Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon (c. 1871), by Edgar Degas. I recently got to walk inside the Norton Museum and ask something I rarely get to ask: Where to the van Gogh and the Degas? It felt good. I can understand why any museum that owns a masterpiece makes use of its bragging rights every change it gets and despite the local crowd’s tendency to take it for granted. … [Read more...]
Arts preview 2015-16: The season in dance
By Tara Mitton Catao With new works to be seen and an emphasis on creativity, there is a lot to look forward to in the upcoming season. The dance series presented at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and The Duncan Theatre as well as Miami City Ballet’s 2015/16 season are looking rich as they run the gamut from enormous, new production ballets to intimate, black-box … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 31-Aug. 2
Film: Whether you played with Lego building blocks as a kid or were first introduced to them by the delightful animated Lego Movie last year, you are likely to enjoy A LEGO Brickumentary, the even more unlikely non-fiction film about the Danish-born creation that has grown into the second largest toy company in the world. Yes, it’s everything you always wanted to know about … [Read more...]
At FAU Festival Rep: ‘She Loves Me’ sparkles, ‘Royal Family’ drags
In an effort to attract an audience to its Festival Rep, a South Florida summertime tradition for the past 17 years, Florida Atlantic University usually includes a musical as one of its two productions performed in rotating repertory. And the company of current theater students, recent graduates and a couple of professional guest artists often manages to pull off the musical … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Pops cancels its concert series; Arts Garage gets new theater team
PALM BEACH GARDENS — The Palm Beach Pops, which has been entertaining South Florida audiences since 1991, is halting its concert series, the orchestra said Monday. “It is my sad duty today to announce that The Palm Beach Pops Board of Directors has decided to cease concert series operations at this time,” said Jon Lappin, president of The Palm Beach Pops, in a prepared … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 23-25
Theater: Playwright Lauren Gunderson wrote the redneck comedy Exit, Pursued by a Bear that Theatre at Arts Garage produced a couple of season ago, but try not to hold that against her. She is back with a much smarter script, I and You, about a couple of high school teens who meet over an English class assignment, and as with many formulaic romantic comedies, they banter and … [Read more...]
New musical, ‘Song of Solomon,’ to get one-night tryout at Wick
Monday evening, Boca Raton’s Wick Theatre takes its first plunge into the risky waters of new work, putting its usual menu of classic musicals on hold for a one-night concert of a show with aspirations of Broadway, Song of Solomon. If it goes well, look for it to return for a fully staged run this summer, prior to a move to New York. Yes, Solomon is Biblical King Solomon. … [Read more...]
‘Butterflies’ gets its groovy on at Broward Stage Door
By Dale King The comedy Butterflies are Free, which opens the 2014-2015 season at the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs, is not a musical. But music is key to the flow of the action and the meaning of the characters’ lives, particularly Don Baker (Britt Michael Gordon), the central figure in this quirky, slightly dated, but certainly entertaining and worthwhile … [Read more...]
Chance find brings French master’s work back to light
Before he knew the name, title and exact age, the Norton Museum’s curatorial associate for European art knew the piece in front of him was something exceptional. Past the cracks, layers of dust and the darkness that had settled, he knew. “When I first saw the work, my adrenalin was pumping,” Jerry Dobrick said. “I knew it was a superb painting, no matter who had painted it.” … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 2-4
Music: For most of its 25-year existence, Fort Lauderdale’s Symphony of the Americas has presented summer programs in Broward and Miami-Dade counties and abroad, particularly Panama, where conductor James Brooks-Bruzzese grew up. This weekend, it plays one of its final Summerfest concerts Saturday night at the Crest Theatre at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. Musicians … [Read more...]