Theater: West Boca’s Slow Burn Theatre Company, which is dedicated to edgy, offbeat musical theater, also knows how to have fun. And the 3-year-old troupe credits much of its popularity to last October’s tongue-in-cheek production of The Rocky Horror Show, the send-up of B-grade horror movies. So to open its season and help us ease into a Halloween mood, it is bringing Rocky, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 14-18
Art: Starting Tuesday, two important shows at local art museums open, shows that will be running into the early weeks of January. The Flagler Museum on Palm Beach offers the story of how Henry Flagler’s railroad made it all the way to Key West a century ago. Over a seven-year period beginning in 1905, construction workers braved five hurricanes and mosquito-borne disease to … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 7-9
Theater: Little Shop of Horrors, Roger Corman’s 1960 low-budget sci-fi flick about a man-eating plant and a nebbish florist’s love for an abused Skid Row tootsie, must have seemed odd source material for Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (the songwriting team behind such Disney animated features as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast), but they turned it into a … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks, Sept. 30-Oct. 2
Theater: What, you still haven’t seen Karen Stephens in the one-woman multiple-character tour de force Bridge & Tunnel? The show, built around the denizens of an urban poetry slam café, allows the West Palm Beach actress the opportunity to flex her performance muscles and demonstrate her chameleon-like abilities. The show brought her a Carbonell Award nomination earlier this … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 23-25
Film: Like the hummingbird that should not be able to fly, the movie Moneyball should not be as involving and widely accessible as it is. After all, it is the story of how baseball’s Oakland A’s leveled the playing field, so to speak, against much richer teams like the Yankees by employing obscure statistics to choose a winning team of players. That sounds like a formula for … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 16-18
Film: Do you remember what you were doing on July 24, 2010? Well, neither do we, but that was the day that 80,000 anonymous filmmakers from around the world recorded their activities for a collaborative documentary called Life in a Day. The result was 4,500 hours of film, or at least digital material, which was boiled down to 95 minutes in a masterful task of editing. Of course … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 9-11
Film: Emerging Cinemas at Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park has a treat for all children of the ’60s (which I proudly proclaim includes me). It is the hallucinogenic documentary Magic Trip, a celebration of author/guru Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and his infamous 1964 cross-country ramble in a wildly painted school bus, with his posse of apostles aboard. Too young to … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 2-5
Theater: Miami’s Mad Cat Theatre Company has figured out how to attract young people to sit for live shows, and it is not to offer them “well-made” plays like their grandparents craved. Instead, they have carved out their niche with non-linear absurdist fare like So My Grandmother Died, Blah Blah Blah, written and directed by Paul Tei, who founded the troupe. At its core, it is … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 27-30
Film: Those who fell victim to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme probably do not have the stomach to sit through Chasing Madoff, Canadian director Jeff Prosserman surprisingly involving analysis of how the former Palm Beacher duped the investment system and how the Securities and Exchange Commission was asleep at the switch, despite investigative reporters blowing the whistle. … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 19-21
Art: As the summer winds down (though not heat-wise) and students return to the classroom, the Norton Museum offers a little exhibit put together by its five summer interns. Drawing from the museum’s own collections, the interns – who include college and high schools students – chose 16 European prints from the 16th to the 19th centuries, including works by Mary Cassatt and … [Read more...]