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 she’d finished writing down everything she’d learned so far in her acting career, and put pen to paper to pass on the accumulated wisdom of...
Despite the glaring omissions of both of St. Petersburg’s mainstage professional theaters, the nonprofit Theatre Tampa Bay has announced its nominees for best stage productions and...
Tickets go on sale Friday for a Nov. 20 Mahaffey Theater concert, The Last Waltz Tour Live. It’s a song-by-song live reproduction of The Band’s legendary...
In the 1961 film adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s, one of the characters circling around free-spirited Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is Mr. Yunioshi,...
There’s one question Gulfport Casino manager Justin Shea gets asked more than any other: Where are the slot machines? The word casino means gathering place, he...
St. Petersburg got its first taste of painter/muralist Leon Bedore’s work in the early 1990s. The Pinellas County Center for the Arts student was a graffiti...
It’s not exactly a Stop the Presses moment, but all four original members of A Flock of Seagulls, one of the first new wave “video bands”...
Alice Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple, about a young Black woman growing up dirt-poor and abused in turn-of-the-century rural Georgia, is one of the most...
It was one year ago today that the five-story Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement opened on 4th Street North, its 40,000 square feet...
In a roundabout way, we have the Florida Aquarium to thank for Carrie Jadus’ Blue Nudes series of paintings, featuring human figures in repose against rich...
