Top: Ceci Fernandez, Stephen Trovillion and Jai Rodriguez; bottom: Finnerty Steeves and Gregg Weiner, in Mickey Herman Saves The $#&@ World. (Photo by George Schiavone)By Hap ErsteinThere was every reason to be worried about this year’s Summer Shorts, the 16th annual collection of stage vignettes that has become a much-anticipated seasonal fixture in … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 29-May 1
Street Surfer (1986), by Robert Vickrey.Art: The technique of egg tempera painting, perhaps most memorably wielded by artists such as Giotto, was eclipsed by oil painting in the 15th century.But egg tempera still draws creators, and the acknowledged modern master of this technique was the American artist Robert Vickrey, whose paintings of nuns, children, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 15-17
Robin Wright as Mary Surratt in The Conspirator.Film: Sure, he won an Oscar 30 years ago for making Ordinary People, but Robert Redford remains an underrated director. To see how he can bring history alive, involving and even a little instructive, check out The Conspirator, his take on the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as seen through the … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in jazz
Chris Botti. (Illustration by Pat Crowley)By Bill MeredithSouth Florida's creative jazz concert calendar is always a case of feast or famine, and there's usually more of a feast south of Palm Beach County.That's partly because there's a stronger jazz nightclub presence in the Fort Lauderdale and Miami areas than on the practically nonexistent West Palm Beach scene. And … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 26-31
Pianist Ingrid Fliter.Music: The Cleveland Orchestra wraps up its third and final week of residency in Miami with two performances by the fine Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, who will perform the Chopin Concerto No. 2 (in F minor, Op. 21) with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Also on the program is the Romeo and Juliet suite from Prokofiev’s ballet score. 8 p.m. tonight and … [Read more...]
Music review: Cleveland Orchestra does right by Bernstein
Pianist Joela Jones. (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)By Greg StepanichLeonard Bernstein always was torn between the needs of his composing and conducting lives, and in the end, the lure of the podium proved too strong for him to write as much music as he said he wanted to.In a previous Miami residency, Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra tackled the first of the three … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Cleveland Orchestra settles strike; Miami series will go on
Violinist Leila Josefowicz.By Palm Beach ArtsPaper staffThe Cleveland Orchestra strike was settled early this morning after a one-day walkout when the two sides agreed to a new three year-contract that freezes wages for two years.The agreement means the Miami residency for the orchestra, set to start Friday, will go forward as scheduled.“We are very happy that management has … [Read more...]
Theater review: At Summer Shorts, the players are the thing
From left: Steve Trovillion, Laura Turnbull,John Manzelli and Stephen G. Anthony inSodom and Gomorrah: Priced to Sell, by Ken Brisbois.(Photo by George Schiavone)By Hap ErsteinIf they had to write the perennial “How I Spent My Summer Vacation,” some of South Florida’s best, most versatile actors could wax enthusiastically about immersing themselves in City Theatre’s Summer … [Read more...]