The season, in geographic order, from Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade, kicks off at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre with that Agatha Christie chestnut The Mousetrap, based on her Ten Little Indians, the serial murder mystery that had a record-breaking run in London’s West End (Oct. 25-Nov. 8). Then, with most of its audience back in the area, it rolls out a pair of mega-musicals, … [Read more...]
Composer Levy to see ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ return to stage
In the elevator, Marvin David Levy didn’t even look over at the man standing close by. What he could feel from him – and it wasn’t nice – was all he needed to know. The other man was Samuel Barber, whose Antony and Cleopatra had opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in September 1966, and was one of the most colossal failures in the history of the house. … [Read more...]
Dramaworks offers ‘Company’ worth keeping
There’s good news and bad news at Palm Beach Dramaworks. The good news is a confident, polished concert of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, now playing through Sunday. The bad news? After this very satisfying evening and the previous, even better semi-staged Man of La Mancha, we may never see a fully produced musical at this West Palm Beach playhouse again. Company was not even … [Read more...]
Hoffman’s ‘Still Jewish’ offers backstory of a theatrical life
By Dale King At various times in Avi Hoffman’s life, being Jewish has been a blessing and a curse — a ticket to stardom and a one-way ticket to oblivion. It has made him the toast of Broadway, but has also made toast of his career. The actor whose livelihood has taken more up and downs than an unemployment office elevator reviews his life of triumphs and travails in Avi … [Read more...]
Rudin show offers glimpses of five rising photo stars
Sometimes not having made it pays off. Just ask the five photographers currently showing their work at the Norton Museum of Art and competing for a $20,000 award. They are the finalists of a new international photography competition the museum is hoping to turn into a new tradition called the Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers, for which one of the requirements is to … [Read more...]
Tacita Dean show offers artist’s more predictable work
An artist considers found images as important as the images she creates, and now we do not know when and where to give her credit. From now through May 6, the Norton Museum of Art is presenting a rare exhibit with such characteristics. Tacita Dean, which opened last week, focuses on the photographic work of this British artist, now living in Berlin, who is perhaps best known … [Read more...]
Documentary captures an exceptional New York eye
Less than two years after The September Issue probed the life and work of fashion kingmaker Anna Wintour, a new documentary offers a look at another figure residing in the nexus of fashion and print journalism. In Bill Cunningham New York, which opens Friday in South Florida, the subject is New York Times fashion photographer Cunningham, a man just as iconoclastic – and more … [Read more...]
‘Savor’ offers useful perspective for weight control
Few people have done more to promote the spread of Buddhism in the West than Thich Nhat Hanh, the monk from Vietnam who lives in France and conducts well-attended retreats around the world. Nhat Hanh has written more than 100 books, most of them revolving around the theme of living mindfully in the moment. Now he has joined with co-author Lilian Cheung, a lecturer at the … [Read more...]
Erbe show offers reminders – good and bad – of bygone America
Anyone who has ever tried to paint knows that it isn’t easy to realistically portray the world around us. Realism, as a style, necessitates a rare combination of inherent artistic talent, learned draftsmanship, and a distinctive patient observance of the banal. So it’s sort of energizing to marvel at an artist whose work exhibits this visually stunning combination. And it … [Read more...]