By Dale King The Delray Square Performing Arts Center has been no stranger to taking risks. It had no qualms about presenting The Life, a gritty, gutsy tale of life on the streets in Times Square circa the 1980s. Ditto for Piaf, the just-concluded story of the famed French chanteuse whose morality was questionable, and taste for booze and pills obvious. Now Shenandoah is … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘Full Monty,’ ‘Fighting Over Beverley,’ ‘Rags,’ and ‘Sister Act’
In 1968, Broadway was aghast (and titillated) when a tribe of hippies went naked in Hair. Thirty-two years later, a handful of unemployed steel workers strip down to nothing onstage in The Full Monty and it is practically family entertainment. OK, I guess it depends on the family, but if you have a taste for untoned, scrawny, fat or aging bodies, then The Wick Theatre has the … [Read more...]
Conductor Tebar impressive in PB Symphony evening
The young Spanish conductor Ramón Tebar has been working as Palm Beach Opera’s assistant conductor for the past four seasons, and now with the new title of conductor-in-residence at the Palm Beach Symphony, his local profile is likely to rise. Tuesday night at the Society of the Four Arts, an appreciative audience saw Tebar open the symphony’s new season, and while one would … [Read more...]