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Past Shows

Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still
7/6 - 7/31/2016


A war photojournalist and her reporter boyfriend attempt to find happiness after returning from Iraq in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Theirs ...

mad Theatre presents [title of show]


With music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and a book by Hunter Bell, [title of show] chronicles its own creation as an entry in the ...

Occupation
Occupation
7/8 - 8/2/2015


In 2017, a crushing national debt, skyrocketing inflation, and crippling unemployment have frozen the United States’ access to global credit. Against the backdrop of economic ...

Annapurna
Annapurna
4/29 - 5/24/2015


After twenty years apart, Emma tracks her ex-husband, the cantankerous poet Ulysses, to a trailer park in the middle of nowhere for a final reckoning. ...

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
3/4 - 3/29/2015


Sarah Ruhl, one of American theater’s most exciting young playwrights and recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, adapts Virginia Woolf’s quasi-autobiographical gender-bending novel about sex, ...

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
1/7 - 2/1/2015


A hilarious tale of gender confusion in which after being shipwrecked in a storm and losing her brother, a girl disguises herself as a man ...

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
10/29 - 11/23/2014


Jobsite joins a nationwide tribute to the master of camp, 30 Years of Charles Busch – A Celebration, in conjunction with the company’s favorite holiday! ...

The Last Night of Ballyhoo
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
9/3 - 9/28/2014


WINNER: 1997 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Atlanta, Georgia, December 1939. Gone with the Wind is about to premiere on ...

Inventing Van Gogh
Inventing Van Gogh
7/9 - 8/3/2014


A haunting and hallucinatory drama about the making of art, Inventing Van Gogh is the story of the final van Gogh self-portrait, painted just before ...

All New People
All New People
5/7 - 6/1/2014


It's the dead of winter, and the summer vacation getaway of Long Beach Island, New Jersey is desolate and blanketed in snow. Charlie is 35, ...

Macbeth
Macbeth
10/30 - 11/24/2013


William Shakespeare Shakespeare AND Halloween? Yes, please! This new cutting of Shakespeare's promises to be a razor-sharp treatment focusing in on how the Macbeth and ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
9/4 - 9/29/2013


This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, ...

The Lonesome West
7/10 - 8/4/2013


A return to Leenane and one of Jobsite's favorite playwrights! Jobsite has previously produced McDonagh's The Pillowman, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and The Beauty Queen ...

Behind the Gates
5/1 - 5/26/2013


Jobsite partners with the Tampa Jewish Community Center & Foundation for the eastern United States premiere of this controversial and important play. "Passionate ... powerful ...

The Good Doctor
4/18 - 4/20/2013


This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storms a bank and upbraids the manager for ...


Suicide is only the beginning for survivors. Join solo performer Jen Tuder as she cross-examines her ghosts, knocks ‘em dead at cocktail parties, and enters ...

Chapel Perilous
Chapel Perilous
7/19 - 7/29/2012


Fraternal twins Mae and Jake own a dodgy beach bar and massage parlor. When they learn a hurricane is on the way, they do what ...

Closetland
Closetland
7/11 - 7/29/2012


In an unnamed country, in unspecified times, a man purporting to be the government’s representative interrogates a female author of children’s fiction, on the grounds ...

Race
Race
5/9 - 5/27/2012


America's most controversial topic is tackled in a provocative new tale of sex, guilt and bold accusations. "There is intrigue within intrigue, showing how personal ...

Do It Yoursel
Do It Yoursel
4/5 - 4/7/2012


Patel Conservatory Youth Theater presents Do It Yourself. From the blank page to the lighted stage, students will work all session to create original script, ...

Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka


Aphrodite, goddess of love, and Pan, god of shagging everything, have come to wreak havoc on the island of Ithaka. Fill your wine glass, nail ...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
1/11 - 1/29/2012


WINNER of two Tony Awards and two Drama Desk Awards in 2008 as well as the 2007 Olivier Award Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a ...

Slut Energy Theory


SLUT Energy Theory: A one-woman play starring Rene Marie. Slut Energy Theory is a powerful, unsentimental and original work about incest and abuse that challenges ...

Quills
Quills
10/19 - 11/6/2011


Jobsite Theater presents Quills. Doctor Royer-Collard, head of Charenton Asylum, is visited by Renee Pelagie, wife of the asylum’s most notorious inmate, the Marquis de ...

The Guys
The Guys
9/7 - 9/25/2011


Jobsite Theater presents The Guys By Anne Nelson. Directed by Shawn Paonessa Less than two weeks after the September 11 attacks, New Yorkers are still ...

The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
7/20 - 8/14/2011


Jobsite Theater's presentation of The Taming of the Shrew returns to Tampa July 20-Aug. 7! One of the Bard's best-loved comedies, this modern-dress, commedia-inspired zippy ...

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Kiss Me, Kate in Tampa Kiss Me, Kate
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Jobsite Theater (5/15 - 6/9)
Francine Wolf: Please Don't Tell My Kids! in Tampa Francine Wolf: Please Don't Tell My Kids!
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A Little Night Music in Tampa A Little Night Music
Francis Wilson Playhouse (5/2 - 5/19)
Jukebox Saturday Night - 80s Edition in Tampa Jukebox Saturday Night - 80s Edition
Carrollwood Players Theatre (4/26 - 5/5)
Oliver in Tampa Oliver
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