By Dale King Prolific absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco didn’t like Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudeville, when first he saw it. Mildred Kayden, who wrote the music and lyrics for what she herself deemed “a very strange play,” said the Romanian-born, French-raised author swore he would never speak English again because the absurd musical raised his own absurdity to an even … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 2-6
Art: This weekend, the Society of the Four Arts opens its first art exhibits of the season, both paying tribute to the illustration genre. Some of the most iconic American artists, such as Norman Rockwell, were primarily illustrators for some of the big-circulation magazines of the early to mid-20th century, and two of the others, J.C. Leyendecker and Howard Chandler Christy, … [Read more...]
PB Opera’s ‘Cosi’ well-sung, craftily staged
The Palm Beach Opera is closing its three-year survey of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas with a somewhat minimalist but well-staged and ably sung production of Così fan Tutte. Friday night found a cast of young, handsome singers working inside a Stephen Lawless reading of the opera that was easy to understand, almost plausible, and full of smart, interesting stage business that … [Read more...]