Holly Hickman

From the Horse’s Mouth sounds like an eat-your-broccoli piece -- a compendium of dancers holding forth on the history of dance in 90 pirouettes or fewer. But there is dessert here, in the sublime forms of diverse, dizzyingly good dancers. A few notables: sexy and soulful flamenco artist Clarita Filgueiras,...

Three words: jazz and poetry. Four words: free jazz and poetry. Many words: An Evening of Jazz with Walt Whitman and the Mystical Trumpeters. You don’t have to say it. Just hush up and kick back for GableStage’s reading of the Jerry Marshall musical – based on works by one...

Staged readings are easier on the soul — and the wallet — than full-length plays, especially in a town that lacks cheap and frequent fringe performances. You already know they are not fully blocked or memorized, so there is less pressure to have a really good time — or at...

You must have seen the signs and banners: Carmen is coming to the Florida Grand Opera. Many of the ads touting the upcoming show are written in Spanish, perhaps hoping to draw a Hispanic crowd eager to see a show set in Spain. Nevertheless the campaign is still odd, considering...

You have no doubt heard of The Vagina Monologues, but did you know Eve Ensler’s off-Broadway play now spearheads a movement called V-Day? The intentionally provocative moniker stands for “Victory, Valentine, and Vagina” and symbolizes an effort to prevent violence against girls and women. Ensler created V-Day in response to...