Avery Sommers and the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida in South Pacific. (Photo by Jeffrey Tholl) By Dale King One of the largest performing arts venues on the Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton is the Carole and Barry Kaye Auditorium. There are hundreds of seats on the floor, more in an elevated section to the rear and bleacher-style seating running up the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 6-8
Pianist Shuree Enkhbold. Music: If you’ve ever heard the music of Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa, who lived from 1915 to 1991, you’re in exclusive company. But if you haven’t, tonight is your chance to hear music by Mongolia’s most eminent composer, played by a young Mongolian pianist studying with Roberta Rust at Lynn University. Munkshur Enkhbold, who prefers the name Shuree, is, … [Read more...]
FAU closes season with gritty ‘Lear’
By Dale King Student actors from the Department of Theatre and Dance at Florida Atlantic University wrap up their 2015-2016 performance season this weekend with performances of what many consider to be William Shakespeare’s greatest play, King Lear. The show opened last week to a sellout crowd at the Studio One Theater on the Boca Raton campus. Based on a Celtic folk … [Read more...]
FAU’s ‘Twelfth Night’ proves conceptually challenged
Florida Atlantic University's 12th annual summer Festival Rep has romance on the brain this season, leading off with William Shakespeare’s comedy of gender confusion, mistaken identity and the resilience of love, Twelfth Night.On now in a production that is uneven at best, it will be joined at the end of this week by Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company, a jaundiced view of … [Read more...]