Dance: Valentine’s Day has passed, but hopeless romantics have another opportunity this month to rekindle their relationships at Florida Classical Ballet Theatre’s staging of Romeo and Juliet. Young love, family feuds and great tragedy all are a part of William Shakespeare’s most-beloved story, set against the backdrop of sumptuous Renaissance Italy, and with one of Sergei … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 23-25
Music: Contemporary classical music has a surprising number of champions in South Florida, and that includes Tim Thompson of Palm Beach Atlantic University, who every year offers concerts of new pieces by faculty members, students, and guests. This year’s festival, called Frontwave, began last night with a concert by the piano team of Duo Gastesi-Bezerra, and tonight is the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 17-18
Film: One of France’s greatest exports is surely actress Audrey Tautou, the winsome creature of Amelie and The Da Vinci Code. She current stars in a sweet little film called Delicacy, playing a recent widow having difficulty starting over after her husband’s sudden death. The last thing she wants is the attentions of an awkward geek at work who declares his love for her. Before … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 10-14
Festival of the Arts Boca: The operatic world, unlike what many casual observers may think, is flush with youthful activity, as young singers try to scale the heights of musical Parnassus and see the stages of the world. Last night, the Boca Symphonia performed the soundtrack of the 1942 classic Casablanca with a showing of the film, but tonight the orchestra and conductor … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 2-4
Film: If there were six best actress Oscar nominations instead of five, the sixth would probably have gone to androgynous Tilda Swinton, who plays the mother of an exasperatingly evil son in We Need to Talk About Kevin. It is kind of an update of The Bad Seed, about a defiantly rotten kid and the mother who cannot cope with him. Director-writer Lynne Ramsey wants us to consider … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 18-21
Theater: In 2002, Chicago director Mary Zimmermann won a Tony Award for her adaptation of Ovid’s Greek myths, Metamorphoses, set in a swimming pool. Dreyfoos School of the Arts theater instructor Bruce Linser now wades into the play -- sorry, without the pool -- with an expanded cast size, which becomes a movement ensemble, albeit on dry land. Linser is putting his emphasis on … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 3-5
Art: Tomorrow, the Society of the Four Arts opens a new exhibit that takes its art viewers into the world of the Old West. Recapturing the Real West: The Collections of William I. Koch includes about 500 items, most of which have not been seen but have been loaned to the society by Koch, the industrialist, sailing champion and founder of Oxbow Energy Group. The collection … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 27-29
Theater: The theater event of the weekend is the debut of Parade Productions, a new company led by artistic director Kim St. Leon, which kicks off with Donald Margulies’ semi-autobiographical play Brooklyn Boy, at the Studio at Mizner Park, a flexible configuration playhouse on the site of the former International Museum of Cartoon Art. Jewish identity is often at the heart of … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 20-22
Art: The Norton Museum turns to the world of glassmaking this week, having opened three studio glass programs Wednesday. The centerpiece is an installation called One and Others, created by the Wisconsin-based artist Beth Lipman. It’s a large piece that evokes Old Master still lifes from the museum’s collections, and is on view in its European galleries. The museum also is … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 13-15
Theater: Since the vacuum created by the demise of Florida Stage, the Caldwell Theatre has become the place to go for cutting edge theater in Palm Beach County. Artistic director Clive Cholerton has shaken the cobwebs off this Boca Raton playhouse while still bringing its audience locally produced versions of plays acclaimed in New York. But who else would bring area … [Read more...]