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Florida Studio Theatre’s Dancing Lessons
Jason Cannon and Vanessa Morosco in Dancing Lessons. Photo by Cliff Roles By Kay Kipling If you’re familiar with playwright Mark St. Germain’s work, perhaps from previous productions at Florida Studio...
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The Players’ A Christmas Story, the Musical
Jeffery Kin and cast members in A Christmas Story, the Musical. By Kay Kipling If you, like me, have watched the movie A Christmas Story over and over on TV at the holiday season, you might approach...
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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s Black Nativity
Lynette White, Amber Myers and Dibias W. Livingston in WBTT’s Black Nativity. By Kay Kipling It’s been a while since Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe has presented a production of Black Nativity,...
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Manatee Players’ Meet Me in St. Louis
A lively number from Meet Me in St. Louis. By Kay Kipling At a time when St. Louis, Mo., is in the headlines in a most unfortunate way, it’s pleasant to sit back and indulge in the nostalgia of the...
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Sarasota Ballet’s Rubies, Lux Aeterna and Sergeant Early’s Dream
The Sarasota Ballet’s Rubies. By Kay Kipling Watching the Sarasota Ballet’s performance this past weekend at the Sarasota Opera House made me feel that I don’t attend the company’s productions often...
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Florida Studio Theatre’s Hairspray
Cast members of FST’s Hairspray. Photo by Maria Lyle By Kay Kipling They’re singing and dancing up a storm over at Florida Studio Theatre’s Gompertz in a production of Hairspray that’s just about as...
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Asolo Rep’s South Pacific
Ben Davis and Kelly Felthous in South Pacific. Photo by Cliff Roles By Kay Kipling It’s all too easy to forget, if you’ve seen a classic like South Pacific multiple times, that when it first opened on...
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Venice Theatre Stage II’s God of Carnage
Amity Hoffman, Neil Kasanofsky, Laurie Colton and Matt McCord in God of Carnage. By Kay Kipling Four civilized, upper-middle-class Brooklynites gather over coffee to discuss a recent playground...
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FSU/Asolo Conservatory’s The Water Engine
The cast of The Water Engine. Photo Frank Atura By Kay Kipling There’s a very good chance you’ve never heard of the play The Water Engine, now onstage in an FSU/Asolo Conservatory production at the...
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Review: Venice Theatre’s “The Full Monty”
The guys of The Full Monty. Every time I see the musical The Full Monty (now onstage at Venice Theatre) I’m freshly amazed by the guts of its performers, willing to bare themselves both physically and...
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The Players’ The Addams Family
The Addams Family, with ancestors. Don Daly Photo By Kay Kipling Some shows are fortunate to have both audience and critical acclaim; some have to settle for one or the other. Most producers/directors...
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The Manatee Players’ Godspell
The cast of the Manatee Players’ production of Godspell. By Kay Kipling If you’re older than say, 50, chances are you’ve seen some very different versions of the show Godspell, a loose retelling of...
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WBTT’s Little Shop of Horrors
Michael Kinsey, Earley Dean, Michael Mendez and Marta McKinnon in Little Shop. Photo by DonDaly Photo.com By Kay Kipling It’s easy to think of Little Shop of Horrors as the little show that could....
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Ringling International Festival Roundup
By Kay Kipling As the 2014 RIAF continued over the weekend, I had the chance to catch three more performances–very different in tone and style, but all enjoyable. The first was The Intergalactic...
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RIAF, The Table and Keigwin +Company
By Kay Kipling While RIAF occasionally presents bigger shows, the performances here are often a reminder of how much can be done with minimal set or props, a small ensemble with talent, and a clever...
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Ringling International Arts Festival Tangram
By Kay Kipling The 2014 Ringling International Arts Festival commenced Wednesday evening, with several performances to choose from around the Ringling Museum campus, followed by a party in the...
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Venice Theatre’s Don’t Dress for Dinner
A touching moment in VT’s Don’t Dress for Dinner. By Kay Kipling Lord, what fools these mortals be…especially when it comes to sex. That’s what I came away thinking after last night’s opening...
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The Players’ Lend Me a Tenor
Berry Ayers and Jeffery Kin in the Players’ Lend Me a Tenor. By Kay Kipling It’s not hard to see why the Players would bring back a production of Ken Ludwig’s comedy Lend Me a Tenor after a successful...
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Manatee Players’ Dames at Sea
Rachel Knowles and Nick Drivas in Dames at Sea. By Kay Kipling If you’re a person with a love for 1930s Hollywood musicals (I confess to being one myself), then the Manatee Players’ Dames at Sea may...
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Sarasota Ballet’s The Secret Garden
Jessica Cohen, Kate Honea and Edward French in The Secret Garden. Photo by Frank Atura By Kay Kipling I don’t often write about ballet performances—I tend to stick to the more strictly theatrical—but I...
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