By Dale King The musical comedy theater scene is peppered with shows about the Baby Boom generation. One need only see certain key words on a marquee to realize the production playing on the stage beyond the double doors deals with issues near and dear to folks knocking on retirement’s door: Menopause, early bird dinners, rheumatoid arthritis, little blue pills, condos, … [Read more...]
News briefs: WLRN launches classical channel; Harid gets $250K grant; Kravis to install organ
MIAMI — Radio station WLRN will launch a 24-hour classical music station on its HD-2 radio channel Aug. 10, officials said Friday. The “Classical 24” station will replace the current “Alternative News and Talk” station at WLRN’s HD-2 channel, and is being started to fill the gap left by the departure last month of Classical South Florida from the airwaves. “We understand the … [Read more...]
Health care too focused on repair, not happiness, physician says
Modern medicine excels at treating illness while it mostly sidesteps patients’ end-of-life fears and hopes, which is the theme of Being Mortal, a thoughtful new book by Harvard University surgeon and author Atul Gawande. “I learned a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them,” Gawande writes. “Our textbooks had almost nothing on aging or frailty or … [Read more...]
Ancient Egypt comes alive in all-season Science Center exhibit
Ramses the Great, who ruled ancient Egypt for 66 years during Egypt’s 19th Dynasty, is said to have sired more than 96 sons and 60 daughters during his lifetime. One of his sons, now known as the Ramesside mummy, is on display through next spring at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium as part of its new exhibit, Afterlife: Tombs and Treasures of Ancient Egypt. “The … [Read more...]
2014-15 arts preview: The season in books
After all these years, the literary events season in South Florida has long reached its maturity. No more jokes about “cultural wastelands,” and publishers still send writers here on the few publicity tours they pay for each year. Why? Because so many people here read books, talk about books, and attend literary festivities. It would be understandable if organizers of, say, … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Price: An actress embarks on career’s Act II
By Dale King Act II of The Theatrical Life of Elizabeth Price is about to begin. Act I started 18 years ago when Price, then 22, with a bachelor’s degree in English from Tulane University and years of stage acting experience, headed west to Los Angeles and a hoped-for career in TV, film and theater. Three years later, “I had given up,” said Price, now a grad student at … [Read more...]
For two-piano sensations Anderson and Roe, it’s all about joy
You could look a long time and you’d be hard-pressed to find a whole lot of musical ensembles with a mission statement. But Anderson and Roe, the two-piano sensation that formed at Juilliard a dozen years ago, have that staple of business culture right on the News page of their website: “To make classical music a relevant and powerful force in society. To connect with others; … [Read more...]
‘50 Years’ a standout at Ririe-Woodbury’s Duncan show
By Tara Mitton Catao On Friday night, the Duncan Theatre hosted the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, a Utah-based repertory dance troupe that continues to bear the name of the University of Utah professors who founded it over 50 years ago. However, the program didn’t have the variety that a mixed repertory program usually encompasses. Growing from a local company to an … [Read more...]
Oscar predictions: ‘12 Years’ for picture, McConaughey for actor
Several of the acting categories in the 86th annual Academy Awards appear to be locked up, but the top statuette for Best Picture is headed towards a photo finish this Sunday evening. By most accounts, 2013 was a solid year at the movies, with an array of first-rate releases. Nine films received the required 5 percent of first-place votes and, therefore, are in the running to … [Read more...]
10 years on, Palm Beach Poetry Festival keeps delivering
“I can’t believe it’s been 10 years,” says Miles Coon from his home in Delray Beach. “Well, I can and I can’t.” Coon, founder of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, likes to say that poetry “is the most human form of expression and spans all cultures and eras.” And for a decade, he’s been running a week of literary activity that shows just what that means. Beginning Monday, the … [Read more...]