Get ready: The Atlantic Classical Orchestra is coming. After four well-attended rehearsals in the Eissey Campus Theatre at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, they will give four Tuesday afternoon concerts there next season. Well known for its creative programming, after 24 years of playing in Vero Beach, Fort Pierce and Stuart, the ACO feels its brand of … [Read more...]
Florida Stage’s demise dims local arts scene’s light
You’ll always remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard about JFK’s assassination. The attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. Or Florida Stage declaring bankruptcy, closing its doors and ceasing operations forever. OK, that third one is not as momentous as the other two, but it came as almost as big a surprise. At least I was caught flat-footed by the news, … [Read more...]
Florida, regional critics agree: ‘Social Network’ was year’s top film
There is no dominant front-runner for this year’s Best Picture Oscar, but you would never know that from the polls of the Florida Film Critics Circle and the Southeastern Film Critics Association (the two groups I belong to as a voting member). Both tapped The Social Network, David Fincher’s account of the founding of Facebook, as the best film of 2010 and, as happens only … [Read more...]