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BWW Review: CONVERSATIONS IN BED IS COMPLETELY RELATABLE at Powerstories Theatre
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 ...
BWW Review: Alonso High School Theatre Department's Magical, Extraordinary Production of Stephen Schwartz's PIPPIN
Makenna Kirsch as the Leading Player and Jacob Atkins as Pippin lead an outstanding production....
BWW Review: Taylor Tarver Is Off The Charts Fantastic in Steinbrenner High School Theatre Department's Wonderful Production of Kander & Ebb's CHICAGO
It's a razzling, dazzling experience!...
BWW Review: Thomas Rowell Steals the Show in A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School
It's technically so strong that sometimes you forget it's a high school musical that you're watching!...
BWW Review: RACISM, THE 1950'S,AND STRONG LIFE LESSONS ARE THE ROOT OF LYNNE NOTTAGE'S POWERFUL CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY. at FreeFall Theatre
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...
BWW Review: SPAMILTON at Straz Center For The Performing Arts
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...
BWW Review: Party Like It's 1999 with American Stage in the Park's Joyous MAMMA MIA
Peppered with infectious Abba songs, it's like bubblegum for the soul....
BWW Review: River Ridge's Royal Knight Stage Company's Production of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Is an Audience Favorite
Director David O'Hara has mounted one gorgeous-looking musical....
BWW Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at The Straz Center For The Performing Arts
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...
BWW Review: Show-Stopping, Explosive Tap Numbers, And The Feeling Of Having A Beer With Friends Make Up TAPDOGS at Straz Center For The Performing Arts
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...
BWW Review: A Masterful Game Of Cat & Mouse In AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MOUSETRAP at Stageworks Theatre
'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. At least that was the first and lasting impression...
BWW Review: #JOBSITEROCKSTHEBARD with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (Revised) at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, FL
After a 14 year hiatus the bad boys of Shakespeare took to the stage and command the stage they did. For the next 90ish minutes the audience was thrust into a world of side-splitting head over heels laughter. Jobsite's Artistic Director David Jenkins entered the space with a hilarious curtain speech...
BWW Review: Berkeley Preparatory School Wows Audiences with Their Production of Kander & Ebb's CHICAGO
Beautifully choreographed by Seth Travaglino and directed by Chris Marshall, this is one of the finest high school shows you'll see....
BWW Review: THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS a High-Energy, Fun Escape at Carrollwood Players Theatre
Like Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper radiating adoration and raw sexual chemistry, singing "Shallow" at the Oscars, as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd's hand roved up Miss Mona Stangley's lace stockings while they nuzzled on the couch, Angel Tuider Frale and Michael c De Baca scorched the stage at Carrollwood Pla...
BWW Review: Tickle Your Funny Bone With the Politically Incorrect Presidential Portrayal NOVEMBER at NYNE Productions
The President is an incompetent, corrupt, egocentric, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, avaricious, foul-mouthed, extortionist, buffoonish, equivocator a-hole…. And in three acts, it is absolute perfection to watch Steven Bucko's portrayal in NYNE's timely production of David Mamet's NOVEMBER....
BWW Review: Powerful Cast Moves Audiences With RAGTIME at Plant City Entertainment
A classic musical based on a novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow, with a stunning book by Terrance McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens is something of a poignant resonance that the audience of Friday evening's performance was to bear witness to. Leading the cast of a wh...
BWW Review: Emily Belvo & Jonelle Meyer Are Perfect in Hat Trick Theatre's Imperfect Production of Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE FEMALE VERSION
With Belvo and Meyer leading the way, this is as funny an ODD COUPLE as you will likely see....
BWW Review: Mad Theatre of Tampa's Edgy, Darkly Funny HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL at the Shimberg
It's sold out for its entire 13-show run; does it live up to the hype?...
BWW Review: HAMILTON Lives Up To The Hype The Straz Center For The Performing Arts
What more can be said about the juggernaut "Hamilton" that hasn't already been written? An ornate, elaborate leveled wooden backdrop and mobile staircases with minimal, simple set pieces and turntables floors showcased the exquisitely and insanely-talented lead actors and the equally-matched ensembl...
BWW Review: The Future Looks Bright with This Year's KIDSPEAK at the Carrollwood Players Black Box
A mime verbally announces his love. Two girls fall head over heels with the same boy during auditions for Romeo and Juliet. A senior has a last homework assignment...and it's a doozy. Dancers try to uncover a mystery of what has happened to their dance shoes and fluffy slime. A young man is incarcer...
BWW Review: Topher Payne's PERFECT ARRANGEMENT is freeFall Theatre's Finest Show in Years
It starts off like a very funny 1950's sit-com with a gay twist and ends as a devastating plea for respect and self-acceptance....
BWW Review: Time stands still in this passionate and evocative work “These Shining Lives” at Powerstories Theatre in Tampa, FL
A Blank stage is set to adorn a combination of a house on one side and what will soon become the work stations of the women in this production. On the projection behind the set were words written to strike a chord with incoming audience members, "If one woman were to tell the truth about her life, t...
BWW Review: The Tampa Bay Area Premiere of Dominique Morisseau's PIPELINE at American Stage - As Powerful as Theatre Gets
If you are a teacher or a parent, it will leave you battered, shattered, withered, at times elated and almost always looking at things in a new way....
BWW Review: THE MUSIC MAN at the Kennedy Center is a Sheer Delight
Norm Lewish, Jessie Muehller, and Rosie O'Connell star in a semi-staged production....
BWW Review: Experience Shakespeare on a Whole New Level with Shakespeare on the Stairs at Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Florida.
Set to a backdrop of great men and women throughout history, the audience is immersed in a brief moment of history while seated looking at a grand staircase as the focal point for the room. As a usual theatre endeavor guest were checked in at the door, and some made their way to the concession area....
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Wicked Straz Center [Carol Morsani Hall] (2/03-2/28) |
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St. Pete Country Fest – Friday Vinoy Park (11/20-11/20) |
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O.A.R. at St Augustine Amphitheatre St Augustine Amphitheatre (11/14-11/14) |
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Jonathan Van Ness: Hot & Healed Comedy Tour 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Event Center (11/19-11/19) |
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Schoolhouse Rock Live! Carrollwood Cultural Center (7/17-7/26) |
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