Sandy Davisson News Today

John James spent 31 years as director of theater at what is now State College of Florida. Dozens of former students followed him into arts careers.

Over the last 50 years, Yvonne Pinkerton played a large role in shaping the theater community in the Venice area, inspiring hundreds of Venice High School students with her love of drama while also sharing that passion through her decades-long association with Venice Theatre. Everywhere she went, the woman known to many as Pinky tried to bring people together through love, spirituality and theater until her death on Christmas Day at 92 from complications of COVID-19, her youngest son, Scott, s...