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Contents SPRING ARTS GUIDE 2016 PUBLISHED

BY WATERMARK PUBLISHING GROUP, INC.

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THE RITE OF SPRING!

Dance your way out of another pretend Florida winter with our 2016 Spring Arts Guide!

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ull off those light jackets and those silk scarves, arts lovers and convivial extroverts, because things are heating up in Florida, and we’ve got the inside line on many of the glorious distractions that will make your lightly chilled heart go all aflutter in the coming months. From high arts to the lowbrow, ballet to basketball, Watermark’s Spring Arts Guide is here to be your friend as you crawl out of that cave that’s actually a pretty temperate bungalow or condo, isn’t it? You should be dancing, yeah? west coast. Everything is effectively a short daytrip for everyone reading this, so you have no excuses.

Get out and do something you’ve never done before.

You deserve it. Your community deserves it.

In this compact resource guide, we’ve got a litany of concerts, recitals, theatrical histrionics and traveling circuses awaiting your

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As in previous years, we’ve culled the pressrelease transom and clung to our phones for some of the most exciting events available to those from coast to coast in Central Florida: starting at the Space Coast, toe-tapping and tipsily swinging through Orlando and, finally, winding up blissfully entertained on (and off) the shores of our

perusal. The LGBT community has grown immensely and morphed into something that you wouldn’t believe just a couple of years ago, but that shouldn’t stop you from branching out into parts unknown for excursions you won’t soon forget.

As usual, all dates and events are subject to change, so please make a note to check with the provided venue websites and phone numbers before you leave the cold couch. You already know that, though. Now get up, open the door and get out! You won’t regret it. Happy spring!

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CARLISLE April 19, King Center for the Performing Arts, Melbourne

Through Feb. 14 Cats March 11-27 Sugar: Based on the Film “Some Like it Hot” April 29-May 15 In the Heights June 24-Jul 3 Dreamgirls

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KATHY GRIFFIN March 30, Peabody Auditorium, Daytona Beach

March 18-27 Squabbles: Your House or Mine?

April 15-May 1 Sweet Charity June 3-12 Rex’s Exes July 23-31 Cinder-Ella

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KINKY BOOTS Feb.23-28, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando

Feb. 24 Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Feb. 26 Giselle - Moscow Festival Ballet March 20 Cirque de la Symphonie Jacksonville Symphony

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Feb. 12-21 Venus in Fur March 4-20 Nice Work … If You Can Get It April 8-17 New Works Festival May 6-22 Big Fish

March 5 Coast Guard Paintings March 5 Pacific Exotics: The Woodblock Prints of Paul Jacoulet March 11 Midway: Portrait of a Daytona Beach Neighborhood

KING CENTER FOR PEABODY THE PERFORMING ARTS AUDITORIUM PEABODY KINGCENTER.COM 321-242-2219

Feb. 12 Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo Feb. 21 Jay Leno Feb. 26 The Beach Boys March 19 Fiesta Mexico-Americana April 16 Kathy Griffin April 19 Belinda Carlisle April 21 Ben Folds May 15 Bill Maher

AUDITORIUM.ORG 386-671-3461 Feb. 13 An Evening with Todd Rundgren March 1 The Beach Boys March 16 Sinatra Sings Sinatra with Frank Sinatra, Jr. March 30 Kathy Griffin April 20 A Night with Janis Joplin May 1 42nd Street

ORLANDO AREA LITTLE THEATER OF NEW SMYRNA BEACH ABBEY THEATER NSBPLAYERS.ORG 386-423-1246

Feb 25-28, March 3-6, 10-13 Fiddler on the Roof April 15-17, 21-24 A Streetcar Named Desire May 20-22, 26-29 Moonlight and Magnolias

ABBEYORLANDO.COM 407-704-6261 Feb. 10 Movies Out Loud: Casual Sex March 18 The Skivvies April 5 Uncorked! at The Abbey

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ANNIE RUSSELL THEATRE

WINTER PARK ROLLINS.EDU/ANNIERUSSELL-THEATRE 407-646-2145 Feb. 12-20 Expecting Isabel April 15-23 Hello, Dolly!

