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"Bad Government (from Allegory of Good and Bad Government)" by Carrie Ann Baade
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 13, 2015
Back and Forth: Thinking in Paint opens at The Ringling

The first ever exhibition of current Florida State University faculty runs from August 14 to Oct. 25.

  • Arts + Culture
Renée Fleming will make her Sarasota debut with Anu Tali and the Sarasota Orchestra at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on January 27.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 13, 2015
Renée Fleming to perform at the Van Wezel on January 27

The acclaimed soprano will make her Sarasota debut with Anu Tali and the Sarasota Orchestra

  • Arts + Culture
Ricardo Graziano leads Victoria Hulland and Daniel Rodriguez through a movement in 2015 ahead of his world premiere work at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 12, 2015
Pillow Talk: Sarasota Ballet opens season at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

On the verge of their 25th anniversary, the Sarasota Ballet begins this season with week-long residency at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the oldest and most prestigious festival of American dance in the country.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 11, 2015
"Why Can't I Be You?" by Llywelyn Jones wins the Players Theatre's 2015 New Play Festival

The play depicting the story of a famous rock star and his stalker will receive a full-stage production from August 23 to 28, 2016.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 11, 2015
Florida Studio Theatre appoints Jim Sorensen and Caroline Kaiser to senior staff positions

Sorensen will be an associate managing director and Kaiser will be the director of children's theatre.

  • Arts + Culture
starliteplayers
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • August 11, 2015
Do This: Starlite Players — 'This Isn't What I Expected'

Do This: Starlite Players — 'This Isn't What I Expected'

  • Arts + Culture
Jillian Butterfield as Belle and the cast of "Beauty and the Beast."
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 10, 2015
Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" returns to the Van Wezel

Disney's first Broadway musical is making its way to Sarasota at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 10, 2015
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art opens new exhibition

"The Lightness of Being: Abstract: Part 2" features a diverse range of local and regional abstract artists

  • Arts + Culture
urbanitemainweb
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 10, 2015
Fresh Take: Urbanite Theatre's upward trajectory

Fresh Take: Urbanite Theatre's upward trajectory

  • Arts + Culture
Amit Even-Tov, Jan Grüning, Alexandra Kazovsky and Gershon Gerchikov of the Ariel Quartet.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 7, 2015
Perlman Music Program/Suncoast announces alumni concerts

Program alumni Molly Carr, Yannick Rafalimanana, Sean Lee, Peter Dugan and The Ariel Quartet return to Sarasota to celebrate the program's annual winter residency.

  • Arts + Culture
Sally Bondi and Dan Higgs show of their youthful spirit in "Old Enough to Know Better" at Florida Studio Theatre.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 5, 2015
Life's a Stage

Florida Studio Theatre breaks down stereotypes in their new documentary play assembled from nearly 100 senior Sarasotans: 'Old Enough to Know Better.”

  • Arts + Culture
Jo Morello and Tyler Yurckonis formed the Starlite Players to highlight the talents of local playwrights and actors.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 5, 2015
Starlite Players shines spotlight on local playwrights

Starlite Players offers a new style of theater with short five-minute performances.

  • Arts + Culture
Daryl Hall and John Oates, the most successful duo of the rock era, will play the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall at 8 p.m. on Dec. 2
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 3, 2015
Hall & Oates coming to the Van Wezel on Dec. 2

Daryl Hall and John Oates will bring their numerous hits and Philadelphia soul sound to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

  • Arts + Culture
Patrick Osborne (Ringling class of 2003) won last year's Academy Award for Best Short Film, Animated for "Feast." Photo by Ricky Middlesworth.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • August 3, 2015
Ringling College named Top 25 film school by The Hollywood Reporter

Ringling College went up seven spots, 24 to 17, from last year's list

  • Arts + Culture
Victoria Hulland and Ricardo Graziano in Sir Frederick Ashton's "Marguerite and Armand," which is making its Sarasota premiere on Nov. 20 and 21 as a part of the Sarasota Ballet's 25th anniversary season.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • July 31, 2015
Sarasota Ballet adds Sir Frederick Ashton's "Enigma Variations" to 25th anniversary season

Sarasota Ballet will be the first American company to perform and add both Ashton's "Enigma Variations" and "Marguerite and Armand" to its repertoire.

  • Arts + Culture
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