermann’s Café Chamber Music series, modeled after the similarly named Leipzig establishment where J.S. Bach led a collegium musicum, features South Florida composers. Chamber music by five of them was heard April 29 in a concert at Frazell Hall at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lake Worth. In addition to the music, the audience, seated at … [Read more...]
Master Chorale gives glorious account of Brahms’s ‘German Requiem’
By Clare Shore At the end of a grueling week, on an absolutely gorgeous spring Friday evening in South Florida, one is not always keen on driving 40 minutes to sit inside for an hour and a quarter listening to a large-scale piece of music. But that’s what I did, and I left Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale on May 4 renewed and refreshed by Master Chorale … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 12-13
Film: So you want to take your mom to the movies for Mother’s Day, but she has already seen the Avengers flick? Boy, have we got a deal for you. This Sunday at 10 a.m., there will be free screenings of a sing-along version of Mamma Mia!, the ripoff of Buena Sera, Mrs. Campbell with songs by the Swedish rock group ABBA. It is happening all across the country, but the South … [Read more...]
Arts news: ‘Tattoo’ dedicated; a gift for the Symphonia; Kravis salutes high school thespians
WEST PALM BEACH — The newest mural in town is also the world’s longest, as artist Steed Taylor’s mile-long “road tattoo” was dedicated at a ceremony May 1 at the block along Rosemary Avenue that borders the police station. In attendance were some of the people who make public art happen in West Palm Beach, including Mayor Jeri Muoio, Art in Public Places’s Sybille Welter, … [Read more...]
SunFest, Day2: Powerful sets from Incubus, Nathaniel Rateliff
By Hali Neal It was warm out at SunFest on Friday night, but much of the sweat was on stage, with powerful performances by Incubus and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Incubus, whose best-known songs include “Drive,” “Megalomaniac” and “Pardon Me,” played a set marked by strong harmonies, vocal prowess, and extended intros to some of their most well-known … [Read more...]
Chameleon wraps season with splendid Brahms
By Robert Croan The splendid Chameleon Musicians ended the first season in their new venue in the Broward Center’s pleasant Abdo Room on April 29 with an intense, serious-minded all-Brahms program. With cellist and Chameleon founder Iris Van Eck joined by pianist Kemal Gekic and Michael Klotz (who alternated between violin and viola), the ensemble contrasted Brahms’s … [Read more...]