A Broadway Star is Reborn in Sarasota

Sarasota’s Teresa Stanley knew when to give Broadway a short break. It just took her five years to realize it.
‘Everything is telling me I need to come home,’ Stanley had told Nate Jacobs, artistic director of Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe during a break in tour. ‘I’ve never came back to give back to what has helped me.’
Stanley, 29, one of the founding members of Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, starred on Broadway in The Color Purple, toured in Rock of Ages and now she returns to Sarasota in a Jacobs original, Love, Sung in the Key of Aretha.
This is where it all began for Stanley and marks the first time she has returned to act in Sarasota since she left more than five years ago.
Love, Sung in the Key of Aretha opens Friday and runs through Jan. 16 at the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s theater, 1646 10th Way,

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