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BWW Review: The Highs and Lows of the 2019 Short Play Competition at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival
Out of 18 entries, Jim Moss' THE COW SAYS, Brick Brickel's FOR THE LOVE OF MARY, and Deb Bostock-Kelley's ONCE UPON UHHH.
BWW Review: Children Lead Innovocative Theatre's THE HUNDRED DRESSES at Stageworks - A Play That Tackles Bullying and the Dangers of Inaction
Although set in 1938, it's still so sadly relevant today.
BWW Review: Swim on out to The New Tampa Players' THE LITTLE MERMAID at the University Area CDC
Patty Smithey is marvelous as Ariel, but the show belongs to the amazing Janelle Richardson as Ursula.
BWW Review: POWERHOUSE VOCALISTS WERE ON STAGE IN VIVID THEATRE PRODUCTIONS' BROADWAY MISCAST at Powerstories Theatre
Broken into two acts with a 15 minute intermission in between, in the first hour, to open each song, the singer told a story of what it meant to them.
BWW Review: freeFall Theatre's Inventive Treatment of Stephen Schwartz's PIPPIN - They've Got Magic To Do
It has a little bit of everything.
BWW Review: An Intimate, Devastating FUN HOME at American Stage
Don't miss this stellar production, beautifully directed with incredible performances, that left me speechless.
BWW Review: The Marcia P. Hoffman School of the Arts Summer Camp Presents Stephen Sondheim's Hilarious A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Ruth Eckerd Hall
When it comes to Tony Award snubbing, there are several artistic high crimes and misdemeanors.
BWW Review: Kudos to the Wilde Theatre Company and Their Production of Frank Wildhorn's JEKYLL & HYDE: THE MUSICAL
A new professional theatre company is officially born in the Tampa Bay Area!
BWW Review: CONSTELLATIONS: AN OUT OF THIS WORLD SUCKER PUNCH TO THE HEART at Jobsite Theater
Not very often does a piece of theatre come along that is truly cathartic, visceral and downright unnerving, but humbling as well.
BWW Review: Eight O'Clock Theatre Puts on the Ritz with Mel Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
It's a marvelous production of a so-so musical.
BWW Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER A Beloved Story Turned On Its Head At Aeon Life Theater At Aeon Life Theater
We all know the beloved classic story written by J.
BWW Review: THE LIGHTNING THIEF:THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL Soars Into Tampa at Straz Center
How does a book so grounded in popularity in Young-Adult fiction, that was then translated to a 2 film series, transition its magical storytelling to the stage? These and more are the questions I asked myself upon entering Morsani Hall Tuesday evening for the opening of The Lightning Thief: The Perc
BWW Review: NEWSIES at The Straz Center
Everyone knows the story, and or has seen the classic film starring a young Christian Bale.
BWW Review: Kylie Arseneau Was Born to Play Millie in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE at the River Ridge Center for the Arts
This is one fast and furiously entertaining show!
BWW Review: HUMOR AND HEART - THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS RETURNS to Straz Center For The Performing Arts
Like the shopkeeper who helps Mom introduce a reluctant teenaged Dee and her best friend Mandy to a special article of clothing affectionately dubbed LBD, the original musical playing at the Straz Center's Jaeb Theatre, Little Black Dress is FABULOUS.
BWW Review: Stephen Schwartz's PIPPIN Comes to Life in St. Petersburg College Theater Department's Crazily Creative, Exuberant Production
Students from ten high schools and six colleges have come together to create an extraordinary, stunning summertime show.
BWW Review: TOTA Music & Theatre Conservatory's Magical Production of Roald Dahl's MATILDA: THE MUSICAL
An astounding nine-year-old Berlin Head leads a cast of amazingly talented kids.
BWW Review: A Big Bright Beautiful SHREK: THE MUSICAL at the Show Palace Dinner Theatre
A perfect remedy for the summertime blahs.
BWW Review: NYNE'S CABARET A DAZZLING, CAUTIONARY TALE at Portico
I was a blank page and opening night, the NYNE cast of Cabaret left permanent marks all over me.
BWW Review: Mad Theatre of Tampa's Production of MAN OF LA MANCHA at the Shimberg Playhouse
Yes, it features perhaps the greatest song in musical theatre history, but does Don Quixote's quest here lack zest?
BWW Review: ROCK OF AGES 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR TOTALLY ROCKS at Straz Center For The Performing Arts
In 1987, the sleazy Sunset Strip is hopping and Dupree's Bourbon Room, a hair band bar owned by Dennis (Ryan M.
BWW Review: THE JUNGLE BOOK, A MUSICAL IS ENTERTAINING, IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE at Carrollwood Players Theatre
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
BWW Review: Eugene O'Neill's Penetrating, Heartbreaking LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at American Stage - Is It The Greatest American Play Ever Written?
Janis Stevens gives the performance of the year in a show that you won't be able to shake for a long time.
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Shrek the Musical American Stage Theatre Company (3/31-5/02) |
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Wicked Straz Center [Carol Morsani Hall] (2/03-2/28) |
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Big Fish Eight O'Clock Theatre (4/30-5/09) |
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Damn Yankees Eight O'Clock Theatre (2/26-3/07) |
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Cinderella Eight O'Clock Theatre (11/06-11/15) |
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Spring Awakening MAD Theatre of Tampa (10/09-10/18) |
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A Night With Janis Joplin American Stage Theatre Company (9/16-10/11) |
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Meteor Shower American Stage Theatre Company (11/04-11/22) |
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Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike The Off-Central (9/10-9/20) |
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Come From Away Eight O'Clock Theatre (9/04-9/13) |