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2024-2025 Bank of America Broadway at The Straz Season


Broadway season ticket packages include these shows: THE BOY WHO LOVED BATMAN ,  DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! The Musical ,  SOME LIKE ...


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Final Week To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards; Carrollwood players Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 23, 2024

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards; ANNIE at Carrollwood players Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 16, 2024

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Tampa Awards


by BWW Awards - December 10, 2024

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Cast Set for Ken Ludwig's MORIARTY at FreeFall Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 21, 2024

freeFall Theatre has revealed the cast of Ken Ludwig's Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure....

Interview: Michael Uslan of THE BOY WHO LOVED BATMAN at Straz Center


by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - September 05, 2024

Michael Uslan's memoir, The Boy Who Loved Batman, captures this journey from a comic book-obsessed boy to the producer who brought a darker, grittier version of Batman to the big screen. Adapted for the stage, The Boy Who Loves Batman makes its world debut at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts...

Previews: The Broadway Star of The Future Awards Showcase at Straz Center


by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - May 15, 2024

Fashioned after the Tony Awards,® The Broadway Star of the Future Awards Showcase is the Tampa Bay area's regional awards program affiliated with the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (NHSMTA) or the Jimmy® Awards....

BWW Q&A: Paula Nunez on IF I CRY, A Surreal Dance Journey Through Frida Kahlo's Mind at Tampa City Ballet


by Joshua Wright - May 01, 2024

We spoke to Paula Nuñez about IF I CRY, the story about the life of Frida Kahlo, a captivating collaboration featuring dancers, music, and even mariachis!...

Review: MRS. DOUBTFIRE IS A COMEDIC GEM, WITH A REFLECTIVE LENS at STRAZ CENTER


by Drew Eberhard - April 05, 2024

Mrs. Doubtfire, a new musical based on the 1993 hit family film of the same name, is actually based on the 1987 novel Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. The stage musical in all its purposes features music and lyrics by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick, with a book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farre...

SOME LIKE IT HOT, SHUCKED, and More Set For 2024-25 Broadway Season at the Straz Center


by Stephi Wild - March 19, 2024

The Straz Center for the Performing Arts has announced the 2024-2025 Broadway at the Straz season. The season kicks off this Christmas season. Learn more about the full lineup here!...

Review: A Top Notch Cast Delivers with BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE at Jobsite Theater


by Drew Eberhard - March 17, 2024

What did our critic think of BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE at Jobsite Theater?...

Past Shows

The Choir of Man
The Choir of Man
10/3 - 11/26/2023


Known across the globe as “the ultimate-feel good show,”  THE CHOIR OF MAN  offers up 90 minutes of indisputable joy. It’s a party. It’s a ...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead


Before winning an Oscar as a writer of  Shakespeare in Love , Tom Stoppard delivered another ingenious comic retelling involving the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon. In ...

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
8/16 - 8/27/2023


This Creative Loafing Best of the Bay and BroadwayWorld Regional Award winner is back, this time on Jobsites mainstage! Artistic Associate Andresia Moseley takes on ...

Lizzie: The Musical
Lizzie: The Musical
7/12 - 8/6/2023


Audiences are in for another dark treat with the Drama Desk Award-nominated LIZZIE, a killer rock musical thats been a certified hit around the world. ...

Jobsite Theater's ALICE
Jobsite Theater's ALICE
5/10 - 6/4/2023


Jobsite realized something with 2021s Shockheaded Peter (winner of not one but two 2021 Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards): we missed devising new ...

Misery
Misery
3/15 - 4/9/2023


Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his number one fan, Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive ...

Hamlet
Hamlet
1/11 - 2/5/2023


Jobsite returns to the Jaeb for this searing tragedy of a young student, tormented by their fathers death, that confronts each one of us with ...

Hamilton
11/15 - 12/11/2022

Dracula
Dracula
10/19 - 11/13/2022


As Count Dracula begins to exert his will upon the residents of London, they try to piece together the clues of his appearancesin a valiant ...

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
9/14 - 10/9/2022


In his first comedy written for the stage, the original wild and crazy guy plays fast and loose with fact, fame, and fortune as two ...

Pretty Woman
5/17 - 5/22/2022

The Band's Visit
3/4 - 5/8/2022


In the sun-baked deserts of Israel, The Band's Visit unfolds, a poignant and Tony Award-winning musical brimming with quiet beauty. A group of lost Egyptian ...

My Fair Lady
4/26 - 5/1/2022

Disney's Frozen
3/23 - 4/3/2022


For the first time in forever, experience the musical phenomenon that has taken the world by storm! Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, ...

The Prom
2/15 - 2/20/2022


The Prom is a comedic musical with a heartwarming message, created by a talented team. The music was composed by Matthew Sklar, with lyrics by ...

DEAR EVAN HANSEN
2/1 - 2/6/2022

Cats
12/7 - 12/12/2021


Cats is a record-breaking musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats . ...

Tootsie
10/26 - 10/31/2021


Call it “musical comedy heaven” (Rolling Stone). Call it “the most uproarious new musical in years!” (The Hollywood Reporter). Call it TOOTSIE! This laugh-out-loud love ...

