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Almost exactly two years since Dear Evan Hansen first stepped onto the Straz Center stage and into our hearts, the show that has left a mark on everyone that has seen it, or heard the soundtrack is back under the lights of Carol Morsani Hall.
The year 1985, the setting Fair Verona where we lay our scene.
Over the past several years, one thing is for certain Broadway audiences and Regional audiences alike come out in droves to witness, experience, dance, and sing along with well known songs that have defined music across many generations.
A stellar cast led by Ned Averill-Snell and Jim Wicker bring Reginald Rose's iconic drama to life.
These are the things that helped get us through a tough year.
Although edited heavily for brevity, it's like a giant kaleidoscopic jigsaw puzzle that comes to life before our eyes.
Certainly the most powerful show I've seen at the Carrollwood Players.
A top-notch cast brings Simon's words to life!
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.
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Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B American Stage Theatre Company (1/27-2/21) |
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Dancing Lessons The Off-Central (2/18-2/28) |
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Come From Away Eight O'Clock Theatre (9/04-9/13) |
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Wicked Straz Center [Carol Morsani Hall] (2/03-2/28) |
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O.A.R. at St Augustine Amphitheatre St Augustine Amphitheatre (11/14-11/14) |
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Raising Twelve on a Nickel and a Prayer Hillsborough College Theatre (12/16-12/20) |
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Mandy Keen: MAGGIE The Commodore (9/19-9/19) |
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Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike The Off-Central (9/10-9/20) |
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The Wash Powerstories Theatre And The Studio (10/01-10/11) |
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Jonathan Van Ness: Hot & Healed Comedy Tour 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Event Center (11/19-11/19) |
