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Sarasota News Leader May 3, 2013 Page 102 AUNT RUDELE TO MAKE WBTT APPEARANCES MAY 16-19 The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe (WBTT) has announced that WBTT Artistic Director Nate Jacobs' favorite relative, Aunt Rudele, will visit Sarasota again in a four-performance engagement, May 16-19, at the WBTT Theater, 1646 10th Way, Sarasota. When Jacobs appears in Aunt Rudele's Family Reunion, "everyone relates because she is a character everyone knows and loves," the release adds. "She's the righteous and meddling relative who has no boundaries. She's funny, flirtatious and not afraid to speak her Aunt Rudele's Family Reunion will be of- mind." fered at 8 p.m. on those dates with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m., a news release says. Tick- Aunt Rudele's Family Reunion has only been ets, which are $29.50, may be purchased on- seen twice in Sarasota: in Florida Studio Theline at www.wbttsrq.org or by calling the box atre's Cabaret and at the Historic Asolo Theoffice at 366-1505. ater during WBTT's 2007-08 season, the re"I created Aunt Rudele by combining the per- lease notes. sonalities of many women in my life," Jacobs "Aunt Rudele is a very fun character and we explains in the release, "but especially my mother and my grandmother. When I was a are very pleased to bring her to life again in student at Florida A&M University, we were our own theater," Jacobs continues in the reall asked to perform something on the spot. lease. "Sorry to say, she can't stay too long, No one could believe I had just made her up." but I guarantee it will be fun while it lasts." Aunt Rudele will return to the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe stage this month. Contributed photo