American Heartbeat
American Heartbeat
8/5 - 8/7/2016


A powerful MUSICAL that asks - what is indestructible between people? Honor? Laughter? Heart? Love? Its 1992, JARVIS, a Viet Nam Marine Vet with PTSD, ...

ONCE
ONCE
9/22 - 9/27/2015


Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, ONCE is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their ...

The Illusionists - Witness The Impossible™


“It’s deliciously, self-knowingly over the top and brain-bendingly spectacular - genuinely satisfying family entertainment that should not be missed.” - The Daily Telegraph. Direct from ...

Disney's Beauty and the Beast


Returns by popular demand! THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY EVER TOLD COMES TO LIFE! The romantic Broadway musical for all generations, Disney's Beauty and the ...

First Date - Broadway's Musical Comedy


First Date is a hysterical and hopeful new Broadway musical about the chances we all take to find love. When blind date newbie Aaron is ...

Pippin
Pippin
4/14 - 4/19/2015


PIPPIN is Broadway's high-flying, death-defying hit musical! Full of extraordinary acrobatics, wondrous magical feats and soaring songs from the composer of Wicked, PIPPIN will lift ...

First Date
2/3 - 4/12/2015


When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes ...

Motown The Musical
Motown The Musical
3/19 - 3/22/2015


“More than a Broadway show. A celebration of music that transformed America!”– CBS Sunday Morning. It began as one man's story … became everyone’s music ...

Annie
Annie
2/17 - 2/22/2015


Leapin' Lizards! The world's best-loved musical returns in time-honored form. Directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin and choreographed by Liza Gennaro, this production ...

The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera
12/17 - 1/4/2015


Following an acclaimed sold-out tour of the United Kingdom, Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s phenomenal musical success, The Phantom of the ...

Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage


DIRTY DANCING - The Classic Story on Stage is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensational dancing. Seen by millions ...

We Will Rock You
5/13 - 5/18/2014


From London’s West End, the worldwide smash hit musical by Queen and Ben Elton comes to the Straz Center for a limited engagement! We Will ...

Ghost The Musical
4/22 - 4/27/2014


Relive the iconic and magical moments from the Oscar-winning movie Ghost in a brand-new Broadway musical. Ghost The Musical breathes glorious new life into a ...

EVITA
3/18 - 3/23/2014


Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award®-winning musical returns at last! Eva Perón used her beauty and charisma to rise meteorically from the slums ...

ONCE
2/11 - 2/16/2014


Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards® including BEST MUSICAL, ONCE is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their ...


Don’t miss what Time magazine calls, “A don’t miss theatre event! The #1 Broadway musical of the year.” Winner of the 2012 Tony Award for ...


An all-new production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the Rockettes, will play Dec. 12-29, 2013, as part of the 2013-2014 Bank of America ...

The Book of Mormon
11/12 - 11/24/2013


Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” Entertainment Weekly says it’s “the funniest musical of all time.” ...

War Horse
War Horse
4/30 - 5/5/2013


A remarkable tale of courage, loyalty and friendship. England, 1914. As World War I begins, Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry ...

'S Wonderful
'S Wonderful
2/7 - 4/28/2013


’S Wonderful is an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of the brilliant music and lyrics of brothers George and Ira Gershwin. Five mini-musicals take audiences on a ...

Priscilla Queen of the Desert


This spectacular show tells the uplifting story of a trio of friends on a road trip of a lifetime, who hop aboard a battered old ...

Much Ado About Nothing
3/13 - 4/7/2013


One of the most popular and charming of Shakespeare’s comedies (and one of the few where the female lead doesn't have to dress up at ...

American Idiot
American Idiot
3/17 - 3/19/2013


Direct from Broadway, the smash-hit musical American Idiot tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of ...

Anything Goes
Anything Goes
3/12 - 3/17/2013


When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention get tossed out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course ...


This renowned repertory company from Spain includes 17 members directed by award-wining Ruben Olmo, one of Flamenco’s contemporary stars. Through castanets, fans, traditional flamenco “bata ...

Flashdance
Flashdance
2/19 - 2/24/2013


FLASHDANCE, the pop culture phenomenon and runaway international success, is now live on stage! It all started with a dream. To be bigger. To burn ...

Traces
Traces
1/29 - 2/3/2013


Fusing the traditions of circus with the energy of street performance, the artists of TRACES employ every trick in the book — from music, dance, ...

Wicked
Wicked
1/9 - 1/27/2013


Back by “Popular” demand. Variety calls WICKED "a cultural phenomenon,” and previous engagements in Tampa have sold out and broken box office records. Winner of ...

Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins
12/26 - 12/30/2012


MARY POPPINS is bringing its own brand of Broadway magic to theaters across the country, which has the New York Daily News calling it, "A ...

Sister Act
Sister Act
12/11 - 12/16/2012


SISTER ACT is Broadway's feel-amazing musical comedy smash! The New York Post calls it "RIDICULOUSLY FUN,” and audiences are jumping to their feet in total ...

Elf: The Musical
Elf: The Musical
11/20 - 11/25/2012


Elf is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the ...

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
10/23 - 10/28/2012


After four thrilling, chilling years on Broadway and multiple world-wide tours, this dark and dangerous love story from Oscar and Grammy winner Leslie Bricusse and ...

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