By Ernest Hooper, Metro Columnist
In Print: Thursday, July 15, 2010
President Barack Obama will soon receive a poster of a wall-sized mural painted by kids at Community Stepping Stones, an upstart art school in Tampa’s Sulphur Springs neighborhood.
The mural reflects the dichotomy between the beautiful blue gulf before the oil spill and the dark, despair-filled nature [...]

Decade of solid advances in performing arts in Tampa Bay area
By John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic
In Print: Sunday, December 27, 2009
In the performing arts, the most important thing that happened in the Tampa Bay area in the past decade took place in June, when American Stage moved into its new space in downtown St. [...]

American Stage Theatre Company has never had over 5,000 patrons attend a Mainstage production in its 31 year history…until now.  
The recently closed FENCES, the third production of American Stage’s commitment to perform all ten of August Wilson’s plays, had a total of 5,928 attendance for its five week run.
“The interest and support we have [...]

An excerpt from Producing Artistic Director Todd Olson’s opening remarks at the grand Opening of the Raymond James Theatre, Saturday night, May 30, 2009:
 Welcome to this magic place.
Our theatrical town hall.
Our laboratory.
Our multi-colored black box
Our distant cousin to Shakespeare’s “Wooden O”

Actor’s Corner: Todd Olson & T. Scott Wooten speak about Lysistrata

A great letter from a teacher in Orange County, CA:
“As I watched the inauguration yesterday, I was struck by something in addition to the historical significance of the event. When it comes to the highest degree of ceremony in our land, we turn to that which is often the first to be on the [...]

Star of King Hedley II, Postell Pringle, is also known to the video-game crowd as “Playboy X,” one of the main characters of “Grand Theft Auto,” one of the highest selling video games in history.

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