by Drew Eberhard - March 02, 2026
The Quintessential voice, the one and only Audra McDonald. Captivating the room and singing selections from Broadway’s Great American Songbook, totaling 15 incredible selections in a swift 90-minute presentation. ...
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
This epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband, and his wife, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized home life...
Two young gents have taken to bending the truth to put some excitement into their lives. Worthing has invented a brother, Eatllest, whom he uses...
Can you stump the singers? Come to our unique and hilarious karaoke concert event and put songs in a hat that you want to hear...
Eight short plays never before performed in the state of Florida....
A new and thrilling musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic story. Alone in the jungle, how will Mowgli survive in a terrifying but wonderful new...
A play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects—mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses...
This play shows a way station of 1he dead on route to eternity. It specifically houses people whose bodies have never been found. Wi1h Amelia...
One hotel suite, four tenors, two wives, three girlfriends, and a soccer stadium filled with screaming fans. What could possibly go wrong? In this sequel...
Join the mourners at an Irish funeral (in a pub) for a poor fellow named Paddy who met his maker. You’ll never be quite the...
Our fun and popular KidSpeak Youth Playwriting Competition and Production offers local young people the opportunity to write, direct and produce their own original short...
This happy-go-lucky view of small-town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s...
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...
What happens when a group of actors takes to the stage to perform a staged reading of a secret comedy play? Our actors will have...
An adaptation of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a giving, caring human being at the hands of three...
In this hilarious comedy take on the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, the classic Charles Dickens characters become an over-the-top, colorful collection of mobsters. You’ve...
A Moon for the Misbegotten brings James “Jamie” Tyrone, Jr. to the home of his tenant farmer, Mike Hogan, a salty Irish geezer. There, he...
This six-character comedy is a spoof of and love letter to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and to stage mysteries in general. It is...
This masterful suspense tale by the author of Same Time, Next Year, Same Time, Another Year, Romantic Comedy and Tribute involves a successful mystery writer...
Welcome to Priseaux, France, c. 1250 A.D.: The river flooded again last week. The chandler’s shop just burned to the ground. Nobody’s heard of the...
The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when Wilde brings his dear friend, Lillie Langtry, to Baker Street. Someone...
It’s 1942 and two of Hollywood’s biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel- assistants, luggage and legendary feud with one another...
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