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Seventy days into her tenure as Executive Director of the St. Pete Arts Alliance, Helen French is doing what dancers do best: listening, adjusting, and finding the next right step. “I’m incredibly grateful that I can say I have more good days than bad days,” she says. “I find
by Avery Anderson As Les Misérables returns to the Straz for its tenth visit, production stage manager Ken Davis — a Wellswood local with 30 years on the road — reveals what it takes to run a show that never stops moving. Les Misérables doesn’t need an introduction in Tampa — the
by Avery Anderson There’s a certain kind of Florida theatre kid who grew up measuring their dreams by the size of the stage at venues like the Van Wezel, Straz Center, or Dr. Philips Center. The kind who sat under that massive proscenium, watching a national tour roll through,
Hilary Frambes on Chalk Art, Murals, and Resilience Muralist and chalk artist Hilary Frambes talks public art, Tampa Bay’s chalk scene, resilience in hard times, and her new Arts Passport “Tampa Chicken” collaboration.
Host: Avery Anderson Guest: Hilary Frambes Avery Anderson: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tampa Bay Arts Passport podcast. We really need a shorter name because that’s a mouthful. Today we’re talking with Hilary Frambes, who I’m super excited about. She and I recently collaborated
