Craft beer isn’t just for breakfast anymore — it’s also fighting cancer. Well, sort of. If you need a noble reason to check out the Coconut Creek brewporium World of Beer, with its dozens of exotic hops and daily rotating draft offerings, Tuesday would be the night to visit. That’s…
Young at Art Museum knows the key to a hipster fundraiser. The museum’s third Annual Interest gathering isn’t about black ties, string quartets, and caviar; instead, you’ll get live electropop, craft beer, gourmet bites from Whole Foods, and VIP previews of two exhibitions you’ll probably still be talking about this…
Some opening lines of books will never be forgotten: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”; “Call me Ishmael”; “I think of my job as that of a cheerleader — of course, as you know, my main job is turning the letters.” That last pearl…
Festival of the Arts Boca is nearly two months away, but organizers are celebrating early this weekend with a prefestival concert from the Israeli Chamber Project, an eclectic corps of classical musicians with a Middle Eastern base and a global reach. The group takes the classic string quartet arrangement and…
Surviving longer than any other film festival in Palm Beach County, the venerable Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival celebrates its landmark 25th anniversary this week, promising an eclectic buffet of 30-plus features and documentaries from around the world at five theaters, from Boca to Palm Beach Gardens. The festival opens…
Sean McLelland’s scenic design for the Broward Center’s Fully Committed is a prop-heavy treasure box that begs for more scrutiny than most audiences will give it. Minor details and unexplained trinkets fill the space — a Goodfellas poster, a baseball in a Lucite cube, a woman’s purse, Christmas lights, and…
With an indifferent pug at his side, a boy plays marbles in a verdant garden in front of what appears to be a portal into another realm. Scientists stand on scaffolding to document a strange flying cube, while a father aims a projectile at it from below. A shirtless man…
When Arts Garage announced the hiring of legendary jazz promoter Todd Barkan this past fall, it sent a signal to esteemed jazz artists that may have been heretofore unattainable for the intimate Delray Beach venue: It said this is the heppest place around, with a dedicated and adventurous audience, and…
There’s nothing pretty about Jodi Della Ventura’s set design for Primal Forces’ production of Sunset Baby at Andrews Living Arts Studio. In a Brooklyn project, the dining table is collapsible, the door has a giant padlock for a reason, and the scuffed walls have probably been spattered with their share…
Given that movies like Night of the Living Dead, Cannibal: The Musical, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show have already spawned horror-comedy stage musicals, the question is not, “Why create a musical based on the Evil Dead franchise?” so much as, “What took them so long?” The “them” in this…
he trailer for the current Broadway tour of The Phantom of the Opera looks less like a theater piece than a sumptuous Hollywood blockbuster: gunshots, pyrotechnic flares, gold-bedecked sets, smoke and gondola excursions, and precariously plunging chandeliers. Yes, the chandelier remains a scene-stealing costar in this new production by Cameron…
In 1974, decades before bullying became a national cause du jour, Stephen King created the issue’s avenging spokesperson: Carrie, the sheltered, ungainly high schooler who begins menstruation at the wrong place and wrong time, is tormented by her classmates, learns how to move things with her mind, and, when humiliated…
Since the beginning of live theater, women have gotten a raw deal. For an embarrassingly long time, from the ancient Greek to the English Renaissance period, women couldn’t even take the stage to play women. Cross-dressing men took those roles — a tradition that continues today in Japanese Kabuki theater…
In the era of the megachurch, with its telegenic preacher, stadium-quality lighting and sound, and number of congregants ballooning into the thousands, there is something more than a little nostalgic about the tent revival, even for nonbelievers. This vanishing, primitive tradition of Pentecostalism — in which a limited number of…
It’s easy to forget, in our enlightened and accepting times, that until just 40 years ago, homosexuality was treated as a sexual disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the guidebook for mental health professionals. Back in 1974, the decision to remove it from the DSM was so controversial…
It’s easy to forget, in our enlightened and accepting times, that until just 40 years ago, homosexuality was treated as a sexual disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the guidebook for mental health professionals. Back in 1974, the decision to remove it from the DSM was so controversial…
When Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis begins, Gregor Samsa is already a giant insect. In The Trouble With Doug, Will Aronson and Daniel Mate’s loosely inspired musical take on the surreal novella, the title character’s transformation into a gastropod mollusk is incremental, awkward, painful, and hilarious, and it takes him the…
You wouldn’t think a gay, Jewish, musical-theater aspirant in recovery would seek employment with high-end hookers. But Josh Mesnik, an out-of-work actor in New York, worked nine months as a receptionist for a dictatorial owner’s prostitution business in Boca. The result is a winning comedy, Have I Got a Girl…
For the past month, the world’s geopolitical chessboard has been dominated by a blustery pair of familiar figures: the United States and Russia. Their ostensible objective is the stabilization of a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map, but it’s the uneasy diplomatic brinkmanship between these former rivals that…
There’s an unavoidable flaw in the one-woman show Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, and that’s the fact that it’s not written by Ivins herself. The liberal Texas firebrand, whose syndicated columns had run in 400 newspapers by the time she lost her battle with breast cancer…
David Mamet may not be reinventing his own wheel in his most recent play, The Anarchist, but he’s at least changing the spokes. For a director who has arguably created more uses for the word “fuck” than any playwright in American history, The Anarchist is free of four-letter words. And…
Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Nabucco is set in biblical times, but its inciting incident suggests nothing less than a Liam Neeson thriller with swords and sandals: Nabucco, the king of Babylon, is plotting an assault on the high priest of Israel’s Temple of Solomon, who holds Nabucco’s daughter hostage. The trailer…
