1928. 3:00 a.m. on a muggy summer night in Manhattan. In the dingy lobby of a rundown hotel on a Westside street just off Times Square, two lonely souls share a wandering, one-sided conversation. A downtrodden, introverted Desk Clerk endures the ruminations of Erie Smith, a small-time gambler, haunter of the joints along the Great White Way, as he tries to talk himself out of his despair over the recent death of his only friend and good luck charm, Hughie. Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill, at the height of his powers, took a break from writing the ineffably tragic “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” to pen this lighter one-act play, in which a brief night’s journey toward dawn kindles an uncharacteristic gleam of hope.

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Hughie

Pacific Resident Theatre

After a completely sold-out performance in July, longtime friends and collaborators Jasso and Benham return to Wanda’s to present their musical love letter to Weill’s prolific opus. This encore performance will feature more original German lyrics, along with a sneak peek at their next program, currently in development: An exploration of the music Weill wrote during his two-year Paris chapter (1933-1935).

Berlin Im Licht – A Kurt Weill Cabaret

In this hilarious and poignant new play, Doug, a blue collar worker at a family owned construction company is charged with training Paul, the boss’s gentle, secretive, college bound son during the course of a summer demolition project. Doug feels needed to help the boy get ready for life away from home. Their exchanges begin hilariously with Doug’s baudy advice comically at odds with Paul’s shy nature. As things proceed, we come to realize that Paul is struggling with something far beyond Doug’s purview and experience.  A play about identity, truth, parenthood, and courage. 

Demolition

Join The Venice Symphony for a special celebration at the Friends of The Venice Symphony 2024 Awards & Recognition Luncheon. This prestigious event is set to take place on May 2, from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm, and is dedicated to honoring the remarkable individuals who have significantly contributed to the success and vibrancy of The Venice Symphony over the past year.

The luncheon will feature a keynote address by Bob Hite, the esteemed Board Chair of The Venice Symphony, who will share insights and stories from the symphony's journey, highlighting the achievements of its dedicated supporters.

The event will be held at the elegant Hotel Venezia, located at 425 US Highway 41 Byp N, Venice, FL 34285. Attendees will enjoy a delightful afternoon of camaraderie, fine dining, and recognition in a beautiful setting.

Tickets for the event are priced at $35 per person. To ensure your place at this exclusive event, please RSVP with your payment no later than April 28th. Don't miss this opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the Friends of The Venice Symphony and to show your support for the arts in our community.

Friends of The Venice Symphony 2024 Awards & Recognition Luncheon

Hotel Venezia Restaurant & Bar

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Called a fusion between realism and the absurd, A Permanent Image is a tense exploration of the distance families put between themselves and what it takes to bring them back together.

A Permanent Image

Encouraged by an uncle who played sitar to pursue his creative passion and cautioned by a brother to adopt a traditional occupation that would pay the bills, Aloke chose accounting as his profession.

Maestro Aloke Dasgupta

Mark Leggett is a guitarist/composer in Los Angeles. His many credits include music, film and television projects with Levon Helm, Dolly Parton, Werner Herzog, Richard Thompson, My Name Is Earl, Kylie Minogue, among many others. He is twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for his music scores. As a guitarist he has been featured in Acoustic Guitar, Fretboard Journal and Fingerstyle Guitar Journal. Mark plays regularly in the Los Angeles area both solo and with The Mark Leggett Quartet.

Mark Leggett And Michael Jost

Nathan Madden received his BFA from the Juilliard School and has taught and performed worldwide. He graced the stages of countless theaters during two seasons with Ballet Jazz Montreal, touring with Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away, and guesting with Lar Lubovitch Dance.   Nathan started his Broadway journey with CHICAGO, became an original cast member of Christopher Wheeldon’s An American In Paris, where he covered two leading roles, and was thrilled to be a part of bringing back the revival of Hello Dolly.  As a choreographer, he was awarded the “Héctor Zaraspe Prize” for exemplary movement, was a finalist for the Capezio ”ACE Awards”, and has had his workplace in “The National Society of Arts and Letters” competition. Currently designing and creating fountain choreography worldwide with Water Entertainment Technologies and loving it! “I’m so grateful to be continuing to grow from “Glory to Glory.”

Christmas Countdown

Called a fusion between realism and the absurd, A Permanent Image is a tense exploration of the distance families put between themselves, and what it takes to bring them back together.

Samuel D. Hunter is an American playwright best known for plays A Bright New Boise, which won the 2011 Obie Award for playwriting, and The Whale, which won the 2013 Drama Desk Award and the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.

