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
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
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Most Winningly Shameless Actor – Spencer Meyers
- Best Theater Rockers – Jobsite Theater
- Best Theater Production, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up
- Best Actress, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Amy Gray
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
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Actor, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – David M. Jenkins
Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Best Ensemble, Play
Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
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
Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
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
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Comedic Performance in a Drama – Jack Holloway
Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Lead Actor, Play – Jack Holloway
- Outstanding Featured Actress, Play – Elizabeth Fendrick
Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
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
2014 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Director of a Play – Karla Hartley
- Best Sound Design – Karla Hartley
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Director – Karla Hartley
- Best Character Actor Who Can Do Anything – Ned Averill-Snell
Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Production, Play
- Outstanding Featured Actor, Play – Ned Averill-Snell
- Outstanding Lighting Design – Kaylin Gess
Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
Special Productions
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
2014 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Director of a Musical – David Jenkins
- Best Ensemble Performance in a Musical
- Best Actress in a Musical – Jaime Giangrande-Holcom
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical – Spencer Myers
- Best Set Design – Brian Smallheer
- Best Costume Design – Katrina Stevenson
- Best Lighting Design – Mike Wood
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Musical
- Best Theater Rockers – Jobsite Theater
- Most Winningly Shameless Actor – Spencer Meyers
- Best Theater Production, Reader’s Poll
- Best Lighting Designer, Reader’s Poll – Mike Wood
- Best Actress, Reader’s Poll Runner-Up – Amy Gray
Theatre Tampa Bay Nominated
- Outstanding Musical Director – Jana Jones
- Outstanding Featured Actress, Musical – Jaime Giangrande-Holcom
Theatre Tampa Bay Recommended
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
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay
- Best Reason to Take Theater Seriously
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
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

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