With three Broadway musicals celebrating the careers of pop music stars, a handful of living musical legends and tributes to ...

The city of Sarasota should be chastised for moving so slowly to maintain and repair the iconic Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

With no arts group stepping up to assume operating the Van Wezel, the Purple Ribbon Committee recommends making it last five ...

The Purple Ribbon Committee told commissioners the days of the Van Wezel as the city’s premier arts venue since 1970 are ...

A Sarasota city committee has recommended both refurbishments to the Van Wezel and an "accelerated" process for a new arts center.

Mote Marine, Selby Gardens and the Sarasota Orchestra have each made more progress in their new projects than Sarasota's ...

Last year when we last met up with Mary Benzel, Executive Director at Van Wezel, Sarasota had just gone through a couple of ...

Jeff LaHurd, who moved as a child to Sarasota in 1950, has been studying the important people and places that have made it a paradise to so many.

Dick Van Dyke pulls out of comedy event due to illness, wife Arlene Silver says The actor, 99, was set to host Vandy Camp with his wife on Saturday.

Kicking off their respective Premier League campaigns, Nottingham Forest and Brentford will get the 2025-26 season under way on Sunday, when they meet at the City Ground. Both clubs have some ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota has been through many hurricanes, but nothing quite like Hurricane Milton. “We ended up with about four feet of storm ...

The fate of the Van Wezel, a new downtown master plan and a new city manager are among the issues that will fall to the next Sarasota commission.