The perfect valentine gift for your lady love would be tickets to the Ballet Palm Beach production of Romeo & Juliet. This Shakespearean tale has it all! Duels, masquerades, revenge, love and the powerful score of Prokofiev to guide the dancers through the story. Three performances only: Saturday, February 18 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m, and Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets are $19 – $45 and can be purchased by calling (561) 814-5598 or online at www.BalletPalmBeach.org.
The old year is out and in steps 2017 with lots of opportunities to see great theatre right here in Palm Beach County.
On Wednesday, December 16 from 1-3pm, Localecopia held a “meet & greet” at the world-renowned Breakers Resort.
Get out your December calendar and get ready for a month of outstanding musical entertainment throughout the county starting with The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton.
by Jan Davisson The Maltz Jupiter Theatre BELIEVE… is the name of the newest growth campaign at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Exciting future plans to bring year-round theater into the north county, including pre-Broadway shows. No longer just Boston, Philadelphia…
If you live in a community that includes minor monthly lawn services like I do, you may have weeds in your St. Augustine lawn. This is quite common among Home Owners Associations (HOAs) in South Florida due to the same lawn maintenance equipment (i.e., mower) being used on multiple lawns in the community, spreading the seeds of ONE lawn’s weeds to ALL of the lawns. Just like the saying “one bad apple spoils it for the bunch,” the same is happening for community lawns. Except now you can apply this archaic adage to something a little more modern than a “bunch of apples!”
Twenty-five years ago I attended the “topping off” construction party for the new performing arts center on Okeechobee Blvd. It would be known as the Kravis Center. The gathering was an “over the top” event featuring an assortment of food stations, great music and a tour of the building, including getting a chance to sing “Happy Birthday” on the huge Kravis stage.
Exciting things are happening on the Palm Beach County theater scene in preparation for the start of the 2016-17 season.
The Zika Virus is a mosquito-born virus that has recently seen outbreaks in South and Central America and is spreading north. There are now 43 cases of Zika victims who were bitten by a domestic mosquito in the U.S., and all but one of those cases are found in South Florida.
The recent blue-green algae bloom in South Florida has been on the minds of all summer beach-goers and outdoor adventurers. The cyanobacteria that causes the blue-green sludge on the surface of our bodies of water also produces potent toxins.