Sarasota is a friendly place, but sometimes a little snobbery creeps in when it comes to our neighbor 18 miles south. Venice is smaller and doesn’t have all of Sarasota’s world-class cultural institutions.
There is one area, however, where Venice towers over Sarasota — community theater. That’s particularly true when the Venice Theatre hosts the American Association of American Community Theatre’s WorldFest, which it has since 2010, pandemics and hurricanes notwithstanding.
WorldFest runs June 15-20 and includes 11 plays from around the globe as well as parties and workshops…