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Saint Petersburg, FL 33701



Previews: LOVE BIRD at The Off-Central Players


by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - April 10, 2025

Love Bird follows Nigel, the sole inhabitant of a small island, who has fallen in love with someone they made out of trash. As storms and trash increase, a strange visitor forces Nigel to choose between who they were and who they could be....

Previews: 2 ACROSS at The Off-Central Players


by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - January 22, 2025

​​​​​​​On January 30, The Off-Central Players present '2 Across.'  Running through February 9, the play features two strangers, a man and a woman, who meet on a San Francisco BART train at 4:30 a.m. Both are married and engrossed in completing the New York Times crossword. She is an organized psycho...

The Off Central Players Will Perform THE SOUND INSIDE


by Stephi Wild - October 30, 2024

The Off Central Players fourth season will continue by featuring artistic associate Roxanne Fay in Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside. ...

Past Shows

A Tuna Christmas
A Tuna Christmas
12/5 - 12/15/2024


It’s Christmas in the third-smallest town in Texas. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some making their debut.

The Sound Inside
The Sound Inside
11/7 - 11/17/2024


When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly ...

The Hollow
The Hollow
10/3 - 10/13/2024


A world-premiere, solo performance of  The Hollow .  Adapted for the stage by local theater favorite Roxanne Fay, this Washington Irving classic chiller of Ichabod ...

Blackbird
Blackbird
9/5 - 9/15/2024


In this unremittingly intense 80-minute one-act, Una and Ray, are birds with broken wings—psychologically crippled by an episode that left both their lives in tatters. ...

Scrooge MacBeth
Scrooge MacBeth
12/7 - 12/17/2023


  Right on the heels of the sublimely satirical existential hit No Exit,  The Off-Central Players shift to the silly, hilarious and ridiculous. Currently in ...

Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing
9/7 - 9/17/2023


 Duncan MacMillan's   Every Brilliant Thing When Mom’s in the hospital and Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’, there’s not much a seven-year-old can do. Dylan ...

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God of Carnage in Tampa God of Carnage
HCC Studio Theatre (1/29 - 2/15) Tracker
A Tribute to Sarah Brightman in Tampa A Tribute to Sarah Brightman
New Tampa Performing Arts Center (2/7 - 2/7) Tracker
Machinal in Tampa Machinal
USF Theatre 2 (2/12 - 2/15)
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Saenger Theatre (2/27 - 2/27)
Into the Woods in Tampa Into the Woods
American Stage (3/25 - 4/26)
Schoolhouse Rock Live! in Tampa Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Carrollwood Cultural Center (7/17 - 7/26)
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in Tampa R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Carrollwood Cultural Center (8/22 - 8/23)
Powerstories 6th Annual Voices of Women Theatre Festival in Tampa Powerstories 6th Annual Voices of Women Theatre Festival
Hillsborough College Theatre, YPAB - Ybor Performing Arts Building, 1411 E. 11th Ave. (3/5 - 3/8)
The Trail to Oregon in Tampa The Trail to Oregon
LAB Theater Project (1/30 - 2/15)
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