Theater: A summer tradition in South Palm Beach County is Florida Atlantic University’s Festival Rep, a series of productions in rotating repertory featuring current and recent students of the department of theater and dance, plus a few working professional mentors. This season the emphasis is on the works of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim through two of his shows — the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 21-23
Theater: Slow Burn Theatre Company usually opts for dark-toned musicals like its recent triumphs with Side Show and Sweeney Todd. But in the summer, the troupe lightens up — as they did last summer with Xanadu — and they don’t come much lighter than The Wedding Singer. This show, based on the 1998 Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore movie about a hapless wedding band crooner has a … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 14-16
Art: An exhibit titled County Contemporary: All Media Juried Show, composed of 44 works by 36 Palm Beach County artists using a wide range of media, is on display beginning today at the main gallery of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County in Lake Worth. Mark Richard Leach, the executive director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 7-9
South Florida Jazz wraps its 2012-13 season this Saturday night with an appearance by the jazz singer Kurt Elling, who made his mark at Chicago’s legendary Green Mill while studying the philosophy of religion as a grad student during the day. A Grammy winner and a regular audience favorite, Elling has a flexible voice and style more akin to Al Jarreau than to Johnny Hartman, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 1-2
Art: This is the last weekend to see Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. Landau is a philanthropist and a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States and the exhibition on display at the Norton is a selection of the more than 300 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper that Landau gifted to the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 24-26
Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks ends its season with Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, a fictionalized tale of his mother and her four spinster sisters, who lead a repressed, impoverished life in the Irish village of Ballybeg. But when they are at their lowest, they manage to kick up their heels and give in to the spirit of the pagan harvest festival of Lughnasa, capturing a … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 17-19
Art: Transformations, a solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings, wall reliefs and sculptures by artist Yvonne Parker, has just opened at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Museum in West Palm Beach. Parker, who was born and raised in southern Germany, was encouraged by her father to explore multiple media in her artwork from a young age. She studied porcelain painting in … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 11-12
Theater: Ten years ago, West Palm Beach’s Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Company had a critical hit with a teen drama by Mark St. Germain (Freud’s Last Session). Called Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, it concerned two newly graduated high schoolers — one the daughter of a fading rock star, the other the son of an ambitious, conservative U.S. senator. They go together to a promontory … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 3-5
Art: See the culmination of years of study in the art work of four Masters of Fine Art students in Thesis Exhibition 2013 at the Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University. The exhibition, which runs through May 24, showcases the large, charcoal drawings of Jill Lavetsky, the abstract paintings and drawings of Eduardo Rosas and the functional pottery of Alexandra … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 26-28
Theater: OK, procrastinators, this is the final weekend to catch the first-rate Palm Beach Dramaworks production of Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King, the great absurdist playwright’s comic meditation on death. In it, the king of a shabby, rundown realm learns that he has only 90 minutes left to live ― not coincidentally the lengths of this one-act play ― so he takes stock of his … [Read more...]