Our friends at St. Petersburg Opera wrap their current season at the Palladium with two weekends of Puccini’s classic Madama Butterfly.   Madama Butterfly has five performances, starting Friday, June 21 and closing Sunday, June 30. For tickets and more information you can follow this link.   Moscow native Zoya Gramagin will sing the Butterfly […]

From July to early September we’re beating the heat with a series of shows in the Side Door and Hough Hall featuring some of our favorites artists. We’re calling our series  Summer House and we promise the music will be hot, the beer will be cold and the air conditioning will be set on STUN. […]

I’m very excited to welcome Tampa City Ballet to the Palladium family. This professional, collaborative, contemporary dance company, is presenting a new show on an old topic. The show, titled 7th Ave & Ybor celebrates the history and spectacle of the early immigrant days of Tampa’s historic quarter.   The work premiers on Wednesday, May […]

I caught the Sunday matinee performance of the two Puccini one-acts by St. Petersburg Opera. I loved them both, particularly the powerful opening opera Suor Angelica.   The staging, the live orchestra, and Susan Spatafora’s portrayal of the tormented nun, were all wonderful, and like most of the audience, I was moved to tears by […]

I wanted to share a wonderful story written by TBTimes book critic Colette Bancroft about my new book, “Cigar City: Tales From a 1980s Creative Ghetto.”     Told in fictional short stories, I try to recreate the magical era when the historic district was home to nothing but artists, writers and performers. Photos by […]

Tonight at 7 at the Palladium, SPC honors a longstanding leader in the arts at the college. Dr. Jonathan Steele has also been a longtime friend of the Palladium since it became part of SPC over 11 years ago.   Tonight’s tribute concert by the SPC Co0mmunity Band and Wind Symphony honors  the contributions of […]

We’re pleased to welcome back Bay Area Performing Arts and Casting to the Palladium this Saturday. After a remarkable production of School of Rock, BAPAC is back with Carrots, a show for the entire family, based on Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of Peter Rabbit.   The show is this Saturday at 2 p.m. and you […]

  This is a note to all procrastinators out there – a group to which I belong – there are only 30 tickets left for the Selwyn Birchwood show in the Side Door this Saturday night.   Don’t wait any longer. This show WILL be sold out within the next day or so.   Selwyn […]

We wrapped up our Palladium Chamber Series last week, that doesn’t mean we’ve finished presenting great classical music this season. We are so proud to be partnering with The Chopin Project, which has brought top pianists to the Palladium’s Steinway over the past two seasons.   This Tuesday night (4-23 at 7:30 p.m.) is another […]

You can get a preview of Thursday night’s From Rio With Love show tonight on WUSF’s All Night Jazz, with Mike Cornette. Nate Najar brought the band into the station to do some songs and talk about the show and the new album they are recording with Brazilian singer Daneila Soledade.   The band will […]

I caught up with Nate Najar and Daniela Soledade at Nate’s studio, just before recording starts on what will be Daniela’s first album.   They are recording the album this week and taking a break to play the Palladium on Thursday, April 18, with an all Brazilian show he’s calling From Rio With Love.  You […]

Although they only did one album together, Sarah Vaughn and Billy Eckstine, are considered one of the best duos in jazz history.     Last April, Synia Carroll sold-out the Side Door with her Sarah tribute show. She returns Friday, this time with California-based vocalist Scotty Wright. Wright will be singing Eckstine tunes and the […]

Rhonda Vincent returns to the Palladium tonight, with her full band, The Rage. She’s again bringing her talent, charisma and a combination of bluegrass and country that is strictly her own.   I was really impressed when she was here last time – it was all the way back in 2012! – and I’m looking […]

Our  Beacon Dance series, that debuts its 2019 incarnation tonight, drew lots of media attention from the weekly Creative Loafing and the daily digital magazine St. Pete Catalyst.   Creative Loafing made the show a pick of the week calling Beacon “a singularly collaborative and evocative interdisciplinary experience.”   And St. Pete Catalyst did a […]

I caught up with Helen Hansen French and Lauren Ree Slone, the two dancers and choreographers behind our Beacon Dance project during rehearsals at the Palladium this week. The show goes up at 8 p.m. tonight.   Here’s a link for tickets.   I asked these two talented and visionary women about this year’s version […]

All of us at the Palladium are so proud to be the performance home of Beacon 2019.   Our artistic directors, Helen Hansen French and Lauren Ree Sloane, promise another an evening of dance, film and performance that will inspire and entertain you. It seems like were just only yesterday talking about the first Beacon […]

Spring is here and it’s time for another magical visit from The Florida Bjorkestra. Mark your calendar for this Sunday, March 31, at 6 p.m. when the 20-piece ensemble presents the music of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.   I’m not exaggerating when I tell you the Bjorkestra brings together the finest musicians in our […]

After Nancy Wilson died last December several singers approached me about a tribute show. I knew Katt Hefner had been singing a lot of Wilson’s repertoire and had a show together even before Wilson passed.   At our John Lamb birthday concert in Janaury, we talked and now this Thursday, Katt and her band will […]

Straight outta NYC, Svetlana and the Delancey Five are the hottest swing jazz ensemble in the Big Apple. And Thursday they’ll be lighting up the Side Door, along with some of the bay area’s best lindy hoppers and swing dancers.   We’re bringing in a wooden dance floor so the Side Door will be alive […]

The amazing ensemble known as the Florida Björkestra returns to their home turf at the Palladium on Sunday, March 31, this time with a show called: The Secret World: The Music of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.   After hits with shows featuring music by their namesake artist, along with Buffyfest I and II, and […]

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of our Boogie Woogie Blues Piano Stomp means bringing in some veterans – like 90-years-young Bob Seeley – and a new player, Eden Brent.   We’re excited to have Eden on the bill, with four other great boogie woogie and blues artists. To get your tickets just follow this link.   […]

I’m not sure if James Suggs qualifies any longer as the new kid in town. Since arriving from Argentina four years ago, James has become a favorite on the local jazz scene, he’s gotten his masters in music from USF and he married Carolina Ticeira, his sweetheart from Argentina.   And now, he’s released a […]

This year is the 10th Anniversary of the Palladium’s Boogie Woogie Blues Piano Stomp. This year we’re not only celebrating Bob Seeley’s 90th birthday, but we’re bringing back a player from our first year, Ricky Nye, out of Cincinnati.   Ricky puts on a similar concert in Cincy every year and Liz Pennock and lots […]

Thanks to St. Pete Catalyst, the ‘burg’s daily on-line newsletter, for featuring the Palladium Chamber Players just prior to Wednesday’s concert.   There is one more concert in our 2018-19 series, on April 17. For tickets and information you can follow this link.   And here’s a link to the Catalyst article by Bill DeYoung. […]

  Jeff Multer is back leading the Palladium Chamber Players this Wednesday in the fourth of our five-concert season.   The 7:30 p.m. concert features two piano quartets, one by Mozart and one by Gabriel Fauré, along with Ernő Dohnányi’s Serenade for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 10. Along with Multer on violin, the ensemble […]