TAMPA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 61

Makenna Kirsch as the Leading Player and Jacob Atkins as Pippin lead an outstanding production.

When vocalist Rob Evan and conductor Randall Craig Fleisher got the idea to artistically fuse classical compositions with iconic rock and roll, do you think they ever imagined that their brainchild Rocktopia would be a beloved international music sensation 8 short years later? Direct from its smas

Veterans of Broadway, Jana Robbins and Haley Swindal bring We Just Move On-The Songs of Kander and Ebb to Straz Center for the Performing Arts on May 19.

It's a razzling, dazzling experience!

Gratitude finds the strangest expressions in local playwright Marie-Claude Tremblay's ribald new comedy, Thank You Notes, whose Innovocative Theatre production hits the 2019 Tampa International Fringe Festival May 4 through 11 at Hillsborough Community College's Ybor Campus Studio Theatre.

It's technically so strong that sometimes you forget it's a high school musical that you're watching!

Our next production is Like Buttah! Don't miss Buyer & Cellar starring Chris Crawford (Carbonell & Theatre Tampa Bay Award Winner) opening May 11.

Combine the whimsical world of Dr.

Jobsite Theater has broken all-time sales records with three of the first four plays in their 20th Anniversary Season, ensuring that this will be their best season to date in every category.

Directors and Casting is set for the two PlayGround Festival premieres, A HISTORY OF FREAKS by Katie May, May 13-June 15  (Press /Opening: May 15 at 8pm), helmed by circus arts performer and director Doyle Ott and ANNA CONSIDERS MARS by Ruben Grijalva,  May 20-June 16 (Press /Opening: May 22 at 8p

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

If you enjoyed the 2008 and 2018 MAMMA MIA! movies, you are going to love the original musical from which the Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried-vehicle came.

As its first production as part of the award-winning Penguin Project, with a huge cast of 68 members, New Tampa Players will bring Aladdin Jr.

Tour-de-force performer Storm Large is happy to say there is nothing quote, unquote normal about her interactive, bawdy storytelling concert.

Ever wonder if the Catholic nuns really make you put gum on your nose if you're caught chewing in class? On April 5-7, Mary Zentmyer will provide all those answers and so much more when "Late Nite Catechism" returns to Straz Center for the Performing Arts.

Creative Loafing's Tampa Bay Restaurant Week is back for its 12th year from Thurs.

Now entering its 28th year, Broadway Theatre Project (BTP), a program described by Playbill as "The world's most prestigious musical theatre arts education program for high school and college students", announces internationally-known Voice Coaches Peisha McPhee and Michael Orland will return to

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

West Coast Players will present The Gin Game by D.

'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.

This Tampa Bay professional theatre premiere is now playing through April 14.