Performing Arts

Curtain Up!

The Van Wezel Just Announced Its 2024-2025 Broadway Season, and It's a Doozy

One major highlight will be Moulin Rouge! The Musical, based on the 2001 film by Baz Luhrmann.

03/17/2024 By Kay Kipling

Review

WBTT's Long-Delayed World Premiere Musical 'Ruby' Takes the Stage

The show tells a complicated true story of a murder that shook one small Florida town 70 years ago.

03/05/2024 By Kay Kipling

Review

Asolo Rep's Intimate Apparel Wears Well

Lynn Nottage's play about a Black seamstress striving to find love touches the heart.

03/04/2024 By Kay Kipling

More Than Just a Play

Florida Studio Theatre’s The White Chip Is Part of a New Project That Helps Artists With Addictions

“Part of the myth of being an artist is ‘burn bright, die young.’ None of that is true.”

02/26/2024 By Kay Kipling

Preview

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Announces 25th Anniversary Season

The season will feature Soul Crooners Solid Gold Edition, Fences, Five Guys Named Moe and Syncopated Avenue, plus the holiday show A Motown Christmas.

02/19/2024 By Staff

Review

Asolo Rep's Born With Teeth Bites into Some Elizabethan Intrigue

The play pits William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe against each other in an imagined high-stakes battle.

02/12/2024 By Kay Kipling

Review

FST Tells an Epic Tale with Regional Premiere of The Lehman Trilogy

Three actors take us on a compelling journey through American history.

02/05/2024 By Kay Kipling

Review

Tony Award-Winning Musical Hadestown Offers a Captivating Journey at the Van Wezel

You'll be both thrilled and chilled by this touring musical retelling a classic tale of love and loss.

01/31/2024 By Kay Kipling

Review

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Presents a Hard-Hitting A Soldier's Play

This story of racism in the 1940s, in more than one form, allows for some strong performances by its cast.

01/23/2024 By Kay Kipling

Review

Asolo Rep's Inherit the Wind Is, Unfortunately, as Timely as Ever

The Lawrence-Lee courtroom drama takes on the recurring subject of intellectual freedom.

01/22/2024 By Kay Kipling

Review

Urbanite Theatre Imagines Shakespeare's Sister with Judith

The world premiere play asks us to consider the what-ifs of gender, love and ambition, past and present.

01/08/2024 By Kay Kipling

You Oughta Know

Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill Is Now a Tony Award-Winning Musical, and It’s Coming to Sarasota

We recently caught up with actor Benjamin Eakeley learn more about it.

01/03/2024 By John Thomason

Planner

Things to Do in Sarasota in January and February

Your arts and entertainment calendar.

01/03/2024

Review

FST's Pictures From Home Is a Family Portrait Mixing Laughter and Tears

Based on Larry Sultan's photo memoir, the play will elicit memories and emotions from our own family lives.

12/18/2023 By Kay Kipling

Review

Asolo Rep's 'Crazy for You' Dazzles With Dance, Design and More

The 65th season's opening musical promises to entertain holiday audiences with a bright, pleasingly stuffed package.

11/20/2023 By Kay Kipling

The Story of Tonight

Don't Throw Away Your Shot: Single Tickets for 'Hamilton' Go on Sale Nov. 16

You'll want to be in the room where it happens.

11/09/2023 By Staff

'Tis the Season

Sarasota's Best Holiday Shows and Events

There's no shortage of fun ways to celebrate the holidays in Sarasota. Here are our top picks.

11/01/2023 By Cooper Levey-Baker

Review

Urbanite Theatre Asks You to Listen to The Sound Inside

Adam Rapp's two-hander centers on a professor, a student and the act of writing.

10/21/2023 By Kay Kipling

Review

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe's 'Once on This Island' Uplifts and Enchants

The Caribbean-flavored musical offers visual and emotional highlights.

10/16/2023 By Kay Kipling