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Anson Tebbetts can tell you not only the number of teats on a cow but how to squeeze them without catching a faceful of raw...

Eva Slane fled Germany and Austria when Nazis came to power, built a career as a theater agent, and became a major theater philanthropist in Sarasota.

The musical “Side by Side by Sondheim” opens a new season for the Players Centre and celebrates the career of legendary songwriter Stephen Sondheim.

Obituary: Jean Pilk PALMYRA, Va. - Jean Pilk, who gave life to the concept of the Cool Mom, died peacefully at her home, surrounded ... Share Jean Pilk PALMYRA, Va. – Jean Pilk, who gave life to the concept of the Cool Mom, died peacefully at her home, surrounded by her adoring family, in Palmyra, Va. At 4-feet-10-inches tall and a whopping 79 pounds fully dressed, she was much like Dr. Who’s Tardis – inside the tiny container was a world of wonder and contradiction. Born in Kansas City in 1924 (thank god she’s dead, she’d kill us for announcing her age), her mid-western roots stu...

One letter led to another and it wasn’t long before he realized he had found the hook for a memoir that people had been encouraging him to write about his 42-year career as owner and director of the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre in Sarasota and his even-longer marriage to MacDonald. A Broadway veteran as a teenager, MacDonald became Sarasota’s leading lady starring in dozens of shows during the theater’s long history. “Now it may seem that writing a letter to someone who is no longer alive would raise many an eyebrow, but to me it was the most natural thing to do,” he writes in the in...