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Review: Jobsite's 'Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' is a very funny, fast-as-the-wind production with a message worth remembering

It's on in downtown Tampa through June 5.

By Jon Palmer Claridge

May 16, 2022

German playwright Bertolt Brecht, a 20th Century theatrical giant, saw the writing on the wall soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933. He left Berlin and kicked around the capitals of Europe for the rest of the decade until settling in Helsinki while awaiting a U.S. visa...

Derrick Phillips in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Jobsite Theater in Tampa, Florida.

Friday is the deadline for St. Petersburg Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant Program

Applicants can request up to $1,000 in project funding.

By Kyla Fields
May 3, 2022
Ybor Heights art compound Crab Devil awarded $50K grant for facade improvements

New property awnings, landscaping and hardscaping improvements coming up.

By Chloe Greenberg
Apr 26, 2022
Tampa photographer George Goldberg publishes new book of local Black Lives Matter protests

‘Protest Book’ is out now, and some proceeds will go towards fighting police brutality.

By Ray Roa
Apr 22, 2022
Two recent Tampa Bay stage productions mark a triumphant return to a sense of normalcy

Two very different evenings of theatre, both superb, will force audiences to reflect on the complicated nature of justice

By Jon Palmer Claridge
Mar 28, 2022
St. Pete-based Instagram star YungBBQ talks pop culture, Gen-Z humor and public dancing

Viral entertainer Alexis Feacher wants to transition from Instagram fame to full production sketch comedy and content creation.

By Kyla Fields
Mar 24, 2022
'A Clockwork Orange’ at Tampa’s Jobsite Theater still provokes questions about redemption and free will

Tough to do, in an increasingly violent world.

By Jon Palmer Claridge
Mar 9, 2022
Tampa’s ‘Meatyard Ybor’ could include more than 50 affordable art workspaces and gallery

It's named in honor of Jerry Meatyard who was a painter and sculptor in the historic district.

By Ray Roa
Mar 4, 2022
'A Clockwork Orange' at Tampa's Jobsite Theater is based more on the book than the movie

It runs through March 27 at Straz Center.

By Ray Roa
Mar 2, 2022
In ‘African Mean Girls,’ St. Pete’s American Stage interjects humor into the psychology of cruelty, poverty and classism

It runs through Feb. 27.

By Jon Palmer Claridge
Feb 10, 2022
Art collective Crab Devil will unveil new immersive exhibitions in downtown Tampa this month

Gasparilla Music Festival and Gasparilla Festival of the Arts is the place.

By Brandalynn Nuñez Cepeda
Feb 10, 2022
St. Pete school kids visit Ya La'Ford's latest art exhibit, share hopes and dreams of their own

The exhibit has been extended and will run indefinitely in Sarasota.

By Sofía García Vargas
Feb 4, 2022
St. Petersburg art supply hub Artissin at risk of closure, requests mutual aid

If you love local murals, then you probably want to pitch in.

By Brandalynn Nuñez Cepeda
Feb 2, 2022
Phil Holt's iconic Tampa tattoo shop Red Letter One finds a new home

By Kevin Gallagher
Jan 27, 2022
St. Petersburg is a city that has used the power of public art to foster community

There's a good argument that investment in public art actually translates into positive outcomes for residents.

By Melanie Rizzo
Jan 27, 2022
Tampa poet Yuki Jackson on trying to quiet depression and rage

Poet's Notebook

By Yuki Jackson
Jan 27, 2022
Dave Bautista's Tampa tattoo shop, DC Society Ink, is now open

DC Society Ink opened Monday, Jan. 17

By Colin Wolf
Jan 27, 2022
Humane Society of Tampa Bay wants to put your dog in its ‘Tails of Gratitude’ book

The nonprofit hopes to raise $10,000 through the fundraiser.

By Stephanie Powers
Jan 21, 2022
Equality Florida will unveil new LGBTQ mural at Tampa Heights' Shuffle

“Recent pushback at the state level continues to underscore why visibility is so important for our community."

By Sofía García Vargas
Jan 20, 2022
In Northdale, Tampa artist Ashley Cassens fights women’s repression one tiny portrait at a time

‘Eye Traps’ is at Elevation coffee until Jan. 29.

By Jennifer Ring
Jan 18, 2022
‘Under the Highlands’ exhibit brings mysticism of the Lake Wales Ridge to Seminole Heights

Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa’s show opens at Tempus Projects on Friday.

By Ray Roa
Jan 12, 2022