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Student Blog: Post-Grad Limbo

Student Blog: Post-Grad Limbo

by Student Blogger: Aubrey Donovan — May 22, 2023
My first year of college is over and for some reason, nothing seems to have changed.
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Straz Center

Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Straz Center

by Deborah Bostock-Kelley — May 19, 2023
What did our critic think of JAFrom the outside looking in, the Healeys are seemingly the Gold Standard flawless upper-middle-class family living in the Connecticut suburbs.
Previews: OUR SOLE PURPOSE TAP SHOWCASE at Straz Center

Previews: OUR SOLE PURPOSE TAP SHOWCASE at Straz Center

by Deborah Bostock-Kelley — May 18, 2023
OUR SOLE PURPOSE is the invention of twenty-six-year-old Ashlyn, a prolific tap dancer, owner of Tampa Bay Taps for six years, and an instructor at Straz' Patel Conservatory.
Review: ALANIS MORISSETTE'S JAGGED LITTLE PILL Will Leave You Breathless At Straz Cen

Review: ALANIS MORISSETTE'S JAGGED LITTLE PILL Will Leave You Breathless At Straz Center

by Drew Eberhard — May 17, 2023
Jagged Little Pill, is the latest “Jukebox Musical,” in a rather long line of “Jukebox Musicals,” to make it on Broadway and then tour in recent years.
Previews: Broadway Star of The Future Awards Showcase at Straz Center

Previews: Broadway Star of The Future Awards Showcase at Straz Center

by Deborah Bostock-Kelley — May 17, 2023
Fashioned after the Tony Awards,® The Broadway Star of the Future Awards Showcase is the Tampa Bay area's regional awards program affiliated with the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (NHSMTA) or the Jimmy® Awards, named in honor of James M.
Previews: Bipoc Play Reading Series to Feature LeAnne Howe at Straz' Teco Theatre

Previews: Bipoc Play Reading Series to Feature LeAnne Howe at Straz' Teco Theatre

by Deborah Bostock-Kelley — May 17, 2023
In Savage Conversations, the President's largest mass execution of thirty-eight Dakota nightly haunts the First Lady.
Review: David Mamet's REVENGE OF THE SPACE PANDAS OR BINKY RUDICH AND THE TWO SPEED C

Review: David Mamet's REVENGE OF THE SPACE PANDAS OR BINKY RUDICH AND THE TWO SPEED CLOCK at Off-Central Players

by Drew Eberhard — May 15, 2023
Mamet’s full-length comedy penned to appeal to young audiences premiered in 1978 at the Town Hall Performing Arts Center in Flushing, Queens a borough of New York City.
Review: A BOLD AND TWISTED TAKE ON THE LEWIS CARROLL CLASSIC, ALICE GETS THE JOBSITE

Review: A BOLD AND TWISTED TAKE ON THE LEWIS CARROLL CLASSIC, ALICE GETS THE JOBSITE TREATMENT at JOBSITE THEATER

by Drew Eberhard — May 15, 2023
If its the weird and somewhat twisted that you seek.
Student Blog: 20/23

Student Blog: 20/23

by Student Blogger: Aubrey Donovan — May 15, 2023
But twenty is just a number… a larger, older number.
FreeFall Theatre Reveals 2023/2024 Season

FreeFall Theatre Reveals 2023/2024 Season

by BWW News Desk — May 15, 2023
Subscriptions and single tickets are now on sale for freeFall's 2023/2024 season.
Review: SINGLE WIDE SAVIOR at the TAMPA FRINGE FESTIVAL

Review: SINGLE WIDE SAVIOR at the TAMPA FRINGE FESTIVAL

by Peter Nason — May 14, 2023
A mostly improvised affair, it does the soul good, no matter what your religious leanings.
Review: JON BENNETT: AMERICAN'T Is a Triumph at the TAMPA FRINGE FESTIVAL

Review: JON BENNETT: AMERICAN'T Is a Triumph at the TAMPA FRINGE FESTIVAL

by Peter Nason — May 13, 2023
The Aussie comedian packs quite a punch with his latest!
Review: Jem Rolls' MAXIMUM CRUSOE at the 7th Annual TAMPA FRINGE FESTIVAL

