‘Spring Awakening’ coming to Kravis The Kravis Center’s 19th season of theater, film, music, dance and comedy will include a performance in March of Spring Awakening, the Duncan Sheik adaptation of Franz Wedekind’s play that won the Tony for best musical in 2007. In its initial run, the musical starred Lea Michele, the current star of Fox’s TV show-choir comedy, Glee. The … [Read more...]
Violist shines in Telemann at Stringendo concert
A violist for the Cleveland Orchestra made a persuasive case for the power and versatility of his instrument Tuesday night during a performance of a Telemann concerto at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Stanley Konopka, who has been assistant principal viola of the Cleveland since 1993, was one of two members of that orchestra featured in Tuesday’s concert, the second program … [Read more...]
Tony Awards show was as lame as Broadway’s season
When you consider what a mediocre season it was on Broadway, did anyone really think the Tony Awards show would be any good? Sunday night’s ceremony was, as expected, just like the season for musicals – loud, punk and uninspired. As I previously reported, however, it was a terrific year for plays, but CBS and the people who assemble the Tonys show have no patience for … [Read more...]
Theater briefs: ‘The Quarrel’ and ‘Raised in Captivity’
Some theater reaches for spectacle, but what the theater does best is traffic in dialogue and ideas. Words and the emotions behind them are in the spotlight in a brief, intermissionless play at GableStage, The Quarrel, by David Brandes and Joseph Telushkin, which chronicles a chance reunion of two men who were childhood friends. In 1948, in Montreal’s Mount Royal Park, … [Read more...]
New West Palm dance company sets May 1 debut
Ballet Florida, a West Palm Beach institution for almost a quarter-century, closed its doors in June 2009, leaving a vacuum that a new not-for-profit professional dance company hopes to help fill. Explore Dance Theater, founded in 2009 by two former principal dancers of Ballet Florida, Tracy Mozingo and Douglas Gawriljuk, is hosting its premiere company showing at the … [Read more...]
Carbonell haul is light for Palm Beach County theaters
If you are looking for Carbonell statuettes today, look southward. Monday evening’s 34th annual Carbonell Awards ceremony was a low-key, well-produced event that tilted strongly towards theaters in Miami-Dade County. In fact, to two theater companies in Coral Gables -- Actors’ Playhouse and Gable Stage -- which walked off with most of the booty: six and five awards, … [Read more...]
‘Les Miz’ leads Carbonell Awards nominees list
There was nothing miserable about the Actors’ Playhouse production of the epic musical Les Miserables, the nominating committee for the 34th annual Carbonell Awards said Tuesday as it showered the show with 12 nominations. The adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel led the field vying for bragging rights of excellence in professional theater in South Florida. Les Miz, as the … [Read more...]
Boca Symphonia, violinist make good case for Rorem concerto
There has been no shortage during the past century of American composers who have been willing to write violin concertos. But there has been a dearth of conductors and orchestras who have been willing to turn those concertos into repertory pieces (or at least try). A tip of the hat, then, to Alexander Platt and the Boca Raton Symphonia, who did their bit Sunday afternoon for … [Read more...]
AEG signs Willie Nelson for Sunset Cove; Delray Quartet gets new violinist
AEG signs Willie Nelson, Yes for Sunset Cove AEG, the Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment presenter, has added more national acts to the roster next month at the Sunset Cove Amphitheater. Country music legend Willie Nelson will appear at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, with tickets ranging from $35-$60, and the Canadian identical-twin indie group Tegan and Sara will … [Read more...]
For ‘Millions of Miles,’ fourth time might be the charm
Greenacres playwright Elliott Taubenslag knows how to write roles that attract major names. More than 20 years ago, he wrote a bittersweet romantic comedy called Millions of Miles for Kay Medford, the late character actress who originated memorable mothers in Bye Bye Birdie and Funny Girl. Although she toured in Taubenslag’s play and it was booked into a theater on Broadway, … [Read more...]