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By Carol Mickett. Robert Stackhouse and I enthusiastically agreed to work with choreographer Paula Kramer, premier dancer Helen Hansen French, musician and composer John O’Leary III and photographer Tom Kramer on a collaboration for BEACON 2022, the yearly contemporary dance celebration produced by Helen French and Lauren Slone at the Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg…. Read More
By GJ Thompson. St Petersburg Shakespeare Festival in association with Off-Central Players is hosting The Inaugural William Shakespeare’s Birthday Bash, a day-long street festival of the arts celebrating the birth, life and works of William Shakespeare – with performances, visual art, music, street performers, activities for kids, food and drink…. Read More
By Jake-ann Jones. freeFall Theatre has brought Ebony Repertory Theatre’s L.A. production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, a play with music by Lanie Robertson, to town. Starring the luminous Karole Foreman, the play takes place in 1959, so we’re meeting the iconic songstress at the door of death (Holiday died in July of that year). The evening feels intimate – it’s just us and Foreman/Holiday, and her lone accompanist, Jimmy Powers. Played by pianist Damon Carter, who fills the theater with his deft and dexterous piano skills … Read More
By Susan Giles-Wantuck. For more than 10 years, oboist Amy Collins and painter Christopher Still have wanted a piece of music to go along with the murals he painted for the state house chamber, as Artist-in-Residence of the Florida Legislature. And this Sunday, composer Alyssa Morris’s Florida Miniatures will have its world premiere at USF. The work is based on some of the ten murals Still painted in the Florida House Chamber…. Read More
Courtney Elvira is a Mexican-American, mezzo-soprano with her hometown roots in Pinellas County, FL. Courtney began her career as an opera singer, singing for Dayton Opera; Brava! Opera Theater; Opera… Read More
Sarah is a freelance teaching artist and choreographer based in St. Petersburg/Tampa, FL. She has been teaching dance to all ages for over 20 years in schools including the Atlanta… Read More
Roxanne Fay is an actor, playwright, and director. As playwright, Roxanne was named a 2016 Hawthornden Writers’ Fellow (in residence, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland) and was twice awarded the Creative Pinellas… Read More
By Jake-ann Jones. In a time when most folks are content with the digital sounds their phones blare forth from miniscule earbuds, Scotty Wright’s rich stylization, smooth delivery and upbeat rhythms are a buttery goodness that need to be experienced live. And in the true nature of jazz, every time it feels different. “Let me tell you what I can’t do – I can’t sing a song the same way twice.”… Read More
By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre. One Saturday afternoon while dropping off an application for an upcoming exhibition in Dunedin, my daughter Madeline and I took the opportunity to view current art exhibitions open to the public – “Tell Us a Story” at the Studio 1212 Art Gallery and “Florida Impressions at “Stirling Art Studios and Gallery, which runs through March 27…. Read More
By Wendy Finklea and Merry Lynn Morris. From gifted musicians who are blind, to dancers with mobility differences, to emerging young artists with autism and Deaf dancers, “From Backstage to Center Stage 2022” celebrated diverse people and experiences. This dedicated Arts4All Florida program serves to recognize the outstanding accomplishments in the performing arts by renowned artists that have a disability. … Read More
