By Márcio Bezerra With more than 250 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, five Grammy awards, the U.S. National Medal of Arts and even a national anthem performance at the Super Bowl, Renée … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Florida drummer’s new fusion trio comes to Boca club
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be drummers in South Florida. Miami-born Jonathan Joseph has toured and recorded with vocalists Ricky Martin and Joss Stone — two pop artists with … Continue reading...
ART
With love from Spain: Old masters at Boca, a Sorolla retrospective at the Norton
Kicking off its 75th anniversary season and the 100th anniversary of the city, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is showcasing Splendor and Passion: Baroque Spain and Its Empire, a collection of 57 … Continue reading...
Incoming director sees big things ahead for Boca Raton Museum of Art
It’s a changing of the guard at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, as current executive director Irvin Lippman steps down in January after 11 years, turning the leadership over to Ena Heller, who comes to … Continue reading...
DANCE
Season Preview 2024-25: A reduced, but still-vibrant season of dance
Is this the fallout year for the performing arts? It is alarming to see the sparse offerings for the 2024-25 dance season, especially after the enormous struggle it was for the arts to survive the … Continue reading...
MCB’s ‘Spring Mix’ boasts brilliant King premiere, Balanchine classic
The dancers of Miami City Ballet did themselves proud performing an exciting and strikingly different choreographic work in the company’s Spring Mix program at the Kravis Center for the Performing … Continue reading...
THEATER
For director and cast, stage version of ‘Frozen’ at Maltz has all of movie’s magic
Back in 2013, long before every red-blooded preteen was singing “Let It Go,” Disney released its animated adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen” about a pair of sister … Continue reading...
‘The Cher Show’: Sketchy narrative doesn’t hamper high entertainment value
Have you had enough of celebrity biographical musicals yet? Spurred on by the success of Jersey Boys, Broadway has served up show tributes to Carole King, Donna Summer, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson … Continue reading...
FILM
The View From Home: WWII spycraft, stealth feminism in Kino’s latest film noir box set
Kino Lorber recently retrieved three titles from the distributor’s seemingly bottomless well of obscure noirs from the genre’s golden age for yet another impactful box set. The Dark Side of Cinema XXI … Continue reading...
The View From Home: Solondz’s disturbing ‘Happiness,’ and a wry wolfman movie
As director Todd Solondz himself concedes in a bonus interview for Criterion’s long-awaited release of 1998’s Happiness ($34.99 4K, $27.99 Blu-ray, $13.91 DVD), the film “never would have been … 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
PB Opera taps Netrebko for gala star, courting controversy
By Robert Croan Palm Beach Opera has announced that Russian soprano Anna Netrebko will be the featured guest at the company’s annual Gala, to be held Feb. 5 at The Breakers Palm Beach … Continue reading...
Kravis invites you to visit Space Station, courtesy of VR
Imagine yourself as an avatar of pulsating lights, sporting a virtual reality (VR) headset and joining an international crew of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). You can do … Continue reading...