The Miami Summer Music Festival closed its second season on Sunday afternoon with a remarkable performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, epic and uncut, and featuring several standout singers in the festival’s Opera Institute program. Smartly and snarkily staged by Jeffrey Marc Buchman, who updated the opera to contemporary times in a gambling resort, this Don Giovanni lost only … [Read more...]
TED phenomenon comes to Delray Beach on Friday
In the spirit of the original TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to “ideas worth spreading,” TEDx comes to Delray Beach this Friday, organized by local resident Becky Woodbridge, a flight attendant, speaker and coach. Originating in California 29 years ago, with two major TED events each year, the organization (originally focusing on Technology, Entertainment and Design) … [Read more...]
‘Blasted,’ ‘Mack and Mabel’ win big at 35th Carbonells
Last night’s 35th annual Carbonell Awards ceremony had a curious, unscripted recurring theme -- actor Todd Allen Durkin’s private parts. I guess we should have seen it coming -- the theme, not the naughty bits -- since he did appear full frontally nude in GableStage’s production of Blasted, the runaway award winner, and later was featured in Mosaic Theatre’s The Irish … [Read more...]
‘Distracted’ probes ADD issue expertly, but writer’s homily simplistic
With two parts wisecracks and one part wisdom, Lisa Loomer has aimed her word processor at some of contemporary life’s intriguing social issues. She has illuminated our views on employing Third World nannies (Living Out), body modification rituals (The Waiting Room) and efforts to become parents (Expecting Isabel) with highly theatrical humor. Belonging unmistakably to that … [Read more...]