The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Tampa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seven Performers enter, a Pianist is introduced.
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
What happens when you combine six guys who look like every-day average men, close to over 40+ years of dance training and performance, two incredible musicians, and a whole lot of moving parts and set pieces? That is the experience and feelings the audience embraced Friday night as TapDogs took Mors
'Strikingly beautiful,' 'ghost-like,' are just two adjectives that make up the mood in which Agatha Christie's Mousetrap, leaves on it's audiences which can witness this 'who-dunnit' now on-stage at Stageworks Theatre in the heart of downtown Tampa.
After a 14 year hiatus the bad boys of Shakespeare took to the stage and command the stage they did.
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Bat Boy: The Musical Carrollwood Cultural Center (10/16-10/25) |
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A Madrigal Dinner Carrollwood Cultural Center (12/11-12/13) |
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Load Bearing Walls The Off-Central (3/25-4/04) |
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Dancing Lessons The Off-Central (2/18-2/28) |
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A Steady Rain TheatreFor (11/06-11/22) |
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The Hobbit Jobsite Theater (7/14-8/08) |
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Shrek the Musical American Stage Theatre Company (3/31-5/02) |
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Hate Mail The Off-Central (1/14-1/24) |
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Tampa Metropolitan Improv (TMI) Carrollwood Cultural Center (10/30-10/30) |
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Job The Fringe Theatre (4/29-5/16) |
