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In St. Pete, Generational Wealth Is Being Taught at a Folding Table

by Avery Anderson St. Petersburg doesn’t lack talent. It lacks pipelines. That’s the quiet problem the city’s first-ever 45 Days of Excellence is trying to name—and solve. What kicked-off with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade has expanded into a 45-day, citywide framework connecting history,

& Juliet Asks Tampa Bay to Please Stop Killing the Women

by Avery Anderson Tampa Bay knows a thing or two about reinvention. Old piers. New piers. Neighborhoods that were sleepy ten minutes ago and now somehow have three cocktail bars and a Pilates studio. So it feels oddly perfect that & Juliet is coming through town asking the same question

An All-Women Julius Caesar Asks the Hard Question: Who Holds the Knife—and Why

by Avery Anderson In March, a familiar political tragedy returns to the stage at The Studio@620—but stripped of its usual armor. An all-women adaptation of Julius Caesar, adapted by Roxanne Fay and directed by Kristin Clippard, runs March 12–22 in St. Petersburg. It arrives not as a

When Women’s Stories Are Optional, Powerstories Makes Them the Point

by Avery Anderson American theater loves to talk about “universal stories.” It just keeps telling them from the same point of view. Despite decades of conversation about equity, women still represent fewer than one-third of the plays produced on professional U.S. stages in a given season. For women over

After Work, After Hours, After the Textbook

Sip N Color Reclaims Black History Month as a Living Practice by Avery Anderson Black History Month often arrives wrapped in familiar rituals: classroom posters, commemorative speeches, a greatest-hits loop of names we’re taught to revere but rarely invited to sit with. Sip N Color is pushing back on