2013 – 14 Season
American Theatre Wing
- National Theatre Company Grant Finalist
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Stage Director, Reader’s Poll – David M. Jenkins
- Best Set Designer, Reader’s Poll – Brian Smallheer
- Best Theater Company, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up
Mainstage Season
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Text by John Cameron Mitchell
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Sep. 4 – 29, 2013
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just “an angry inch.”
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by David M. Jenkins
Oct. 30 – Nov. 24, 2013
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Shakespeare AND Halloween? Yes, please! This new cutting of Shakespeare’s promises to be a razor-sharp treatment focusing in on how the Macbeth and Macduff clans handle power and passions played in front of the ever-present eyes of a certain group of Kindly Ones.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adapted by Peepolykus and Steven Canny
Directed by Katrina Stevenson
Jan. 8 – Feb. 2, 2014
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
An ancient family curse, a desolate moor, a spectral hound and a deranged killer on the loose. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most celebrated Holmes story of all, a masterpiece of mystery and suspense. And lord it’s scary… really, really scary.
Crimes of the Heart
By Beth Henley
Directed by Kari Goetz
Mar. 5 – 30, 2014
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Beth Henley’s winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award! Warm-hearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative, the play teems with humanity and humor as it examines the plight of three Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions.
All New People
By Zach Braff
Directed by Paul Potenza
May 7 – Jun. 1, 2014
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
It’s the dead of winter, and the summer vacation getaway of Long Beach Island, New Jersey is desolate and blanketed in snow. Charlie is 35, heartbroken, and just wants some time away from the rest of the world. The island ghost-town seems to be the perfect escape until his solitude is interrupted by a motley parade of misfits who show up and change his plans. A hired beauty, the townie fireman, and an eccentric British real-estate agent desperately trying to stay in the country suddenly find themselves tangled together in a beach house where the mood is anything but sunny. From the award-winning writer of Garden State.
Inventing Van Gogh
By Steven Dietz
Directed by Karla Hartley
Jul. 9 – Aug. 3, 2014
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
A haunting and hallucinatory drama about the making of art, Inventing Van Gogh is the story of the final van Gogh self-portrait, painted just before the artist’s death, which has never been seen… until now. Patrick Stone, a contemporary painter, is hired to forge this final masterpiece—and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with van Gogh himself. The result is a compelling mystery about the obsession to create and the fine line that separates truth from myth.
Special Production
Return to the Forbidden Planet
Book by Bob Carlton, music by various artists
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Co-Produced with The Straz Center
Jun. 12 – Jul. 6, 2014
Thu. – Fri. 8pm; Sat. 4pm & 8pm; Sun. 4pm
Tickets: from $29.50
Jaeb Theatre, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D’Illyria where a sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest set to rock ‘n’ roll golden oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by a sinister scientist, Dr. Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a faithful robot on roller skates; and an uncontrollable monster, the product of Prospero’s Id.
Ensemble
Job-side Productions
4.48 Psychosis
By Sarah Kane
Directed by Giles Davies
Performed by Nicole Jeannine Smith
Nov. 9 – 23, 2013
Sat. 11 pm, Sun. – Mon. 7 pm
Tickets: $12; $7 with Macbeth tickets stub; FREE for Jobsite season ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Reverse Reverse
Written by Jan Farrell, featuring special guest writer April Bender
Directed by Tia Jemison
Mar. 16 – 25, 2014
Sun. – Tue., 8 pm
Tickets: $10; FREE for Jobsite season ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Whether it’s the excitement of finding a new love, rekindling an old love, forbidden love, or all of the above, you will experience it within Reverse Reverse.
A Brief History of Beer
Created, devised, and written by William Glenn and Trish Parry
Directed by Jeffrey Mayhew
Apr. 20 & 27, 2014
Sun., 8 pm
Tickets: $7; FREE for Jobsite season ticket holders.
New World Brewery, Ybor City
A Brief History of Beer is an educational, delicious ramble through the myths and legends surrounding everyone’s favorite beverage! Equal measures theatre, lecture, and surreal drink-a-long game, the Wish founders have combed the records, visited the ruins, and tasted an impossible number of beers to bring you this docudramedy.
The Whole Shabaang!
by Post Dinner Conversation
May. 18, 2014
Sun. 8 pm
Tickets: $10 at the door;
FREE for Jobsite season ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
For the first time ever, Tampa’s original long form improv company comes together for one big night in the Shimberg! Featuring their own Tampa-grown style of long form improv, it’s a full force show that pushes the boundaries of comedy and roasts the traditions of improv theater.
A Night of Inappropriately Funny Moments
By April Bender
Jul. 28 – 29, 2014
Mon. – Tue., 8 pm
Tickets: $5 at the door; FREE for Jobsite season ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
For the first time ever, Tampa’s original long form improv company comes together for one big night in the Shimberg! Featuring their own Tampa-grown style of long form improv, it’s a full force show that pushes the boundaries of comedy and roasts the traditions of improv theater.
