TAMPA THEATER REVIEWS

Yes, it features perhaps the greatest song in musical theatre history, but does Don Quixote's quest here lack zest?...

In 1987, the sleazy Sunset Strip is hopping and Dupree's Bourbon Room, a hair band bar owned by Dennis (Ryan M. Hunt) is the place to be for Sherrie (Katie LaMark) a Midwestern, hopeful actress who just came to town to find a job and love in a Rockstar-wannabe named Drew (Anthony Nuccio). In Rock of...

Seldom does a reviewer get to see 'behind the curtain,' the director's enthusiastic vision of the set carefully sketched in a notepad long before it becomes an actual intricate tiered wooden platform or the director painstakingly folding pieces of paper together that would eventually be black lit p...

Janis Stevens gives the performance of the year in a show that you won't be able to shake for a long time....

It's crazily creative, winding up like Disney's 'It's a Small World' ride on methamphetamine....

Unless you were a very young child protected from the brutal images on the TV screen, most can remember where they were on September 11, 2001 when our country became acutely aware of how airplanes under terrorist control were leveraged as deadly history-creating bombs. Now imagine if you were a pas...

Congratulations to Palm Harbor University High School's Chris Loving and Shorecrest's Senna Prasatthong-osath for their Best Actor and Best Actress win!...

This re-imagining of Chekhov's 'The Seagull' is super-smart and boasts a dynamite cast....

A high flying, high kicking romp of a good time comes full steam ahead back to the Straz Center in Tampa for three days only from May 17-19, 2019. A true story set in North Hampton England just a stones throw from London centers its story around the plight of a burgeoning entrepreneur whom was just...

In this one-man tour de force, Crawford plays a variety of roles brilliantly, including that of Barbra Streisand....

You won't find a better production of this masterpiece, now celebrating its 40th anniversary....

It showcases the strength of silence and slowness with an ending that won't be forgotten....

It's like 'Sesame Street' meets 'Rent,' with more than a dash of 'Book of Mormon' humor thrown in for good measure....

Is SHE LOVES ME the perfect musical?...

In a train depot beautifully created and dressed by Chelsie Camaro Smith and props by Shirley Overton, not a detail is missed - from the ornate corners on the ticket booth to the weathered wood and grey concrete interior to the vintage magazines, telephones and stored luggage. Heather Cleveland's co...

Nick Hoop and especially Kylie Heymer are worth the price of admission!...

Conversations in Bed at Powerstories Theatre was like taking a tape recorder to the audience, me included and writing down the serious, heartfelt and other times furious and ridiculous conversations we've had with our significant others before putting our heads on the pillow. Oohs, ahhs, and groans ...

Makenna Kirsch as the Leading Player and Jacob Atkins as Pippin lead an outstanding production....

It's a razzling, dazzling experience!...

It's technically so strong that sometimes you forget it's a high school musical that you're watching!...

The setting strikes a chord with the audience upon entering the space. Hardwood floors, a simple flat set to the backdrop of the Brooklyn Skyline. The time is the 1950's the season, fall. Five actors/actresses tell the plight of this family in a struggling neighborhood in Brooklyn, and the events t...

Seven Performers enter, a Pianist is introduced. Set to the backdrop of the history of the Great White Way from past to present, and set to a gut punching-hilarious score based off of one of the greatest musicals to date Spamilton took off full speed ahead. From hilarious lyrics devised by the grea...

Peppered with infectious Abba songs, it's like bubblegum for the soul....

Director David O'Hara has mounted one gorgeous-looking musical....

Is an assumption not corrected, an invention born out of best intentions, a fabrication of truth that gives solace to a grieving family, still wrong? What if the lie unintentionally metamorphosizes into a voice for the silent, hope for the hopeless, a place where the invisible feel seen? On Tu...