Avner Dorman. Take a break from your alfresco waterfront nosh someday, walk out to the shore and take a close look at the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. You’ll see that the small waves are, except for their size, exactly like the big ones, but all of them join together to make an unstoppable force. So says Avner Dorman, whose sonic realization of that fact —and its metaphor … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘Daniel’s Husband’ and ‘Constellations’
What South Florida’s theater community has long needed were playhouses where a hit show could transfer for an extended run. Now suddenly, just in time for the holiday season, we have two such gifts. The Arts Garage has moved its sensual season opener, Sex with Strangers, to the new Palm Beaches Theatre, a/k/a the former Florida Stage and Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. And Fort … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 2-3
Music: It’s been a remarkably un-rainy SunFest down on the waterfront in West Palm Beach, and as the five-day music extravaganza winds down this weekend, the word has been good about the quality of the musicmaking. Still to come tonight are breakout bands such as Hozier and Dreamers, with the Pixies, Fall Out Boy, and for the old boomers in the crowd, Boston. Check out the … [Read more...]
Conductor Schwarz, cellist son shine for Boca’s Symphonia
The eminent American conductor Gerard Schwarz, who has done so much for orchestra building and for American music of the 20th century, made a return appearance to Boca Raton on Sunday in the company of another returnee, his cellist son Julian. Schwarz led the Symphonia Boca Raton in the second concert of its current season, and he demonstrated not only his excellence as a … [Read more...]
Art-house patina can’t hide ordinariness of ‘Words and Pictures’
Having been raised in the drudgery of our non-airbrushed public school system and not in the Hollywood fantasy of a freewheeling private school, I couldn’t relate much to the milieu of Words and Pictures, a rival-teachers dramedy set in a mythical world of privileged academia. It’s the kind of environment where syllabi, curricula and sensible grades are jettisoned, if they ever … [Read more...]
Postcard From Broadway No. 9: ‘Mothers and Sons’ and ‘Buyer & Cellar’
Last day of theatergoing in New York for me this trip, and another doubleheader. In 1990, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Terrence McNally expanded a brief play into a made-for-public-television movie, Andre's Mother, about an intractable woman grieving over the death of her gay son. It has now been expanded further, updated and produced on Broadway with the new title, … [Read more...]
Sundays: Age appropriate
By Myles Ludwig I’m on the verge of slinking past 70. And puzzled. I know life is different for me, but aside from the residual effects of certain old wounds I feel when I get out of bed in the morning, I’m not really sure how. Or even if I’m supposed to be sure. I know I passed one big speed bump a couple of years ago and now I’m driving cautiously through a leafy … [Read more...]
Atos Trio provides spotless evening of Schubert, Suk
The Atos Trio of Germany gave an immaculate concert of music by Rachmaninov, Josef Suk and Franz Schubert in the Flagler Museum’s music series Feb. 18. The Rachmaninoff and Suk pieces were written when both composers were mere teenagers, but their music is anything but sophomoric; it is well-developed, tuneful and one might say, masterly in structure. Kudos to the Atos Trio … [Read more...]
At the Morikami: Street fashion a la Elvis, Brando and Nabokov
Japan’s street fashion knows no minimalism. Like a rainbow rhapsody, its tune says anything goes and more is always better. An ongoing exhibit wrapping up next month tells us it is all about gaining acceptance, not attention. There is no room for judgment and the main goal is having fun. These are some of the notions the Morikami Museum galleries put forward with Breaking … [Read more...]
Composer-lyricist gets showcase for a compassionate look at love
By Hap Erstein Chances are you do not know the name Daniel Maté, but if The Theatre at Arts Garage’s artistic director Lou Tyrrell’s hunch is right, you soon will. He is so excited by the talents of this 38-year-old composer-lyricist-playwright that he has scheduled two of Maté’s show for this season. The last time he did that was in the 2001-2002 season of Florida Stage, … [Read more...]