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Jobsite's Dancing at Lughnasa previews tonight in Tampa

Get a sneak peek of what the resident theater company at the Straz has up next.

By Ray Roa on Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:07 pm

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Dancing at Lughnasa at Jobsite in Tampa at the Straz opens June 15

The Gaelic festival of Lughnasa celebrates a drunken pagan god of revelry and dancing. This is not another night at The Castle in Ybor, but a Shimberg Playhouse production of a Brian Friel play — Dancing at Lughnasa — set in a small Irish village where an illegitimate son has a troubling summer involving Catholic women and shrieking banshees.

Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. WC MacInnes Place, Tampa. Previews: June 13-14, 8 p.m. $18. June 15, Opening: June 15. Through July 8: Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 4 p.m. $29.50 and up, based on demand. 813-229-7827, jobsitetheater.org.

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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