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When I was visiting the Sistine Chapel several decades ago, an elderly American couple walked up to me and said, 'We don't understand any of this.
Somewhere in a world on a road less traveled, between the likes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, American Psycho, Carrie, and the more recently conceptualized Beetlejuice lies the twisted campy world in which the characters of Evil Dead the Musical reside.
In 1983, Sally Ride, or as proclaimed in the play, “She should be called Dr.
It has everything you want in a show: Laughter, tears, bizarre stories, memorable characters, and even a dog on the loose.
An empty stage is all the stands before us, at its center a girl on the floor in a daydream, or just merely sleeping.
Anita Kollinger is a standout in a powerful show that features some interesting and questionable interpretations from director Gabe Flores.
Our central characters Ileen and Jaclyn work togther a meer desk apart in a small and conservative Medical Office in Chicago.
One of the finest community theatre shows I've ever seen.
If you are a theatre teacher, past or present, or a student who takes theatre in middle school or high school, then you need to hurry to the Tampa Fringe to watch this show.
When playwright Michael Proft was introduced to the back story behind this gripping tell-all piece, he learned of a documentary entitled 'Worst Places in the World to be Gay.
It's a cabaret, with songs both bouncy and torchy, but it’s more than that.
Despite being severely edited, the play features a marvelous cast in what is perhaps the Bard's most beloved work.
It's one hell of a moving, thrilling, never-want-it-to-end evening of theatre!
A talented young cast, led by the incredible Lindsey Fabian, brings this SPELLING BEE to life!
“She wanted them the way she needed the earth and the flowers and the sky and the sea from her tower room and food and sleep and warmth and light and nights by the fire and poetry and the stories of going out in the world and almost being destroyed by it and returning to find comfort and the real
“WHAT BECOMES OF A CHILD THAT STARVED FOR AFFECTION?” -M.
The acting is all over the place, hit and miss, in this production of an American classic.
Based on a notoriously deranged German children's book, it's a theatrical marvel.
Like the classic movies and tv shows of yesteryear, every once in awhile something comes along that takes you down memory lane and allows you for even just a fleeting moment to live outside of your present tense.
Every so often we in the Theatre-going community find a show or two that “makes its rounds” so to speak within the area.
Familiar faces, familiar characters, and a familiar red dog house with a delightful white beagle and a fleeting yellow bird make up the musical sequel to the ever so popular You’re a Good Man Charley Brown.
Jobsite the Independent In-Resident Theatre Company of the Straz Center as by annual tradition brought Shakespeare to Tampa Bay once again with the first of Shakespeare’s History offerings to be staged locally.
Much like the films of Gregg Araki’s career that defined the movement of New Queer Cinema, a new-ish Theatre Company plans to make its mark on the local theatre scene.
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Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts (7/09-7/26) |
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Schoolhouse Rock Live! Carrollwood Cultural Center (7/17-7/26) |
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Trouble Man - A tribute To Marvin Gaye New Tampa Performing Arts Center (7/12-7/12) |
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Predictor Powerstories Theatre @Stageworks Theatre (7/17-7/26) |
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Rush at Hard Rock Live Hard Rock Live (11/05-11/06) |
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Goo Goo Dolls at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre (8/24-8/24) |
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Jonathan Van Ness: Hot & Healed Comedy Tour 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Event Center (11/19-11/19) |
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O.A.R. at St Augustine Amphitheatre St Augustine Amphitheatre (11/14-11/14) |
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A Night With Janis Joplin American Stage Theatre Company (9/16-10/11) |
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The Music of Duke Ellington and Count Basie Carrollwood Cultural Center (8/08-8/08) |
