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Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Sarasota Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Sarasota! Winners include Asolo Repertory Theatre, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe and more.

A musical loosely inspired by Diana Ross and the Supremes has become a modern classic, revealing the struggles of a group of young singers to make it.

Sarasota Ballet commissioned new pieces from company dancer Arcadian Broad and noted choreographer Jessica Lang for its January program.

Students are selected as Shepherds of the Week by being recognized for following the Fruits of the Spirit and leading their classmates on the path of Virtue and Goodness. Shepherds of the Week for Nov. 7: Kindergarten: Sophia Erickson, First Grade: Ethan Vail, Second Grade: Jayda Denkins, Third Grade: Charlotte Erickson, Fourth Grade: Bauer

Area premiere of Matt Schatz’s comic drama about siblings trying to deal with their 100-year-old grandfather and ease their family’s struggles

It is a show full of bombast – sometimes too much so – heard in what Lopez calls the “mother of all Broadway medleys” and a rousing tribute to Latina superstars including Selena, Gloria Estefan, Shakira and Celia Cruz, that makes you want to join in. And of course, there’s a sequence recalling moments from “Evita” itself. It’s a show that might never have come together had Asolo Rep not reinvented itself during the pandemic by building its outdoor Terrace Stage. It has present...