By Robert Croan For the third and final production of her first season as Florida Grand Opera’s general director and CEO, Maria Todaro took on the multiple tasks of stage director and even costume … Continue reading...
MUSIC
Pianist offers powerhouse Chopin recital to wrap Lauderdale-by-the-Sea chamber series
By Robert Croan Chamber Music at Lauderdale-by-the Sea is a valuable but underpublicized series presented by the FilAm Music Foundation, directed by Filipino-American pianist Victor Santiago … Continue reading...
ART
Parma Portraits: Ode to caregivers illuminates at Boca Museum of Art
By Sandra Schulman An unexpected near-death experience during the early days of the pandemic has yielded a remarkable series of portraits, drawn by the patient. Donald Farnsworth, an artist who … Continue reading...
In its centennial year, Boca salutes its original visionary, Addison Mizner
A current exhibit at The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum coincides with the city of Boca Raton’s centennial and looks back on the continuing impact of city planner, industrialist and architect … Continue reading...
DANCE
MCB ends season in superb style at Kravis with ‘Spring Mix’
Miami City Ballet presented an outstanding lineup for its Spring Mix program earlier this month as the company wrapped up its much abbreviated season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. … Continue reading...
Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami brings Duncan dance series to brilliant end
Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami boldly took to the stage at the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth Beach on March 21, closing out this season’s ever-popular Modern Dance Series. Under the leadership of … Continue reading...
THEATER
Postcard from Broadway No. 3: ‘Dead Outlaw’ is weirdly compelling, ‘Smash’ is a wreck
After yesterday’s superlative Gypsy, tonight I saw another show that ranks as a superlative — the most peculiar musical I’ve ever seen — Dead Outlaw. It’s based on an allegedly true story of Elmer … Continue reading...
Postcard from Broadway No. 2: Audra, the greatest Rose I’ve ever seen
Our first night in New York, we saw what is likely to be the high point of our trip — Audra McDonald in the latest revival of Gypsy. It is a show I have seen countless times, including with such … Continue reading...
FILM
The View From Home: Sean Baker’s hurtling, empathetic early-career gem
Winning an Oscar isn’t only a boon for a director going forward. Just as fresh interest and scrutiny will accompany the filmmaker’s future works, so too will his archive prompt a re-evaluation. This … Continue reading...
‘Drop’: A Hitch-like thriller for our digitally connected reality
The setting for most of Christopher Landon’s clever thriller Drop is a fancy restaurant in downtown Chicago called Palate. Enclosed in glass walls, it lives on the top floor of a colossal building, … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Season Preview 2024-25: Books events show printed word still a strong draw
We may live in an increasingly digital age, one now further complicated by the rise of AI. But the printed word in books still exerts a powerful draw, as these festivals show: Miami Book Fair … Continue reading...
Delray art gallery owners publish major study of Central American modernist art
It was the love of Central American art that brought co-authors Suzanne Brooks Snider and Mark Morgan Ford, of Ford Fine Art, together more than a decade ago. A labor of love and passion project … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
Nora Maité Nieves: A sense of play, a sense of home come out in artist’s solo Norton show
It’s been a big year for Nora Maité Nieves. Her first solo museum exhibition, Clouds in the Expanded Field (Nubes en el Paisaje Expandido), is currently showing at the Norton Museum of Art through … Continue reading...
Designer-entertainer Mizrahi to bring cabaret show to Boca fest
Bringing his Café Carlyle cabaret show to Boca Raton will be even more fun and fabulous on the big stage at Mizner Park, says the multi-talented fashion designer, actor, singer and Project Runway … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
In its centennial year, Boca salutes its original visionary, Addison Mizner
A current exhibit at The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum coincides with the city of Boca Raton’s centennial and looks back on the continuing impact of city planner, industrialist and architect … Continue reading...
Kips Bay’s 2025 edition showcases designers’ rich imaginations
Not your typical Palm Beach mansion, this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House is a single-family brick Providencia house built in 1937, located on a corner lot in West Palm Beach. With 7,706 … Continue reading...