Review: Jem Rolls' MAXIMUM CRUSOE at the 7th Annual TAMPA FRINGE FESTIVAL

by Peter Nason — May 13, 2023
Maximum entertainment in the hands of a master storyteller.
The Off-Central Players Close Spring Season With THE REVENGE OF THE SPACE PANDAS OR B

The Off-Central Players Close Spring Season With THE REVENGE OF THE SPACE PANDAS OR BINKY RUDICH AND THE TWO-SPEED CLOCK

by BWW News Desk — May 11, 2023
That's right, coming from the guy who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Off-Central Players present David Mamet's The Revenge of the Space Pandas or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock.
David Foley, Jr. to Lead World Premiere Musical OZ at FreeFall Theatre Company

David Foley, Jr. to Lead World Premiere Musical OZ at FreeFall Theatre Company

by BWW News Desk — May 10, 2023
Preempted from freeFall’s 19/20 season, the world-premiere musical OZ by freeFall’s artistic director Eric Davis and resident music director Michael Raabe finally takes its turn.
Review: Pam Harbaugh's Delightful, Award-Winning CASSEROLE at the Early Bird Dinner T

Review: Pam Harbaugh's Delightful, Award-Winning CASSEROLE at the Early Bird Dinner Theatre

by Peter Nason — May 9, 2023
I wish more people in the world were like Claire Wilson.
Review: GYPSY at Carrollwood Cultural Center

Review: GYPSY at Carrollwood Cultural Center

by Deborah Bostock-Kelley — May 8, 2023
Though Sunday was the closing show of Gypsy at Carrollwood Cultural Center, the talent on that stage will live on indefinitely.
Review: THE DEVIL'S STAIRCASE at Carrollwood Players

Review: THE DEVIL'S STAIRCASE at Carrollwood Players

by Deborah Bostock-Kelley — May 8, 2023
A CWP Black Box Production at Carrollwood Players, The Devil’s Staircase, written and directed by Gabriel Flores, had its world debut on Friday night and runs through May 13.
Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS at Straz Center For Th

Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS at Straz Center For The Performing Arts

by Drew Eberhard — May 3, 2023
Ain’t Too Proud is a 2018 Jukebox Musical with original music and lyrics by the Temptations and a book written by Dominique Morisseau.
LAB Theatre Project Presents FIRE THIEF

LAB Theatre Project Presents FIRE THIEF

by BWW News Desk — May 2, 2023
The LAB Theater Project will present Fire Thief by Laura Hirshberg.
ThinkTank Teams up with freeFall and Stageworks for their Both Sides of the Bay Cabar

ThinkTank Teams up with freeFall and Stageworks for their Both Sides of the Bay Cabaret Series

by BWW News Desk — May 2, 2023
ThinkTank Theatre is teaming up with freeFall and Stageworks Theatres for their May Cabaret Series appropriately named ‘Both Sides of the Bay Cabaret’.
Review: With River Ridge High School's Talented Royal Knight Stage Company's Producti

Review: With River Ridge High School's Talented Royal Knight Stage Company's Production, MEAN GIRLS Is So Fetch!

by Peter Nason — May 1, 2023
The musical may have many flaws, but this is one stellar production of it featuring so many fabulously talented teens.
Interview: Margaret Cho of LIVE AND LIVED at Straz Center

Interview: Margaret Cho of LIVE AND LIVED at Straz Center

by Deborah Bostock-Kelley — May 1, 2023
Broadway World spoke with Cho about many things, including being a trailblazer in comedy, paving the path for LGBTQIA and Asian-American comedians and actors, the travel advisory to avoid Florida, and why you should really try Fusion Pasta.
Student Blog: Giving Iowa (A Second) Try… Let's Not Give It A Third

Student Blog: Giving Iowa (A Second) Try… Let's Not Give It A Third

by Student Blogger: Aubrey Donovan — May 1, 2023
The title of this blog embodies how I felt after I exited the theater of my high school’s spring musical.

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