Westcoast Troupe follows the ‘Pipeline’
The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe combines live theater and video for the Sarasota premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s timely drama “Pipeline.” The play, which WBTT originally planned to present live in the fall, is being filmed inside the theater and will then be shown in outdoor screenings in the theater’s parking lot Friday through April 30. Home streaming will be available May 1-23. The roughly 90-minute play is about an inner-city public high school teacher whose son is threatened with expulsion from an elite private boarding school after he attacks a teacher. It is directed by L. Peter Callender, an actor and artistic director of the African-American Shakespeare Company of San Francisco. Tickets are $20. For more information: 941-366-1505; westcoastblacktheatre.org
Video views of art in the world
In conjunction with its current show, “Janaina Tschäpe: Between the Sky and the Water,” the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College is offering a video series tied to the career retrospective of the artist. On Saturday and Sunday, the museum will be showcasing some of Tschäpe’s video works that were created from 2000 to 2014 and touch on some of the painted and sculpted pieces featured in the exhibition. Showings start at the bottom of every hour and will be limited to 20 people on a first-come, first-served basis. The videos are included with museum admission. The exhibition continues through May 2 at 1001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. For more information: 941-304-4300; sarasotaartmuseum.org
Venice Theatre opens for spring season By Ben Kramer | March 6, 2021 at 8:40 AM EST - Updated March 6 at 9:10 AM
VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - The Venice Theatre will be opening its door for the second time since the Coronavirus shut down almost all performing arts centers across the county.
Beginning March 26th, the theater will present a new series of live shows in its Jervey Theatre. The first performance will be an original cabaret from Michelle Kasanofsky titled “2020: The Year That Almost Was.”
Producing Executive Director Murray Chase says, “Things will continue to be different for a while. Shows will still feature smaller casts and all performances will take place in our MainStage Jervey Theatre, with a distanced seating plan.”
Venice Theatre reopens in March
Venice Theatre is reopening its doors for live performances with a series of musical programs that begin March 26.
“Things will continue to be different for a while,” Murray Chase, the theater’s producing executive director, said in a statement. “Shows will still feature smaller casts and all performances will take place in our main stage Jervey Theatre with a distanced seating plan.”
The theater returned to live performances last fall with a few productions before COVID positive rates began to rise.
Michelle Kasanofsky, a popular music director, will take the stage with her son Mikal Mancini and drummer Joel Broome for “2020: The Year That Almost Was” at 7:30 p.m. March 26 and 27.