ART AND HISTORY MUSEUM MAITLAND ARTANDHISTORY.ORG 407-539-2181

Feb. 27-28 Hats, Teas, and History at the Waterhouse March 10 Springtime at the Waterhouse opens March 13 Front Porch Stories

BACHFESTIVAL FLORIDA.ORG 407-539-2181

Feb. 19 & 20 Concertos by Candlelight Feb. 21 Jaime Laredo, violin and Sharon Robinson, cello Cont. on pg.15 |  |

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RLANDO THEATER LEGEND MICHAEL WANZIE being directed by co-legend Beth Marshall in the quaint Garden Theater in cozy Winter Garden? It sounds like the setup for an elaborate joke – or a Fringe show. It’s actually a great team bent on producing the brilliant, intimate comic drama The Whale.

For 13 productions at the famous Garden Theatre, Beth Marshall Presents has been pushing the envelope. It could be considered a surprising development that smalltown people really clamor for her shows.

“Almost everything I do there is dramatic, boundarypushing, [material] that goes a bit further and further,” producer Marshall says. “The marketing tells the audience what they’re in for; Winter Garden people are so prepared for this!”

Wanzie will take the lead as Charlie, a 600-pound gay man trying to eat himself to death since his lover died 15 years before. Despite his self-destruction, he reaches out to his estranged teenage daughter and a young Mormon missionary. It’s sensitive but darkly hilarious stuff, built to make people squirm as it entertains.

“It’s a beautiful funny play with a big heart,” Marshall says when asked why she chose the script.

Of Wanzie, Marshall says, “After his dramatic role as the Father in Doubt [also for Marshall], this is another chance to show people how talented he is.”

Here’s hoping Wanzie’s usual Fringe and Parliament House audiences will make the trek out to lovely Winter Garden, have a nice meal along Plant Street and then settle in at the beautifully restored Garden Theatre for what promises to be a unique and extraordinary experience.

—Stephen Miller

MARCH 18–APRIL 3, 2016 • GARDEN THEATRE, WINTER GARDEN • GARDENTHEATRE.ORG

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EUSTIS BAYSTREETPLAYERS.ORG 352-357-7777 Feb. 26 The Carpenters: Once More March 10 Living Legends Presents Deborah Carpenter April 19 Blend A Capella May 7 Barton Prize

CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY ARTS CFCARTS.COM 407-937-1800

Feb 19-March 6 I Love You, You’re Perfect, NOW CHANGE Apr 1-17 - The Sound of Music May 12-13 A Night on the Red Carpet: Musical Hits from the Grammys, Tonys and Oscars.

Jun 10-11 Symphonic Cinema

WINTER PARK ROLLINS.EDU 407-646-2526

Jan. 16-April 3 Transcommunality: Laura Anderson Barata, Collaboration Beyond Borders

DR.PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE THE ICEHOUSE PERFORMING ARTS THEATER DRPHILLIPSCENTER.ORG 844-513-2014

Feb. 20 Patti LaBelle Feb. 23-Feb. 28 Kinky Boots March 2 Josh Groban March 9 Tony Bennett March 29-April 3 Dirty Dancing April 23 Steve Martin & Martin Short

HARD ROCK LIVE HARDROCKLIVE.COM 407-351-LIVE Feb. 12 Gilberto Santa Rosa Apr 14 David Cross: Making America Great Again Apr 16 Tori Kelly Apr 29 Anjelah Johnson Presents

HOUSE OF BLUES KISSIMMEE HOB.COM 407-934-BLUE

Feb. 23 NeverShoutNever March 6 Melanie Martinez April 7 Ricardo Montaner

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ICEHOUSETHEATRE.COM 352-383-4616 March 18-April 10 Gypsy May 20-June 12 Becky’s New Car

MAD COW THEATRE COMPANY MADCOWTHEATRE.COM 407-297-8788 Jan. 20-Feb. 21 Art by Yasmina Reza March 16-April 17 Long Day’s Journey into Night June 1-July 3 Avenue Q

