I remember arriving in West Palm Beach in early 1994 to become the theater writer for The Palm Beach Post and being given a personal tour of the Kravis Center. I was told all the pertinent facts about Dreyfoos Hall, how it had the same stage dimensions as the Metropolitan Opera House (for some indiscernible reason) and soon realized that it was programmed like most other major … [Read more...]
Florida Stage moving to Kravis, MCB gets its orchestra back
Florida Stage moving to Kravis Center next summer Florida Stage is making a long-anticipated move to West Palm Beach. Beginning in July 2010, Florida’s largest professional theater company dedicated exclusively to new and emerging plays will take up residence in the Marshall E. Rinker Sr. Playhouse at the Kravis Center, the company said Monday night. Officials with both … [Read more...]
Florida festival brings best films from La Belle France
Fortunately, Patrick Giminez lives in Boca Raton. As a result, Palm Beach County residents do not have to travel to Miami this weekend to feast on French films. Of course they could, because the French cineaste who has been distributing films for the past 25 years is kicking off his fifth annual France Cinema Floride at the Tower Theatre in Miami. But those same 11 films -- … [Read more...]