Today’s guest on the Arts Alive! podcast is Erica Sutherlin, executive artistic director of The Studio@620, St. Petersburg’s multi-purpose arts and entertainment venue.
She’s also the director of Cadillac Crew, a play by Tori Sampson that shines a spotlight on women activists during the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and early-to-mid ‘60s. It’s a co-production with Tampa’s Powerstories Theatre.
Cadillac Crew (opening Thursday, Nov. 6) is about four Black women in Richmond, Virginia who go on the road, to small towns across America, spreading the gospel of the movement. Cadillac crews were real, although the characters and plot of Sampson’s play are not…