Arts Coast Magazine – Performing

By Sheila Cowley

We’re asking for arts experiences in our area you’d recommend to friends and family of all ages and abilities, for this special Arts Coast feature…. Read More

By Cindy Stovall

By Cindy Stovall. Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo welcomes a truly immersive, multi-media, staged art experience reflective of 11 decades of pop-culture and Drag History… Read More

By Kurt Loft

By Kurt Loft. “Both voices shine and sing,” says violist Sarah McElravy of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola. … Read More

By David Warner

By David Warner. Among the many thrills of BEACON’s annual showcase of dance and multi-disciplinary works is its sheer variety. It’s thrilling to discover the multiple pathways chosen by dancers and choreographers…. Read More

By Gabrielle Reeder

By Gabrielle Reeder. 500 beach dwellers gathered on St. Pete Beach for an ethereal journey into a piano solo that explored an intrinsic human emotion – joy. … Read More

By Sheila Cowley

This Is My Brave is a live presentation of essays, original music, poetry and comedy performed by a dozen USF students living with – or loving someone with – a mental illness or substance use condition…. Read More

By Kurt Loft

By Kurt Loft. What’s the most influential piece of music of all time? What work changed everything after its first performance, and forced the world to take notice?… Read More

By David Manson

The 15th annual St. Petersburg Jazz Festival 2024 takes place April 1-6 with concert events and free jazz workshops. … Read More

By Helen French

By Helen French. This year’s BEACON dance performance features four world premieres, 20 dance artists, two local dance companies, two live musicians, one spoken word artist and one dance film…. Read More

By Kurt Loft

By Kurt Loft. If Rodney Dangerfield played the viola, he’d still use the same comic line – “I don’t get no respect.’’ Well, we say to hell with all that. And so did two famous composers, Mozart and Dvořák… Read More

By Margo Hammond

By Margo Hammond. The Florida Highwaymen returned to The Studio@620 in downtown St. Pete this month — or at least their spirits did, thanks to an exhibition of their paintings a reading of a play written and directed by Bob Devin Jones…. Read More

By Kurt Loft

By Kurt Loft. The words of Ann Frank unfold through music when the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay presents Annelies, an adaptation of the diary as a large-scale choral work. “There are a million reasons to do this piece” … Read More

By Kurt Loft

By Kurt Loft. “I honestly feel that the music always goes first and our main goal as musicians is to be just a kind of translator of what we think the composer may want,’’ says pianist Javier Perianes, who joins The Florida Orchestra for Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto…. Read More

By Margo Hammond

By Margo Hammond. A sold-out crowd gathered at 620 1st Avenue S on February 10, the second night of a weekend-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Studio@620… Read More

By Sheila Cowley

It’s not easy to earn a living as a full-time artist. We asked a range of visual, literary and performing artists how they made the transition to a full-time career… Read More