By Myles Ludwig I worry that I’m losing my mind. I worry that the indefinable, ungraspable spirit that somehow, magically, animates my character, clicks on my personality, is slipping away, cell by cell, molecule by molecule, quark by quark, that my synapses are plaquing up and starting to slow down the everyday neural transmissions. For a writer, it’s one of the worst … [Read more...]
PB Opera opens season with a grand afternoon of singing
The weather gods looked favorably upon Saturday’s festive gathering at the Meyer Amphitheatre on Flagler Drive. The sun shone behind clouds, and cool breezes from Lake Worth fanned across the gladed greenery. Even better, the Palm Beach Opera’s 2013-14 group of seven Young Artists made a positive impression, breathing new life into old arias. Distinguished tenor James … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 27-30
Theater: Musicals rarely attract the major money they need for full production these days without developmental workshops and staged readings. This Monday evening or Tuesday afternoon at The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan, a new show called Borscht Belt Bistro (music and lyrics by Ken Mazur) gets a tryout, prior to what playwright Carrol Mendelson hopes will be a production here, … [Read more...]
‘So My Grandmother Died,’ and so did the linear play
More than most other South Florida theater companies, Miami’s Mad Cat has been able to attract a young audience, pulling them away from pop culture and electronic media for a couple of hours. How? With plays like artistic director Paul Tei’s So My Grandmother Died, Blah Blah Blah, a messy grab bag of pop culture and Internet references with only tangential interest in a … [Read more...]
Amelia Piano Trio excellent in program of teen trios
Frederic Chopin did not write much chamber music, but it's fair to say that the two major works that qualify -- the early Piano Trio and the late Cello Sonata -- have been too often overlooked. In this bicentenary year of Chopin's birth, the Connecticut-based Amelia Piano Trio is redressing that balance with performances of this fine work, and it was part of the bold, … [Read more...]