Peter Nason

Dystopia and pee; there's nothing like URINETOWN!

Bridget Bean is a born storyteller.  You can tell as she immediately enters the stage that she is 100% in her element.  If there’s anything we’ve learned from her past One Woman Shows (including Shirley Valentine and her Titanic Fringe piece from two years ago), it’s that this format works beautifully with her personality, her expressive face and that mesmerizing speaking voice.

The Tampa Fringe Festival is like a Smorgasbord of the Arts; so many great works to choose from, some small, some large, some cool, some wacky. You get over a week to fill your plate with all of these unforgettable, mostly yummy works.  If you’re lucky enough to get into the wild SMUTTY BURLESQUE NERD: VULVA VA-VOOMS SHIP OF THESEUS or the memorable CAPTAIN HAVOC & THE BIG-TITTY BOG WITCHES, then you will be talking about it for days.  But what about the smaller shows, the ones that don’t have the words “vulva” or “titty” in their titles?

The aftermath of a school shooting is examined in this potent piece by playwright Bostock-Kelley.

Happiness, sheer happiness!

Don't miss this year's offerings where there's something for everyone!

It's a show that's all aces, where the stellar cast, crew, music, and important storyline all come together to earn every standing ovation it will receive.

It's a rollicking, raucous, adrenaline-pumping, soulful and yet sometimes sad affair

BIG FISH is perhaps the ultimate Father’s Day musical, which is why I found it so ironic that I saw the Arts in Motion production of it the day before Mother’s Day. 

This Pulitzer Prize winner is both fun and brutal, lengthy but never boring, heart-stopping and soul-stirring, and yet unblinking and sympathetic in its portrait of an American family in unruly disintegration.

A solid but imperfect production of what is perhaps the finest musical yet written.

It's a perfect fit for the American Stage in the Park experience!

This Pulitzer Prize winner is as uncompromising and beautiful as musical theatre can get.

HCT is a small theatre with a big heart, and their production spotlights the show's strengths and weaknesses.

What did our critic think of MAMMA MIA! at the Wesley Chapel Performing Arts Center?

A brilliant and thought-provoking production about the first Chinese woman to set foot on American soil.

It's a dream of a musical with nightmarish sound issues.

Terrifically terrifying and timely!

Quirky, irreverent, and so much fun, the show even offers audience members the chance to go onstage to be a part of the Bee.

My father’s mom died in 1955.  After my own mother passed away fifty-one years later, one of my sisters asked my father the following question: “How long did it take you to get over the loss of your mother?”  My father, now an old man, pondered the question, remembering his mother who had died a half century earlier, then answered quite succinctly but with a sad smile: “I’ll let you know.”