Downtown Sarasota
$15 to $95
Sarasota Orchestra
Florida's oldest continuing orchestra
Founded in 1949, the Sarasota Orchestra is Florida's longest-standing continuing orchestra, presenting more than 100 classical, pops, and chamber concerts each season. Performances live primarily at the historic Holley Hall and the Van Wezel, with the much-anticipated new Sarasota Music Center in the works. The Sarasota Music Festival in June draws emerging and established players from around the world for three weeks of intensive chamber music.
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Downtown Sarasota
$30 to $120
The Sarasota Ballet
America's home for the Ashton repertoire
Under Director Iain Webb, The Sarasota Ballet has become internationally known for staging works by Sir Frederick Ashton and other classical British choreographers rarely performed in the U.S. The season runs October through May at the Sarasota Opera House, the Van Wezel, and the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, with mixed-rep programs and full-length classics alike.
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Downtown Sarasota
$25 to $135
Sarasota Opera
Grand opera in the 1926 opera house
Sarasota Opera performs its winter and spring festivals inside a beautifully restored 1926 Mediterranean Revival opera house downtown. The company is best known for the Verdi Cycle, an ambitious decades-long project that produced every work Verdi composed. Productions are sung in the original language with English supertitles.
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Sarasota Bayfront
$30 to $200
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
The lavender waterfront landmark
Van Wezel is the lilac-purple architectural icon on the bayfront, hosting Broadway tours, touring symphonies, comedians, popular music, and dance throughout the season. The 1,741-seat hall sits on the Sarasota Bay with a wide promenade for pre-show walks and views of the John Ringling Bridge at sunset.
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FSU Center, Sarasota
$20 to $100
Asolo Repertory Theatre
One of America's leading regional theatres
Asolo Rep stages a year-round season of new plays, classics, and large-scale American musicals on two FSU Center stages. The professional resident company is consistently named among the country's top regional theatres, attracting nationally recognized actors and directors to Sarasota.
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Palm Avenue, Downtown Sarasota
$20 to $55
Florida Studio Theatre
Contemporary plays and a cabaret on every block
FST is a contemporary theatre complex spanning four intimate stages downtown, programming new American plays, cabarets, improv, and writer's-block readings. Tickets are notably accessible by regional-theatre standards, and the cabarets pair small-plate dining with the show.
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