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 more than 30 exhibitions featuring notable artists of national and international acclaim. Goncharov died Dec. 31 at age 73 at her home in Boca Raton, family members said. … [Read more...]
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 company’s Clematis Street home. From Jan. 9 to 11, playwrights will unite with a number of actors and directors to read through works in progress. Last season’s festival led to two … [Read more...]
Boston’s H&H Society brings standout ‘Messiah’ to Kravis
By Márcio Bezerra The Kravis Center’s Classical Concert Series launched its latest season with a performance that has set the standard so high that it will be difficult to surpass it. Featuring the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus, the program’s sole work was the profoundly beautiful (and often butchered) George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Written in … [Read more...]
FAU Theatre Lab’s ‘The City in the City in the City’ proves compelling, powerful
By Erik Kvarnberg In Matthew Capodicasa’s play The City in the City in the City, which wrapped its world premiere run Nov. 23 at FAU Theatre Lab, the “city” of the title is as much a character as the two women who navigate it. Performed by Niki Fridh and Vaishnavi Sharma, this provocative two-hander touched on multiple problems of human existence while also showcasing … [Read more...]
‘Silent Night’ opens FGO season in stellar fashion
By Robert Croan Florida Grand Opera has a real winner in its revival of Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night, which opened at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center on Nov. 15, and will be repeated in Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center on Dec. 4 and 6. Commissioned and premiered by Minnesota Opera in 2011, Puts’s opera is based on a real World War I event that inspired … [Read more...]
Bailey shines in Saint-Saëns at SoFla Symphony opener
By Robert Croan A bravura rendition by cellist Zuill Bailey of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor (Op. 33) was the highlight of South Florida Symphony’s season opener at The Parker on Nov. 5. It was an all-19th-century program, which also featured Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Op. 68) — solidly traditional in a season that has to be … [Read more...]
The world in a bead: Canadian Indigenous artist brings unique vision to Gavlak Gallery
By Sandra Schulman Childbirth and quantum physics, the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the most fundamental, subatomic level, have led artist Renée Condo to a remarkable new body of work. Her new show at the Gavlak Gallery in West Palm Beach, Niskamij (Sky World), is a solo exhibition that evokes her Indigenous cosmology through large-scale beaded … [Read more...]
Three B’s concert with triple twist engagingly delivered by Frazier, SOTA
By Robert Croan For his second concert as artistic and music director of the Symphony of the Americas (seen Nov. 10 in Broward Center’s Amaturo Theater) Luke Frazier offered a program of the Three B's of classical music: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms at the Keyboard. That sounded trite at first, and the epithet may have been intended to attract a wider audience, but the … [Read more...]
Music of celebration gets loving treatment at hands of Master Chorale, Karlin
By Robert Croan Jubilant music for the coronations of kings and other autocrats was the unifying element in Master Chorale of South Florida’s Handel and Mozart program [seen Oct. 24 in Bailey Hall on Broward College’s Davie campus]. Artistic director Brett Karlin conducted Handel’s four Coronation Anthems, written for the coronation of England’s King George II in 1727. … [Read more...]
The season in community theater, 2025-26: Lake Worth, Delray playhouses enjoying renewal
By Sharon Geltner The 101-year-old Lake Worth Playhouse is being fast-tracked for a $1 million state grant by next September, said Rick Gonzalez, a West Palm Beach architect and a member of the Florida Historic Commission — which selects the recipients. He said the momentum is due to the Playhouse’s historic importance and how it boosts the city’s economy. “I’ve … [Read more...]