Upcoming Shows
What’s the buzz? The first musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to be produced for the professional stage, "Jesus Christ Superstar" has wowed...
What’s the buzz? The first musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to be produced for the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed...
Get ready for plenty of laughs and maybe even a few tears—hopefully from laughing so hard! The team from Tampa Metropolitan Improv (TMI) will use...
Near the end of the American Civil War, a French scientist and her company witness natural wonders beyond imagination while being held prisoners aboard the...
Near the end of the American Civil War, a French scientist and his company witness natural wonders beyond imagination while being held prisoners aboard the...
Get ready for plenty of laughs and maybe even a few tears—hopefully from laughing so hard! The team from Tampa Metropolitan Improv (TMI) will use...
M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and joining it are two unpredictable madcaps, Hawkeye and Duke. They can't be dealt with casually, however, because...
Come for a riotously good time, and perhaps even play along with us, as we perform short-form improv games using suggestions from you, the audience...
Get ready for plenty of laughs and maybe even a few tears—hopefully from laughing so hard! The team from Tampa Metropolitan Improv (TMI) will use...
A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage in Schoolhouse Rock Live! The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar,...
Around the world, robots are quickly replacing humans in tasks considered menial, such as assembly lines, domestic labor, and administrative work. A young woman journeys...
by Peter Nason - March 01, 2026
It's a fabulous journey led by a fine cast and the legendary theatre teacher and director, Sabrina Hydes....
by Drew Eberhard - February 14, 2026
&Juliet is a 2019 jukebox musical, featuring a book by David West Read and music by Max Martin, a Swedish Pop songwriter. On the surface, its story is fairly simple when laid out, but the adventures of its characters and how they traverse the narrative is whatreally get to the heart of the story....
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - February 11, 2026
Created by the Emmy®-winning writer from Schitt’s Creek, &Juliet at the Straz was a witty burst of female power, driven by knockout vocals. Anne’s challenge to Shakespeare to imagine a stronger woman set the whole story in motion. Though even with strong performances from the men, this show bel...
by Peter Nason - January 31, 2026
A high octane tour de force, brilliantly directed by Karla Hartley....
by Peter Nason - January 20, 2026
Does GUYS AND DOLLS belong in the conversation as the greatest musical written in the 20th Century? The answer may certainly be a big fat “YES,” but the competition is fierce; it must go head to head with the likes of West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Gypsy, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd and any of the...
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - January 18, 2026
This was a technicolor circus‑concert fever dream. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a circus, a rock concert, and a neon‑soaked art installation had a baby, the answer is simple: Blue Man Group. And let me tell you — it was amazing, bright, colorful, and unapologetically LOUD in ...
by Drew Eberhard - January 03, 2026
The year, 1967, the place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its central narrative came from the scrawlings of a 16-year-old named Susan Eloise Hinton, and the rest as we know it is solidified into literary history. History so much, that it has sparked a re-birth with a new generation and with the new stage adap...
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - December 28, 2025
STOMP at the Straz Center is a loud, brilliant, wildly inventive work of art, a thunderous, joyful explosion of rhythm and creativity that turned everyday objects into pure theatrical adrenaline....
Past Shows
An exploration of Baroque and Romantic music, highlighted by J.S. Bach’s ever-popular Italian Concerto, the performance will also feature works by Rameau, Scarlatti, Dvoák, and...
Get ready for plenty of laughs and maybe even a few tears—hopefully from laughing so hard! The team from Tampa Metropolitan Improv (TMI) will use...
Carrollwood Jukebox is a live big band playing some of the most popular hip-swivelin’, jump jivin’, swing dancin’, Latin lovin’, waltz and cha-cha steppin’, contemporary...
Get ready for plenty of laughs and maybe even a few tears—hopefully from laughing so hard! The team from Tampa Metropolitan Improv (TMI) will use...
Carrollwood Jukebox is a live big band playing some of the most popular hip-swivelin’, jump jivin’, swing dancin’, Latin lovin’, waltz and cha-cha steppin’, and...
At 3:15 am on November 13, 1974, Ronald “Butch” Defeo took a .35 caliber Marlin Rifle and murdered his entire family in cold blood. Adapted...
After an unidentified flying object crashes onto a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, ranch owner Ulysses T. Boone has his hands full trying...
EVERY BRILLIANT THINGBy Duncan Macmillan, with Jonny DonahoeA one-person show with Paul BergYou’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.”...
Join us as campers ages 11-13 enrolled in our 3-week Youth Arts Intensive program showcase In Between the Lines.As an ensemble, intensive students used their...
Return to the Forbidden PlanetBy Bob CarltonShakespeare’s forgotten rock and roll masterpiece! Inspired by The Tempest, this high-energy jukebox musical is packed with rock ‘n’...
Join us as campers ages 14-16 enrolled in our 4-week Youth Arts Intensive program perform The War of the Worlds.The War of the Worlds radio...
The minds that brought you Tales of Mild Interest (or TMI for short) are returning to their improv roots, with the newly formed Tampa Metropolitan...
Join us as campers ages 11-13 enrolled in our 3-week Youth Arts Intensive program perform The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition.Join Dorothy and her loyal...
What if William Shakespeare had written Ghostbusters? In this reimagining of the classic 1984 film, author Jordan Monsell uses iambic pentameter, period prose, and historical...
The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped...
There be no place like home. What if William Shakespeare had written The Wizard of Oz?
Letterhead follows the Protagonist’s adventures through a distorted alternate reality of military letter-writing, careless judicial trials, and a government-sponsored cult community. The play examines rituals...
Adapted by Joe Landry It’s a Wonderful Life is based on the story “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren SternThis beloved American holiday classic...
Living comfortably in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a writer of Broadway thrillers, struggles to overcome a dry spell resulting in a string of...
This summer, join SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick, Squidward, and the citizens of Bikini Bottom at the Carrollwood Cultural Center for SpongeBob The Musical!
Join us as campers ages 11-13 enrolled in our 3-week Youth Arts Intensive program perform Everyone Gets Eaten by Sharks: A Cautionary Tale.FACT: Most people,...
Join us as campers ages 14-16 enrolled in our 4-week Teen Arts Intensive program perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream.A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of...
Join us as campers ages 11-13 enrolled in our 3-week Youth Arts Intensive program perform Gretel! The Musical.Before Hansel, there was Gretel! Based on the...
Join us as campers ages 11-13 enrolled in our 3-week Youth Arts Intensive program perform The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition.Join Dorothy and her loyal...
The Studio Project is a theatrical incubator with an alternative focus each year. The program aims to foster the development of new theatrical and performative...
Adoration of the Magi: A Madrigal Dinner welcomes the holiday season with festive music, mugs of wassail, and a merry celebration of yore. Join the...
The Colors of My Life Cabaret takes us on a journey around the painter’s palette for a dazzling celebration of color.
Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his...
Regarded by many as the finest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success –...
A Tennessee Williams classic comes to CarrollwoodWritten by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie is a memory play that examines a family's fragile dynamic as its members...
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