Tricia Albertson and Miami City Ballet dancers in Year of the Rabbit. (Photo by Daniel Azoulay) By Tara Mitton Catao Miami City Ballet gave yet another sparkling performance Saturday afternoon at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The company was in excellent form — dancing with command — in Program Three, which was an elegant and richly satisfying selection of works … [Read more...]
At the Norton: A day with Vincent, Edgar and Hortense
Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon (c. 1871), by Edgar Degas. I recently got to walk inside the Norton Museum and ask something I rarely get to ask: Where to the van Gogh and the Degas? It felt good. I can understand why any museum that owns a masterpiece makes use of its bragging rights every change it gets and despite the local crowd’s tendency to take it for granted. … [Read more...]
New western Delray theater opening with ‘Sounds of Simon’
By Dale King South Palm Beach County’s cultural arts scene is getting a new theatrical and general use venue. Gary Waldman and Jamison Troutman of Florida Theater Productions Inc. will open the Delray Square Performing Arts Center tonight with a reprise of their Sounds of Simon show, a compilation of Paul Simon songs that enjoyed a couple of runs last year at the Cultural … [Read more...]
‘Menopause’ writer takes on drama of relationships
As playwright Robert Anderson once put it about writing for the theater, “You cannot make a living, but you can make a killing.” It seems unlikely that he ever met Jeanie Linders, who penned the international phenomenon Menopause the Musical, but he inadvertently described her mega-success with the “girls-night-out” revue about the female life passage of middle age. The show, … [Read more...]
Master novelist looks at Caribbean society from below
Most of us have faded photos of grandparents or great-grandparents who seem as alien as creatures from another planet or denizens of a sunken civilization. “Fools in old-style hats and coats,” as Philip Larkin terms them in his famous poem This Be the Verse. In her latest novel, Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé sets out to unearth, by dint of research, family legend and … [Read more...]