Weekend Best Bet: SFF 2013 launches with Opening Night Film and Party
April 5, 2013
Sarasota Film Festival starts this weekend. In addition to the 250 films there's a slew of great events. This weekend’s best bet is the Opening Night Film and Party.
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall meets with Foundation about next face-lift
April 4, 2013
The nonprofit group that supports the performing arts venue will meet with Van Wezel executives to discuss the next round of improvements.
Bagpipes and Brass band celebrate National Tartan Day
April 3, 2013
The Jacobites and First Brass will play a dual concert Saturday, April 6, at Sarasota Opera House.
Patron Saints: Dr. Phillip Nelson
April 3, 2013
Dr. Phillip Nelson moved to The Glenridge on Palmer Ranch retirement community about a decade ago. The retired OB/GYN had been involved in community theater in his past and was searching for an activity in which to get involved.
HIGHLIGHTS: Booker VPA's spring dance show springs audience to life
April 3, 2013
Photos by Rachel S. O'Hara Spring isn't the only thing that's sprung. The students of Booker VPA's dance program leapt, pirouetted and moved gracefully across the stage during the Spring Dance Show, which took place from Mrch 28 to 30. Students were en pointe — and not just because they danced ballet — they tackled modern styles, too. Booker VPA dance students spent nine weeks carefully learning and rehearsing the professionally choreographed college-level dance program. Their styles reflect mature sophistication but at times were also comedic.
Art Imitating Life: Sarasota Ballet
April 3, 2013
It's not only Sarasota Ballet's dancers' first time dancing 'La Fille mal Gardée,' it's their first time dancing roles of 'real' people.
Scene & Heard
April 3, 2013
Complexus is official; LBKCA hosts picture-perfect exhibit; Patron Saints
Spotlight: Dick Hyman shakes up upcoming performance
April 3, 2013
The practically unknown independent film, "Alan & Naomi," opens with a visual sequence of children playing stickball, in 1942, in the streets of Brooklyn, with instrumental underscoring that plays quietly during the sequence.
Music Review: Sarasota Opera — The Verdi concert
April 3, 2013
One of the greatest of all opera composers, Giuseppe Verdi, is having what would be his 200th birthday celebrated all this year, and Sarasota Opera, being one of the greatest proponents of his work, got an almost seven-month lead (his actual date of birth was Oct. 10, 1813) with a massive concert, at the Opera House, featuring some of his best and least known works.
- May
27 Youth in Service - A Memorial Day Outdoor Concert
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Jul
4 "Gloria Musicae Celebrates America"
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Sep
19 Steel Magnolias
7:30 pm - Jan
4 10th Anniversary Perlman Gala Concert
5:00 pm
