There is a specific kind of quiet that settles over West St. Pete when the sun dips low—a brief pause between the beach-bound traffic and the evening rush. It’s in this pocket, at freeFall Theatre, where a story we’ve collectively "learned to death" is being
by Avery Anderson There’s a specific kind of quiet that lives in a monument shop. It’s the heavy, dust-flecked silence of memory being carved into granite—a trade of permanence. For Rhys Meatyard, that silence is ancestral. When your mother designs headstones and your grandfather is a legendary
by Emily Mclaughlin For a band with a name born out of a chaotic roadside encounter, Lot Lizards isn’t trying to be polished, perfect, or even particularly serious, and that’s exactly why they matter. The name itself came the same way the band did, unplanned and a little
From "Sacrificial Lamb" to Stage Star: An Interview with Janice Creneti In the latest episode of the Arts Passport Podcast, host Avery Anderson sits down with performer and coach Janice Creneti to discuss the origins of her upcoming one-woman show, My Year of Saying No. Get tickets here
by Avery Anderson There is a specific kind of magic in the "Iowa Stubborn" spirit, but if you ask Bryce Bayer, the real grit was forged right here between the humidity of St. Pete and the footlights of Sarasota. This week, the national tour of The Music Man
There is a specific kind of magic that happens in the "third places" of Tampa Bay. You know the ones—the bookstores where the air smells like old paper and the night markets where you’re trading venmo handles for a loaf of bread still warm from the
Following back-to-back sold-out runs, the Studio’s “Sankofa Series” continues its record-breaking season of reinvention. Fresh off a historic streak of capacity crowds for Cadillac Crew and Julius Caesar, The Studio@620 announces its most provocative production of the season: a bi-racial reimagining of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece,
We just got our hands on some shots from Jobsite Theater’s production of The Shark Is Broken (running through April 5th), and the "no-intermission pressure cooker" vibes are immaculate. Check out Paul J. Potenza (Robert Shaw), Christopher James Marshall (Roy Scheider), and Cody Farkas (Richard Dreyfuss) getting
Fran Powers’ Final Bow by Emily McLaughlin On Sunday, March 8th, the house lights at Hillsborough Community College didn’t just signal the end of the 6th annual Voices of Women Theater Festival—they signaled the end of an era. As the stage went dark, the audience sat in the
Why Poynter Park is the Only "Gallery" That Matters This Month Video by Adam Bounds There’s a specific kind of magic that happens when you take high-level art and put it in the path of a humid Florida breeze. Most "prestige" art is locked behind
St. Pete’s Werk Gallery transforms spring fever into a fever pitch of political dissent. by Avery Anderson Spring in St. Petersburg usually arrives with the gentle hum of tourism and the pastel promise of renewal. But at The Werk Gallery, the season isn’t breaking with a bloom; it’
By Avery Anderson Twenty-two years from now, the world hasn’t ended with a bang or a whimper, but with a sudden, deafening silence. The bees are gone. Or, more accurately, they are nearly extinct, huddled in high-tech laboratories like the one currently occupying Urbanite Theatre. In Kate Douglas’s