As always, the classical season in South Florida is a relatively rich one, with plenty of activity in solo, chamber and orchestral music to interest a wide variety of listeners. The season is still … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
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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
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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
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Season Preview 2024-25: A big classical season, with exciting guests and new visitors
As always, the classical season in South Florida is a relatively rich one, with plenty of activity in solo, chamber and orchestral music to interest a wide variety of listeners. The season is still … Continue Reading
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Season Preview 2024-25: Stalwarts keep the flame alive for jazz fans
If all music forms encompassed a herd of prey animals, jazz might be the unfortunate member struggling to keep up at its rear flank. It’s unfortunate, and not the way it should be, but sadly the way … Continue Reading
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Met Opera’s HD shows at movies helps fill in local opera gap
By Robert Croan Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, one of the most colorful, melodic operas in the repertory and also one of the most difficult to produce, opened the 2024-25 season of The Met: … Continue Reading
MUSIC
Season Preview 2024-25: Stalwarts keep the flame alive for jazz fans
If all music forms encompassed a herd of prey animals, jazz might be the unfortunate member struggling to keep up at its rear flank. It’s unfortunate, and not the way it should be, but sadly the way … Continue reading...
Arts News
ART
Powerful photo exhibit at Boca Museum spurs difficult conversations
Five distinctive photographic voices are now on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in an exhibit called Myths, Secrets, Lies, and Truths: Photography from the Doug McCraw Collection. The show, … 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...
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
Actress Jacobson triumphs in ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth’ at the Maltz
Few people are unfamiliar with Ruth Westheimer, the straight-talking grandmotherly sex therapist of radio, television, books and even a sex education board game. Perhaps even fewer, however, are aware … Continue reading...
At the Maltz: ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth’ tells remarkable story of woman behind the frank talk
Most people are familiar with Ruth Westheimer, but few know her backstory — her roots as a German child who fled her homeland to Switzerland as the Nazis were gaining power. After World War II, she … Continue reading...
FILM
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...
‘Speak No Evil’ opts for thriller clichés after psychological study
For city couples like Ben and Louise Dalton, played by Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis in Speak No Evil, the invitation to spend a holiday in the English countryside sounds like just the respite … 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...