36 arts and entertainment events happening in Tampa Bay this spring

Happening now

• Contemporary Craft at its Finest (Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg)
• Explore the Vaults: Black Portraits (MFA St. Pete, St. Petersburg)
• Lilian Garcia-Roig: Hyphenated Nature (Gallery114 @ HCC, Ybor City Campus)
• Leepa-Rattner Museum: Masterworks from the Collection (Leepa-Rattner Museum, Tarpon Springs)
• Our Walls: Real and Imagined / Spiral Full Circle (Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg)
• ​​Tampa Fresh Foods (Asher Residences at Water Street, Tampa)
• Heightened Senses (Labyrinth Studios, Tampa)
• Myriad Loops by Francesco Lo Castro (Fairgrounds, St. Petersburg)
• Bloom on Franklin block party (Franklin Street, Tampa)
• Equality Florida mural unveiling (Shuffle, Tampa)
• Artphl Evening (Palm Harbor Library, Palm Harbor)

Jan. 29-Feb. 27

• I Love to Eat (freeFall Theatre, St. Petersburg)

Jan. 29-May 22

• Picasso and the Allure of the South (Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg)

Jan. 30

• Romeo & Juliet (Jobsite Theater at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa)

Feb. 2-27

• School Girls; Or, The African American Mean Girls Play (American Stage, St. Petersburg)

Feb. 3

• The Language of Light (Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa)

Feb. 3-20

• Real Women Have Curves (Powerstories Theatre, Tampa)

Feb. 4-8

• St. Pete Opera: Semele (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)

Feb. 4-20

• The Diary of Anne Frank (Stageworks Theatre, Tampa)
• King Lear (Tampa Repertory Theatre at University of South Florida, Tampa)

Starts Feb. 5

• Classic Movie Series: Black Love (Tampa Theater, Tampa)

Feb. 5

• Indie Flea St. Pete (Outside Black Radish vegan grocer, St. Petersburg)

Feb. 10-27

• Mayday: Captain Lerro and the Skyway Bridge (Off-Central Players, St. Petersburg)

Opens Feb. 11

• Cuban Pathways (Tampa Bay History Center, Tampa)

Feb. 12

• Humane Society of Tampa Bay’s Bark in the Park (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa)

Feb. 18

• The Grapest Showman singalong (Tampa Theater, Tampa)

Feb. 18-20

• Gulfport ReadOut Festival (Online)

Feb. 19-20

• Art and Seafood on the Waterfront (Waterfront Park, Safety Harbor)

March 4

• St. Pete Arts Alliance Muse awards (Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg)

March 4-20

• Sweet Charity (Eight O’Clock Theatre at Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo)

March 4-6

• Trashy Treasures (Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin)
  

March 5-6

• Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, Tampa)

March 19

• People vs. Brush: The Art Work of Pedroh (Pinellas Park Cove, Pinellas Park)

May 13

• Karst Grounds: Quatro Sunistra (Tempus Projects, Tampa)

May 20

• Bill Burr (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)

This article appears in Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2022.