David Jenkins as Father Flynn in "Doubt: Parable" at Jobsite Theater in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Pritchard Photography

David Jenkins as Father Flynn in “Doubt: Parable” at Jobsite Theater in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Pritchard Photography

“Doubt: A Parable” opens at downtown Tampa’s Straz Center Shimberg Playhouse this week and runs through April 5. That means you have plenty of time to indulge in the Pulitzer and Tony-winning dramatic thriller complete with scandal and one determined school principal who tries stopping a creepy school priest from having inappropriate relations with students. The dialogue in “Doubt” is enough to warrant your attention, but there’s also a 2008 movie starring Merryl Streep and Viola Davis if you need the CliffsNotes.

March 11- Apr. 5. $29.50. Shimberg Playhouse at David A. Straz Center, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, Tampa. local.cltampa.com

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This article appears in Mar 5-12, 2020.

Kyla Fields is the food critic and former managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay who started their journey at CL as summer 2019 intern. They are the proud owner of a charming, sausage-shaped, eight-year-old...