Stageworks Presents 'As Bees in Honey Drown' At The Shimberg Playhouse In Tampa

As Bees in Honey Drown is coming to the Shimberg Playhouse this season. The theater is located at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center at 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa, Florida. The show will play July 8-25. It will begin at 8PM Thursdays - Saturdays and Sundays at 4PM. Ticket Prices are $24.50 and $10 for Students and Seniors. Single tickets available at 813-229-7827 or online at www.strazcenter.org.

The show is a comedy about the pitfalls of the unquenchable hunger for fame. Eager almost-famous painters, singers, musicians, business managers, and, of course, authors- the occupation of the protagonist of this play-are displayed as easily trapped victims of con artists who promise big, but empty, dreams. By the same author as the much lauded "The Little Dog Laughed". Stageworks offers a riotous summer romp with Nick Horan of "Little Dog Laughed" returning, also featured are Heather Krueger, Patrick Bolger, Slake Counts, Tia Jemison and Alison Burns. 

For more information call 813-251-8984 or go to www.stageworkstheatre.org.

2010-11 Season 

As Bees In Honey Drown
by Douglas Carter Beane
A riotous summer romp, about the pitfalls of unquenchable hunger for fame and fortune.
July 8 - 25, 2010 Shimberg Playhouse

The War of The Worlds
Adapted from Orson Welles Radio Play
A live radio play that became known as "the night that panicked America!" An entire country was convinced that Armageddon had arrived. An exploration of the manipulative role of media in our lives.
October 7 - 16, 2010 Friday Morning Musicale

The God of Isaac
By James Sherman
It's the perfect holiday story, as one young man searches for his spiritual identity. A journey of discovery that is both hysterically funny and beautifully touching and in the end, spiritually revitalizing!
December 2 - 19, 2010 Shimberg Playhouse

The MOMologues
by Sheila Eppolito
A sassy, irreverent and loving look at the mother of all jobs! This comedy rips away the gauzy mask of parenthood to reveal how overwhelming, exhausting, yet FUNNY being a parent really is.
Southeastern premiere.
February 17 - 26, 2011, Friday Morning Musicale

A Lesson Before Dying
By Romulus Linney
A captivating drama of hope. Based on Ernest J. Gaines' award-winning 1992 book, this play is an elegant but harsh illumination of the search for grace and dignity before an innocent black man is put to death for a crime he did not commit..
April 7 - 24, 2011, Shimberg Playhouse

 

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