Post Tagged with: "theater"

Award-winning playwright, Jack Gilhooley. Photo by Bill Wisser.

The Backstage Blogger interviews playwright Jack Gilhooley

Kathryn Parks sits down with Jack Gilhooley, a prolific and multiple award-winning playwright who lives and works in Sarasota. Kathryn will play the lead role in a reading of one of Gilhooley’s new works, titled Most Valuable Playgirl.

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Sarah Nealis and Scott Kerns get steamy in Venus in Fur.  Photo by Cliff Roles

A red-hot show at the Asolo Rep is perfect for date night

Arts contributor Bonnie Greenball Silvestri writes that if you want a sophisticated, adults-only evening that is tumultuous and surprising, you must get tickets for this tantalizing production.

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Performance of "The Visitor", an award-winning play by SAPS member, Arthur Keyser, for Theatre Odyssey's 2012 Ten Minute Play Festival. Photo credit: Cliff Roles Photography

Sarasota Area Playwrights Society artfully develops new plays

Kathryn Parks reports on a Sarasota association that devotes its collective attention to creating, supporting, and producing of new work by local artists—the key word here being “local.”

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FST explores “The Columnist” as obsolete as his typewriter

FST explores “The Columnist” as obsolete as his typewriter

The Columnist pulls back the curtain on a bygone era when a powerful writer could influence geopolitics. This exploration of a long-forgotten political figure reminds us that, although the lack of a clear guide through the messiness of politics can be destabilizing, our country is the better for it.

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A cozy seating arrangement for the audience at Home Resource.

Home Resource: Sarasota’s own fringe theatre

You’ve probably heard of the traditional theatrical venues in Sarasota—the Asolo Rep, Florida Studio Theatre, The Players Theatre—but chances are, you have not heard about Theatre at Home Resource. …

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Backstage Blogger – A Sarasota actress shines the spotlight behind the curtain

Backstage Blogger – A Sarasota actress shines the spotlight behind the curtain

As This Week in Sarasota’s new Backstage Blogger, Kathryn Parks hope to illustrate what it’s like to be a Sarasota actress from behind-the-scenes.

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