Lunafest, a traveling film festival established in 2000 by Luna, the “whole nutrition” line of snack bars for women, comes to the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach on Friday for a one-night-only screening. In conjunction with the Junior League of Boca Raton, the event is a fundraiser for the Junior League and for the Breast Cancer Fund, which is dedicated to eliminating … [Read more...]
Ballet Hispanico a knockout at Duncan
By Tara Mitton Catao Last night at the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth, New York-based Ballet Hispanico continued its 43-year-old tradition of presenting dance that explores the diversity of Latino culture and presented a program of contemporary work that was impeccably performed and deeply artistic. Jardi Tancat, the opening work on the program, was the very first work of … [Read more...]
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Palm Beach County lead Carbonell nominations
Palm Beach County theaters, and particularly the Maltz Jupiter, dominated the nominations for this year’s 37th annual Carbonell Awards, announced on Friday. The Maltz will be competing for 23 of the statuettes for excellence in South Florida professional theater, almost twice as many as the next highest nomination-getter ― Coral Gables’ Actors’ Playhouse ― which received 12. … [Read more...]
Mosaic Theatre’s Simon announces the company’s closing
South Florida may be experiencing another abrupt theater closing. Still suffering from the sudden shuttering of Florida Stage and the Caldwell Theatre Company in the past two years, here comes another unexpected closing. And for once, it seems to have nothing to do with a shortage or funding or audience. Sunday evening, the executive and artistic director of Plantation’s … [Read more...]
Violinist brings strong personality to familiar concerto
It has only become a commonplace of Tchaikovsky criticism in recent years to emphasize his work’s continuity with Russian folk tradition, but as a performance Tuesday night showed, it’s always been right there in plain view. The Canadian violinist Lara St. John, in an exceptional performance with the South Florida Symphony at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach, dug deep into … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 22-23
Theater: This weekend, Plantation’s Mosaic Theatre offers the area premiere of Nikolai Gogol’s The Diary of a Madman, in the new adaptation by, among others, Oscar and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush, who scored a personal performance triumph with the play in New York last season. Here, Ken Clement plays the lowly civil servant in tsarist St. Petersburg, teetering on the brink … [Read more...]
Caldwell Theatre’s Cholerton: ‘We are not folding’
The first thing Clive Cholerton wants you to know is that the Caldwell Theatre is not folding. The Boca Raton playhouse has been in a financial bind ever since it took out a $6 million mortgage on its new theater in 2008. But it sees an end to its difficulties with an imminent filing for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy. “The decision has been made and that is what we’re … [Read more...]
Maltz Jupiter Theatre leads Carbonell nominations
If you have the impression that 2011 was a particularly good year for Palm Beach County’s professional theater, you are right. Or at least you agree with the judges -- full disclosure: that includes myself -- of the Carbonell Awards, now in its 36th season of recognizing excellence in South Florida stage productions. Of the 98 nominations announced on Monday, 43 came from … [Read more...]
Caldwell to present concert version of Sondheim’s ‘Sunday’
In his few short months on the job as artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre Company, Clive Cholerton has learned a great deal about “the art of making art.” So it should come as no surprise that he says his favorite musical is Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park With George. The surprise is that he has found a way to bring to Palm … [Read more...]