For the past three decades, Louis Tyrrell has been producing new, often American, plays at Florida Stage and more recently at its informal offspring, Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach. On Monday, three days after he opened Allison Gregory’s world premiere, Uncertain Terms, the final play of the theater company within the performance venue’s fourth season, he unexpectedly … [Read more...]
Superb Nielsen, dazzling soloist highlights for Danish orchestra
It was a night of rising stars and a visit from some terrific out-of-town guests, and one of the biggest beneficiaries was an underrated great composer. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra came to Miami’s Knight Concert Hall on Saturday night in the middle of its American tour, bringing the young Australian violinist Ray Chen and the Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru … [Read more...]
‘Two Days, One Night’ an exquisite look at a moral dilemma
A cruel and sweeping movement of capitalism’s chilly hand leaves a damaged woman in its wake in Two Days, One Night, the Dardenne brothers’ latest quietly gripping moral inquiry into the human condition. In the great Belgian directors’ first feature since 2011’s extraordinary The Kid with a Bike, they’ve cast a bona fide international star, Marion Cotillard, whose combination … [Read more...]
Community theater: Joyous energy from ‘Five Guys Named Moe’ at Broward Stage Door
By Dale King The Broward Stage Door Theatre celebrates the holiday season and New Year with Five Guys Named Moe, a high-octane, high-stepping, song-and-dance-filled tribute to song master Louis Jordan, whose talent for diversity in music drove the golden spike in the track connecting swing and jazz with early rock ’n’ roll. The production that literally shakes the stage … [Read more...]
Joyous, exciting Baroque from Kim, Symphonia
In the 10th year of its existence, the group now known as The Symphonia Boca Raton has begun to branch out, playing concerts other than their usual Sunday afternoons at the Roberts Theatre and their appearances as the house band at the Festival of the Arts Boca. Saturday night, the group inaugurated what its hopes to be a regular series at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort … [Read more...]
A refined Chopin from Anievas at PB Symphony
The stage at the Society of the Four Arts for Wednesday’s Palm Beach Symphony concert had but a few chairs and a concert grand piano on display. “No percussion, no brass, no winds,’’ said the young couple behind me, sotto voce, before the concert began. Their keen observation spoke volumes. Ramón Tebar, after five years at the helm of the orchestra, has cleverly matched his … [Read more...]
Sundays: A shopping list from the catalogs
Editor’s note: To do our bit for the long shopping weekend, we’ve asked our friend Lou Ann Frala to go through the stacks of catalogs she gets at this time of year and find some things we might want to send to kin and kind. By Lou Ann Frala The first catalog I remember poring over was the Sears Wish Book. What a field day I would have had with Post-it Notes. My lists and … [Read more...]
Nutcrackering: Ballet companies ready for holiday favorite
All over the country at this time of year, in prop rooms big and small, someone is dusting off the head of the Mouse King. It’s time, in other words, for The Nutcracker, a ballet from Imperial Russia that has been an indelible staple of American culture for decades, an unmistakable sign of the holiday season as familiar as Ebenezer Scrooge and round-the-clock Christmas carols. … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 15-16
Theater: Chita Rivera has been a Broadway star for the past 60 years, originating roles in such shows as West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie and Chicago, as well as winning Tony Awards for The Rink and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Tonight, she will appear at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in a one-woman retrospective of these musicals, singing numbers from them and kicking up her heels, … [Read more...]
New season is start of something big for Delray String Quartet
It’s been 11 years since the Delray String Quartet was formed and made its first appearance, but only four since its current lineup took shape. And this one feels like a keeper. “Like any quartet, you go through lots of personnel changes. Some of the quartets I know have none of the original members,” said Richard Fleischman, the group’s violist. “We went through so many … [Read more...]