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BWW Review: OPEN BY CRYSTAL SKILLMAN CAST A MAGICAL SPELL at TAMPARep
An empty stage is all the stands before us, at its center a girl on the floor in a daydream, or just merely sleeping. After a few brief moments of staring at her like we’ve just seen an accident that we cannot turn away from; the lights dim and she awakens. “I am here, your Magician.” A few mo...
BWW Review: Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! Come to the CABARET at the Carrollwood Players!
Anita Kollinger is a standout in a powerful show that features some interesting and questionable interpretations from director Gabe Flores....
BWW Review: RASHEEDA SPEAKING IS A POWERFUL, ANXIETY DRIVEN RESTROSPECTIVE at OFF-CENTRAL PLAYERS
Our central characters Ileen and Jaclyn work togther a meer desk apart in a small and conservative Medical Office in Chicago. As the story opens we find out that Ileen has recently been made office manager by Dr. Williams, and over coffee and sweet rolls they discuss the days upcomings. By a watch u...
BWW Review: Eight O'Clock Theatre Presents ONCE, a Musical So Good That You May Have to See It Twice
One of the finest community theatre shows I've ever seen....
BWW Review: Bridget Bean's Marvelous One-Woman Show, MRS. BLISS'S TITANIC ADVENTURE, Is a Must-See at the Tampa Fringe
Written and performed by Ms. Bean, it’s hilarious at times, appropriately heartbreaking at others....
BWW Review: Think Tank Theatre Presents the Teen-Created CAN(T) RELATE at the Tampa Fringe
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....
BWW Review: DIONYSUS ON THE DOWN LOW at Outcast Theatre Collective
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.'...
BWW Review: Turkey Creek Collective Presents the Local Premiere of the Odd and Moving (I AM) NOBODY'S LUNCH
It's a cabaret, with songs both bouncy and torchy, but it’s more than that. It’s like a quirky collage, a found object performance piece. And there's nothing else quite like it....
BWW Review: William Shakespeare's Delightful A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at the Carrollwood Players
Despite being severely edited, the play features a marvelous cast in what is perhaps the Bard's most beloved work....
BWW Review: Director Scott Cooper Guides Another Winner with SPC Theater Department's Production of THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND: THE MUSIC OF KANDER & EBB
It's one hell of a moving, thrilling, never-want-it-to-end evening of theatre!...
BWW Review: Don't Miss THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Presented by the Marcia P. Hoffman School of the Arts at Ruth Eckerd Hall
A talented young cast, led by the incredible Lindsey Fabian, brings this SPELLING BEE to life!...
BWW Review: A Technically Beautiful Menagerie of Warped Perspective in THE ROSE AND THE BEAST at FreeFall Theatre
“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 ...
BWW Review: SHOCKHEADED PETER MARVELS IN THE STRANGE AND WEIRD WITH JOBSITE THEATER at Straz Center For Performing Arts
“WHAT BECOMES OF A CHILD THAT STARVED FOR AFFECTION?”
-M.C. IN SHOCKHEADED PETER
“YOU’VE GOT TO BE CRUEL TO BE KIND, IN THE RIGHT MEASURE. CRUEL TO BE KIND, IT’S A VERY GOOD SIGN....”
-NICK LOWE FROM “JESUS OF COOL” ALBUM (1978).
Once every so often audien...
BWW Review: Vivid Theatre Productions Presents Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS at the JCC
The acting is all over the place, hit and miss, in this production of an American classic....
BWW Review: You've Never Seen Anything Like Jobsite Theater's SHOCKHEADED PETER
Based on a notoriously deranged German children's book, it's a theatrical marvel...but will audiences get it?...
BWW Review: A SOBERING BUT JOYOUS EVERY BRILLIANT THING BRINGS TO LIGHT REVELATIONS DEEPLY ROOTED IN HARD LESSONS at TAMPAREP
“Things get better. They may not always get brilliant, but they get better.”
-Narrator, Every Brilliant Thing
In its first Live-Audience mounting since the novel-Coronavirus Pandemic shut down the world as we know it, TampaRep has chosen a marvel of a production. In doing so invited a...
BWW Review: Pastelitos, Family Values, and Tough Lessons Delivered in Abundance With THE LADY FROM HAVANA at Stageworks Theatre
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. Like a warm blanket just out of the dryer the memories envelop themselves around you an...
BWW Review: GODSPELL is a Timeless Tale With Unique Staging, and Full of Music to Set Your Soul on Fire at Eight O'Clock Theatre
Every so often we in the Theatre-going community find a show or two that “makes its rounds” so to speak within the area. Godspell happens to be one of those shows. Having been done numerous times, a show that could be considered timeless, can also pose the question, “how are they going to make...
BWW Review: SNOOPY: THE MUSICAL is a Delightful Trip Down Memory Lane With an Extremely Talented Cast at ThinkTankYAE
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. This time the tables are turned on Charley Brown and the gang and we hear the story of Snoo...
BWW Review: Jobsite Theater Conquers Shakespeare's Dive Unto The Breach With A Modern Telling Of HENRY V at Straz Center
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. For me, Jobsite is the “Cream of the Crop” when it comes to presenting Shakespeare�...
BWW Review: A Bold, Temerarious Take on Live Theatre Makes THE VELOCITY OF GARY (NOT HIS REAL NAME) a ''Must See' at Off Kilter Theate
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. No stranger to the stage and consequently the director’s chair Local area performer/Director Derek Baxter introduces his brand o...
BWW Review: AMERICAN SON at Stageworks Theatre is a Striking Parallel to Our Current Timeline Wrapped in a Complex Narrative
As the lights descend on the stage set on the inside of the Coral Gables Police precinct, not a sound is heard. With bated breath, I and the sold-out opening night audience awaited what was to be on display in a matter of seconds. At rising we see Kendra a woman alone in the police station, only the...
BWW Review: Andresia Moseley Gives Phenomenal Multi-Character Performance in TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES 1992 at Jobsite Theater
Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992 is an unflinching look at race relations from the voices of the people that were there, whether in the heart of it or bystanders portrayed by one woman: Andresia Moseley....
BWW Review: ROBERT ASKINS' HAND TO GOD-BOLDLY GOES WHERE YOUR CHILDRENS' PUPPET SHOW NEVER SHOULD GO at JOBSITE THEATER
ED WARREN: “The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges on which we decide to follow.”- from the 2013 film, THE CONJURING
While preparing to see the irreverent and shockingly funny Hand to God, I did not know what to expect. I did however know going in that th...
BWW Review: Jobsite Theater and the Straz Presents Robert Askins' HAND TO GOD - Puppet Sex, Demonic Possession & One Hell of a Cast
I swear, my hand to God, that you’ve never seen anything quite like it....
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Tampa Metropolitan Improv On May 29, 2026 Carrollwood Cultural Center (5/29-5/29) |
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The Gods of Comedy Carrollwood Players Theatre (8/14-8/30) |
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