Dance: Tonight at the Kravis Center, two local dance leaders, Maria Konrad and Jerry Opdenaker, will be joined by the Koresh Dance Company of Philadelphia for an evening of new work called Inside Out. Two Florida premieres by Roni Koresh, and world premieres from Konrad (who runs Reach Dance Co.) and Opdenaker (who runs O Dance), teaming here with Sarah Walston of Florida Dance … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 5-7
Theater: Yes, summer is a slow time for theater in South Florida, but apparently someone forgot to tell Margate’s Stage Door Theatre, which has just extended its long-running Motown revue, The Soul of Motor City, through Aug. 28. Aimed at the Boomer generation, which will recall these three dozen-plus rhythm & blues song hits from the 1960s through 1980s, the evening is … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 29-31
Film: Any Woody Allen movie is a much anticipated event and Café Society – his 46th feature film – is no exception. Not a home run, but more of a solid double, it casts Jesse Eisenberg as the Allen surrogate schlemiel, who leaves the Bronx for 1930s Hollywood, takes a job in the office of his talent agent uncle (Steve Carell) and promptly falls for Carell’s secretary/mistress … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 22-24
Art: As it since 1951, the Boca Raton Museum devotes its summer exhibition to the All Florida Invitational, which this year features 31 artists from around the state. Cognoscenti of the local art scene will recognize some familiar names, but there are also five early-career artists being singled out by the judges who chose the work for the exhibit. The Invitational opened last … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 4-5
Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in The Lobster. Film: Summer movies are supposed to be a vacation from challenging fare, but The Lobster challenges that assumption. It is a satirical slice of science fiction with as loopy a premise as you could ask for. Set in the near future, it offers a society where marriage is compulsory and the unattached have 45 days to find a life mate. … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 6-8
Pianist Shuree Enkhbold. Music: If you’ve ever heard the music of Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa, who lived from 1915 to 1991, you’re in exclusive company. But if you haven’t, tonight is your chance to hear music by Mongolia’s most eminent composer, played by a young Mongolian pianist studying with Roberta Rust at Lynn University. Munkshur Enkhbold, who prefers the name Shuree, is, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 6-8
Pianist Shuree Enkhbold. Music: If you’ve ever heard the music of Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa, who lived from 1915 to 1991, you’re in exclusive company. But if you haven’t, tonight is your chance to hear music by Mongolia’s most eminent composer, played by a young Mongolian pianist studying with Roberta Rust at Lynn University. Munkshur Enkhbold, who prefers the name Shuree, is, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 15-17
James Hazen Hyde (1901), by Theobald Chartran. Art: Two fine exhibitions are closing this weekend at Palm Beach venues, and this weekend might be the perfect chance to catch them. The Flagler Museum has Beauty’s Legacy, a collection of portraits of the grandees of America’s Gilded Age as captured in portraits by some of the finest artists of the era, including John Singer … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 2-3
Opera: It’s hard to imagine a more challenging subject than that of the Polish-Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1968 opera, The Passenger. Written for the Bolshoi but shelved, it was not performed until 2010, when it made its sensational debut at the Bregenz Festival in Austria. Tonight, Florida Grand Opera brings that David Pountney-directed production to the Ziff Ballet … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 11-13
From left: Nicholas Richberg, Anna Lise Jensen and Jeni Hacker in Passion. Theater: Miami’s Zoetic Stage is not known for producing musicals, but it was highly successful with Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, so it has now gone back to Broadway’s reigning composer-lyricist to serve up Passion, his 1994 Tony Award winner (albeit the one with the shortest run, roughly nine months). … [Read more...]