Kim Ostrenko, Nick Santa Maria, Kim Cozortand Michael Serratore in God of Carnage.By Hap ErsteinThere is a lot more carnage then there are signs of God in Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Tony Award-winning best play, God of Carnage, which opens this evening at the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton.As she did with her earlier acclaimed comedy Art, Reza enjoys … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 8-12
The Arrival (2008), by Jose Alvarez.Art: The Norton Museum of Art has opened an exhibit of contemporary art featuring works by artists whose perception of the world around is refracted in unusual but precise ways. Altered States, which opened Saturday and runs through July 17, shows work by four artists – Jose Alvarez, Yayoi Kusama, Fred Tomaselli and Leo … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: Romance and its aftermath, on three stages
J. Fred Shiffman and Kate Eastwood Norris in Ghost-Writer.By Hap ErsteinA former musician turned playwright, Michael Hollinger is clearly fascinated with the music of words.Such an interest was evident in his earlier play, Opus, about the search for harmony among the members of a string quartet. A similar verbal playfulness is present in his latest work, … [Read more...]
Theater feature: ‘Next Fall’ marks Hall’s return to Caldwell director’s chair
Tom Wahl and Josh Canfield in Next Fall.(Photo by Dustin Hamilton)By Hap ErsteinMore than a year and a half ago, Caldwell Theatre co-founder Michael Hall handed off the artistic reins of the Boca Raton stage company he had run for 36 years. But he suspected it was just a matter of time before we would be back directing a production there, and that time is … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 18-20
Daniela Mack. (Photo by Dario Acosta) Music: The music of Spain has long been a favorite of the conductor Philippe Entremont, and for this weekend’s concert by the Boca Symphonia, he’s commissioned new arrangements of familiar and not-so-familiar masterworks from the land of Cervantes. The Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack is the guest soloist for Manuel … [Read more...]
Theater roundup 2: Provocative ‘Clybourne’; a star turn for Gless
Kenneth Kay and Patti Gardner in Clybourne Park. By Hap ErsteinAfrican-Americans have federally sanctioned civil rights and the nation voted a black man into the White House. So we must have made substantial advances towards racial equality and co-existence since Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 stage drama, A Raisin in the Sun, haven’t we?Not necessarily, suggests … [Read more...]
Theater feature: ‘Clybourne Park’ playwright wants to get under your skin
Gregg Weiner, Karen Stephens and Brian D. Coatsin Clybourne Park. By Hap ErsteinPlaywright Bruce Norris has no use for writing scripts that do not provoke audiences. Typical of his work, if there is such a thing, is Clybourne Park, which looks at race relations in this country and suggests that communities change faster than our racial attitudes.“Well, we’ve … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 7-9
A section from Idiotheim (2010), by Chris Vicini.Art: Elwa Productions, a New York-based contemporary art company with roots in West Palm Beach, returns to the city tonight to open A Connection That Binds, a show featuring work by Swedish sculptor Chris Vicini and American painter Devin Powers, at Elayne and Marvin Mordes’ Whitespace gallery on Australian … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 10-12
Dmitri Belosselskiy as Zaccaria in Palm Beach Opera’s Nabucco.Music: The Palm Beach Opera opens its 49th season tonight with Nabucco, the opera that made Giuseppe Verdi’s career back in 1842. It’s the first mounting of this opera by the company in 25 years, and they’ve secured a host of singers with experience at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. … [Read more...]
Theater feature: Caldwell makes a virtue of musical by bringing back ‘Vices’
Albert Cattafi and Holly Shunkey in Vices: A Love Story.By Hap ErsteinBelying the proverb about opportunity only knocking once, here comes another chance to see the steamy, quirky, Carbonell-award-winning dance musical Vices: A Love Story, back at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, where it had its world premiere in the summer of 2009.Vices is a series of … [Read more...]