Ballet dancers perform on stage in front of a backdrop depicting stone arches and a garden scene. A group of dancers in pastel costumes gather around a box at center stage, while another dancer in a blue dress balances on pointe with one leg extended gracefully to the side. A table decorated with flowers and a cake is set in the background, creating a festive atmosphere.
Tampa City Ballet Credit: Photo via New Tampa Performing Arts Center

A new season kicks off at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center with a no-cover three-day festival that kicks off Friday.

Backstage tours are just part of the package along with a screening of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” plus dance from the likes of Tampa City Ballet, which performs with St. Pete Opera on Sunday. Jazz, Hillsborough College musicians and a solo piano set from Vincent Pham and the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival are also on the schedule.

Find a link to more via newtampaartscenter.org. (New Tampa Performing Arts Center, Tampa)

There’s no cover for the 2025 Annual Arts Festival happening Friday-Sunday, Sept. 12-14 at New Tampa Performing Arts Center in Tampa.

New Tampa Performing Arts Center’s Annual Arts Festival

Time Fri., Sept. 12, 5 p.m. and Sun., Sept. 14, 7 p.m. 2025

Location New Tampa Performing Arts Center, 8550 Hunters Village Road, Tampa

Description This event is a weekend full of free activities and performances by artists across the Bay area in theater, dance, instrument petting zoo and more.

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This article appears in Sept. 4-10, 2025.

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...