Joanne Milani is a Tampa-based freelance writer and former art and theater critic for The Tampa Tribune. After leaving the Tribune, she served as the executive director of Tampa’s Florida Museum of Photographic Arts and remains a member of the International Art Critics Association (AICA). She graduated from Vassar and worked in New York museums before moving to Tampa.
The exhibits "Life & Death in the Ancient World" and "Identity in the Ancient World" showcase pieces from the Tampa Museum of Art's stellar collection of antiquities.
Since opening near downtown in 2021, the University of Tampa's Ferman Center for the Arts has emerged as an artistic hub for students, faculty and arts lovers.
The once-sleepy art scene in Tampa has flourished with the emergence of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, the Tampa Museum of Art and a host of theater companies.
The Spanish Lyric Theatre continues its mission to promote diversity and preserve Latino heritage with the upcoming performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights."
The Lab Theater Project continues to build its reputation as a laboratory for aspiring playwrights with its first musical, a country and western show called "It Started with a Kiss."
The Jobsite Theater production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" runs through June 5 at the Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
Tampa's Stageworks Theatre continues to bounce back after COVID with a new production of the Ybor City-based, Pulitzer Prize-winner "Anna in the Tropics."
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