Sarasota Arts & Culture Magazine - September/October 2007 - (Page 62)

CALENDAR Performances Oct 25. Cliburn Concerts. Florida West Coast Symphony. Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. Exhibitions Ongoing through Sept 30. Summer Showcase Exhibit. Dabbert Gallery. Theatre Sept 5-23. Cliffhanger by James Yaffe. Lemon Bay Playhouse, 96 W. Dearborn St., Englewood. $15, 8pm. A seemingly mild-mannered professor of philosophy is driven to apparent murder to protect his reputation and career. Complications arise in the form of a rather sinister young student about to flunk out of school. Call 941.475.6756 for more information. Sept 7. Big Bang. Venice Little Theatre. Pinkerton Theatre, 140 W. Tampa Ave., Venice. $23. By Jed Feur & Boyd Graham. Comparable to Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part I with music. It is staged as a backers’ audition for an $83.5 million, 12-hour stage history of the world—from creation to the present. Call 941.488.1115 for more information. Sept 25-Nov 18. Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, 25 N. Pineapple Ave. $33-45, 8pm and 1:30pm matinees. Set in 1953, Neil Simon recreates the mayhem, neuroses, nonstop gags and constant one-upmanship of a team of brilliantly funny social misfits as they write The Max Prince Show, a weekly variety program. For mature audiences only. Call 941.366.5454 for more information. Sept 27-Oct 7. Fame Forever. The Players of Sarasota. Players Theatre, 838 N. Tamiami Trl. 8pm and 2pm matinees, $23/show or $105/6 shows. The long-awaited sequel to FAME – The Musical warps through 30 years to reveal the fate of the characters in the original, now all grown up, with children at the famed High School of Performing Arts. Call 941.365.2494 for more information. Oct 4-6. The House of Bernarda Alba. Backlot Arts. Historic Asolo Theater, 5555 N. Tamiami Trl. $25, 8pm. Spanish playwrite Federico García Lorca presents woman’s battle to break free of a suffocating society in this powerful exploration of passion, repression and conformity. Call 941.360.7399 for more information. Oct 13. Boleros Perdidos: Love Songs Lost. EMIT Series/St. Petersburg College. Historic Asolo Theater, 5555 N. Tamiami Trl. $25-$30, 8pm. Havana-born composer and violinist Alfredo Triff journeys into the dark, desperate pleasures of the city at night with an ensemble fronted by the whispers and smoldering voice of Roberto Poveda and backed by keyboards, violin, upright bass and percussion. Call 941.360.7399 for more information. Oct 19-Nov 18. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickins. Asolo Repertory Theatre, 5555 N. Tamiami Trl. 8pm and 2pm matinees. Jill Santoriello’s stirring adaptation of Charles Dickins’ seminal work of genius has begun its journey to Broadway, recounting one of the most electrifying love stories ever written told against a backdrop of one of the most terrifying eras in history. Call 941.351.8000 for more information. Oct 24-Dec 16. Misery by Stephen King. Asolo Repertory Theatre, 5555 N. Tamiami Trl. 8pm and 2pm matinees. Popular novelist Paul Sheldon is at the top of his game and on top of the world, when a car accident leaves him injured and stranded on a lonely Colorado road during a blizzard. He is “rescued” by his biggest fan—and now that she has him, she will do anything to keep him. Themed to coordinate with the Conservatory’s production of Murder by Poe. Call 941.351.8000 for more information. Oct 25-Nov 4. Jekyll & Hyde. The Players of Sarasota. Players Theatre, 838 N. Tamiami Trl. 8pm and 2pm matinees, $23/show or $105/6 shows. An evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story of a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart. Call 941.365.2494 for more information. Oct 31-Nov 18. Murder by Poe by Jeffrey Hatcher. Asolo Repertory Theatre. 8pm and 2pm matinees. Historic Asolo Theatre, 5555 N. Tamiami Trl. Seven of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories woven into a gloriously gothic nightmare of an evening. Only by listening to each of the stories can the young woman uncover the truth about these killers, her own life and the mysterious man posing as her host. Themed to coordinate with the Conservatory’s production of Misery. Call 941.351.8000 for more information. Oct 31-Nov 18. Crossing Delancy by Susan Sandler. Lemon Bay Playhouse, 96 W. Dearborn St., Englewood. $15, 8pm. Isabel is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a Manhattan book shop. Although she is pining after a handsome author, her delightfully nosey grandmother and her friend, the 62 : : arts and culture magazine

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