‘ Harvey Fierstein does a worthy job bolstering the story line of the 2005 movie Kinky Boots about a transvestite who saves a failing British shoe factory, but the reason to see this Tony Award-winning musical is the debut of pop composer Cyndi Lauper as a Broadway songwriter. The Broadway graveyard is riddled with the failed attempts by so many pop stars to pen a legitimate … [Read more...]
If it’s July, it must be time for chamber music: Festival enters 24th season
For 14 summers now, René Reder has joined her colleagues in the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival as they transform a South Florida July into a sonic oasis. And the violist wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s some of the most satisfying playing of my life,” said Reder, whose fulltime job is as a member of the viola section in the Alabama Symphony in Birmingham. “I can’t … [Read more...]