From left: Steven Strait, Dominik García-Lorido,Andy Garcia, Julianna Marguliesand Ezra Miller in City Island. Film: Fresh from the Miami International Film Festival comes City Island, an amiable look at a dysfunctional Bronx family, each of whom is harboring a secret. Cuban-born, South Florida-raised Andy Garcia gets a rare opportunity to flex his comic muscles as the prison … [Read more...]
Music feature: Sunday’s ‘Messiah’ last for Masterworks founder
Jack W. Jones at the Royal Poinciana Chapel. (Photo by Greg Stepanich)By Greg StepanichThis Sunday afternoon, crowds will gather in force at the Royal Poinciana Chapel on Palm Beach, as they do every holiday season, for a singalong performance of the so-called Christmas portion of George Frideric Handel's Messiah.It will be the 32nd such performance since Jack W. Jones … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 18-20
Elizabeth Dimon, Christopher Oden and Colin McPhillamy, in Copenhagen. Theater: Opening tonight is Palm Beach Dramaworks’ much-anticipated production of Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning Copenhagen, a cerebral look back at a mysterious 1941 meeting between two nuclear physicists that may have changed the course of World War II. Based on fact, but then stretched into … [Read more...]
Music review: PB Opera’s Beethoven sometimes messy, but packs a wallop
Mezzo-soprano Michaela Martens and soprano Ruth Ann Swenson sing during the finale of Beethoven's Ninth at the Kravis Center on Friday night.By Greg StepanichSeeing the gigantic forces arrayed on the stage of the Kravis Center, one couldn't help wondering whether the audience was about to hear a performance of the Mahler Eighth Symphony.But all those people were there Friday … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 27-29
Domestic Deity, by Bethany Krull. Art: Sculptor Bethany Krull's technical expertise is matched by the strength of her intellectual concepts, which focus on the relationship of humans to the natural world. This Saturday evening, Mulry Fine Art in Palm Beach hosts the opening of a solo show by Krull called Dominance and Affection. "It seems that the most intimate connection we … [Read more...]