Miami-born, and internationally produced, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has been enthusiastically endorsed locally by GableStage’s artistic director Joseph Adler. The Coral Gables company has presented four of McCraney’s scripts — two original works and two adaptations of Shakespeare — including the current Choir Boy, the writer’s most naturalistic, accessible and, arguably, … [Read more...]
Three blues masters find the jamming is easy as a supergroup
Bandleaders in general, and blues bandleaders in particular, are notorious lone wolves -- stereotypical alpha males who often seek stardom by being songwriters, lead vocalists and their band’s primary soloists and dominating the spotlight. So how is it that three of them, all rising young blues stars with their own bands, combined forces to create a regional all-star group? … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: Dazzling ‘Music Man’; classic Sommers; charming ‘[title]’
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Chances are your first impression of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man is not of the dancing. Unless you see the new hyper-kinetic production at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. It is not that director Mark Martino and choreographer Shea Sullivan ― the Carbonell Award-winning duo that conjured up a tap-happy Crazy for You two seasons back ― have put some conceptual overlay on … [Read more...]
Pianist Uryvayeva makes good showing in complete Chopin Etudes
Frederic Chopin created art amid exercise when he wrote his two collections of Etudes (Opp. 10 and 25, and not counting the three he wrote in 1839 for Fetis), and with the exception of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes, they far outdistance every other such pedagogical work of their time. Perhaps the monumentality of the challenge – like doing the complete 48 of Bach’s … [Read more...]
Chamber fest opens with engaging voyage of discovery
WEST PALM BEACH -- The Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, which has been sweetening the sweltering summers hereabouts with music since 1992, is notable above all for two things: Its showcasing of the individual instrumentalists whom local audiences normally hear only as part of the area's various symphonic and operatic ensembles, and second, its attitude of discovery. Year … [Read more...]