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.
The late playwright Terrance McNally, who was born right here in St. Petersburg, wrote the script for the Broadway musical Anastasia in 2016. Full circle alert:...
“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet, adding: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as...
Mountain Holler left Tampa Bay two years ago, and is now firmly established in the Pacific Northwest. The name on his birth certificate is Mark Etherington,...
When the online platform Cityverse debuts in 2023, every resident of St. Petersburg will have the opportunity to create his or her own Homespace (profile) to...
Roll over Tom Turkey, and tell Big Santa the news. Sure it’s only Thanksgiving weekend, but two holiday-season traditions are already back with us for 2022...
Sonically, Drive-By Truckers are like Neil Young’s Crazy Horse, Exile-era Stones, the Replacements and Whiskeytown loaded into a blender set on Puree; they’re a crunchy-guitar band...
Dream imagery was a major component of Salvador Dali’s Surrealist paintings, so it’s only logical that the Dali Museum would take the subject matter and run...
The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, in Laura Hine’s estimation, has gone through two distinct phases. The first began in April 2018, when the...
Another snowbird has landed full time in St. Petersburg. Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards and her husband quietly purchased a house in town last year, and soon...
George C. Wolfe populated his satirical play The Colored Museum with characters from all across the spectrum of the African-American experience. Some of their stories are...