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The season includes more than a half dozen productions and performers making their Sarasota debuts, though Bensel acknowledged that because she has “had to announce a number of these shows more than once that it feels like most are repeats.” The schedule for the three series includes 19 different Broadway musicals, concerts and tribute programs, including the delayed arrivals of “Come From Away” and “Anastasia.” The full variety series will be announced in August. “I feel like �...

Smash. “What I wanted to get into was her emotional journey and her relationship to Halston. They were linked their whole lives, and I think that the two of them meeting created both of them.” The series’ director, Daniel Minahan agrees. “The thing about Halston and Liza,” he says, “is that they gave each other their best selves.” And to embody that dynamic, he needed an actress who could play Minnelli at her best. “Besides the similarities of Krysta’s physicality—she has t...

David White steps down as executive director SAG-AFTRA after 12 years Anousha Sakoui © Provided by The LA Times David White in 2020. He is stepping down as national executive director of SAG-AFTRA (Jordan Strauss / Invision/AP) David White, the national executive director of SAG-AFTRA, is stepping down after a dozen years running Hollywoods largest union. Popular Searches White, 52, told the board on Friday he plans to leave the job this summer to pursue other, undisclosed op...

Even as questions about safety protocols remain to be determined, Asolo Repertory Theatre plans to return to a full season of indoor productions next season beginning with a fall staging of the tribal rock musical “Hair.” In an online video Wednesday afternoon, Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards announced a lineup that is primarily filled with the same plays and musicals that were intended to be presented over the last two seasons but were canceled or postponed because of th...

Asolo Repertory Theatre sets full return to Sarasota theater season Jay Handelman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune © PROVIDED BY ASOLO REP / CLIFF ROLES From left, lyricist Lynn Ahrens, composer Stephen Flaherty and director and writer Frank Galati, who collaborated on “Ragtime,” are the creators of the new musical “Knoxville,” which will have its delayed world premiere in April 2022 at Asolo Repertory Theatre. Even as questions about safety protocols remain to be determined,...

Permanent business closures and still-vacant office buildings are keeping the economy from bouncing back swiftly.

Muriel F. Gould, a former speech therapist and professional actor who built a home in Woods Hole in the mid-1960s, died April 20 at Bridges by Epoch in Mashpee. She was 92. After moving to Woods Hole year-round in 1995, Ms. Gould became a member of the Cape Cod Theatre Project. She also participated with readings in Story Hour for Grownups at Woods Hole Public Library and was involved with Woods Hole Theater Company, for which she also sometimes served as dialect coach. Ms. Gould had performed ...

Casting and Dates Announced for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s 2021 Summer Season Written by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival The  Davis McCallum, Artistic Director;  Kate Liberman, Managing Director) announced today performance dates and casting for its 2021 Summer Season, its final at Boscobel House and Gardens. The season will begin on  June 24, 2021 with  James Ijames, which will conclude on July 30.  William Shakespeare’s  August 5 and run through  Septembe...

May 2—If "all the world's a stage," as Shakespeare wrote, then the reopening of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival in 2021 might just indicate things to come. Yes, the Treasure Valley's popular and iconic performing arts event will happen this summer, after the coronavirus pandemic canceled its 2020 season. No, it will not be the experience you remember. Not sure whether it's the "new normal," but ...

As TV production crews tweak plans to suit pandemic protocols, business seems to look up Firstpost 2 hours ago The New York Times © Provided by Firstpost As TV production crews tweak plans to suit pandemic protocols, business seems to look up When it became clear early in the pandemic that it was safer to be outdoors than in, the creators of Big Shot, a new Disney+ series being made with John Stamos, started rewriting scenes so they could be shot outside. Then new guidance...