Theater: Every generation has an image of Peter Pan, either Mary Martin, who originated the role in the 1954 Broadway musical, or such subsequent high fliers as Sandy Duncan or Cathy Rigby. We can now add Shanon Mari Mills to that list, for her energetic, athletic and full-voiced performance at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton. She heads a lavish production directed by Michael … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 16-17
Film: Writer-director John Michael McDonagh gives us a present called Calvary, the second installment in a projected trilogy after the considerably lighter The Guard of a few years ago. Both star the impeccable Brendan Gleeson, seen here as the priest of a small, destitute Irish village. He is having trouble herding his flock, a challenge that is intensified by his own crisis … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 19-21
Music: Dave Matthews is one of those fortunate pop stars with a fan base that is essentially an extended family. Tonight he returns with his band to the Cruzan Amphitheatre for two nights of concerts in which the Dave Matthews Nation will surely be in force. At the end of this year he returns to his native South Africa for a series of concerts that are selling out, and which … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 25-26
Still in Olympics withdrawal? Googling “Sochi, Russia” to think idly about your coverage-watching plans for the winter of 2014? The folks at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre understand. Friday night, the center opened an exhibit of hot-off-the-presses pictures from the just-concluded games by Adam Stoltman, a center instructor and professional photographer who’s covered no … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 27-29
Art: Earlier this month, China claimed the title of the world’s second-largest economy, overtaking Japan for the No. 2 spot behind the United States. It seems a local achievement for a nation that has long been a much-desired global trading partner, and a new show at the Norton Museum of Art focuses on one of the more familiar offshoots of that commercial energy. On the Silk … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 13-18
Music: Brad Paisley got his start in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, and since then he’s gathered up every important award in country music. He’s on the road a lot, too, and on Saturday afternoon, he’s at the Cruzan for a stop on his H20 World Tour. The tour will feature a “water world plaza” meant to evoke summer and water fun, as part of Paisley’s efforts on behalf … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 6-12
Film: Robert Oppenheimer had a very good idea of what his Manhattan Project had unleashed in the New Mexico desert in 1945, but at the time, his team was all alone in having become “Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Today, an estimated 23,000 nuclear weapons exist, and the makers of the powerful Countdown to Zero want you to understand how terrifying a prospect that is. Approved … [Read more...]