Florida Orchestra Goes Cosmic for Season Opener

By Kurt Loft. The Florida Orchestra has visited Holst’s brilliantly inventive score of “The Planets” several times over the years, delivering performances that reveal a fearless rhythmic plan full of nuance and power. In opening its new season, TFO will project NASA videos of the planets above the stage…. Read More

Musicians Tune Into Hidden Women of Baroque Music

By Kurt Loft. Baroque music “is relevant because in a way it’s new, with people hearing it for the first time,’’ says artistic director of St Pete Baroque, Dan Urbanowicz. “These instruments are outside anything most people know and most are very rare.’’… Read More

Strings, Arts and Healing

The String & Art Fest brings culture to The Deuces on Saturday, August 19 – with a free performance by Fred Johnson on the Kora, with sound healers, West African Drums and storytelling. The event will share the healing power of music… Read More

Murals in Mind

By Gabrielle Reeder. Twelve murals throughout St. Pete have correlating virtual artistic performances attached to inspire, uplift and enlighten the community – and showcase artists in our area. … Read More

The Art of Mystery

By Margo Hammond. Swain’s readers may come at first to meet James Swain, the writer of 24 mystery novels. But, like me, they leave magic aficionados, blown away by his eye-popping free weekly magic show…. Read More

We Are Artists Creating

By Skyla Luckey. Drag is a theatrical art form that has existed for centuries, artist, actor and educator John Hulls says. Drag is not a crime and we are proof of that. We are simply artists creating…. Read More

Arts In – Merry Lynn Morris

Dancer, choreographer, professor – and inventor – Merry Lynn Morris talks with Barbara St. Clair about her work exploring dance and disability, and how dance companies and educators are embracing a diversity of dancing bodies in performance. You can listen to her conversation, explore videos and read highlights from the transcript…. Read More

The Darker Side of Mozart

By Kurt Loft. Keyboard virtuoso Dejan Lazić makes an indelible imprint as an interpreter of Mozart, and listeners can judge for themselves when he joins The Florida Orchestra in the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. This dark and turbulent work opens the orchestra’s final masterworks program of the season, anchored by Wagner’s Ring Without Words… Read More

Questions that Frame Reflections

By Amanda Sieradzki Gabaldon. What can dancers bring into the equine arena? That question framed the conversation at HCC when the Visual and Performing Arts Guest Artist Series and Dance department presented “physical listening” workshops with The Equus Projects… Read More

Both Sides of the Bay Cabaret

ThinkTank Theatre for Young Audiences is teaming up with freeFall Theatre in St. Pete and Stageworks Theatre in Tampa for Both Sides of the Bay Cabaret…. Read More

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