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Theater Review: The Manatee Players’ Fiddler on the Roof
KayKipling reviews the Manatee Players’ production.
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Theater Review: The Players’ Side Show
Kay Kipling reviews the Players’ Side Show.
Read More >>Theater Review: Second Samuel
Theater critic Kay Kipling reviews Venice Theatre’s Second Samuel.
Read More >>Theater Review: “It Ain’t Nothing But the Blues”
Whether you’re a longtime fan of the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe or a newcomer, you’re bound to find the company’s current production, It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, deeply satisfying. It’s got everything going for it: the right mix of songs (in a revue created by Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor [...]
Read More >>Theater Review: Venice Theatre Stage II’s A Behanding in Spokane
Followers of playwright Martin McDonagh’s work (The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pillowman) know about the dark places he likes to go—albeit with that trademark, twisted McDonagh humor. So they won’t be too surprised to learn that the current McDonagh work at Venice Theatre’s Stage II, A Behanding in Spokane, contains “offensive language” or “adult situations.” [...]
Read More >>Sarasota Film Festival 2013: Closing Weekend
The Sarasota Film Festival wrapped up its final weekend with a whirlwind of activities, so many that it’s only possible to give a brief flavor of several here. (You can read more about the festival here.) For me Friday evening started with a screening of Barbara Kopple’s Running From Crazy, a movie about the family [...]
Read More >>Mariel Hemingway Kicks Off Sarasota Film Festival 2013 Conversation Series
The Sarasota Film Festival kicked off its Conversation Series with an appearance by Mariel Hemingway at the new Court Cabaret Theatre at Florida Studio Theatre Thursday evening. Hemingway, here in connection with the documentary Running from Crazy, about her family and its long history of mental health issues (and also to receive the Impact Award [...]
Read More >>Theater Review: FSU/Asolo Conservatory’s Candida
Area fans of George Bernard Shaw usually get more of the same of the playwright’s work here: Major Barbara, Arms and the Man, the Lerner-Loewe musical version of Pygmalion, etc. But I can’t recall a production over the past couple of decades of his Candida—one of his “Pleasant Plays,” as he chose to term it, [...]
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