For three seasons now, the Mar-a-Lago Club has been home to more than a presidential candidate’s ambitions. The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, which debuted in November 2013 in a 193-seat room at Donald Trump’s island mansion, has welcomed an impressive series of musicians to its series, many of them rising stars of the classical music world such as guitarist Miloš … [Read more...]
‘The Trouble With Doug’: Musical reimagines Kafka, with whimsy
Nearly eight years ago, a couple of NYU musical theater students began working on a show that was loosely inspired by Franz Kafka’s nihilist social satire, Metamorphosis. In development at theaters from New York to Palo Alto to London ever since, The Trouble With Doug begins performances this evening at the Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach. It has been a long road for … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 23-25
Film: Like the hummingbird that should not be able to fly, the movie Moneyball should not be as involving and widely accessible as it is. After all, it is the story of how baseball’s Oakland A’s leveled the playing field, so to speak, against much richer teams like the Yankees by employing obscure statistics to choose a winning team of players. That sounds like a formula for … [Read more...]