Sarasota Jewish Theatre Adds a Performance of FULLY COMMITTED
by Stephi Wild - Jan 12, 2024
Sarasota Jewish Theatre (SJT) announces that, due to “Fully Committed” by Becky Mode being nearly sold out three weeks prior to opening, they have added a twilight matinée performance to the schedule on February 4 at 5:30 p.m.
Sarasota Jewish Theatre Announces 2022-23 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 23, 2022
Sarasota Jewish Theatre has announced its 2022-23 season lineup. Local Sarasota favorite actors and directors will be joined by national actors to present these plays reflecting Jewish heritage and culture. The plays are:
Sarasota Jewish Theatre Announces 2022 Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Jan 3, 2022
Each play will have 1 preview and four performances, and separate Zoom discussion with the cast and directors. The company also hopes to stream the plays for a week following the live performances but have not yet received clearance from the Actor’s Union.
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Presents PIPELINE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 29, 2021
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will be back onstage – albeit with a limited cast and for the purpose of filming rather than presenting live – for the pandemic-delayed production of Dominique Morisseau’s noted work, “Pipeline.” WBTT is currently rehearsing the show, which it will film, present during one week of outdoor screenings.
FST Announces Featured Guests For Women's Suffrage Centennial Celebration Taking Place August 20
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 7, 2020
Florida Studio Theatre (FST) announces the lineup for its virtual event on August 20, 2020, celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage. Award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, City of Sarasota Mayor Jen Ahearn-Koch, and Suffragist Project Director Kate Alexander will each speak at the theatre's special online celebration, along with a slate of talented artists.
Florida Studio Theatre Receives Grant From The National Endowment For The Arts
by Stephi Wild - Feb 19, 2020
Florida Studio Theatre (FST) announces that it has been approved for a $15,000 Art Works grant to support The Suffragist Project: Celebrating 100 Years of the Woman's Right to Vote. In honor of this historic milestone, The Suffragist Project has brought together over 60 community partners, each creating their own artistic, cultural, and educational programming. As part of FST's contribution to The Project, the theatre has launched Historically Speaking, an educational touring program; commissioned four playwrights to develop new plays inspired by the movement for women's suffrage; and created an original devised play. The grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will support these artistic initiatives, as well as FST's Dangerous Ladies Festival, a weekend-long culminating celebration in August 2020 of the new theatrical work created over the course of The Project.
ROSE Comes To The Peterborough Players
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 29, 2019
a?oeI'm eighty years old. I find that unforgivable and suddenly it's a millennium and I stink of the past century, but what can I do?a?? So asks the title character in the final show of the Peterborough Players 2019 Summer Season, Rose. Written by Martin Sherman, the celebrated American author of Bent, the play features Players' favorite Carolyn Michel as Rose. This one woman, tour-de-force performance will run from September 11th-15th at the Players. Howard Millman returns to the Players to direct the piece.
A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 Announced At Peterborough Players
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 20, 2019
Peterborough Players is proud to bring the recent Broadway hit play, A Doll's House, Part 2, to Players audiences from August 28th-September 8th. The play received 8 nominations for the 2017 Tony Awards, including one for Peterborough Players' alumnus Jayne Houdyshell, and became the most produced play in America in the 2018-2019 season.
Peterborough Players Presents Their 86th Year Of Professional Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 15, 2019
A graceful examination of a collision of cultures. A comedy about the hilarious eccentricities of Midwestern family life. A big Broadway musical where lonely hearts fall in love. A play about an artist's responsibility for his art with some of the most beautiful music in the world. After 86 years, the 2019 season at the Peterborough Players promises to continue their tradition of producing delightful, surprising, thought-provoking professional theatre at the highest level. In addition, this year boasts an entire season of American playwrights.
Sarasota Actress Wins Big At Italian Film Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 19, 2018
Local actress Carolyn Michel recently won the 'Best Actress of the Year' award in Aosta, Italy at the Oniros Film Awards. Michel was recognized for her portrayal of 'Tanya,' a hard-drinking, smoking, Russian Cossack stunt rider in the film 'Katia.'
Winners Announced for Twelfth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2017
The play hopefully titled THE BEST TEN MINUTES EVER turned out to be the judges' pick for best script at Theatre Odyssey's Twelfth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, held this past weekend May 4-6 at the Asolo Theatre.
Peterborough Players to Open 2016 Summer Season with DRIVING MISS DAISY
by Tyler Peterson - Jun 17, 2016
?The Peterborough Players Professional Theatre Company is proud to open its 2016 Summer Season with the play that won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy. The play is a warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken black man. In its initial run, Driving Miss Daisy was an Off-Broadway success and became an Academy Award-winning film.
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe to Present DRIVING MISS DAISY
by BWW
News Desk - Apr 16, 2016
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe concludes its 2015-2016 season with the comedy-drama DRIVING MISS DAISY, which runs April 20 (with three additional special previews added on April 16, 17 and 19) through May 28. The play won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988; in 1989, it was adapted into a film that was awarded four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe to Present DRIVING MISS DAISY
by BWW News Desk - Apr 14, 2016
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe concludes its 2015-2016 season with the comedy-drama DRIVING MISS DAISY, which runs April 20 (with three additional special previews added on April 16, 17 and 19) through May 28. The play won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988; in 1989, it was adapted into a film that was awarded four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.