A look at the connection between the Joyce Theatre in New York, where the Sarasota Ballet is performing an all-Ashton program, and the company's home at the Mertz Theatre in Sarasota. ... Re…
Feature on Sarah Glendening from Good Vibrations.
Audiences are sure to have fun watching "Backwards in High Heels," but a bit more drama could turn that fun into something even more joyous.
In the musical, "Backwards in High Heels: The Ginger Musical" at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, co-creators Lynnette Barkley and Christopher McGovern examine Rogers' public and private life fr…
You could probably write a story about Stephen Schwartz's Broadway and Hollywood musicals simply by using titles and lyrics from his songs.
At 39, he received the Drama Desk Award for directing and choreographing "Dames at Sea" off Broadway in 1968, starring a promising young talent named Bernadette Peters.
What seemed so impressive and in some ways spectacular about "A Tale of Two Cities" in Sarasota comes off as more down to earth on Broadway.
The $16 million musical "A Tale of Two Cities" took Sarasota by storm last fall, and now its creators hope that the musical telling of the Charles Dickens stories wins an even larger audienc…
Jeanie Linders had no idea what she was launching when she came up with the idea for "Menopause, the Musical."
A week into the 10-day run, the Players Theatre received a cease-and-desist letter from Tams-Witmark Music Library Inc., the company that licensed the show for its production (March 27-April…
Headlines and news developments constantly change our perspective and alter how we react to the entertainment we choose. That was true last weekend during the concerts that James Barbour presented as a benefit for the Asolo Repertory Theatre, where he starred last fall in the new musical A Tale of Two Cities.
When he was a child, Frank Ferrante remembers dressing up as Groucho Marx one year for Halloween. He had no idea at the time that it would become a familiar disguise.
For millions of movie fans, Sally Ann Howes will always be Truly Scrumptious, the sweetheart of Dick Van Dyke's Caractacus Potts in the 1968 film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
Teresa Stanley is seeing purple.