OPERA ORLANDO

OPERAORLANDO.ORG 407-718-4365 Feb. 14 Valentine’s Concert: “Music and Words of Love” April 22-24 A Boisterous Rebirth for Opera in Orlando

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March 18-20, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando

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A BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO ALICE April 22, the Venue, Orlando

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ORLANDOBALLET.ORG 407-426-1739 March 18-20 Don Quixote April 29-May 1 Beauty & the Beast Cont. on pg.18 |  |

STREISAND THE GREATEST STAR May 7-14, Parliament House Footlight Theatre, Orlando

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April 24 Ciara May 6 Blue October

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Feb. 28 J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion March 13 Romero Guitar Quartet

Jan. 16-April 3 Doris Leeper: Hard Edges

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THE ORLANDO FRINGE

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VENUE Q IS A BIG OLD BEAR HUG OF A MUSICAL!” Mad Cow Theater executive director Mitzi Maxwell says. “I mean, it’s Sesame Street for adults.”

That it is, with puppets and humans interacting to teach us all valuable lessons.

The Tony-winning musical finds it’s way onto downtown Orlando’s intimate, professional stage. The production – sponsored by Watermark – boasts nude puppet sex, a couple of stuffed bears proffering bad advice, and a puppet stripper. The most shocking character is a pre-deceased Gary Coleman, whose career has turned south. Now the actor manages a tenement building in a less desirable section of an unnamed metropolis.

Complaining about high rent in the city, one character looks at Coleman’s crappy, run-down apartment building and cheerfully states, “This neighborhood looks a lot cheaper!”

Juan Cantu – who directed last season’s Ain’t Misbehavin’ “is chomping at the bit to get to work on it,” Maxwell says.

And who wouldn’t? Avenue Q boasts very, very adult lessons about racism, sexism, one-night stands, and even coming out of the closet. Be warned; one of the songs is titled, “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.”

Another is, “The Internet is for Porn.”

Even for a show that’s 12 years old – the famous small show that stole the Tony from megalomaniacal Wicked – Avenue Q is still a titillating crowd pleaser.

Don’t miss this off-color, sweet-hearted musical replete with furry characters, sex, and curse words.

—Stephen Miller

JUNE 3–JULY 3 • MAD COW THEATRE, ORLANDO MADCOWTHEATRE.COM

May 18-30 Various shows

ORLANDO GAY CHORUS ORLANDOGAY CHORUS.ORG 407-841-SING

Feb 13 Love is Delicious Cabaret at Crimson Hall May 13-14 We Are Family at the Plaza Live Theater

ORLANDO MAGIC NBA.COM/MAGIC 800-513-8720 Feb. 19 Mavericks Feb. 21 Pacers Feb. 25 Warriors Feb. 28 76ers March 2 Bulls March 4 Suns March 15 Nuggets March 26 Bulls March 29 Nets April 3 Grizzlies April 6 Pistons April 8 Heat April 11 Bucks

ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART

OMART.ORG 407-896-4231 Feb. 24 Art Night Out: Explorations in Visual Journaling March 12 Gallery Talk: Will Cotton

ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ORLANDOPHIL.ORG 407-896-6700

Feb. 13 Barber to Bolero March 5 The Garland Magic March 18-20 Orlando Ballet Presents: Don Quixote April 1, 3 & 5 Mozart’s Magic Flute

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March 4-13, Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, Sanford

THE FANTASTICKS May 13-22; June 2-11, Winter Park Playhouse

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AMERICAN

IDIOT April 12-13, Theatre Winter Haven, Winter Haven

Feb. 12-March 27 Tempest Feb. 24-March 26 Pericles April 1-May 1 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike April 7-May 7 Elephant & Piggie’s “We are in a Play”

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Feb. 17, 18 & 20 Indy Feb. 26, 27 & 29 Kalamazoo March 4-6 Manchester March 10, 11, & 13 Brampton Mar. 17, 19, 20 Adirondack Mach 23 Greenville March 25-26 Norfolk March 30 Florida April 1-2 South Carolina April 5 & 7-9 Florida

OSCEOLA CENTER FOR THE ARTS KISSIMMEE 407-846-4643

Feb 19-March 6 Gypsy

Feb 27-March 7 Doubt April 1-April 17 How the Other Half Loves May 6-May 22 The Producers

PARLIAMENT HOUSE FOOTLIGHT THEATRE PHOUSE.TICKETLEAP.COM 407-425-7571

Feb 5-March 13 Naked Boys Singing!

