A movie theater in its heyday — it opened in 1938 — the Springs Theatre is now the Springs Theatre Recording Studio, mostly used as a studio for audio and video recording, production, mastering, audio editing, audio mixing and motion picture soundtrack scoring. J-Lo, Robert Smith of the Cure, Bobby McFerrin and Jay Leno have rehearsed and recorded there. Once in a while a concert or play is staged at the theater. We would love to see more in the centrally located and charmingly historic space. 8029 N. Nebraska Ave., Tampa, springstheatre.com
This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2014.