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Arts + Culture

Photo courtesy Frank Atura
    By
  • Harry Sayer
  • April 22, 2020
Sarasota Ballet announces 2020 - 2021 season

The company's 30th anniversary season is scheduled to begin in October.

  • Arts + Culture
Members of Sarasota Orchestra are performing their favorite works from their living rooms.
    By
  • Brynn Mechem
  • April 13, 2020
Arts organizations get creative with online performances

Sarasota residents can view performances from organizations like Sarasota Orchestra, Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and Asolo Conservatory.

  • Arts + Culture
"The German Party," opened the Asolo Repertory Theater's new black box theater, as well as Asolo Rep's new Ground Floor Series, March 2. (Courtesy photo)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • April 7, 2020
Asolo Rep broadcasting free online concert Wednesday

Live, one-night-only Ground Floor show to be streamed on Facebook, YouTube

  • Arts + Culture
Sarasota Orchestra's Outdoor Pops concerts at Ed Smith Stadium, with its fireworks accompaniment, won't be happening this year. (Courtesy photo)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • April 6, 2020
Sarasota Orchestra cancels remainder of season

Sarasota Music Festival, Outdoor Pops shows among those called off

  • Arts + Culture
Asolo Repertory Theatre is based in FSU Center for the Performing Arts adjacent to The Ringling Museum.
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • April 4, 2020
Asolo Rep, FSU/Asolo Conservatory announce 2020-21 seasons

Two canceled musicals from this season will get another chance next spring

  • Arts + Culture
Florida Studio Theatre's "Outlaws and Angels" had a long run this season, and on the final night before everything at FST shut down, Nick Lerangis got to share the stage with his 18-month-old son, Bobby. (Courtesy photo)
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • April 3, 2020
Parent, performer — it's a tricky dual role

Home time is precious, but livings are made on the road

  • Arts + Culture
The Photoville Fence is a national touring juried photo exhibit that for the last two years has displayed in Nathan Benderson Park. (Courtesy photo by Barbara Strauss)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • April 1, 2020
Photoville Fence waives fees for photographers

Deadline approaching for next year's juried national exhibition

  • Arts + Culture
The annual Embracing Our Differences exhibit has been in Bayfront Park since January, and will stay up through the end of April. (Photos by Klint Lowry)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • April 1, 2020
Embracing Our Differences to hold on a while

City agrees to keep the installation up in Bayfront Park

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • March 30, 2020
There's virtual fun for virtually everyone

Area organizations getting innovative with online options for entertainment

  • Arts + Culture
Courtesy photo
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • March 30, 2020
Sarasota Orchestra announces 2020-21 season

Multiseries concert calendar offers usual variety of themes, styes, guest artists

  • Arts + Culture
A message on the Asolo Repertory Theatre is the sign of the times not just there but for all theater in Sarasota. (Photo by Klint Lowry)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • March 29, 2020
As season recedes further, groups look to the future

WBTT reschedules world premier of in-house original musical 'Ruby' for next season

  • Arts + Culture
Alfie Ratner is reaching out to kids everywhere to join in parents Paul and Petra Ratner's project, the "World's Largest Zombie Movie."
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • March 26, 2020
Just what we need right now — zombies!

Filmmakers start 'World's Largest Zombie Movie' project for kids to battle boredom

  • Arts + Culture
The Urbanite Theatre was among the first performing arts organizations to shut down.
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • March 25, 2020
Performing arts in the dark for the unforeseeable future

Organizations concerned about prolonged intermission from normalcy

  • Arts + Culture
Gillian St. George and Rita Rust decide to relax in the late-afternoon breeze Saturday outside Uptown Gallery. Walkthrough traffic had not been significantly off that day they say. (Photo by Klint Lowry)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • March 18, 2020
For the time being, galleries are open for business

With theaters and museums closing, they're a last bastion of art and culture

  • Arts + Culture
Derric Gobourne Jr. (front) plays Jesus in West Coast Black Theatre Troupe's production of "Your Arms too Short to Box with God." (Photos courtesy Sorcha Augustine)
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • March 18, 2020
'Your Arms too Short to Box with God' at WBTT still packs a punch

Director Harry Bryce discusses the groundbreaking musical's significance

  • Arts + Culture
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