By Robert Croan South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s music director, Sebrina Maria Alfonso, led one of her orchestra’s most adventurous and interesting programs ever (seen Feb. 18 at The Parker in … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
With early Bizet work, Palm Beach Opera finds a jewel
By Márcio Bezerra Before writing the revolutionary Carmen, Georges Bizet tried his hand at the operatic genre with a few operas that were given lukewarm receptions by the public and critics. His … 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
Gallim’s energetic Duncan show gave audience much to admire
What is it that makes a dance performance uniquely memorable? It can be many things and different for different people, but there is a certain something that one can sense but not readily describe. … Continue reading...
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...
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: Japanese anti-actioner ‘Cloud’ a corrosive satire on the capitalist dream
As someone who dabbles in reselling myself — albeit of on-the-level vinyl records, not suspiciously cheap “designer” goods — the scenario outlined in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest film Cloud (Criterion … Continue reading...
The View From Home: In a pig’s eye: Sublime ‘Babe’ and its more manic sequel are far more than kids’ stuff
Babe is not, as James Cromwell points out in a new interview for the film’s new Blu-ray release ($19.96, Kino Lorber, in a double feature with Babe: Pig in the City), a children’s film. It is, rather, … Continue reading...
BOOKS
Easy Rawlins creator Mosley to speak at Festival of the Arts Boca
“On hot, sticky days in South Louisiana, the fire ants swarm.” That was the sentence Walter Mosley wrote in his mid 30s — a line he never used, but one that convinced him he might become a … Continue reading...
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...
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
Easy Rawlins creator Mosley to speak at Festival of the Arts Boca
“On hot, sticky days in South Louisiana, the fire ants swarm.” That was the sentence Walter Mosley wrote in his mid 30s — a line he never used, but one that convinced him he might become a … Continue reading...
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...