Shakespeare's Oz: A Parody Play in Five Acts
2/8 - 2/9/2025
There be no place like home. What if William Shakespeare had written The Wizard of Oz?
Steel Magnolias
3/14 - 3/23/2025
The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped ...
What if William Shakespeare had written Ghostbusters? In this reimagining of the classic 1984 film, author Jordan Monsell uses iambic pentameter, period prose, and historical ...
Return to the Forbidden Planet
7/18 - 7/27/2025
Return to the Forbidden Planet By Bob Carlton Shakespeare’s forgotten rock and roll masterpiece! Inspired by The Tempest , this high-energy jukebox musical is packed ...
Every Brilliant Thing
9/13 - 9/14/2025
EVERY BRILLIANT THING By Duncan Macmillan, with Jonny Donahoe A one-person show with Paul Berg You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ...
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Previews: SHAKESPEARE'S OZ: A PARODY PLAY IN FIVE ACTS at Carrollwood Cultural Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - February 05, 2025
Coming to Carrollwood Cultural Center on February 8-9, 2025, Jordan Monsell's Shakespeare's Oz: A Parody Play in Five Acts is a unique staged reading that promises to delight audiences of all ages. It offers a fresh and comedic take on the classic story of The Wizard of Oz through the lens of Shakes...
Previews: LETTERHEAD at The Studio At Carrollwood Cultural Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - January 22, 2025
'Letterhead' follows the protagonist's adventures through a distorted alternate reality of military letter-writing, careless judicial trials, and a government-sponsored cult community....
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by BWW Awards - January 16, 2025
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Review: A Look Back at the Best of 2024; Thank God for Local Theatre
by Peter Nason - December 31, 2024
Local theatre saved me in 2024, which turned out to be an extremely rocky year--with statewide and national political maelstroms and two hurricanes hitting our area weeks apart....
Previews: LIFE AMPLIFIED SPECTACULAR at The Studio At Carrollwood Cultural Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - September 17, 2024
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Review: Dive into THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL at the Carrollwood Cultural Center
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Previews: SPONGEBOB THE MUSICAL at Carrollwood Cultural Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - July 20, 2024
'We held auditions at the Center, and I was so nervous we wouldn't get anyone to come out. We had an amazing turnout! Between the open auditions and video submissions, we had 150 people try out. Casting just came to us. And this cast is solid and perfect for their roles,' said director Andi Garner....
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This Pulitzer Prize winner is as uncompromising and beautiful as musical theatre can get....
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Previews: MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT at Carrollwood Cultural Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - July 21, 2023
Whether you're a die-hard Monty Python fan or a newcomer to their comedic genius, this show guarantees a barrel of laughs and an unforgettable night of theater....
Past Shows
Letterhead
1/24 - 1/26/2025
Letterhead follows the Protagonist’s adventures through a distorted alternate reality of military letter-writing, careless judicial trials, and a government-sponsored cult community. The play examines rituals ...
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
12/14 - 12/15/2024
Adapted by Joe Landry It’s a Wonderful Life is based on the story “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern This beloved American holiday ...
Deathtrap
10/18 - 10/27/2024
Living comfortably in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a writer of Broadway thrillers, struggles to overcome a dry spell resulting in a string of ...
The SpongeBob Musical
7/26 - 8/4/2024
This summer, join SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick, Squidward, and the citizens of Bikini Bottom at the Carrollwood Cultural Center for SpongeBob The Musical!
Join us as campers ages 11-13 enrolled in our 3-week Youth Arts Intensive program perform Everyone Gets Eaten by Sharks: A Cautionary Tale. FACT: Most ...
Join us as campers ages 14-16 enrolled in our 4-week Teen Arts Intensive program perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one ...
Gretel! The Musical
6/20
Join us as campers ages 11-13 enrolled in our 3-week Youth Arts Intensive program perform Gretel! The Musical. Before Hansel, there was Gretel! Based on ...
The Studio Project
1/19 - 1/21/2024
The Studio Project is a theatrical incubator with an alternative focus each year. The program aims to foster the development of new theatrical and performative ...
Adoration of the Magi: A Madrigal Dinner
12/1 - 12/10/2023
Adoration of the Magi: A Madrigal Dinner welcomes the holiday season with festive music, mugs of wassail, and a merry celebration of yore. Join the ...
The Colors of My Life Cabaret
10/14 - 10/15/2023
The Colors of My Life Cabaret takes us on a journey around the painter’s palette for a dazzling celebration of color.
Monty Python's Spamalot
7/21 - 7/30/2023
Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail , Monty Python’s Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and ...
Gypsy
4/28 - 5/7/2023
Regarded by many as the finest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success – ...
The Glass Menagerie
2/17 - 2/26/2023
A Tennessee Williams classic comes to Carrollwood Written by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie is a memory play that examines a family's fragile dynamic as its ...
TITANIC
3/27 - 4/5/2020
Produced on the 100th anniversary of the quintessential tragedy, Titanic - the Musical is the factual story of that ship — of her officers, crew ...
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Shakespeare's Oz: A Parody Play in Five Acts
Carrollwood Cultural Center (2/8 - 2/9)
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Steel Magnolias
Carrollwood Cultural Center (3/14 - 3/23)
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2024-2025 Bank of America Broadway at The Straz Season
Straz Center for the Performing Arts (10/1 - 6/8) | |
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Man of La Mancha
Francis Wilson Playhouse (2/13 - 3/2) | |
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Every Brilliant Thing
Carrollwood Cultural Center (9/13 - 9/14) | |
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Conversations in Bed
Carrollwood Players Theatre (2/7 - 2/16) | |
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Ministers of Grace: The Unauthorized Shakespearan Parody of Ghostbusters
Carrollwood Cultural Center (5/17 - 5/18) | |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters
Carol Morsani Hall at Straz Center for the Performing Arts (2/9 - 2/9) | |
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Mean Girls The Musical
Ruth Eckerd Hall (3/27 - 3/27) | |
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Puffs Or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Jobsite Theater (7/9 - 8/3) | |
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