St. Pete’s arts scene is a cornerstone of its unique profile, with great visual art, world-class museums and performing arts of every kind, at every level. The section is not only a source for current arts news and updates, it profiles those artists and influencers who CREATE and make the St Petersburg arts community so vibrant. Keep abreast of local arts & culture events and news in the Create section.
After nine years with the SHINE Mural Festival, the last seven as its director, Jenee Priebe has struck out on her own. She has launched No...
There’s nothing soft and fluffy about The Pillowman, onstage through April 6 in a production by Tampa’s Jobsite Theater. British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s tale, while it’s...
After 26 years in the same cramped building at 719 Central Avenue, the Morean Arts Center is ready to move up in the world. The exhibition...
The weekend’s biggest news is the launch of American Stage’s production of the 1968 musical Hair at Demens Landing Park, which will remain on the outdoor...
Ubiquitous in jazz, the saxophone is also a valued tool of the musical trade plied by classical players. The twain meet, somewhere in the middle, at...
St. Petersburg’s tightly-knit art community is mourning the passing of one of its earliest and most vocal supporters. Word arrived last week from Bandera, Texas that...
Much like an artist tells stories through painting or sculpture, and a composer tells stories with music, so do dancers, through movement, take an audience –...
John Travolta is getting to be The Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing, mind you – the iconic actor (and North...
For American Stage’s springtime out-of-doors show, producing artistic director Helen R. Murray reached into the big bag of beloved American musicals and came out with a...
Bruce Reynolds spent 16 consecutive seasons in Tropicana Field. As part of the Tampa Bay Rays’ corps of ubiquitous Fan Hosts, beacons in bright yellow and...