Forget the butterfly, the thorny vine and the heart with initials. Imagine a colorful bird with a fish’s tail, a snake’s neck, and a turtle’s shell expanding from the neck all the way to the ankles. That’s what you can expect to see now at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World features photographs of full body … [Read more...]
Insipid rom-com ‘Lolo’ a step back for Delpy
Dany Boon, Julie Delpy and Vincent Lacoste in Lolo. It’s tempting to associate Julie Delpy entirely with Celine, the smart, clever, magnetically appealing and mostly uncompromising modern woman whose maturation we’ve witnessed, over three films and 18 years, in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy. To preserve my own faith in humanity, I’ll need to hold on to this delusion … [Read more...]
Stellar cast shines in Broward Stage Door’s ‘Evita’
By Dale King Evita, the rock opera conceived by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice at the height of their musical collaboration, has been packaged, repackaged and committed to celluloid since it was released as a concept record album 40 years ago and hit the stage in London two years later. Director Michael Leeds and choreographer Kevin Black return to the … [Read more...]
FAU closes season with gritty ‘Lear’
By Dale King Student actors from the Department of Theatre and Dance at Florida Atlantic University wrap up their 2015-2016 performance season this weekend with performances of what many consider to be William Shakespeare’s greatest play, King Lear. The show opened last week to a sellout crowd at the Studio One Theater on the Boca Raton campus. Based on a Celtic folk … [Read more...]
Photographers, muses tell stories of rock glory
off Pattie Boyd. “Behind the Lens” presented a unique live blend of music and visuals at the Kravis Center’s Persson Hall on April 13, with the featured attraction the narration and photographs of Henry Diltz and Pattie Boyd. The 77-year-old Diltz has more than 400 album cover shots for iconic artists, and the tales to go with them, while the 72-year-old Boyd mainly … [Read more...]
Last-minute changes unsettle last PB Symphony concert
The Palm Beach Symphony’s last concert this season April 10 suffered from a much-changed program, keeping the group’s largest public ever of 1,200 souls guessing. New insert programs lay in piles undistributed by the volunteer ushers at the Kravis Center. Lola Astanova, the highly regarded Russian-American pianist, was scheduled to play three solo pieces after her Mozart … [Read more...]
Seraphic Fire, New World bring major Reich score to vivid life
Patrick Dupre Quigley rehearses the New World Symphony and Seraphic Fire in Steve Reich's The Desert Music. (from Facebook) The season now in its final weeks has been a particularly good one for Beethoven, but performances of contemporary music have been relatively rare. Which is why it was great fun Saturday night to be at the New World Center in Miami Beach, where … [Read more...]
Film review: ‘Angels and Demons’ has less content, more action than ‘Da Vinci Code’
Tom Hanks works on behalf of the Vaticanin Angels and Demons.By Hap Erstein Although critically maligned, Ron Howard’s film version of The Da Vinci Code did pull in over $750 million worldwide, enough to get Hollywood interested in cranking out a sequel.And they found it in author Dan Brown’s screen worthy earlier yarn, Angels and Demons, now turned into a follow-up … [Read more...]
Film review: ‘The Class,’ France’s Oscar nominee came up short, but is a class act
Francois Begaudeau in ‘The Class.’By Hap Erstein Just days after the Academy Awards, a film called The Class arrives, and this little Oscar-worthy gem is a class act. France’s foreign language film nominee, it is a perfect antidote to all those wildly inspiring Hollywood movies where a cares-too-much teacher breaks through to an unruly group of students, turning them into … [Read more...]
Theater review: ’60s rock of ‘Beehive’ several degrees removed from the real thing
By Hap Erstein Those who were around in the 1960s probably remember exactly where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy was shot. Beehive, a musical salute to that tumultuous decade, wants to conjure up more frivolous moments in history. Sure, it acknowledges that November 1963, day when the nation was numbed by an assassin’s bullet, but it seems much more … [Read more...]