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Theater Review: The End of the Road for 4000 Miles
The characters (and the actors) are fascinating in American Stage’s 4000 Miles, but the play’s got nothing new to say.
Mark E. Leib
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Theater Review: Stupid Fucking Bird
Five fucking stars.
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Theater Review: Jobsite’s Chekhov and Snow White and Ozzie and Harriet
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: It’s a farce. It kind of has to be.
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Beach blanket bullseye
The Bard heads to a Florida beach.
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Seeing Stars
CL’s theater critic explains how he rates shows.
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In the Blood: Grim reality at Stageworks
An unrelenting vision of a woman discarded by society.
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Spring Arts Preview 2016: Theater
There’s a lot to look forward to in Tampa Bay stage productions.
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The Year in Lists: 10 top performances
These local actors left indelible impressions in 2015.
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Theater Review: This Wonderful Life
Can one superb actor meet the multiple challenges of a holiday classic?
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Theater review: Peter and the Starcatcher brings spectacular starstuff
This freeFall Peter Pan prequel is a great way to introduce kids to the theater.
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Theater review: The 39 Steps isn’t without its Hitches
As funny as these exercises in excess may be at first, we soon have enough of them.
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Theater review: Tender Napalm knows no limits
The actors are terrific, but good luck penetrating the script.
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Theater review: Bill Leavengood’s new work is right on the Money
A first-rate cast distinguishes a new play about sex, race and fundraising.
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Theater Review: Freak brings innocence and experience together in a thought-provoking way
Sexually candid, well-acted and hard to forget, Freak warrants a trip to Sarasota.
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Theater Review: Lights Rise on Grace at Stageworks
A brilliant three-person cast brings a new play to life at Stageworks.
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Fringe benefits — Silver Meteor Gallery celebrates two decades
A Q&A with the community arts mini-institution’s founder Michael Murphy.
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Fall Arts Preview 2015: Theater
Our theater critic lets you know what to look for in performance as the season starts to turn.
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Theater Review — Tampa Shakespeare Festival, plus a preview of USFSP’s As You Like It
Tampa’s Bardfest battles a few environmental factors to deliver classic drama. St. Pete gears up for its own Shakespeare in the park.
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Theater Review — Bright Lights, Big City
A popular novel about 1980s excesses is successfully adapted to the stage at freeFall.
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Q&A with incoming American Stage Artistic Director Stephanie Gularte
The new theater leader says she likes “plays that have some teeth, that will excite current audiences and will potentially bring in some new audiences.”