Theater: Eighteen years ago, a wordless theatrical event involving a gang of street urchins banging on garbage can lids and oil drums, making unlikely percussive music with brooms, sticks and other found objects opened off-Broadway, where it continues to this day. The show is called Stomp and the touring edition plays West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center this weekend only. Even … [Read more...]
Cellist deMaine to play all Beethoven’s cello works in two Boca concerts
The cultural-event marathon is one of the most absorbing pleasures in the world of the arts, a chance for fans of a genre or a specific body of work to immerse themselves and give themselves wholly over to the featured creations. Pianists have milestones such as the complete Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach or all 32 of the Beethoven sonatas, for instance, and cellists also have … [Read more...]
‘Extract’ a forgettable but likeable workplace comedy
The final weekend before Labor Day is usually a movie dumping ground and this year’s is no exception. Opening on Friday is All About Steve, an actively annoying vehicle for Sandra Bullock as a socially inept, crossword puzzle constructor know-it-all who becomes fixated on a cable news cameraman. Unless the rest of the year is a disaster, this one is assured a place on my 10 … [Read more...]