An “artist couple” shares populist work at the Boca Museum, the Spady Museum celebrates families, and a bestselling novel migrates to the stage in Coral Gables. Plus, Billy Idol and more in your week ahead.
TUESDAY
What: Billy Idol
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Amerant Bank Arena, 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise
Cost: $64-$129
Contact: 954/835-7000, seatgeek.com
Certifiably ageless, and with a coif as spiky as his music, U.K. legend Billy Idol still performs with his trademark punk sneer and rebel yell, albeit with a sense of humor gleaned from decades atop the influential new-wave hierarchy: Riffing on one of his most popular songs, his latest stint on the road is called “It’s a Nice Day to … Tour Again!” The antiestablishment rocker plays hits from his early career with Generation X, including “Dancing With Myself,” as well as his decades of solo bangers, including “Eyes Without a Face” and “Hot in the City.” His opening act is an equally accomplished singer-songwriter straddling the Venn diagram of punk, new wave and mainstream rock: Joan Jett, touring as always with the Blackhearts.
What: The Damned
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Revolution Live, 100 S.W. Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale
Cost: $52.50
Contact: 954/449-1025, jointherevolution.net
London’s the Damned were around for the birth of punk rock, and unlike many of the genre’s fellow forbears, they’re still around in 2025 to rip and thrash through its two and three-chord wonders—and beyond. Because, although the group’s seminal 1977 debut Damned, Damned, Damned is a straight-ahead punk masterpiece that yielded iconic favorites “Neat Neat Neat” and “New Rose,” the Damned has never rested on punk’s primal laurels. They explored psychedelic leanings on famed covers of Love’s “Alone Again, Or” and Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” and they later became standard bearers of the new goth culture, both in their more brooding sound—which rose to the fore on 1980’s The Black Album—and dark baritone vocals and shadowy appearance of frontman Dave Vanian. All of these facets of the Damned’s rich legacy, up to their 2023 comeback LP Darkadelic, are explored in their captivating live sets.
WEDNESDAY
What: Opening day of “Side By Side: The Artist Couple”
When: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton
Cost: $12-$16
Contact: 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org
Like attracts like, and many of our great artists found partners among their inner circles, forging indelible bonds beyond the canvas: Think Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. To this cohort, we can add Theresa Bernstein and William Meyerowitz. Born three years apart, in Poland and Ukraine respectively, the artists married in 1919, just two years after the met, and remained inseparable in life and art until Meyerowitz’s death in 1981. Affiliated with the Ashcan School of urban realism, they believed in the populist power of art, bringing their paintings and etchings to economically disadvantaged Americans through the People’s Art Guild. Whether capturing cultural, office or maritime life, they often focused their brushes on the working men and women of New York City and Massachusetts, where they summered. “Side By Side” features more than 50 paintings and works on paper.
What: Opening night of “The Girl on the Train”
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Actors’ Playhouse, 280 Miracle Miles, Coral Gables
Cost: $50
Contact: 305/444-9293, actorsplayhouse.org
“The Girl on the Train” has been a juicy piece of intellectual property since it debuted as a literary thriller, in 2015, by Paula Hawkins. The book claimed the No. 1 slot on the New York Times bestseller list for 13 straight weeks, and its film adaptation premiered a year later, to be followed swiftly by this stage version. As in these previous iterations, playwrights Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel center their story on a voyeuristic heroine with a bit of a drinking problem, 33-year-old Rachel Watson (note her sleuthing surname), whose fixation on a seemingly adulterous woman viewed through the window of the train car on her daily commute leads her to become a witness of her subject’s sudden disappearance. Previews of the show’s Miami premiere begin Wednesday at a discounted rate; following the production’s gala opening Friday, ticket prices increase to $60 and up.
SUNDAY
What: Delray Beach Family Affair
When: 1 to 4 p.m.
Where: Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, 170 N.W. Fifth Ave., Delray Beach
Cost: Free
Contact: 561/279-8883, spadymuseum.com
This week marks approximately a month until Juneteenth, and the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum remains ground zero for celebrations leading up to the holiday. All are invited to the Delray Beach Family Affair, which features classic dance, soul and R&B music from the Reaxtion Band and food vendors preparing and serving cookout-style dishes. Children’s activities run the gamut from the relaxing (splash pools, storytelling) to the cerebral (chess), and vendors will offer an array of African-inspired goods. Furthermore, Sunday marks the opening day of “New Beginnings,” an interactive exhibition in which participants will create an orange blossom art piece using upcycled materials in recognition of the orange blossom’s vital role in the farming history of Florida and its African diaspora. “New Beginnings” runs through June 19.
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