Jay Handelman
Arts Editor and TV Critic at Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Arts Editor and Theater critic for Sarasota Herald-Tribune. President Foundation of the American Theatre Critics Assoc. Past ATCA chair.
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3 weeks ago |
heraldtribune.com | Jay Handelman
As she prepares to join the Sarasota Music Festival faculty for the first time, violinist Sandy Yamamoto hopes to inspire the same kind of enthusiasm for chamber music among the students she works with that she enjoyed as a festival fellow nearly 30 years ago. “Sarasota for me was one of the most fun festivals” because students, who were accustomed to dormitory life, got to stay in the same hotel as the faculty, she said. But there was also the music. ”I loved my chamber music experience.
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3 weeks ago |
heraldtribune.com | Jay Handelman
In the musical “Dames at Sea” at Florida Studio Theatre, Emily Ann Brooks plays a young woman who practically dances her way off a bus from her hometown in Utah onto Broadway. Her character is named Ruby, an ode to dancer Ruby Keeler, who starred in many of the kind of big, splashy, Depression-era musicals that this musical spoofs.
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1 month ago |
heraldtribune.com | Jay Handelman
Urbanite Theatre closes its 11th season with its third world premiere of the year – a play it commissioned from writer Nia Akilah Robinson. “From 145th to 98th Street” is a family drama that was one of four recipients of Urbanite Theatre’s 2020 Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission. “This play is five years in the making,” Robinson said in a statement.
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heraldtribune.com | Jay Handelman
The Sarasota Concert Association's 81st season features the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Joshua Bell with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Debuts include the Danish String Quartet and pianist Alexander Malofeev. Performances will be split between the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and the Riverview Performing Arts Center.
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1 month ago |
heraldtribune.com | Jay Handelman
Deborah F. Rutter, who led the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for more than a decade before President Donald Trump fired her in February, will address some of the challenges faced by arts and culture organizations nationally and locally during a talk presented by the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County. Rutter will be the keynote speaker during “Perspective. Practice.
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Sarasota actress Ann Morrison to headline national tour of Tony-winning ‘Kimberly Akimbo.” @Theatre_Critics @AsoloRep https://t.co/EdNcZGP3is via @heraldtribune
Sarasota Music Festival dominates the June arts calendar but there are plenty of plays, musicals and art exhibits to experience. https://t.co/lMjRchK2Ut via @heraldtribune
60 years later, Sarasota Music Festival keeps reinventing itself with new ideas and music. @srqorchestra https://t.co/Y9ZTbeZRDx via @heraldtribune