Can you spot a criminal? Art Heist lets the audience be the detective
Palm Beach Daily News
If you’ve ever dreamed of being a detective or forensic scientist, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts has the perfect show for you. Art Heist, an interactive performance produced by Right Angle Entertainment and based on the real-life art theft at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a “true crime walking show” where socially distanced groups move through five walkable locations to gather clues.
The show premieres Thursday and runs through May 16, with tickets starting at $41.50.
The audience will be able to interview a variety of characters adapted from the actual suspect list from the night. This includes the two thieves who on March 18, 1990 entered the museum in the middle of the night disguised as police officers, telling guards they were investigating a disturbance.
Marvel fans who found
WandaVision’s sitcom and time-hopping theatrics a little too noodle-scratching will welcome the return to more traditional action here. Likewise, if the recent MCU left-turns towards multiverses and shape-shifting aliens has left you cold, then you’ll be delighted with this more down-to-Earth approach. We’re back on the familiar, paranoid political thriller territory of the Captain America trilogy. An opening, action-packed salvo above Tunisia almost feels more
Mandalorian in style – and just as thrilling – as point-of-view shots and vertiginous cinematography draw you into a breathtaking chase to stop the abduction of a high-profile asset. Just as quickly though, the tone shifts to domestic dramas and character re-establishment, as we meet as a cadre of new characters who now inhabit our two Marvel sidekicks’ personal universes. We know it won’t be long though before events bigger than themselves will require them back on duty and the trail
On March 18, 1990, $500 million in paintings and other works were stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in what has become history's richest art heist. Here's a look back at the Hartford Courant's coverage of the heist and Robert "The Cook" Gentile, the once-obscure gangster from Hartford, who was placed at the center of the mystery.
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