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.
There are moments, many of them, in the freeFall Theatre production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, when it appears that actress and singer...
Tampa’s Tatiana Melendez is in her third season as a principal dancer with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, an acclaimed, boundary-stretching New York company. “Selfish choreographer that I...
The only constant in life, it is often said, is change. And the St. Petersburg Shakespeare Festival has changed considerably since its creation in 2014. There’s...
It’s been three years since American Stage’s last big “park show.” In April 2019, Mamma Mia! thrilled bay area audiences on the company’s temporary stage in...
Mystery novelist Agatha Christie created one of literature’s two great detectives, the Belgian eccentric Hercule Poirot, in 1920. Sherlock Holmes, the other fictional sleuth to become...
The 2013 movie Frozen, as with all successful Disney animated musicals, was turned into a Broadway stage show (it’s been around since 2018 and was nominated...
Film buffs and collectors take note: More than 800 movie posters, rolled and in perfect (and near-perfect) condition, have been discovered inside the Beach Theatre, the...
Four-part vocal harmony was considered archaic – pop music for Pop and Mom – when the Manhattan Transfer arrived in the early 1970s. Stylish and swinging,...
When Melanie performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House in February, 1974, she became the first folk/pop singer to take the stage at the venerable house...
In Jennifer Haley’s Breadcrumbs, the lines between reality, fiction, past and present begin to blur as a successful writer, sinking into dementia, deals with the events...
