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Orlando Fringe Festival director Alauna Friskics steps down
‘Choosing to leave an organization that I truly love is one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make.’
Arts Stories + Interviews
Read Orlando arts stories and interviews with Orlando Weekly. Profiles of local artists, curators, and cultural voices shaping Central Florida.
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‘The Sam Rivers Sessionography’ attempts to contain the entire arc of the renowned reed player’s career
Author Rick Lopez drops a damn doorstop of free jazz history
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Orlando diplomat-photographer uses unique access to capture sensitive portraits of Colombian life
Juan David Tena’s show hangs at the Mills Gallery through Sept. 30
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Orlando DIY mainstay Sabra Starr exhibits emotional photographic work in ‘Corpo Fantasma’
‘I just want to create a space where it’s safe to feel.’
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Orlando Pulse survivor Brandon Wolf discusses his new memoir, ‘A Place for Us’
His recent move to D.C. means we’ve ‘gained a new national resource.’
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Halloween is now to Orlando what Mardi Gras is to New Orleans, thanks to our local haunts
Here’s the biggie, Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, vs. its competitor, SeaWorld’s Howl-O-Scream
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UCF art gallery exhibition ‘Covering Carbon’ explores the mysteries of coal, oil and plastic
Kathleen Thum takes an unsettling look at the fossil fuel industry
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Fans are trading spooky friendship bracelets at Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights
It turns out the Venn diagram of Halloween fans and Swifties is just a circle
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CFCArts expands the usual definition of a staged concert with their ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Director of production Juan Torres calls it a massive ‘lasagna’ of a production
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New Generation Theatrical builds NGT Studio, a rehearsal and workshop space, at Fashion Square
It might even help rescue the once-renowned retail hub from its zombie-mall fate
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Can a white woman and a Black woman have an honest conversation about race?
Saturday afternoon in Sanford, ‘Dissonance’ explores some uncomfortable questions
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Central Florida Vocal Arts artistic director Eric Pinder discusses ‘A Little Night Music’ and ‘Cocaine Bear: The Opera’
‘I’m going to make the cocaine bear a countertenor.’
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Amid a series of deaths, departures and devastating losses, take a moment to appreciate the cathartic benefits of blowing shit up
Universal makes it possible at Villain-Con Minion Blast
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Oviedo’s Penguin Point Productions has been sold
But don’t worry, the space is in very good (and familiar) hands
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New Generation Theatrical announces new donor and studio programs
Exclusive: Donations will support the new NGT Studio at Fashion Square Mall
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Universal’s Minion Land set to unveil Villain-Con Minion Blast game this summer
The attraction will be included in Minion Land’s expansion
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Orlando venue Steinmetz Hall named one of ‘ the most beautiful theaters in the world’ by Architectural Digest
Steinmetz joined worthies like the Sydney Opera House on the list
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Orlando-based home chef featured on ‘The Great American Recipe’ season two
PBS show aims to uplift the multiculturalism that both defines and unites American cooking
