Michael McKeever and Nickolas Richberg in Stuff.Editor’s note: This story, was was to be posted Friday, was delayed by technical difficulties. It has been posted since Friday on www.palmbeachartspaper.com.Theater: OK, you’ve procrastinated long enough. This is the final weekend for the world premiere production of Stuff at Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre. This … [Read more...]
Theater feature: Kravis’ 2011-12 season features fare for low, high brows
Larry King. By Hap ErsteinYou’ve heard of the three Bs -- Bach, Brahms and Beethoven? Well, the Kravis Center has announced that next season it will present the three Ls -- Larry the Cable Guy, Larry King and a tribute show called Elvis Lives. Uh, didn’t the Kravis used to be a center for the performing arts?The West Palm Beach complex will be celebrating … [Read more...]
Music review: Recent American brass trio proves smart switch at chamber fest
American composer Lauren Bernofsky.By Greg StepanichThe second concert of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival’s 20th season underwent a programming change, but its tried-and-true finale, which didn’t change, worked its customary magic.A large audience at the Crest Theatre on Sunday afternoon warmly applauded that last work, the Death and the Maiden Quartet … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 15-21
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip. Film: Fans of director Michael Winterbottom’s Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story are likely to get a kick out of the ad lib road comedy The Trip, for he has again enlisted the duo of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in a sly verbal romp. As in the earlier film, the two British actors play themselves, or at least a comic … [Read more...]
Music review: Chamber fest’s Schoenberg falls short of transfiguration
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).By Greg StepanichAs one of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival’s performers rightly said in her remarks from the stage, the name of Arnold Schoenberg is “box office poison” for a lot of people, but that really shouldn’t apply to his early string sextet, Verklärte Nacht.This important, beautiful work was one of the major events … [Read more...]
Music feature: Camaraderie keeps PB Chamber Music Festival going, 20 summers on
Members of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, picturedthis week at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach. From left: Ellen Tomasiewicz, Rebecca Diderrich, Beth Larsen,Michael Ellert, Roberta Rust, Julia McAlister, Rene Reder and Sherie Aguirre.(Photo by Michael Price Photography)By Greg StepanichIt all began at Chuck and Harold’s.On a long-ago day at … [Read more...]
Music review: Kim’s Schubert stellar at last Stringendo concert
Jonah Kim.By Greg StepanichThe cellist Jonah Kim has spent several years concertizing and living in South Florida, including studies at Lynn University, all the while building a wider career from two other home bases in New York and Prague.Tuesday night’s closing concert of the Stringendo School for Strings faculty series at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s Persson … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 1-6
J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci in The Music Never Stopped.Film: The British neurologist Oliver Sacks’ popular case studies have made good fodder for Hollywood (1990’s Awakenings), and in The Music Never Stopped, one of Sacks’ essays (The Last Hippie) is the source of the story. Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), long estranged from his father … [Read more...]
Music review: Shevchenko’s survey of Brahms, Chopin deeply satisfying
Margarita Shevchenko.By Greg StepanichMargarita Shevchenko’s program at the Steinway Gallery in Boca Raton on Saturday night was as core-Romantic as it could get, with much-loved music by Brahms and Chopin making up the bill of fare.But while these works were twice- and thrice-familiar, the Russian-born resident of North Miami Beach brought a deep, mature vision to … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 17-19
Neil Patrick Harris in Company.Film: Can’t decide whether to go to the theater or to the movies this weekend? Do both, with the high-definition video of the recent concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, which was shamelessly promoted on last Sunday’s Tony Awards broadcast. It stars Neil Patrick Harris as marriage-challenged Bobby, which should restart the … [Read more...]