Gabrianna “Punky G.” Crawford, a Los Angeles native, has developed her unique style from taking her original spoken word content and blending them with her original melodies combined with her love for Rock & Roll. Punky G. infuses her messages of love, hope, respect, faith, unity, and individuality in melodies that stick, words that matter, chords that unite, lyrics that heal, provoke and restore! Blending various sounds and styles of rock, soul, funk, spoken word. Punky G. tends to fall into her own genre called Rock Fusion. With a bold yet graceful approach to challenge and confront the status quo, Punky G. strides in a lane of her own, between her broad lyrical content and musical diversity. Providing the world with timeless melodies and timeless content, her music will make you dance, rock, cry, laugh, think, perhaps even change. She has spent the foundation of her career performing in juvenile halls, camps, schools, churches, mentoring programs, and bars and clubs.

Gabrianna “Punky G” Crawford

A true Venice Legend, Singer Songwriter PETER DEMIAN is the man with the golden voice & the matching stories. He will be featuring another Venice Legend, the one & only Gregory Cruz on guitar. Together they will perform songs from Peter’s latest album: Mother Earth & so much more. It doesn’t get much better than Peter Demian live in an intimate venue like Pacific Resident Theater.

Guitarras Hermanas and Peter Demian

Prince Peter is an actor, writer and musician. As well as acting and writing for tv and movies, Peter also wrote the NY Times best-seller, The 1980s – A Look Back (written in 1979) and the novel The Food Taster, which was published in 20 countries around the world. His one man show, “It’s never too late,” starts its World tour Sept 17 th at the Pacific Resident Theater in Venice.

It’s Never too Late

Jason Downs is an actor, writer, director, producer, musician…and father! His daughter, Ridley, is already way cooler than he ever was. They are both songwriter’s, only difference is Jason was signed to Jive Records during their heyday (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Justin Timberlake) and released a couple albums overseas, including a top 20 hit intriguingly titled White Boy With A Feather…whereas Ridley is currently creating her first album. Ridley and Jason, along with mom (if they can coax her up on stage) will do some originals and plenty of familiar favorites to make up a casual and pleasant listening experience. 

Jason & Ridley & Downs Family Jam

PRINCE DIABATÉ hails from a prominent, Malinké family from Guinea, West Africa. He learned his art from his father, Djéli Sori Diabaté. Breaking with tradition, his father also taught Prince’s mother, Hadja Djéli Sira Cissoko, to play kora. The young boy became an exceptionally early starter by accompanying his parents to their concerts throughout West Africa. Despite his father’s disapproval, he decided to make music his life. 

MICHAEL JOST’s music is a journey in time & space fueled by his passion for music & his instrument. His main instrument is the guitar with all the different colors & emotions. Michael’s influences are very multicolored & involve different styles, continents and time periods. Live or on in the studio expect to be surprised…

Prince Diabaté and Michael Jost

When Bette Midler needed an exciting opening number for her new Las Vegas show, she called on Bill Burnett to adapt his famous “Life Is Still Very Wow.”
She also CLOSED the first set of her Divine Miss Millennium tour with Bill’s hilarious “I Regret Everything.” Patti Lupone has performed that same song for years, putting it on her lovely Matters of the Heart album. So have over 60 cabaret performers all over the world. One of the them was Ellie Stone, the late star of the original cast of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well.

Bill Burnett in Concert

“Alan Trinca is an actor/musician with a BFA in theatre performance from Niagara University. He spent 6 years in NYC, performing in off-Broadway plays and musicals, most notably starring in a series of parody shows as Joey in FRIENDS THE MUSICAL, Uncle Jesse in FULL HOUSE THE MUSICAL, and Dylan McKay in 90210 THE MUSICAL. Influenced by 70/s80’s rock and growing up with 90’s-00’s pop, rock, and punk, he likes to play acoustic versions of songs by bands like Radiohead, Elton John, and Coldplay. Alan was most recently seen right here at PRT in American La Ronde!”

A Life in Music

Summer Sizzle

“THE GLORY OF LOVE” - Rita, is excited to be back performing after 4 years, at Pacific Resident Theatre. She is singing the standards with a little blues and a jazz flair. Rita is joined by her fabulous, one of kind piano accompanist, David Barker.
Rita worked as a model in the states and Europe and graced the covers of many fashion magazines. During this time she worked honing her craft as a commercial actress, having 40 plus under her belt, one of which is the tree hugging grandma in the Subaru Outback commercial. Rita’s first love is acting, but Singing is another love of hers and her favorite genre is singing the blues and jazz from the 1930 and 40’s.

Glory Of Love

Join Nathan and Brenna for a musical evening of elegance as these two dynamic performers sing their favorite love songs. This concert is perfect for lovers of Broadway and jazz classics, and is sure to be a great date night—just days before Valentine's! Come “Fall in Love with Love”, and experience the energy of human connection and the joy of live music right here in the heart of Venice!

Falling in Love with Love

Twentysomething is an evening of songs that have found me in the roughest patches of my life--songs that I wish I'd written (and a few I did). A mixture of pop, indie, singer-songwriter, country, and musical theater, this show is a collection of twentysomething songs/jokes/moments I was too embarrassed to show people for the first twentysomething years of my life. It's silly, it's earnest, and it's quintessentially Kyle.

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