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Our weekly guide to the performing and visual arts happenings in the Sarasota-Manatee area.

Top 10 arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: June 3-9 Improvising post-COVID laughs After more than a year of lockdowns and quarantines, we probably all could use some laughs, like the ones promised in “Life’s a Beach,” which marks the return to live performances by FST Improv. The company is back on the stage of Bowne’s Lab, taking audience suggestions and turning them into scenes and musical numbers that  celebrate and satirize life in Sarasota. The production will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays beginning this weekend. Improv director Will Luera said it’s a good time to revisit ...

Venice Theatre reopens in March Venice Theatre is reopening its doors for live performances with a series of musical programs that begin March 26. “Things will continue to be different for a while,” Murray Chase, the theater’s producing executive director, said in a statement. “Shows will still feature smaller casts and all performances will take place in our main stage Jervey Theatre with a distanced seating plan.” The theater returned to live performances last fall with a few productions before COVID positive rates began to rise. Michelle Kasanofsky, a popular music director, will...

Florida Studio Theatre has announced that its resident improv troupe, FST Improv, will return to a weekly live performance schedule with Triple Play, a full-length show created specifically to entertain from a distance.