A&E Picks and Highlights 4.16.15

Visual Arts

2015 Annual Best of Ringling Student Exhibitions
Various locations, Ringling College of Art and Design
Runs through April 22.
Tickets: Free. Call 351-5100.

Performing Arts

‘American Pie’
Goldstein Cabaret, Florida Studio Theatre
7:30 p.m. April 16, 19 and 22;
6 p.m. April 17, 18 and 21; 9 p.m. April 18
Runs through May 3.
Tickets: $18 to $36. Call 366-9000.

‘Chicken Shop’
Urbanite Theatre
8 p.m. April 16, 17, 18 and 22; 2 p.m. April 19
Runs through May 3.
Tickets: $20 for adults; $5 for students with ID. Call 321-1397.

‘Sotto Voce’
Historic Asolo Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre
8 p.m. April 16, 17 and 22; 7:30 p.m. April 21; 2 p.m. April 22
Runs through April 26.
Tickets: $15 to $40. Call 351-8000.

‘The Cherry Orchard’
Cook Theatre, FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training
8 p.m. April 16, 17, 18 and 22; 2 p.m. April 19; 7:30 p.m. April 21
Tickets: $14.50 to $29. Call 351-8000.

‘The Lyons’
The Players Theatre
8 p.m. April 16, 17 and 18; 2 p.m. April 19
Tickets: $18. Call 365-2494.

Unplugged No. 3: ‘Bathing in Moonlight’
Cook Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre
7 p.m. April 19
Tickets: $7. Call 351-8000.

Music

Diana Krall
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
8 p.m. April 16
Tickets: $85 to $120. Call 953-3368.

Chris Botti
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
8 p.m. April 17
Tickets: $45 to $55. Call 953-3368.

Mozart: 1791, The final works of Mozart
First Church
2:30 p.m. April 18
Tickets: $25 to $35. Call 921-4845.

Bion Tsang, cello, and Adam Neiman, piano
Artist Series Concerts, Historic Asolo Theater
7:30 p.m. April 18 and 19
Tickets: $25 to $45. Call 306-1200.

Hear & Now Concert featuring the Ariel Quartet
Perlman Music Program/Suncoast, Sarasota Opera House
3 p.m. April 19
Tickets: $30 to $40. Call 355-8450, Ext. 1.

Roberta Flack
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
8 p.m. April 22
Tickets: $45 to $75. Call 953-3368.

Nick’s Pick

Trenton Doyle Hancock, ‘EMIT: What the Bringback Brought’

The recipient of The Hermitage’s 2013 Greenfield Prize, Trenton Doyle Hancock is one of the most exciting voices in art today. Born in Oklahoma City, Okla., and raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock’s pieces are entire worlds inhabited by characters, vibrant colors and mythology. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas A&M University and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

This new series at the Ringling Museum of Art will focus on a rarely used medium: action figures. An avid collector since he was a child, Hancock’s repurposed figures and dolls will be accompanied by a commercial that promotes the characters the figures represent.

Hancock’s work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; the Seattle Art Museum; the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania; the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh; the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York City; and as a part of the prestigious Whitney Biennial in 2000 and 2002. He was one of the youngest artists ever invited to the artistic survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Hancock will be visiting Sarasota as a part of the Greenfield Prize weekend and will be giving a talk at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, at the Ringling College of Art and Design Academic Auditorium. Admission is $15. In the commercial featured in the exhibit, Hancock says, “The product that I would be selling [would] not only [be the] toys but sensibilities from a another time, a time when toys were better, when horror films and children’s fantasy entertainment was better.”

‘EMIT: What the Bringback Brought’ exhibit
When: Open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays
Where: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road
Tickets: $25 for adults; $23 for seniors; $5 for college students with ID and children 6 through 17. Free for children under 5.
Info: Call 359-5700