Dancing at Lughnasa at Jobsite in Tampa at the Straz opens June 15 Credit: Pritchard Photography

Dancing at Lughnasa at Jobsite in Tampa at the Straz opens June 15 Credit: Pritchard Photography
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.

This article appears in Jun 7-14, 2018.

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...