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The Hermitage Artist Retreat has announced the launch of the new Ruby E. Crosby Alumni Music Series at the Hermitage. The premiere event, “Soulful Strings: An Evening of Harp Music,” will be presented on Tuesday, June 7 at 8pm at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, featuring acclaimed harpist and returning Hermitage Fellow Ashley Jackson. The outdoor event is free and open to the public with a $5/person registration fee. ....
Tom Kirdahy is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer whose projects have spanned Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the West End as well as national and international tours. ....
Three recent Hermitage Greenfield Prize (HGP) winners – Martyna Majok (2018), Helga Davis (2019), and Aleshea Harris (2021) return to Sarasota this spring to present their work and speak about their creative process. ....
The Hermitage Artist Retreat and The Bay Park are joining forces to bring the Hermitage’s unique and innovative artist programming to one of Sarasota’s most exciting and ambitious public park projects through a new community program, “Hermitage at The Bay.” ....
That collaborative work also attracts him to direct. “When I don’t have one of my own plays, it gives me a chance to flex my muscles and work with other people,” he said. Auburn won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award in 2001 for his Broadway hit “Proof.” He later wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anthony Hopkins. At the Hermitage, Auburn said he will be tinkering with or rewriting parts of a play called “Summer, 1976,” which is due to have its premiere in the coming theater season, and he hopes to start turning attention to “a bunch of other pieces, fragments of things that I have acquired over the course of quarantine. I don’t know yet if they amount to anything.” ....