Philadelphia playwright Douglas Williams has a ready-made pitch, an elevator speech, when someone asks him to describe his play Ship. “It’s about a guy who tries...
It’s impossible to overestimate the influence of Lenny Bruce on today’s standup comedy universe, where each and every sacred cow is there to be proudly skewered,...
Jobsite Theater, the resident professional theater company at Tampa’s David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, has announced the 2022-23 season. Productions in the company’s...
The Straz Center for the Performing Arts’ Broadway Series continues with that old musical warhorse My Fair Lady tonight through Sunday (five performances) in Morsani Hall....
Seymour Krelborn, the nebbishy plant-tender in Little Shop of Horrors, wasn’t exactly a bucket-list role for bay area actor Nicholas Perez-Hoop – he’s far too young...
Tampa’s Tatiana Melendez is in her third season as a principal dancer with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, an acclaimed, boundary-stretching New York company. “Selfish choreographer that I...
It’s always reason to celebrate when Tampa native and Asheville resident Christie Lenee comes home for a concert. And when this almost indescribable acoustic guitarist plays...
Actress and playwright Regina Taylor wrote Crowns after getting lost in the photography book Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats by Michael Cunningham and...
Shakespeare’s star-crossed teen lovers are together again in the Jobsite Theater production of Romeo & Juliet, opening Friday in Tampa’s Straz Center complex. A five-time finalist...
As a singing star, Donna Summer was so big that it takes three people to play her onstage. OK, well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration,...
