Strictly speaking, andamento is an Italian musical term, but its essential definition – a long and continuous fugue – also applies to the art of creating...
Just as the one-man comedy Buyer and Cellar was coming to a close last spring at freeFall Theater, actor Chris Crawford got an offer he couldn’t...
In a Straz Center dressing room, Eric Whitacre is talking about his choral work Lux Aurumque, commissioned by the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay in 2000,...
It might be beyond the imagination of today’s hipster pop music acolytes to think of Elvis Costello as anything other than a rather eccentric, grand old...
His critics call it “mansplaining,” but you know what? There aren’t too many of them, and British pop/folk artist Frank Turner is justifiably proud of his...
Growing up in a sleepy Pasco County cattle town, Andra Douglas wanted little more than to play football alongside the neighborhood boys, who huddled and battled...
He says he hasn’t written a word in two years, but he’s not done, not by a long shot. Last spring, St. Petersburg’s most beloved author,...
In the so-real-you-can-almost-taste-it New York City conjured up by playwright Adam Gwon in Ordinary Days, the slightest connection – brushing up against a stranger, or reading...
This weekend’s Downtown St. Petersburg Songwriters Festival has well over a dozen corporate sponsors, with one of them in the official title itself. It’s a heavily-promoted...
Theirs is a mutual admiration society that pointedly ignores any and all man-made borders, including a three-decade age difference. They’re friends and collaborators because they want...
