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It takes you on a fast-moving elevator ride from the party-hardy highs of the Eighties club scene to the crash-landing lows of the morning after.

Tampa Shakespeare Festival will be launching their inaugural season on Thursday, March 5th at Waterworks Park in downtown Tampa with William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet playing in repertory on alternating nights.

The team behind freeFall's smash hit SPRING AWAKENING re-unite to present Paul Scott Goodman's musicalization of Jay McInerney's classic novel of the youth and excess of 1980's New York.

Pulitzer Prize- and Greenfield Prize-winner Nilo Cruz's exquisite new play Sotto Voce opens Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 8pm in the Historic Asolo Theater and runs through Sunday, April 26, with previews on Tuesday, March 31 at 7:30pm and Wednesday, April 1 at 8pm.

Jobsite Theater is proud to offer the southeastern United States premiere of Sharr White's hilarious and heartfelt meditation on love and loss, Annapurna, which plays April 29 - May 24, 2015, in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Straz Center where Jobsite is resident theater company.

Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis arrives in Sarasota next Tuesday to present an exclusive week-long workshop for the 2016 class of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.

If you want to have a few laughs with a story that takes a contemporary look at dating in 2015, "FIRST DATE" is the new little musical for you!

The Rev.

Despite some flaws, this is a riveting production with immersion staging that puts us right there in the jury room.

All aboard for this saucy and splendid production of Anything Goes, winner of three 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival and Choreography! at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Monday, March 16, 2015 at 8pm.

Get ready for the Sarasota premiere of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on: March 11 at 8pm, March 12 at 2pm & 8pm, March 13 at 8pm, March 14 at 2pm & 8pm, and March 15 at 1.

The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in this all new production of the musical phenomenon, Jekyll & Hyde, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 2pm and 8pm.

The Manatee Players' production of the drama AGNES OF GOD by John Pielmeier opens in the intimate Bradenton Kiwanis Theater at the Manatee Performing Arts Center tonight, February 19 and plays through Sunday March 8.

National Radio Hall of Fame inductee and host of Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor will return to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall tonight, February 19 at 8pm.

The Manatee Players' production of the drama AGNES OF GOD by John Pielmeier opens in the intimate Bradenton Kiwanis Theater at the Manatee Performing Arts Center on Thursday February 19 and plays through Sunday March 8.

FST pays tribute to America's original entertainment in its third Cabaret show, Never Marry A Girl With Cold Feet: and other life lessons from Vaudeville.

The team behind freeFall's smash hit SPRING AWAKENING re-unite to present Paul Scott Goodman's musicalization of Jay McInerney's classic novel of the youth and excess of 1980's New York.

Audiences and critics agree with this statement.

Asolo Rep's 2015 gala will transport guests to the glamorous Copa Room at The Sands Hotel, a legendary Las Vegas nightclub where stars such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.

The production is of such high quality that oftentimes we forget that MAD is a community theatre.

Nick Drivas, a senior at Manatee School for the Arts, will join Grammy-nominated vocalist, Michael Feinstein, in a performance at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall tonight, February 14.

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Asolo Repertory Theatre received the 2015 WEDU Be More Brilliant Award during the special 10th anniversary ceremony held on Thursday, February 12, 2015 in Tampa.

The Players Theatre of Sarasota's production of VIOLET opens tonight, February 12, 2015.

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, the five-time Tony Award-winning musical, will play the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall tonight, February 12 at 8pm.