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Xavier Foley, Music Mondays' next guest, plays the double bass with rare dexterity. (Photo by Vanessa Briceño)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • January 8, 2020
Music Mondays are back with weekly interludes

Long-running seasonal series offers low-key, noteworthy discussions

  • Arts + Culture
Ann Morrison says she lied about her age when she auditioned for "Merrily We Roll Along" in 1981 because she'd heard he didn't like working with "kids." (Courtesy photo)
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • January 8, 2020
Choral Artists of Sarasota salutes Stephen Sondheim on his 90th

Ann Morrison shares her insights, memories working with legendary composer

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • January 8, 2020
Chasen Galleries presenting Peter Max retrospective

120 images provide full-color flashbacks from the '60s to the present

  • Arts + Culture
(Courtesy: Sarasota Ballet) Sarasota Ballet will present Sir Frederick Ashton's "lost" ballet, "Dante Sonata" as part of its "Beyond Words" series.
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • January 1, 2020
Looking ahead at Sarasota's arts and entertainment in 2020

From tried and true to totally new, or maybe it’s just new to you, this year’s entertainment options go on as far as the eye can see. Here are just a few.

  • Arts + Culture
Women dressed as suffragists get into the spirit before marching in the Downtown Sarasota Holiday Parade, the first event on the Suffragist Project calendar.
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • January 1, 2020
FST and The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates the women's suffrage movement all year

A collaborative initiative, the Suffragist Project begins an eight-month centennial celebration of the 19th amendment.

  • Arts + Culture
"Gruesome Playground Injuries" is an unconventionally structured play that takes an unconventional perspective on what drives our actions and our relationships. (Courtesy Photos: Asolo Conservatory)
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • January 1, 2020
FSU/Asolo Conservatory shows how love hurts in its latest production

The director and cast explain how ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ is all about healing.

  • Arts + Culture
Shadow and substance coexist in Miwa Matrawek's "The World Made itself: Myth and Infrastructure."
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 25, 2019
2019 A+ E Year in Review

Looking back, here are a few notable moments to get you started

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 18, 2019
Sarasota Art Museum makes colorful entrance

Galleries devoted to contemporary art launch with 2 visually vivid exhibitions

  • Arts + Culture
Bruce Rodgers, executive director of the Hermitage Artist retreat since its inception, feels the time is right for the retreat and for him to pass the torch. (Klint Lowry)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 18, 2019
Bruce Rodgers makes graceful retreat

After 15 years, Hermitage Artist Retreat's executive director stepping down

  • Arts + Culture
Dana Habedank, 17, prepares to launch herself while fellow daring young women on the flying trapeze, Emme Clarke, 14, and Teresa Powell, 17, offer encouragement. (Klint Lowry)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 18, 2019
Sailor Circus' holiday show presents '12 Days' of derring do

Brand new winter program turns Christmas classic on its head

  • Arts + Culture
Itzhak and Toby Perlman have been bringing students from their Perlman Music Program to Sarasota for 16 years. (Courtesy photos)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 18, 2019
Perlman Music Program/Suncoast raises its tent for annual Winter Residency program

Open rehearsals allow public to sit in on the creative process

  • Arts + Culture
It's critic Marty Fugate's (right) turn to be picked apart as FST's Will Luera gets him to open up about his life so it can be used as comedic ammunition in "Last Laugh." (Courtesy photos)
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • December 11, 2019
'Last Laugh' puts audience members on hot seat

Florida Studio Theatre troupe takes improv in a new direction.

  • Arts + Culture
Attendance at the Atomic Holiday Bizarre is eight times higher than it was when it started in 2005. (Courtesy photo)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 11, 2019
Atomic Holiday Bazaar dependably out of the ordinary

Annual holiday shopping event indulges our common desire for something different

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 11, 2019
'John Ringling's Circus Nutcracker' turns two tales into one

Sarasota Ballet production adds big top spectacle to Tchaikovsky's ballet dreamscape

  • Arts + Culture
Brandon Wardell, left, along with Shonn Wiley, Eric Gutman and David Larsen work together to re-create that doo-wop sound as Under the Streetlamp. (Courtesy)
    By
  • Klint Lowry
  • December 4, 2019
Van Wezel show brings a yuletide hue

'Under the Streetlamp: Hip to the Holidays' offers good old-fashioned rock 'n' roll Christmas.

  • Arts + Culture
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