Pattie Boyd and George Harrison. Even before the rock video era started in the 1980s, the visual element has often been as important as sound in popular music. In the multi-media presentation Behind the Lens, two architects of this blend through the 1960s and 1970s, Pattie Boyd and Henry Diltz, share their stories and images in a tell-all slide show. Boyd inspired husbands … [Read more...]
Arts Garage’s ‘Smoke’: Kinky, but not a lot to say
Connie Fernandez and Clay Cartland in Smoke. Sexual attraction can be benign, but more often than not — at least onstage — it is a prelude to a tug-of-war power skirmish. That is how it plays out in Kim Davies’ sadomasochistic Smoke, a kinky two-character tango which fittingly bookends a season that began with Sex with Strangers. We are starting to wonder about the personal … [Read more...]
The war that never ends: Historian Winter to discuss WWI at Festival of the Arts Boca
French soldiers in the trenches during World War I. Imagine a world in which Great Britain and Germany are the major powers, and the United States and Russia are only minor players on the global scene. It’s a world of relatively conservative politics, where there was no World War II, no Holocaust, and no one but their families had ever heard of Adolf Hitler or Vladimir … [Read more...]
Sommers stunning as Bessie Smith in Arts Garage’s ‘Devil’s Music’
Elijah Taj Gee and Avery Sommers in The Devil’s Music. (Photo by Alex Shapiro) For the third show of his first season at the helm of The Theatre at Arts Garage, Keith Garsson has selected a bioplay-cum-concert featuring the song stylings of Bessie Smith, the Depression-era performer considered to be the “Empress of the Blues.” Featuring over a dozen musical numbers delivered … [Read more...]
Arts buzz: Brief notes in local arts
Flagler Museum director Blades retiring after 21 years PALM BEACH — John Blades, executive director of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, will retire at the end of this month, the museum said. Blades has been the museum’s executive director since June 1995, and is credited with overseeing the revitalization of the museum, which began life as Henry Flagler’s Whitehall mansion. … [Read more...]