Photo via Jobsite Theater/Flickr
Giles Davies, pictured in a 2013 Jobsite Theater production of 'Macbeth,' will star in 'Frankenstein.'
Its 25th season begins with Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award winning “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead,” a retelling of “Hamlet” featuring its cast from earlier this year, and Jack Holloway as The Player, from Sept. 13-Oct. 8.
“Frankenstein” starring Best of the Bay-winning Giles Davies as Victor Frankenstein and Paul J. Potenza as the Creature runs from Oct. 18-Nov. 12, and Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” will start off the new year from Jan. 17-Feb. 11, 2024.
Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” runs Mar. 13-Apr. 7, followed by Federico Garcia Lorca’s “El Maleficio de la Mariposa” from May 15-Jun. 9. Auditions for this show are still ongoing, and more information about how to audition will roll out via jobsitetheater.org and social media in the next few weeks.
Jobsite's 2023-24 season closes with the iconic cult rock musical “The Rocky Horror Picture” show from Jul.10-Aug. 4, and ends with Ronan Noone’s “The Smuggler” from Aug. 14-Aug. 25.
Unlike past seasons, smaller packages will not be offered at the same discount once the season is underway. Single tickets start at $40 and will increase by date and location by demand. Last season’s shows topped at $75 for some of the more popular nights.
However, a season pass gives theater goers access to seven shows for $25 each in honor of the 25 year anniversary. The pass costs $185.50, $150.50 for Thursday preview shows, and includes free exchanges, because life happens.
More information is available via jobsitetheater.org
St. Pete Opera
Celebrating its 18th season, St. Pete Opera is officially an adult now, and to celebrate it lined up three mainstage productions including Handel’s “Alcina” (Oct. 13, 15, 17), Puccini’s Turandot (March 15,17,19) and Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” Peppered in between are works for kids (“Pinocchio” in November), the holiday program in North Straub Park, and an Oct. 6 installment of the “Mornings With the Maestro” series where Mark Sforzini and the cast present an educational overview of the work they do. stpeteopera.org
freeFall Theatre Company
Kurt Vonnegut’s “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” gets the freeFall treatment next spring, but the St. Pete company has “Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play”—adapted from the 1947 Lux Radio broadcast by Lance Arthur Smith, featuring original songs and arrangements by Jon Lorenz—happening in December, plus a comedy by Natalie Symons (“Nightsweat”) where a canceled celebrity housewife tries to escape the media. freefalltheatre.com
American Stage
A pair of classics return to American Stage next spring (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”). Before that, however, are a fall presentation of David Yee’s “Acts Of Faith,” where a false prophet gets twisted into the life of a religious leader. To kick off 2024, the company stages “The Chinese Lady,” work inspired by the true story of Afong Moy, he first Chinese woman to arrive on American soil. americanstage.org
Stageworks Theatre
Tony Award-winning play “I Am My Own Wife”—the story of “a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive both the Nazi onslaught and the repressive East German Communist regime”—arrives at Channelside’s Stageworks next year. To close out the year, the Tampa company presents the “The Great Christmas Cookie Bake-Off” musical, and before that the beloved whodunnit story of “Poirot Returns.” stageworkstheatre.org
Fringe Theatre
Tampa Fringe has carved out a nice year-round home for itself in Ybor City, and this fall the Fringe Theatre presents “A Brief History of Beer," a sci-fi sketch comedy where theatergoers take a trip on the Quantum Pint Machine. This is one where you probably won’t get kicked out for being wasted. And if you need Fringe now, the theater recently launched its first storytelling open mic, "Shameless Stories with Trish Parry," on second Wednesdays. This fall adds two new storytelling events to the theater calendar. Tuesday night variety open mics are already in session, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. and Walt Belcher hosts a monthly storytelling event for anyone 50 years old and up, appropriately called BoomerTown, starting this Sun., Aug. 27, and every Sunday afterward, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. theatre.tampafringe.org
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