Lee Gundersheimer News Today

Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

The former artistic director of The Players is a commanding presence in Sarasota theater.

Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

As her theater company, Tree Fort Productions, becomes a nonprofit, actress Katherine Michelle Tanner emphasizes: "The best way to support a theater company is to buy a subscription."

Eight playwrights from around Florida are featured in Theatre Odysseys 18th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival, which offers a $500 top prize.

Hat Theater Collective, which will create site-specific programs, will make its debut with ‘The Ballad of Old Manatee’ at Manatee Historical Park.

Players Centre for Performing Arts hires Steven H. Butler, who spent years performing in Sarasota, as its new artistic leader at a time of change.

Writers from across the country have their one-act plays featured in Theatre Odyssey’s annual fall festival in the Cook Theatre.

A mostly new cast takes on the challenging play about loss in the wake of a coronavirus pandemic and the death of the original director.