Today, the launch of this version of the Palm Beach ArtsPaper site becomes official with the redirecting of our initial site – www.pbartspaper.com – to this one, www.palmbeachartspaper.com. If you’ve bookmarked the old site, you should end up here. If you are still interested in seeing the site as it was since our launch in November 2008, we’ve moved all that material to … [Read more...]
Florida Stage subscribers to get arts deals; Wright to headline poetry fest
Florida Stage subscribers to get special offers in mid-July Following the unexpected news earlier this month that Florida Stage was filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and could not refund subscribers for their 2011-2012 season tickets, numerous cultural groups have united to help mitigate some of the loss. The Palm Beach County Cultural Council, along with 25 organizations, has … [Read more...]
WXEL radio now WPBI; Boca museum sets juried show
WXEL radio becomes WPBI with close of sale to APM FORT LAUDERDALE – Classical South Florida, the American Public Media radio subsidiary, said it has completed the purchase of WXEL-90.7 FM. The Boynton Beach-based radio station’s new call letters are WPBI. The Minneapolis-based company bought WXEL radio last year from Barry University in Miami Shores for about $4 million. The … [Read more...]
FAU concert, exhibit spotlight Russian music publisher’s legacy
BOCA RATON -- The Bessel publishing house, founded in St. Petersburg in 1869, grew from a music shop into a concern that was at the center of Russian musical life, printing works by the nation’s leading composers from Tchaikovsky to the members of the “mighty handful.” Many of the first-edition scores published by Bessel can be seen in the Richard Beattie Davis Collection at … [Read more...]
Boca arts fest to return March 4-12
By Skip Sheffield The Festival of the Arts Boca is going lean and green for its fifth season March 4-12 at Mizner Park in Boca Raton. That’s “green” as in “young.” One of the headliners in the concert finale March 12, operatic soprano Jackie Evancho, is just 10 years old. “We tried to calm the pace a little this year,” Charles Siemon, chairman and co-founder of the … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Dramaworks moving to Cuillo Centre
WEST PALM BEACH -- Like many a local resident in this downbeat economy, Palm Beach Dramaworks has decided to rent instead of buy. Long in the market for a new theater to replace its current 85-seat digs, the 10-year-old professional theater company in West Palm Beach announced today it will be signing a 20-year lease to move into the Cuillo Centre for the Arts at Clematis and … [Read more...]
‘Spring Awakening’ set for Kravis; radio chief mum on WXEL changes
‘Spring Awakening’ coming to Kravis The Kravis Center’s 19th season of theater, film, music, dance and comedy will include a performance in March of Spring Awakening, the Duncan Sheik adaptation of Franz Wedekind’s play that won the Tony for best musical in 2007. In its initial run, the musical starred Lea Michele, the current star of Fox’s TV show-choir comedy, Glee. The … [Read more...]
Rival WXEL bidders to present plans at Boynton meeting
Disc jockey Stu Grant, host of the Jazz Impressions show on Saturday nights at WXEL-90.7 FM, is in limbo. The Boynton Beach-based station is set to be sold, which will make it an arm of American Public Media and change its call letters. And the future of Grant’s show has yet to be decided upon. “I’m hopeful that things will remain the same,” Grant says. “I’ve only heard that … [Read more...]
State funding for arts ‘an embarrassment,’ cultural leaders say
This is about money, or rather, about the absence of it. That’s what 80 executives representing cultural organizations from Palm Beach County heard at the State of the Arts meeting Monday at the Armory Art Center. Turns out they are part of the problem and the solution. Last fiscal year, Palm Beach County received $150,000 in arts money from the state in the form of six … [Read more...]
PB Opera competition chooses 13 finalists
Thirteen young singers in two divisions have been named finalists in the 41st annual Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition. The singers will perform Sunday afternoon in the Grand Finals concert at the Kravis Center. The competition began this week with 47 semi-finalists selected from an initial field of 259. The finalists will be vying for a total of $78,000 in donated prize … [Read more...]