S2 Ep1524: ARTS ALIVE! St. Pete Catalyst's Bill DeYoung - Jim Sorenson, Tampa Repertory Theater

The Tampa Repertory Theatre’s Jim Sorensen is our guest for the final Arts Alive! podcast of 2025.  Jim is directing the Tampa Rep production of A Christmas Carol – A Live Radio Play through Tuesday (Dec. 23) at the Shimberg Playhouse, in the Straz Center for the Performing Arts complex. Show information here.  👉He wrote the adaption of the classic Dickens story, which includes songs, narration, sound effects and a cast of four actors “playing” a multitude of characters (Michael Gregory is Dickens’ miserable old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge.) 👉Sorensen, a longtime presence on the Tampa Bay theater scene, has acted in both Tampa and St. Petersburg most recently in the Off-Central comedy Bakersfield Mist (his co-star from that show, Alix Faulhaber, is in the cast of A Christmas Carol – A Live Radio Play). 👉We also talk about St. Pete’s Radio Theatre Project, for which he frequently provides voices – Sorensen will be there for the RTP Christmas edition, Monday (Dec. 22) at 7 p.m. at The [email protected] Arts Alive! will return Jan. 2.#artsalive #jimsorenson #tamparepertorytheater #achristmascarol #radioplay #Radiotheaterproject #thestudio@620 #michaelgregory #billdeyoung #stpetecatalyst#theater #tampa #stpete #stpetefl  #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #cityofstpete  #dtsp #downtownstpete