Installations

Everybody knows South Florida is a great place to retire–or at least a great place to spend the winter. But it may surprise those not in the know to learn that, besides warm weather, low taxes, early-bird dinners and great golf, there are some other pretty nice perks of "Gold Coast" retirement living. Such as regional theatre in some very cool venues. One of the classiest of those venues is the Palace Theatre for the Performing Arts, part of the Kings Point condominium complex in Tamarac, Fla. Situated between Miami and Palm Beach, Tamarac is a town of just more than 56,000 that's been voted one of the most livable cities in the country by the U.S. Council of Mayors. The Kings Point condominium complex, which opened in 1989, is a community of 8,000 over-55 residents. Designed for active adults, amenities include a lavish country club setting and greenbelt trails. It's a sweet setup, and, with the baby boomer retirement explosion on the way, it just might be the wave of the future.

Debuting in the completely rebuilt 1,951-seat theatre of Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel is KÀ, Cirque du Soleil's fifth Las Vegas extravaganza. Created and directed by acclaimed Québécois theatre and film director Robert Lepage, KÀ is one of the largest technical productions ever put together, combining acrobatics, martial arts, puppetry, multimedia, pyrotechnics, an original score and an elaborate sound design by Jonathan Deans. KÀ departs from previous Cirque productions by featuring a strongly defined story with clearly identified characters. Described by Cirque founder and CEO Guy Laliberte as "the most theatrical show we've ever done," KÀ is based on the ancient Egyptian belief in the ka, an invisible spiritual duplicate of the body that accompanies each person through this life and into the next. The tale is told as the saga of separated twins–a boy and a girl–who embark on a journey to fulfill their