5. Plantasia Music and Plant Festival Things to do Concerts
urning the Key provides more than a compelling juxtaposition of Haydn and Beethoven. It demonstrates how wit, faith, fear, and hope coexist within a single musical tradition. Thomas Crawford, the American Classical Orchestra, its chorus, and four distinguished soloists restore the music’s human scale while preserving its sublimity. The ACO’s ongoing Beethoven cycle offers performances that let familiar masterpieces engage, challenge, and console listeners, ultimately revealing new interpretive possibilities.
In Machine Learning, two couples enter a research program at a remote facility, believing their interactions will help train humanoid companions in human intimacy. But as the experiment unfolds, they must reckon with their patterns, secrets, and vulnerabilities. Machine Learning is a darkly funny, deeply human exploration of our search for connection in a time when we’re increasingly led to believe technology can fix it all.
When it rains, it pours. Hurricane Claudia, a Category 3 monster, is heading toward the Pelican Bay Bed and Breakfast. Frank Bennett, its hapless, high-strung hotel manager, is preparing to both evacuate the place and sell it. An unexpected series of arrivals upends his carefully laid plans. His suicidal father comes to “help” but is quietly plotting to end his own life. A famous female TV psychologist, fleeing a professional and personal crisis, holes up in the room off the lobby, seeking solitude. Frank’s flamboyant ex-wife seeks refuge after discovering that the muscular young man she left Frank for has abandoned her. Their twenty-year-old son is desperately in love and must convince his fiancée that he “comes from a good home” by reuniting his divorced parents. “Shelter Inn Place” comically explores starting over, accepting family members for who they are, and finding happiness even when there’s nowhere else to go.
Henrietta Steventon’s comedy £POUNDTOWN will premiere at Emerging Artists Theater’s Spark Theatre Festival. The play
