Touring performers never forget the first time they get booked at one of their favorite venues. Especially when it turns out that they can’t work there. Such was the case in March of 2020, when … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Cleveland Orchestra brilliant in Mozart, Shostakovich at Kravis
By Márcio Bezerra The Cleveland Orchestra returned to the Kravis Center on Feb. 1 in a program that displayed its uncompromising technical and musical standards. Under the baton of Music Director … Continue reading...
ART
Longtime Boca Museum of Art curator Goncharov dies at 73
By Sandra Schulman In an art career that spanned 40 years and major cities, Kathleen Goncharov served for 14 of those years as the senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, where she curated … Continue reading...
Bijoux! jewelry show returns to Mizner Park
Jewelry artists from Israel, Italy, Amsterdam, and Argentina will bring their latest wearable works of art to The Studio at Mizner Park for the 12th Annual Bijoux! Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition from … Continue reading...
DANCE
High-energy BalletX starts Duncan dance season with a bang
BalletX, the dynamite ensemble of versatile dancers from Philadelphia, ushered in the beginning of the Palm Beach dance season by launching the popular Friday Modern Dance Series at the Duncan Theatre … Continue reading...
The season in dance, 2025-26: MCB remains infrequent visitor, but Palm Beach County’s dance season remains robust
The Palm Beach County performance season is just around the corner even though the oppressive heat and humidity of summer is still with us. When the weather is cool, Palm Beach comes alive with things … Continue reading...
THEATER
Theatre Lab wants you to meet Joanna Castle Miller and her autobiographical trilogy
By Erik Kvarnberg FAU Theatre Lab wants everyone possible to get to know playwright, actor, and stand-up comic Joanna Castle Miller, and this starts with Conversa. Conversa is an … Continue reading...
Theater buzz: Dramaworks sets new play festival; FAU Theatre Lab moves to bigger digs
By Erik Kvarnberg Palm Beach Dramaworks sets eighth new play festival WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach Dramaworks is offering its eighth annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays this month at the … Continue reading...
FILM
The View From Home: Criterion, Scorsese pair up for another globetrotting collection
The Criterion Collection continues to provide a vital service in partnering with Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, launched in 2007 to preserve and restore important but neglected films from … Continue reading...
The View From Home: ‘Israel Palestine on Swedish TV’ a vital argument for journalistic access
Watching Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (Icarus Films, $29.98 DVD), a hulking film composed entirely of archival footage and spanning nearly three and a half hours, a paraphrased lyric from … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Author Wald explores roots of American music in South Florida appearances
Even if the name of author, musical artist and historian Elijah Wald (elijahwald.com) doesn’t necessarily ring a bell, chances are that you’ve experienced or at least heard of something he’s … Continue reading...
‘3 Shades of Blue’ brings us close to three jazz titans, masterfully
If the best books indeed put readers in the mind’s eye of their authors, then James Kaplan’s 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool (Penguin Press) … 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
Longtime Boca Museum of Art curator Goncharov dies at 73
By Sandra Schulman In an art career that spanned 40 years and major cities, Kathleen Goncharov served for 14 of those years as the senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, where she curated … Continue reading...
Folk Radio Hall of Fame inducts longtime WLRN host Stock
A list of the things that have changed in the South Florida music scene since the Reagan administration’s first presidential term constitutes a scroll, with practically all being for the worse. … Continue reading...