SILENCE!, 'VANYA AND SONIA', TIME STANDS STILL and More Set for Jobsite's 2015-16 Season

Jobsite Theater, the independent resident theater company at the Straz Center, is thrilled to announce their 2015-16 mainstage season!

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Ethan Coen's Almost an Evening

Sep. 9 - Oct. 4, 2015

Three satiric shorts by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan Coen. Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading -- the Coen brothers' ?lms are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo adds playwriting to his eclectic bio. Almost an Evening ran to sold-out houses Off-Broadway in 2008. The overall theme of the collection of hilarious shorts is hell -- both on earth and in the hereafter. In "Waiting," a man faces an uncertain future in an uncertain location that seems to be some kind of waiting room. The anxiety and despair hark back to dramas of the ?fties: Sartre, Beckett, Pinter. "Four Benches" depicts an unlikely meeting in a steam room between a straight-talking Texan and an uptight Brit. Both men learn from the encounter, though only one survives it. In "Debate," the cantankerous god of the Old Testament roundly abuses the mealymouthed god of the New. His profanity and ill humor receive a startling comeuppance, and further reversals and changes of point of view lead to a denouement that is no more preposterous than anything else in the play. Clever, provocative, and as engaging as the best ?ction, these plays showcase yet another talent of one of our most celebrated contemporary writers.

Silence! The Musical

The unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs
Music and Lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan

Oct. 14 - Nov. 22, 2015

With brilliant musical numbers like "Papa Shtarling," "Quid Pro Quo," and "Are You About a Size 14?" Silence! The Musical is a howlingly entertaining night at the theater. Originally premiering on the internet before moving Off-Broadway, Silence! went on to win awards and find itself in Top 10 lists of New York theater. This is the second time that Jobsite and the Straz will co-produce a musical in the Jaeb, offering this as a follow-up with the wildly successful, award-winning Return to the Forbidden Planet.

Israel Horovitz's Lebensraum

Jan. 6-31, 2016

Jobsite is honored to continue this collaboration with one of America's greatest living dramatists, who Jobsite is once again bringing to Tampa for a residency. This time Horovitz comes to town for a full production after Jobsite's successful evening with him and a rehearsed staged reading of his play Sins of the Mother. Using a cast of 3 actors performing quicksilver changes to play dozens of sharply drawn characters, this bold work of penetrating intelligence is based on the fanciful, explosive idea that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite 6 million Jews to Germany with a promise of citizenship and jobs. A resulting scenario unfolds that explores the effects of the policy on Jews and Gentiles with widely varying outlooks: an out of work Jewish dock worker from Massachusetts who brings his Irish wife and his son to Bremerhaven to start a new life, a survivor of Auschwitz who returns to find the woman who betrayed his family to the Nazis, a young German smitten by a Jewish American teenage girl, an unemployed German laborer and scores of others. The logical progression of events raises the terrifying possibility that history may repeat.

Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Feb. 24 - Mar. 20, 2016

Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their movie-star sister, Masha, swoops in with her new boy toy, Spike. Old resentments flare up, eventually leading to threats to sell the house. Also on the scene are sassy maid Cassandra, who can predict the future, and a lovely young aspiring actress named Nina, whose prettiness somewhat worries the imperious Masha.

William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra

April 27 - May 22, 2016

At the fringes of a war torn empire a man and woman have fallen desperately, passionately in love. But for a soldier sent to enforce the imperial will and the queen of a people intent on throwing off the yoke of empire, there is no place for personal desire. Antony and Cleopatra are born to lead, to bend the world to their will and their every action has consequences for the thousands of people caught within the orbit of their influence. East meets West in this modern-dress epic drama that sweeps from location to location that fans of television might call Game of Thrones meets Homeland.

Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still

July 6-31, 2016

Time Stands Still focuses on Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent trying to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Theirs is a partnership based on telling the toughest stories, and together, making a difference. But when their own story takes a sudden turn, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Dinner with Friends and Shipwrecked!

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A season ticket to all six shows will go on sale in May. Season tickets will be available for a discount of 30% off the price of individual tickets ($117.60 for the package -- less than $20 per person per person per show) for a limited time. Season ticket holders save even more than just the face value of tickets by paying a one-time only handling fee per order instead of a per-ticket surcharge, and they also get into all Job-side Projects for free. Current season ticket holders will be contacted in April about renewals, anyone who would like to be added to the waiting list for season tickets should contact tickets@jobsitetheater.org. A mini-season ticket package is available for the remaining three shows in the current season (Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO, Annapurna and Occupation).

In addition to season tickets Jobsite will continue their Rock Star program in 2015-16. This $350 package gets fans into every show and event Jobsite puts on all year, including the Gala, plus special access to all sorts of goodies with a portion of the price counting as a tax-deductible gift. For more information on the Jobsite Rock Star Experience, please write to tickets@jobsitetheater.org, these packages are not sold by the Straz Box Office but only directly through Jobsite.

Single tickets to all shows will only be available as part of the season ticket or Rock Star packages through the summer. Single show on sale dates are TBA.

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