So many musicals these days come from popular movies that a truly original, based on no previous material, show is extremely rare. So when an upstart new original show announced that it would open on Broadway without any out-of-town tryout, it seemed like the height of chutzpah. What was worse, the show is called Something Rotten!, which is ammunition one should never hand to … [Read more...]
Music roundup: SoFla Symphony, Delray SQ, PBAU Artists series
A very fine young cellist made an eloquent case Nov. 16 for an undeservedly neglected American concerto in the opening program of the South Florida Symphony’s concert season at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach. Clancy Newman, a first-prize Naumburg Foundation Competition winner and a graduate of Columbia and the Juilliard School, tackled the Cello Concerto of Samuel Barber … [Read more...]
From Burt to Broadway, Lake Worth Playhouse marks 60 years
The Lake Worth Playhouse, a fixture in Palm Beach County since 1953, celebrates its 60th anniversary this month with a diamond jubilee Saturday night and its most famous alumnus, Burt Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated, two-time Golden Globe award-winning actor, scheduled to appear as the honored guest. The theme of the jubilee celebration is Decades, a retrospective of the past … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 21-22
Theater: GableStage and its artistic director Joe Adler have an affinity for the plays of David Mamet, so it was probably inevitable that he would bring to the area the wily wordsmith’s latest Broadway script, Race, which looks at three attorneys, two black and one white, offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman. As the characters … [Read more...]
Claremont Trio offers high spirits, taste in Four Arts concert
The Claremont Trio began in modest fashion 11 years ago at the Juilliard School, and since then the threesome has made well-received recordings and built up a strong following. And the three players -- violinist Emily Bruskin and her twin sister, cellist Julia Bruskin, and the Canadian-born pianist Donna Kwong -- have shown some adventurousness in regard to repertory. They've … [Read more...]