March 19-26 Kevin Kelly May 7-14 Streisand the Greatest Star

THE SOCIAL/ THE BEACHAM THESOCIAL.ORG 407-246-1419

Feb. 11 104.5 The Beat Birthday Bash featuring August Alsina live performance with Elhae, Trina Pleasure, DJ D Strong and DJ Royale Feb. 24 Heartless Bastards March 1 Newfound Glory March 17, 24 Less Than Jake April 6 They Might Be Giants April 7 G. Love & Special Sauce May 24 Say Anything

UCF CONSERVATORY THEATRE THEATRE.UCF.EDU 407-823-1500 Feb 18-28 Reeling March 17-26 She Loves Me

THE VENUE

THEVENUEORLANDO.COM 407-412-6895 February 26 Big Bang Boom!

Cabaret Feb. 28 Shades A Dance Experience Presents: What is Love?

March 9 & 10 Lark Eden April 1 The Ladies of the Peekaboo Lounge April 15 Black List Babes Cabaret April 22 Curiouser and Curiouser: A Burlesque Tribute to Alice

WILL’S PUB WILLSPUB.ORG 407-748-8256

Feb. 13 Rocket 88 Feb. 14 A Valentine for David Bowie (Tribute) Feb. 19 Five Eight March 24 BOYTOY with Wild Pink April 15 TV Girl

WAYNE DENSCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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Discover the heart of St. Pete. Explore our galleries, enjoy our events and programs, dine in our café and shop in our store. Spend your day at the MFA! Our student membership is affordable and offers endless activity. Visit fine-arts.org to learn about our current and upcoming exhibitions, events and programs.

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March 4-13 Bring It On! The Musical April 28-May 1 WDPAC Jrs presents: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

WINTER PARK PLAYHOUSE

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NIGHT FEVER March 17, the Lakeland Center, Lakeland

WINTERPARK PLAYHOUSE.ORG 407-645-0145

January 22-February 27 A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett March 18-19, March 31-April 23 The Words & Music of Jerry Herman May 13-22, June 2-11 The Fantasticks

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LAKELAND COMMUNITY THEATRE LAKELANDCOMMUNITY THEATRE.COM 863-603-7529

Feb 26-28, March 4-6, March 11-13 Peter Pan April 15-17, April 22-24 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum May 25-26 Marvin’s Room June 24-26 Aladdin Jr.

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RIHANNA March 13, Amalie Arena, Tampa

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Feb. 18-March 13 Singin’ in the Rain

Feb. 23 A Neil Diamond Tribute March 22-23 Skin & Bone April 12-13 American Idiot

THE LAKELAND CENTER LAKELAND THELAKELAND CENTER.COM 863-834-8100

Feb. 24 Driving Miss Daisy March 1 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat March 17 Saturday Night Fever Mar 24 The MidTown Men

POLK MUSEUM OF ART LAKELAND POLKMUSEUM OFART.COM 863-688-7743

April 9-July 3 Rebels with a Cause

TAMPA AMALIE ARENA AMALIEARENA.COM 813-301-2500 Feb. 11 Andrea Bocelli Feb 24 Jeff Dunham March 13 Rihanna June 2 Ellie Goulding

CARROLLWOOD PLAYERS CARROLLWOOD PLAYERS.ORG 813-265-4000

March 28-June 19 Nine and Numb Improv after Dark 18+ Feb. 5-Feb. 27 The Fox on the Fairway April 8-April 30 Crimes of the Heart May 13-May 28 Caught In the Net July 15-Aug 6 No Sex Please, We’re British

MIDFLORIDA CREDIT UNION AMPHITHEATER LIVENATION.COM 877-870-3674

Mar 26 –Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire Apr 2 Duran Duran Jun 15 Weezer and Panic! at the Disco

JOBSITE THEATER JOBSITETHEATER.ORG 813-229-782752 Feb. 26-March 20 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike April 29-May 22 The Maids July 8-31 - Time Stands Still

STAGEWORKS THEATER

STAGEWORKSTHEATER.COM 813-251-8984 Feb 4-21 In the Blood March 10-27 Inherit the Wind April 28-May 15 Broadway Bound

STRAZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Feb. 11-14 Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man Feb. 20 An Evening with Chris Mann Feb 21.

