SO looking forward the the "Salute to Schwartz" at The Players this coming Sunday.  Stephen Schwartz is one of the world's most gifted and prolific composer/lyricists -- Broadway shows, Disney movies, an opera last fall.  Hurry up and get your tickets to this wonderful treat -- music from your "favoritist" shows, the gravity-defying, blockbuster "Wicked," the iconic "Godspell" (which has just won awards for best revival in…

Hurry up and get your tickets for these performances of new ballets choreogphed by Sarasota Ballet Company Dancers.  I saw a snippet of rehearsal of Ricard Graziano's "Symphony of Sorrows," a beautiful modern piece  -- it was breathtaking.  In what is becoming a tradition at The Sarasota Ballet, the closing

performance weekend of the season will feature the choreographic talents of dancers themselves. This

program, with five performances April 27- 29, 2012 at FSU Center for the…

This sounds utterly fascinating and fun to do -- playing with and making books into art!  Altering books is both a visual & tactile expereince.  In an altered book, the artist transforms an old, discarded hardback book into a work of art by physically altering the book.  Using a thoroughly enjoyable process of tearing, collaging, painting & gluing combined with random acts of folding, pleating, stitching, adding & removing elements, students will end up with an individually…

It's not too early to plan to be at the Sarasota Ballet School's End-of-the-Year performances at Lakewood Ranch High School Auditorium, 5500 Lakewood Ranch Blvd., Bradenton.  The Ballet School will be celebrating one of its most successful school years. A Spring Showcase performance featuring upper division and pre-professional dancers will begin at 7:00pm on June 2, 2012. On June 3, 2012, families will delight in performances of “A Tale of Atlantica” (based on The Little Mermaid) at 10:00am…