An actor, director, and theatre teacher, Peter Nason fell in love with the theatre at the tender age of six when he saw Mickey Rooney in “George M!” at the Shady Grove in Washington, D.C. He has appeared in dozens of productions around the country, helmed several films and directed over thirty plays. His love of the theatre, and his passion for the craft of acting and directing, has led him to reach hundreds of Florida teenagers to help make the stage their home. He has currently started a new theatre program at the CCMS Conservatory of the Arts where he hopes the students there will find the same joy of performing that he found.
A graduate of the University of Alabama and the Scuola Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy, Peter is an award-winning playwright and has written for various periodicals and newspapers, including “The Tampa Tribune,” where he was a book reviewer and community columnist. One of his literary heroines, the late great Pauline Kael, summed up his philosophy of reviewing: “In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.” Peter resides in Wesley Chapel, Florida with his beloved Boston Terrier, Ike.
BWW Review: Party Like It's 1999 with American Stage in the Park's Joyous MAMMA MIA
April 14, 2019
April 14, 2019
Peppered with infectious Abba songs, it's like bubblegum for the soul.
BWW Review: River Ridge's Royal Knight Stage Company's Production of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Is an Audience Favorite
April 13, 2019
April 13, 2019
Director David O'Hara has mounted one gorgeous-looking musical.
BWW Review: Berkeley Preparatory School Wows Audiences with Their Production of Kander & Ebb's CHICAGO
March 16, 2019
March 16, 2019
Beautifully choreographed by Seth Travaglino and directed by Chris Marshall, this is one of the finest high school shows you'll see.
BWW Review: Emily Belvo & Jonelle Meyer Are Perfect in Hat Trick Theatre's Imperfect Production of Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE FEMALE VERSION
February 17, 2019
February 17, 2019
With Belvo and Meyer leading the way, this is as funny an ODD COUPLE as you will likely see.
BWW Review: Mad Theatre of Tampa's Edgy, Darkly Funny HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL at the Shimberg
February 16, 2019
February 16, 2019
It's sold out for its entire 13-show run; does it live up to the hype?
BWW Review: The Future Looks Bright with This Year's KIDSPEAK at the Carrollwood Players Black Box
February 13, 2019
February 13, 2019
A mime verbally announces his love. Two girls fall head over heels with the same boy during auditions for Romeo and Juliet. A senior has a last homework assignment...and it's a doozy. Dancers try to uncover a mystery of what has happened to their dance shoes and fluffy slime. A young man is incarcerated in a Burundi prison.
BWW Review: Topher Payne's PERFECT ARRANGEMENT is freeFall Theatre's Finest Show in Years
February 11, 2019
February 11, 2019
It starts off like a very funny 1950's sit-com with a gay twist and ends as a devastating plea for respect and self-acceptance.
BWW Review: The Tampa Bay Area Premiere of Dominique Morisseau's PIPELINE at American Stage - As Powerful as Theatre Gets
February 10, 2019
February 10, 2019
If you are a teacher or a parent, it will leave you battered, shattered, withered, at times elated and almost always looking at things in a new way.
BWW Review: Rodgers & Hammerstein's CINDERELLA Enchants at the Show Palace Dinner Theater
January 27, 2019
January 27, 2019
It's tons of fun and enchanting, despite some weaknesses with the show's new book.
BWW Review: Giles Davies is the Finest Iago You'll Ever See in Jobsite Theater's Taut, Exciting Production of William Shakespeare's OTHELLO at the Shimberg
January 16, 2019
January 16, 2019
It's one theatrical ride that you need to experience!
BWW Review: Nick Hoop & Ryan Fisher Lead an Outstanding Ensemble in Innovocative Theatre's Shattering COLUMBINUS
January 13, 2019
January 13, 2019
Although it comes across as 'The Breakfast Club' meets 'Natural Born Killers,' it's powerful as hell.
BWW Review: Michael Frayn's Thought-Provoking COPENHAGEN at Tampa Rep Starts the Year Off Right
January 6, 2019
January 6, 2019
Three heavy-hitting actors (Ned Averill-Snell, Ami Sallee and especially Christopher Marshall) bring Frayn's ideas and rich language to life.
BWW Review: 18 for 2018: The Best Local Shows & Performances of the Year
December 26, 2018
December 26, 2018
BWW reviewer, Peter Nason, celebrates 2018 with his choices for the best in local theatre (Tampa, St. Pete and Sarasota) that the past year had to offer.
BWW Review: Forget Scrooge and George Bailey; MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at American Stage is the Holiday Play We Need
December 24, 2018
December 24, 2018
This fun holiday sequel to 'Pride and Prejudice' is escapist fare, mere fluff, but that's what's so right about it.
BWW Review: Charles Dickens' Classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Carrollwood Players
December 16, 2018
December 16, 2018
Despite its flaws, it will immediately put you in the Christmas spirit!
BWW Review: 76 Reasons to See THE MUSIC MAN at the Asolo Repertory Theatre
November 23, 2018
November 23, 2018
It will tap its way into your heart.
BWW Review: Mad Theatre of Tampa's Production of 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL Is Quite Timely in the #MeToo Era
November 5, 2018
November 5, 2018
The show offers lots of nice voices and some incredible moments, but it's overall very inconsistent.
BWW Review: L. Peter Callender is Stunning in Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize Winning BETWEEN RIVERSIDE & CRAZY at American Stage
October 14, 2018
October 14, 2018
The Tampa Bay Area Premiere of a show that is heartbreaking and funny, and that features one of the finest performances local audiences have seen in quite a long time.
BWW Review: THE FANTASTICKS Enchants at freeFall Theatre
September 30, 2018
September 30, 2018
It's a beautiful show, gorgeously mounted, with a couple of questionable moves that do not detract from its overall loveliness.
BWW Review: Laura Benanti's Astonishing One Night Only Cabaret at the Sarasota Opera House
September 22, 2018
September 22, 2018
It was like an entertaining musical mash-up tour of the Tony Award Winner's charmed life, and I didn't want it to end.
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