Patti LaBelle March 1-May 1 Murder for Two April 22 David Sedaris May 12-May 22 If/Then

TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART TAMPAMUSEUM.COM 813-274-8130

Feb. 12-13 Public and Private The Figure Examined: A Panel Discussion.

April 23 Pride & Passion

TAMPA BAY RAYS

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NUDE NITE

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INCE 1996 IN ORLANDO, this pop-up gallery has been gathering artist and arts fans to celebrate the human form. Recently repeated in Tampa, this very large, very impressive three-night event offers up painting, photography, sculpture, metalwork, digital art, multi-media, experimental works, and even live entertainment.

It’s the largest nude art show in America, if you’re a size queen. Nude Nite promised those who purvey and those who peruse a full 25,000 square feet of exhibition space!

More importantly, Nude Nite gives many people the chance to view, buy and sell daring and beautiful works that a lot of mainstream galleries here in the South are a little too priggish to show.

This titillating event has grown so popular that Orlando Sentinel and others have called it “not to be missed.” It’s been featured in Creative Loafing, on ABC News, in Orlando Magazine, Florida Art and Leisure and Orlando Weekly. The event attracts thousands.

One aspect is “Extreme Dreams,” a phantasmal performance piece that changes nightly, evolving as it develops.

In fact, they’re still looking for artists and acts for Orlando; call is open until Jan. 28. It costs $40 to display, and you get a free artist’s pass to the rest of the show.

Information can be found at the website listed above.

Of course, you must be 21 or older to display or attend Nude Nite.

—Stephen Miller

FEB. 11-13, ORLANDO • THE ARTEGON MARKETPLACE, 5250 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE MARCH 3-5, TAMPA • 6818 S. MANHATTAN AVE.

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DURAN DURAN

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TYLES CHANGE BUT STYLE DOESN’T,” British legends Duran Duran once proclaimed in their off-period of the late ‘90s. And while the band’s lineup has changed over the decades – Duran Duran initially formed in 1978, fact fans – their sonically adventurous spirit and blipping zeitgeist connections remain finely in check.

While their ‘80s peers poodle out to backtracks blasting only “the hits,” Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor have only pushed their own creative limits into the future, hits or not. What else would they do? Fortunately, there are still hits, especially lately. Last year’s skyscraper of a record Paper Gods won them a new contract with Warner Bros. Records, universal critical acclaim, more industry awards for the mantle and landed the band back in the top 10 the world over, including in the their native UK and an increasingly beat-drowned Billboard Hot 200 here in the U.S. With the collaborative assistance of funk legend Nile Rodgers (Chic), Mr. Hudson (Kanye West) and prior collaborator and superfan Mark Ronson (your dreams), Duran Duran are currently riding high on the road throwing out old hits and a healthy dose of newer surprises. Rodgers is even joining them on stage with his current incarnation of Chic (“Le Freak”) and newcomer Shamir. Expect to be blown away.

—Billy Manes

APRIL 2, MIDFLORIDA CREDIT UNION AMPHITHEATRE, TAMPA

March 21 Braves March 25 Twins March 27 Blue Jays March 31 Pirates

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May 20-22, 26-29 A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum

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Feb. 13 God Loves Uganda: Screening & Discussion

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March 11-April 10 Sondheim on Sondheim April 29-May 22 Mr Burns: A post-electric play June 17-July 10 The Light in the Piazza

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March 17 Frank Sinatra, Jr. April 15 The Cult

ST.PETERSBURG OPERA STPETEOPERA.ORG 727-822-3590

June 3, 5 & 7 Puccini’s La Boheme July 1-10 Rodger and Hammerstein’s South Pacific

STATE THEATER STATETHEATER CONCERTS.COM 727-895-3045

Feb. 20 Mutemath March 18 We the Kings March 25 Hippie Sabotage April 8 Afroman April 16 Elle King

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THESTUDIOAT620.ORG 727-895-6620 April 13 Plume Poetry Series

SARASOTA ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE ASOLOREP.ORG 941-351-8000

Jan. 6-April 9 All the Way Jan. 13-Feb 25 Living on Love Jan. 20-April 10 Ah, Wilderness!

