Hernando Performing Arts final show of the season. ...more

March 26, 2009

Plugging in amplifiers and tuning their instruments, the Lazzara family prepared to jam during a recent practice at Rock School. ...more

March 25, 2009

Melinda Roy, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, held a free master class attended by 40 students at the Patel Conservatory at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center on March 7. Roy is one of several guest artists whom the conservatory brings to conduct free master classes and workshops. Roy was in town to schedule rehearsals for the Balanchine ballet "Valse-Fantaisie," to be presented in "An American Dream" at the performing arts center May 17, and to stage the ballet with students from the Orlando Ballet School at the Patel Conservatory. ...more

March 25, 2009

Daniel Bernard Romain, a hip-hop violinist from New York City, worked with children at Metropolitan Ministries Academy on March 10 as an outreach of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Patel Conservatory. Romain also performed in concert at the conservatory's TECO Theater on March 12. ...more

March 25, 2009

A group of Philip Shore Elementary Magnet School students are learning about writing and acting. But they also are learning about people and history. ...more

March 18, 2009

A group of Philip Shore Elementary Magnet School students are learning about writing and acting. But they also are learning about people and history. ...more

March 18, 2009

County Commissioner Rose V. Ferlita will be honored as one of four Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida at a luncheon March 24 at the A La Carte Event Pavilion, 4050 Dana Shores Drive. ...more

March 11, 2009

A modern musical take on "Alice in Wonderland" is the first production that the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center will attempt to take to Broadway, the center announced today. ...more

March 5, 2009

They're chosen from among thousands to study at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center before they make their big leap to opera stardom. But for Opera Tampa's seven apprentices, it's about more than performing. The program gives the singers a chance to use their powerful voices to enlighten an entire community. ...more

February 28, 2009

They're chosen from among thousands to study at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center before they make their big leap to opera stardom. But for Opera Tampa's seven apprentices, it's about more than just performing. The program gives the singers a chance to use their powerful voices to enlighten an entire community. ...more

February 26, 2009