Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks ends its season with Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, a fictionalized tale of his mother and her four spinster sisters, who lead a repressed, impoverished life in the Irish village of Ballybeg. But when they are at their lowest, they manage to kick up their heels and give in to the spirit of the pagan harvest festival of Lughnasa, capturing a … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 17-19
Art: Transformations, a solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings, wall reliefs and sculptures by artist Yvonne Parker, has just opened at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Museum in West Palm Beach. Parker, who was born and raised in southern Germany, was encouraged by her father to explore multiple media in her artwork from a young age. She studied porcelain painting in … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 11-12
Theater: Ten years ago, West Palm Beach’s Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Company had a critical hit with a teen drama by Mark St. Germain (Freud’s Last Session). Called Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, it concerned two newly graduated high schoolers — one the daughter of a fading rock star, the other the son of an ambitious, conservative U.S. senator. They go together to a promontory … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 3-5
Art: See the culmination of years of study in the art work of four Masters of Fine Art students in Thesis Exhibition 2013 at the Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University. The exhibition, which runs through May 24, showcases the large, charcoal drawings of Jill Lavetsky, the abstract paintings and drawings of Eduardo Rosas and the functional pottery of Alexandra … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 26-28
Theater: OK, procrastinators, this is the final weekend to catch the first-rate Palm Beach Dramaworks production of Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King, the great absurdist playwright’s comic meditation on death. In it, the king of a shabby, rundown realm learns that he has only 90 minutes left to live ― not coincidentally the lengths of this one-act play ― so he takes stock of his … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 19-21
Art: A stunning series of space shuttle photos by photographer Mark Widick opens Saturday at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County’s Lawrence A. Saunders Foundation Gallery in Lake Worth. The exhibition runs through May 18. The International Panoramic Photographic Society, Digital Imaging Association, and Google Earth have each published Widick’s photography. His … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 12-14
Music: One of the most interesting aspects of the current cultural Zeitgeist is its emphasis, particularly among the young, on marrying entertainment to social change. Thus cometh the first-ever Tortuga Festival hosted by the marine conservation group Rock the Ocean on Fort Lauderdale Beach this Saturday and Sunday. To focus attention on the plight of the world’s seas, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 5-7
Dance: The Miami City Ballet closes out its season at the Kravis Center this weekend with four performances of two well-loved ballets: Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering, set to music by Chopin, and Slaughter on 10th Avenue, part of Richard Rodgers’ score for On Your Toes, as choreographed by George Balanchine. If you can’t catch this fine company’s mounting of these two … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 29-31
Film: British director Michael Apted has made such commercial movies as Coal Miner’s Daughter and the 1999 James Bond flick, The World Is Not Enough. But by far his more significant project has been the Up series, a documentary visit with a dozen or so British subjects every seven years for the past 49 years, to track their lives and learn how they have overcome or fallen … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 23-26
(Editor’s note: The posting of this entry was delayed by technical difficulties.) Art: Boynton Beach settings have been transformed into vibrant paintings by the Palm Beach County Plein-Air meet-up group. The group’s work can be viewed in the Breeze into Boynton Beach: Plein-Air Exhibit on display on the second floor of the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. … [Read more...]