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Review: A Powerful PARADE Sparks the Conversation at Manatee Players


by Drew Eberhard - March 10, 2024

From the moment the lights dim to the opening chords of the Prologue, the audience knew they were in for a treat. A haunting and stirring rendition of The Old Red Hills of Home, led by young actor Elijah Zurek as the Young Soldier, will have you in a chokehold from the very start....

Review: Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY at the Manatee Players


by Peter Nason - March 11, 2023

Directed and choreographed by Rick Kerby, this production of Sondheim's groundbreaking musical is given an A+ treatment....

BWW Review: A Soaring, Powerful TITANIC THE MUSICAL at the Manatee Players


by Peter Nason - May 15, 2022

No matter how much you know about the Titanic disaster, the musical grounds the story, humanizes it, and you leave the theatre an emotional wreck....

Past Shows

Monty Python's Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot
4/30 - 5/17/2015


One of the greatest Broadway musicals of the modern age. The Tony® Award Winning Best Musical, SPAMALOT! Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy ...

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change


This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as "the relationship." Act I explores the journey ...

Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
3/19 - 4/5/2015


Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar is a completely sung-through piece and reflects a '70s musical sensibility. Numbers runs the gamut from ...

Agnes of God
Agnes of God
2/19 - 3/8/2015


Summoned to a convent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is charged with assessing the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam ...

Into the Woods
Into the Woods
2/12 - 3/1/2015


The Brothers Grimm hit Broadway with an epic fairytale where worlds collide. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and brings them ...

The Foursome
The Foursome
1/15 - 2/1/2015


Four old college chums, home for their fifteen year reunion, hook up for a round of golf and share their successes and failures. A warm, ...

Brigadoon
Brigadoon
1/8 - 1/25/2015


This is a Scottish fantasy about a town that disappears into the Highland mist and returns for only one day every one hundred years. It ...

Amahl and the Night Visitors
Amahl and the Night Visitors
12/4 - 12/21/2014


In this warm and compassionate story, Gian Carlo Menotti has captured the essential spirit of Christmas. The story tells of the night the Three Kings, ...

Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis
12/4 - 12/21/2014


MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS is a rare treasure in the musical theatre, and is based on the heartwarming movie. Join the Smith family at ...

Godspell
Godspell
10/30 - 11/16/2014


Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, and featuring a sparkling score by Stephen Schwartz, GODSPELL boasts a string of well-loved songs, led by ...

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas


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 ...

Morning's At Seven
Morning's At Seven
9/18 - 10/5/2014


Aaronetta and Ida Gibbs have lived next door to each other most of their lives and along with Esther, all of the Gibb sisters are ...

Dames at Sea
Dames at Sea
9/11 - 9/28/2014


A long-running hit off-Broadway that brought stardom to Bernadette Peters, this campy show is based on the nostalgia of Hollywood musicals of the 30's. It's ...

Disney's Tarzan
Disney's Tarzan
8/7 - 8/24/2014


Based on Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes and the smash-hit 1999 Disney animated film, TARZAN tells the story of an infant boy orphaned ...

MY ONE AND ONLY
5/1 - 5/18/2014


MY ONE AND ONLY takes the heart-stopping songs “ 'S Wonderful”, “Funny Face” and of course “My One and Only” from George and Ira Gershwin's ...

GREATER TUNA
4/10 - 4/27/2014


Greater Tuna is set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. The play is an affectionate comment on small-town, ...

MAN OF LA MANCHA
3/20 - 4/6/2014


MAN OF LA MANCHA is a remarkable musical and one of the great theatre successes of our time. This is a play-within-a-play, based on Cervantes' ...

BEEHIVE
2/27 - 3/16/2014


BEEHIVE is a rafter-raising musical celebration of the girl groups and female singers of the fabulous 1960s. It is a high energy hit parade of ...

SHREK
2/13 - 3/2/2014


SHREK THE MUSICAL brings the hilarious story of everyone's favorite ogre to dazzling new life on the stage. Full of all-new songs and great dancing, ...

STEPPING OUT
1/16 - 2/2/2014


Mavis, a former professional chorus girl tries her hardest to teach the bumbling amateurs in a low-rent dance studio some dance skills for an upcoming ...


This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when the Music Hall Royale "puts on" its rendition of an unfinished Dickens mystery. The giddy playfulness of ...

PETER PAN
12/5 - 12/22/2013


PETER PAN is one of the world's most celebrated musicals. Here is all the charm of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the children Wendy, ...


In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most ...

OUR TOWN
10/31 - 11/17/2013


OUR TOWN explores the lives of people living in a small, quintessentially American town. It is the world condensed into a small community with characters ...

Young Frankenstein
10/24 - 11/10/2013


IT'S ALIVE! From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation THE PRODUCERS comes this monster new musical comedy. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is scientifically-proven to be monstrously ...

ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE
9/19 - 10/6/2013


More than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963, this show is based ...

Grease
9/12 - 9/29/2013


Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers, ...

Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
5/2 - 5/19/2013


Fiddler on the Roof is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman and Other Tales) by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on ...

Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon
3/28 - 4/14/2013


Raw and uncompromising, MISS SAIGON is an intensely personal story of the losses we suffer and the sacrifices we make in a world gone mad. ...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum


Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (251-183 BC), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the story of a ...

Anything Goes
Anything Goes
1/17 - 2/3/2013


This show is an amusing story wrapped around one of Cole Porter's magical scores. This is the same dance-filled version of the show that starred ...

Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings
Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings
11/29 - 12/23/2012


A brand-new show that offers the best of FOREVER PLAID tied-up in a nifty package with a big Christmas bow on top! Filled with Christmas ...

Pump Boys & Dinettes
Pump Boys & Dinettes
10/25 - 11/11/2012


The musical tells the story of four men who work at a gas station, and two women waitresses at the "Double Cupp Diner", a dinette, ...

Videos


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The Straz Center - Jaeb Theater (5/4 - 5/5) Tracker
2024-2025 Bank of America Broadway at The Straz Season in Tampa 2024-2025 Bank of America Broadway at The Straz Season
Straz Center for the Performing Arts (10/1 - 6/8) Tracker
Uptown Music & Arts Festival in Tampa Uptown Music & Arts Festival
Uptown Music & Arts Festival (5/25 - 5/26) Tracker
PHOTOS
Francine Wolf: Please Don't Tell My Kids! in Tampa Francine Wolf: Please Don't Tell My Kids!
The Off-Central Players (4/26 - 4/28)
Disney's Beauty and the Beast in Tampa Disney's Beauty and the Beast
American Stage Theatre Company (4/3 - 5/5)
Next to Normal in Tampa Next to Normal
Tampa Repertory Theatre (5/31 - 6/16)
August: Osage County in Tampa August: Osage County
Carrollwood Players Theatre (5/10 - 5/18)
Ain't Too Proud in Tampa Ain't Too Proud
Straz Center [Carol Morsani Hall] (1/3 - 1/5)
Next to Normal in Tampa Next to Normal
USF Theatre Centre TAR 120 (5/31 - 6/16)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch in Tampa Hedwig and the Angry Inch
American Stage Theatre Company (5/15 - 6/16)
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