DUNEDIN — Tampa Bay-based actress, acting teacher and fashion model Eugenie Bondurant will be participating in the fifth annual Dunedin International Film Festival, taking part in a panel discussion as
In its complexities of storytelling, we find a narrative grounded in teacher-student relationships that surround the 100-minute One-Act currently onstage at the Shimberg Playhouse at Tampa’s Straz Center. Written by Rajiv Joseph in 2008 this one-act quirky romantic comedy packs a punch just boiling below the surface. Analyzing the relationship between student/teacher/mentor we meet three unlikely individuals whose lives are impacted by lessons grounded not just in origami, but also in the way that as humans we feel pain and how we adapt/deal with such.
Rajiv Joseph won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2010 with his work Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which enjoyed a stint on Broadway featuring the late great Robin Williams. Rajiv Joseph also went on to win an Obie Award for his work Describe the Night in 2018. No stranger to telling the inner workings of human relationships, Rajiv Joseph has garnered critical acclaim for his many works, and yet still is considered slightly unknown
Tyler Riggs' 'God's Waiting Room' It’s been a full year since Tampa native Tyler Riggs made his directorial debut at Tribeca Film Festival, and the main characters of “God’s Waiting Room”—Rosie, Jules and Brandon—along with their hopes, insecurities and undealt-with-issues have haunted viewers ever since. Like his Tribeca debut, a Friday, July 8 screening at St. Petersburg's Green Light Cinema is probably going to be sold-out. Lucky for the rest of us, Riggs told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that Green Light—an independent movie house located at 221 2nd Ave N in downtown St. Pete—is hosting another screening on Wednesday, July 13. Details are TBA.
Sharon Preston-Folta says the jazz icon couldn't acknowledge her publicly, but says Armstrong “loved her the best way he could.” She opens up about their complex relationship in a new documentary.