One of the last things Tampa Repertory Theatre co-founder C. David Frankel was developing before his passing in March 2020 was an ambitious production of Shakespeare’s...
February is, of course, Black History Month, and it’s also St. Petersburg Celebration of the Arts month, wherein previously-scheduled events, concerts, lectures and more from all...
You can never have too much jazz, apparently. Two St. Petersburg downtown venues are skewing jazz-centric: It’s “January Jazz Weekend” at thestudio@620, kicking off with a...
As a singing star, Donna Summer was so big that it takes three people to play her onstage. OK, well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration,...
Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men is usually described as a courtroom drama, and in the most suspenseful, tension-and-release fashion, that’s what it is. Yet the action...
In theater, serendipity often plays a major role. Consider actress Amanda Ladd, a member of New York’s New Circle Theatre Company, which specializes in incubating new...
Asolo Repertory Theatre’s Hair almost got cut. It came that close. The largest and one of the longest-lived professional theaters in the southeastern United States, the...
There are those who felt the 2019 movie version of Cats did unspeakable damage to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical, which had transformed the West End,...
Thirteen weeks into his tenure as American Stage’s producing artistic director, Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj reports that things are moving along according to plan. Maharaj, who pointedly...
After the guarantee of a steady paycheck, an actor’s biggest thrill comes from working on something new, developing a show from the ground up. There’s no...
