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SIX brings the Tudor queens roaring into the spotlight with a pop‑powered retelling that has captivated audiences worldwide. Kelly Denice Taylor stars as Jane Seymour, delivering a performance that blends warmth, wit, and unexpected strength. She highlights Jane’s youth, resilience, and growing confidence, revealing a queen far more complex than her traditional portrayal.

For three days only, see Roxanne Fay as you've never seen her before... as Alice Liddell, the inspiration behind Alice in Wonderland. Tickets are tiered from $45-$150 on May 15-17 at Powerstories Studio.

The production follows Bobby Child, a New York banker sent to Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a rundown theatre, only to fall for Polly Baker, the theatre owner’s daughter. What begins as a simple assignment becomes a spirited attempt to revive a forgotten town through tap, mistaken identity, and some of the most iconic songs in the American musical canon, including “I Got Rhythm,” “Embraceable You,” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It.”

Ovations Repertory Company, home of Ovations Dance Academy of Tampa, launches a full season of themed camps, Summer Stock musicals, and professional intensives for young performers ages 3 and up.

The production also reframes the Kowalski home as a biracial marriage, a choice that deepens the story’s examination of identity, power, and community. Director Erica Sutherlin notes that both Stella and Stanley, as well as Eunice and Steve, are biracial couples in this world. “Of course, we can have conversation about the racial tension within the narrative, but we also get to explore relationship tensions, the cultural dynamics that seep into the room because of who they are in 1965. Or how they have chosen to love. Who are these people existing in this landscape? How do they define community because there is a community in the world of this play. Honestly, no one escapes culpability in this play. No one is completely good or bad or completely strong or weak. People are shades, gradients of the whole.”

freeFall Theatre presents And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank. This powerful multimedia production weaves live performance with recorded survivor testimony to tell the real stories of the teens whose lives intertwined with Anne Frank’s.

Experience the enchantment of Ovations Repertory Company’s Cinderella Ballet, performed by a young cast at Sickles High School. This sweeping new production brings Sergei Prokofiev’s score to life, blending technical mastery and heartfelt storytelling for audiences of all ages.

An intimate evening of close‑up magic where five magicians rotate through twelve‑seat tables with live music and cocktails. Evan Driggs brings experience from both the U.S. and London companies, shaping a cinematic, immersive night that turns strangers into a shared audience.

'The Meeting' is an imagined encounter between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, bringing audiences into a rare conversation that explores their contrasting philosophies, shared desire for justice, and the urgency of their vision during the Civil Rights Movement.

I walked in knowing only a handful of the songs, and it made no difference. Hell’s Kitchen at the Straz is driven by feeling, character, and raw honesty. The music meets you where you are.

Women of Resistance at New Tampa Performing Arts Center is stirring, urgent, and unforgettable, blending history and artistry in a way that stays with you.

ThinkTank Theatre and Tampa Fringe bring H*tler’s Tasters to the Tampa Fringe Blackbox Theatre in Ybor. The dark comedy follows four teenage girls forced to taste Hitler’s meals, blending the terror of survival with the rituals of girlhood. The intimate staging places audiences inches from the table as the cast navigates humor, fear, loyalty, and the shifting power dynamics of growing up under war.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical brings its explosive sparkle and emotional fire to Ruth Eckerd Hall, led by Amara Berhan as Arabia, one of the powerhouse Lady Ms who ignite the show from the first moment.

Carrollwood Cultural Center ushers in spring with a vivid, soul‑stirring revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. This production leans into the heartbeat of the story- the love, fear, devotion, and fracture between Jesus, Judas, and Mary. The result is a rock opera that feels both timeless and urgently human, inviting audiences into the final days of Jesus’s life.

An all‑women Julius Caesar arrives at The Studio@620, reimagining Shakespeare’s political thriller inside the modern corporate world. Adapted by Roxanne Fay and directed by Kristin Clippard, the production examines how ambition, persuasion, and fear shape the pursuit of power when women step into roles historically-written for men. With a cast of leading Tampa Bay artists interrogating the language and emotional stakes of the play, this contemporary staging brings renewed urgency to questions of leadership, loyalty, and the ease with which public opinion can be swayed.

The teens at Metropolitan Ministries have spent the winter shaping an original play that blends humor, heart, and the boldness of their own voices, guided by Straz Center teaching artists Erin Lekovic and Annalise Drab.

A vivid multimedia tribute honoring Hedy Lamarr, Josephine Baker, Nancy Wake, Noor Inayat Khan, Andrée Peel, Lee Miller, and Virginia Hall through contemporary dance, original music, and striking visual art in a powerful celebration of seven remarkable women of the WWII Resistance.

Powerstories Theatre’s 6th Annual Voices of Women Theatre Festival returns March 5–8, 2026, showcasing powerful new work by women playwrights. Audiences will experience three evenings of full‑length staged readings in the General and Women Playwrights Over 40 categories, plus a night of bold ten‑minute plays by local writers. The festival also features Seek and Speak Your Powerstory presentations.

Patel Conservatory’s Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka KIDS invites families into a whimsical world of candy-colored adventure as Charlie Bucket tours Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory. Featuring young performers ages seven to eleven, the production blends beloved songs from the classic 1971 film with new musical surprises, delivering a joyful, imaginative journey filled with humor, heart, and the magic of possibility.

At a time when art and identity feel increasingly intertwined with public debate, Stageworks Theatre turns to a story that asks what it truly costs to follow one’s calling. My Name Is Asher Lev traces the journey of a young painter torn between devotion to his faith and devotion to his craft, a conflict as intimate as it is universal.