Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in Duplicity.Film: With the Cold War over, governmental spies need to re-direct their efforts and that is what the CIA’s Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) and MI6’s Ray Koval (Clive Owen) intend to do in Tony Gilroy’s smart and smart-mouthed trust-no-one comedy, Duplicity.The two occasional lovers move into industrial espionage, spying and … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 20-24
Lorin Maazel and his band.Music: Lorin Maazel is wrapping up his tenure as director of the New York Philharmonic this year, and Sunday night he brings the band back to West Palm Beach with a non-controversial program that should show this great orchestra to good advantage.The concert, set for 8 p.m. Sunday at the Kravis Center, includes the Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture of … [Read more...]
Dance review: Show too mixed to make enough mo
A scene from Momix's Lunar Sea.By Sharon McDanielLAKE WORTH -- Acrobats -- supple contortionists, really -- perch spider-like on slender poles. Slowly, poles and people spin until airborne, circling the space above the Duncan Theatre stage.In effect, Momix defined itself more as a verb than a dance company in works like the airborne Sputnik (Fellow Traveler). You might say that … [Read more...]
Dance review: Split-personality ballets give Gamonet show mixed message
By Sharon McDanielLAKE WORTH – Experimental and controversial, choreographer Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros is a man of opposites. His modern ballets manhandle viewers’ hearts with their elegance, freshness and artistry. Others draw quizzical frowns and nervous chuckles over what can only be called circus kitsch meets Las Vegas floor show.Sadly, there’s little middle ground. At … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 16-18
Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompsonin Last Chance Harvey. THEATER: The rocky economy has hit New Vista Theatre hard. With the loss of corporate and private underwriting, the company has had to scrub its much-anticipated production of the Tony Award-winning musical, The Producers. In its place, artistic director Avi Hoffman will unveil a new follow-up to his signature solo … [Read more...]
Dance review: Ballet Florida’s engaging ‘Nutcracker’
By Greg StepanichWEST PALM BEACH -- It doesn't take a great ballet company to make a successful Nutcracker. In many cases, all a dance group has to do is go heavy on the cute factor with mouse suits and child dancers, and a holiday-minded audience ready to embrace it eagerly does so.Then again, it does takes a fine company to demonstrate just how much can be made of this … [Read more...]