Ray and Una had a secret, three-month sexual dalliance. He was 40 years old. She was 12. David Harrower’s Blackbird, onstage now at the Off-Central, is...
With just 42 seats, the Off-Central, at 2260 1st Avenue S. in St. Petersburg, isn’t likely to challenge the Straz Center or Ruth Eckerd Hall for...
Show business is in Ward Smith’s blood. He’s an actor and a standup comedian, and he operates the Off-Central, St. Petersburg’s 42-seat black box theater. The...
It’s coming up on three years since Ward Smith opened the Off-Central, the smallest professional theater (meaning he pays the actors) in St. Petersburg. Initially called...
Dying, goes the old theater adage, is easy. Comedy is hard. This line, generally attributed to English actor Edmund Gwenn (on his deathbed, no less), has...
The next generation of Tampa Bay actors is coming along splendidly, as audiences are seeing lately in professional theater productions on both sides of the big...
Bob Devin Jones, the founder and artistic director of thestudio@620, will retire in 2024, staying on in an “emeritus” position but leaving the day-to-day operations to...
There’s high-stakes drama onstage at St. Petersburg’s Studio Grand Central. Something Clean, the drama that wraps up a two-week run this weekend, is ostensibly the story...
After the guarantee of a steady paycheck, an actor’s biggest thrill comes from working on something new, developing a show from the ground up. There’s no...
