The true identity of the playwright known as Jane Martin may never be revealed. Many believe it’s a pen name for Louisville, Kentucky theatrical director Jon...
Playwright Mark E. Leib was born in Tampa, and lives there now, but spent much of his life elsewhere. One day, he knew, he would write...
Tampa’s longest-running professional theater company has a new permanent home. It’s the same home Stageworks Theatre has leased since 2012 – on the first floor of...
They’re definitely not planners. In an improv comedy program, nobody – not even the performers onstage – knows what’s going to happen. And then, to borrow...
Mystery novelist Agatha Christie created one of literature’s two great detectives, the Belgian eccentric Hercule Poirot, in 1920. Sherlock Holmes, the other fictional sleuth to become...
Playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank at Stageworks, Mercy Roberts is riding an emotional roller coaster. “When we had the first read-through...
Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men is usually described as a courtroom drama, and in the most suspenseful, tension-and-release fashion, that’s what it is. Yet the action...
Tampa’s Stageworks Theatre has just one thing in common with SeaWorld Orlando. A splash zone. While kids have delighted for decades in the sheets of salty...
Back in the building at last, Tampa’s Stageworks Theatre has its first “normal” season lined up, starting in October. Fittingly, the schedule is titled “Emerge.” Joined...
While the coronavirus had been spreading like wildfire across America, it wasn’t until this very week, one year ago, that the word pandemic entered our common...