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.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Generally attributed to philosopher George Santayana, this famous quite sums up nicely what Bertolt...
The last time we heard from Reed O’Hara, the brilliant, beautiful Tampa attorney, private eye and upscale nightclub proprietor, she’d just vanquished a human trafficking dirtbag...
There’s an extraordinary confluence of good things onstage this weekend at Studio Grand Central in St. Petersburg – a perfect storm of story, script, positivity and...
It’s the end of a well-traveled road with American Stage’s Footloose – the Musical, which opened a month ago in Demens Landing Park and has been...
Along with the premiere (for Tampa Bay) performances of several beloved classical works, during its 2022-23 season (announced today) The Florida Orchestra is introducing a new...
Looking backwards has never been a priority for Michael Francis, musical director of The Florida Orchestra. The maestro is always focused on the now, the new,...
It’s the summer of 1929 in Ybor City. Inside a Cuban-American cigar factory, temperatures are high as a half-dozen workers roll brown tobacco by hand. Into...
The Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy-winning documentary Summer of Soul kicks off the 2022 Movies in the Park series in North Straub Park Thursday. Admission is free....
After almost 20 years of radio silence, Stan Lynch and Mike Campbell, founding members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, are talking – and playing –...
For decades, South Florida playwright Philip Middleton Williams had the germ of an idea in the back of his mind – a period drama about twin...