A&E Picks and Highlights

Medium
Oil on canvas. (28 inches by 36 inches)

On display ...
“Nouveaux Two Déjà-vu” is on display from Feb. 7 through March 3, at Dabbert Gallery, 76 S. Palm Ave.

“It’s a combination of my sketchbook observations and my imagination. In this particular painting I used sketches (I made) in Santa Barbara, Calif., in Sarasota and France. They are all cobbled together. And if the painting requires things, when I need them, I go through my sketchbook and find them. (I used sketches) from the corner of Palm Avenue and Main Street where there is an outdoor café. I have lunch there quite often and I make sketches of people going by and I used that in my sketchbook. The trees in the background and some of the architecture is from Santa Barbara, and there’s probably some French stuff in there, too.”

Where: Found at Jack Dusty’s first birthday celebration, 1111 Ritz Carlton Drive.

What: Jack Dusty’s Market Entrée (vegetarian, $23).

Ingredients: The cooked puree and vegetables vary each week. In this salad is bulgur wheat, watermelon radish, edible dirt and baby greens atop a cooked red-pepper puree.

Ingredients sourced from: Faithful Farms, Worden’s Farm, Simply Organix and Suncoast Food Alliance
 

EDITOR'S PICKS

Thursday, Jan. 30

‘Last Lists of My Mad Mother’
8 p.m. at The Players Theatre
Runs through Feb. 9.
Tickets $15. Call 365-2494.

Masterworks Series: ‘Colors of Love’
Sarasota Orchestra
8 p.m. at Neel Performing Arts Center (Thursday)
8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall (Friday and Saturday)
2:30 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall (Sunday)
Tickets $30 to $84. Call 953-3434.

Friday, Jan. 31

‘The Colors that Surround Me’
Exhibit by Bettina Sego
Harmony Gallery at the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center
On display through March 3.
Call 953-4252.

‘R. Luke Dubois — Now’
The Ringling
On display through May 4.
Call 359-5700.

Jazz at Two: Kitt Moran, vocalist
The Jazz Club of Sarasota
2 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota
Tickets $7 to $12. Call 366-1552.

Sousa Concert
7 p.m. at Riverview Performing Arts Center
Donation $5. Call 923-1484.

Program Four: Balanchine, Tuckett and Ashton
Sarasota Ballet
8 p.m at FSU Center for the Performing Arts
Runs through Feb. 3.
Tickets start at $30. Call 359-0099, Ext. 101.

Saturday, Feb. 1

7th annual Grand Ovation
Noon at Main Street, Lakewood Ranch. Free. Call 757-1548.

Recital Series: Ritz Chamber Players
Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota
7:30 p.m. at Historic Asolo Theater
Runs through Sunday.
Tickets $25 to $45. Call 360-7399.

Sunday, Feb. 2

Winterfest at the Park
10 a.m. at Philippi Estate Park
Free. Call 379-0951.

Asolo Rep’s ‘American Family Reunion’
7 p.m. at Asolo Repertory Theatre
Call 351-8000.

Tuesday, Feb. 4

Meet the Artists of ‘Il Travatore’
5 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House
Tickets $15. Call 328-1300.

Wednesday, Feb. 5

‘Daddy Long Legs’
8 p.m. at Florida Studio Theatre. Runs through April 5.
Tickets $19 to $42. Call 366-9000.

Great Performer Series: East Coast Chamber Orchestra
Sarasota Concert Association
8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Tickets $40 to $75. Call 955-0040.

STILL PLAYING

‘Boeing, Boeing’ runs through Feb. 2, at Venice Theatre.
‘Pageant’ runs through Feb. 2, at The Players Theatre.
‘The Whipping Man’ runs through Feb. 2, at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe.
‘ARTmuse Program: Lisa Hoke’ runs through Feb. 4, at Historic Sarasota High School.
‘The Prima Donettes’ runs through Feb. 7, at Florida Studio Theatre.
‘Delval Divas’ runs through Feb. 9, at Island Players.
‘Thurgood’ runs through Feb. 22, at Florida Studio Theatre.
‘Other Desert Cities’ runs through Feb. 26, at Asolo Repertory Theatre.
‘Philadelphia, Here I Come!’ runs through Feb. 27, at Asolo Repertory Theatre.
‘Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike’ runs through April 13, at Asolo Repertory Theatre.
‘Poems, Prayers and Promises’ runs through April 20, at Florida Studio Theatre.