By Márcio Bezerra The Kravis Center’s Classical Concert Series launched its latest season with a performance that has set the standard so high that it will be difficult to surpass it. Featuring … Continue reading...
LATEST ARTICLES
MUSIC
Boynton performer featured in Harry Chapin documentary
Art imitates life, as the accurate saying goes, and vice versa. A new documentary by Jason Chapin, S.A. Baron and Rick Korn, Harry Chapin — Cat’s in the Cradle: The Song That Changed Our Lives … Continue reading...
ART
Boca Museum of Art’s new chief curator sees institution as city’s cultural center
Cecelia “Keffie” Feldman lives up to her nickname. Its roots trace back to Israel, where her parents were living at the time of her birth. They felt “Cecelia Ann Feldman,” a tribute to her … Continue reading...
The world in a bead: Canadian Indigenous artist brings unique vision to Gavlak Gallery
By Sandra Schulman Childbirth and quantum physics, the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the most fundamental, subatomic level, have led artist Renée Condo to a remarkable new body of … Continue reading...
DANCE
The season in dance, 2025-26: MCB remains infrequent visitor, but Palm Beach County’s dance season remains robust
The Palm Beach County performance season is just around the corner even though the oppressive heat and humidity of summer is still with us. When the weather is cool, Palm Beach comes alive with things … Continue reading...
MCB ends season in superb style at Kravis with ‘Spring Mix’
Miami City Ballet presented an outstanding lineup for its Spring Mix program earlier this month as the company wrapped up its much abbreviated season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. … Continue reading...
THEATER
FAU Theatre Lab’s ‘The City in the City in the City’ proves compelling, powerful
By Erik Kvarnberg In Matthew Capodicasa’s play The City in the City in the City, which wrapped its world premiere run Nov. 23 at FAU Theatre Lab, the “city” of the title is as much a character as … Continue reading...
The season in community theater, 2025-26: Lake Worth, Delray playhouses enjoying renewal
By Sharon Geltner The 101-year-old Lake Worth Playhouse is being fast-tracked for a $1 million state grant by next September, said Rick Gonzalez, a West Palm Beach architect and a member of the … Continue reading...
FILM
‘Auction’ looks beautiful, but plot is less than artful
In the opening scene of Auction, a French drama set in the lofty world of the fine art market, auctioneer André Masson (Alex Lutz) visits the home of a potential seller of a desired artwork. This … Continue reading...
The View From Home: ‘Riefenstahl’ a revelatory prosecution of the Nazis’ favorite filmmaker
Was Leni Riefenstahl, director of the Third Reich-commissioned documentary Triumph of the Will, a card-carrying Nazi? Or just an artist who seized a fulfilling opportunity? German director Andres … Continue reading...
BOOKS
‘3 Shades of Blue’ brings us close to three jazz titans, masterfully
If the best books indeed put readers in the mind’s eye of their authors, then James Kaplan’s 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool (Penguin Press) … Continue reading...
Season Preview 2024-25: Books events show printed word still a strong draw
We may live in an increasingly digital age, one now further complicated by the rise of AI. But the printed word in books still exerts a powerful draw, as these festivals show: Miami Book Fair … Continue reading...
INTERVIEWS
Nora Maité Nieves: A sense of play, a sense of home come out in artist’s solo Norton show
It’s been a big year for Nora Maité Nieves. Her first solo museum exhibition, Clouds in the Expanded Field (Nubes en el Paisaje Expandido), is currently showing at the Norton Museum of Art through … Continue reading...
Designer-entertainer Mizrahi to bring cabaret show to Boca fest
Bringing his Café Carlyle cabaret show to Boca Raton will be even more fun and fabulous on the big stage at Mizner Park, says the multi-talented fashion designer, actor, singer and Project Runway … Continue reading...
NEWS & COMMENTARY
Palm Beach’s new Glazer Hall means more than a theater’s rebirth
In the 21 years since the Royal Poinciana Playhouse closed its doors, several groups have tried unsuccessfully to bring the former jewel box performance space back to life. Now, however, on the … Continue reading...
Veteran South Florida theater critic Hap Erstein dies at 76
Harris Alan Erstein, known to his decades of readers and to family, friends and colleagues as Hap, died Saturday in Aventura. He was 76. Erstein had long suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary … Continue reading...