March 9-April 17 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner March 30-April 24 Disgraced April 27-May 29 Josephine June 2-26 Hetty Feather

DABBERT GALLERY DABBERTGALLERY.COM 941-955-1315 Feb. 5-29 Robert Baxter’s “A Retrospective” March 4-March 28 Barbara Krupp’s “From a Shout to a Whisper” March 4-March 28 Allan Teger’s ”Bikes, Bubbles & Birds”

FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE FLORIDASTUDIO THEATRE.ORG 941-366-9000

Through March 5 Butler March 9-27 My name is Asher Lev Through March 27 Outside Mullingar April 6-May 28 Alabama Story

THE PLAYERS THEATRE THEPLAYERS.ORG 941-365-2494

Feb. 17-March 6 Hands on a Hardboy March 23-April 10 La Cage Aux Folles April 27-May 8 The Smell of the Kill

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ROM HIS DRY TALES OF WORKING CHRISTMAS RETAIL (and all the mall-Santa that implies) to his winking dissection of life’s trivialities – human or otherwise – memoirist and all-around personality David Sedaris recreated the tradition of self-satire.

Somewhere between childhood fragility and quitting smoking abroad, you’ll find the soul of a man who has bridged gaps quietly, even sardonically, making the gay part of life seem somehow less important than, well, the shared parts that we all live. If there’s a curio box, Sedaris is peering in it. If there’s an owl, he’s asking “who?”; a squirrel, he’ll find the nuts. Most of the nuts are people, though, and that’s why Sedaris’ dry delivery in both print and in person has won him legions of fans. Also, his sister is Amy Sedaris, so you can’t just be jealous all day about those family picnics.

These days, Sedaris is filling opera houses abroad (he just stacked the Sydney Opera House in late January, for chrissakes) and making thinking people actually consider leaving their houses (and cats, and lattes) behind. Whether you consider him a humorist, an essayist, an author, an anthropologist or just that friend that you wish would show up at your house when your own mind is racing, Sedaris is definitely somebody to see, even for those outside the NPR set. You, too, will talk pretty someday!

—Billy Manes

APRIL 22, MORSANI HALL AT THE STRAZ CENTER, TAMPA

Through March 11 Fidelio Through March 12 Cosi Fan Tutte “All Women Do This” Through March 18 The Battle of Legnano Through March 19 Aida

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Feb. 11-28 Chess Feb. 18 Yank! A WWII Love Story March 17-April 3 Bye Bye Birdie April 21-May 8 Phantom

RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART RINGLING.ORG 941-359-5700

Jan. 15-April 17 Samurai: The Way of the Warrior Feb. 5-May 1 Ink, Silk, and Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Feb. 12-13 Kate Weare Company: UNSTRUCK

VAN WEZEL PERFORMING ARTS HALL VANWEZEL.ORG 941-953-3368

Through Feb 14 The Book of Mormon Feb. 23 Patti Labelle Feb. 27 Kristin Chenoweth Feb. 28 Josh Groban March 31 An Evening with Sophia Loren April 17 Paula Poundstone April 27 ZZ Top

VENICE THEATER VENICESTAGE.COM 941-488-1115

Feb. 16-March 13 Ragtime Feb 26-March 19 The Rocky Horror Show April 5-24 A Funny Thing Happened…

May 17-22 James and the Giant Peach

WEST COAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE WBTTROUPE.ORG 941-366-1505

Through Feb 20 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom March 2-April 9 The Sam Cooke Story April 20-May 28 Driving Miss Daisy

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