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Sarasota Opera Opens 2025 Fall Season With Mozart’s COSI FAN TUTTE
by Stephi Wild - Oct 20, 2025

Sarasotans strolling down Pineapple Avenue this month will hear the music of Mozart filling the streets outside the Opera House as rehearsals started for Sarasota Opera’s fall opera production, Così fan tutte.

PRIMARY TRUST Comes to Philadelphia Theatre Company
by Stephi Wild - Aug 22, 2025

Philadelphia Theatre Company will open its 51st season with the Philadelphia premiere of Primary Trust, the play by 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eboni Booth that earned widespread critical praise for its 2023 Off-Broadway world premiere.

Sarasota Opera Reveals Casts for 2025�"2026 Season, Featuring LA BOHÈME, THE MERRY WIDOW & More
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 28, 2025

Sarasota Opera has revealed casting for its 2025–2026 season, marking the company's 67th year and the centennial of the historic Sarasota Opera House.

Sarasota Opera Will Open 2025 Winter Opera Festival
by Stephi Wild - Feb 4, 2025

Sarasota Opera will open its 66th season this month with the double bill of Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

Sarasota Opera Finalizes International Cast For Winter Festival
by Stephi Wild - Dec 3, 2024

Casting has been announced for Sarasota Opera’s 2025 Winter Opera Festival. Learn more about the upcoming festival, which is set for this February 2025.

PETER PAN Returns For Arden Children's Theatre's First 2024/25 Production
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 19, 2024

This holiday season, Arden Children’s Theatre invites families to embark on a magical adventure with an imaginative adaptation of the timeless classic Peter Pan.

Sarasota Opera Reveals Casting for Winter Opera Festival
by Stephi Wild - Aug 20, 2024

Casting has been announced for Sarasota Opera’s 2025 Winter Opera Festival.  The season will open on Saturday, February 15, and will feature Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and Giuseppe Verdi's Stiffelio.

Video: Amina Robison & Mariah Ghant On Designing Arden Theatre's ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
by Joshua Wright - Jun 3, 2024

Watch as Arden Theatre's Once on This Island Director Amina Robinson and Assistant Director Mariah Ghant share clips from the show and reveal what it takes to develop a musical's look and feel.

Photos: First Look at ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Arden Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 28, 2024

Get a first look at photos of Arden Theatre Company's Once on This Island.

Video: Get A First Look at Arden Theatre's ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
by Joshua Wright - May 22, 2024

Get a first look at Arden Theatre Company's Once on This Island in this all-new video!

Video: Watch 'Mama Will Provide' from ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Arden Theatre
by Joshua Wright - May 20, 2024

Get a first look at Mama Will Provide, featuring Tiara J. Greene as Asaka from Arden Theatre Company's Once on This Island. 

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Marx Brothers at Walnut Street Theatre with GROUCHO: A LIFE IN REVUE
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 25, 2024

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Marx Brothers' historic three-month run at the Walnut with this hilarious and moving tribute to 'The Kings of Comedy.'

Sarasota Opera Reveals Casting For its 2024 Winter Opera Festival
by Stephi Wild - Aug 22, 2023

Casting has been announced for the 2024 Winter Opera Festival.  Audiences can look forward to a thrilling season, which opens on February 17th, featuring Bizet’s Carmen, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s Luisa Miller, and Haydn's Deceit Outwitted (L’infedeltà delusa). 

Arden Theatre Company Continues Season With August Wilson's RADIO GOLF, March 23- April 16
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 4, 2023

Arden Theatre Company is bringing audiences back into the world of August Wilson's ten-part series, The American Century Cycle. This time audiences will journey to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s for the final play of the cycle, August Wilson's Radio Golf. This bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation in nineties America traces the forces of change on a neighborhood and its people caught between history and the twenty-first century. This is the fifth play in the cycle that the Arden has produced.  Kash Goins, who was an actor in the Arden's production of Two Trains Running, returns to direct. August Wilson's Radio Golf runs March 23-April 16.

Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center Opens 2023 With Award-Winning, THE MOUNTAINTOP By Katori Hall
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 7, 2023

Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is bringing an acclaimed play to the stage in West Chester this February. The Mountaintop was written by then 28-year old, Black female playwright, Katori Hall, and opened in a small pub in south London. A producer saw the show and supported it in a production in the West End where it went on to take the UK theatre award season by storm winning the Laurence Olivier Award for “Best New Play.”

Sarasota Opera Announces Casting For The 2019-2020 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 6, 2019

Victor DeRenzi, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, and Richard Russell, Executive Director, are pleased to announce the casting for the 2019-20 season at Sarasota Opera, welcoming back returning Sarasota audience favorites as well as introducing new artists for their company debuts.

Heritage Theatre Festival To Present STEEL MAGNOLIAS
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 13, 2019

Heritage Theatre Festival is celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of America's most beloved movies by producing the play that started it all - Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias.

BWW Review: A COMEDY OF TENORS at Walnut Street Theatre
by Alyssa Biederman - Jan 24, 2019

The curtain opens on a lavish hotel room, stacked with gifts and flowers. But there's lingerie on the floor, the couch cushions are astray, and a bedraggled producer is yelling about the fate of his one-night-only opera extravaganza… and that's just the start.

Photo Credit: Walnut Street Theatre Presents A COMEDY OF TENORS
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 17, 2019

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 210th season with the uproarious Ken Ludwig's A COMEDY OF TENORS. Directed by and starring Frank Ferrante, this over-top-top comedy from Tony Winner Ken Ludwig begins previews on January 15th, opens on January 23rd, and runs through March 3rd on the Walnut's Mainstage.

A COMEDY OF TENORS Continues Walnut Street Theatre Season
by Julie Musbach - Dec 13, 2018

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 210th season with the uproarious Ken Ludwig's A COMEDY OF TENORS. Directed by and starring Frank Ferrante, this over-top-top comedy from Tony Winner Ken Ludwig begins previews on January 15th, opens on January 23rd, and runs through March 3rd on the Walnut's Mainstage.