By Tara Mitton Catao In the third installment of its popular modern dance series, the Duncan Theatre veered away from the companies of iconic modern dance makers and presented BodyVox. The eight-member troupe from Portland, Ore., is the creation of the husband-and-wife team of Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland and showcases their choreography. Both share the same professional … [Read more...]
News briefs: ‘Of Mice and Men’ extended; student rockers salute vets
Because of audience demand, Palm Beach Dramaworks has added three new performance dates for Of Mice and Men at Don and Ann Brown Theatre in West Palm Beach. New performance dates include Friday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. The theatre is located at 201 Clematis St. in downtown West Palm Beach. Set in author John Steinbeck’s … [Read more...]
Good Dvorak, Beethoven end Boca Symphonia season
The Boca Raton Symphonia closed its 2012-13 season Sunday with a too-little-heard major concerto and a genial reading of a major symphony, securing a solid planetary foothold amid the constellation of local chamber orchestras that appeared in the wake of the Florida Philharmonic’s Big Bang. Let by guest conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos, who directed the group last month at … [Read more...]
An intimate, engaging show from Indigo Girls at Culture Room
By Kylie Phillips The deliberations earlier that day in Washington about gay marriage may have been contentious, but last Tuesday night (March 26) at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale, the Indigo Girls and their audience had reached a visceral consensus. Fans packed into a sold-out house on the unseasonably cold night. Long crocheted vests, flannel, and double denim … [Read more...]
Showy Amadeus rocks Mizner audience at Boca Fest
As he strolled in from offstage, he looked for all the world like a kid on Christmas morning, dressed in gear that might have been raided from three or four different gifts, gazing around with wide-eyed wonder at the festive magic before him. But he was Amadeus Leopold, the young violinist born 26 years ago in Seoul as Han-bin Yoo, a greatly gifted prodigy and Itzhak Perlman … [Read more...]
Raitt mesmerizes big audience at Mizner show
Sunday, Oct. 21, was particularly long for Bonnie Raitt. The day before she and her band had headlined Magnoliafest in Live Oak, and she was hoping for a nice rest in Boca Raton before her show at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Unfortunately for Raitt, the presidential debate had claimed every room in the neighborhood, so as she noted, they found a hotel “farther up the beach.” … [Read more...]
Boca fest audience was wild about Jackie
Perhaps some were thinking of their own daughters, pre-teen rebellion, and others of their granddaughters, out of touch in distant states. Doubtless most had happier ideas in mind, though one thing was clear: The appearance Saturday of Jackie Evancho on the final night of this year’s Festival of the Arts Boca turned an audience of concertgoers into proud, teary parents. The … [Read more...]