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A Queer Victorian Comedy, a Mummy, and a Newborn “Scream Coach”: Inside USF’s Gin Mummy

by Avery Anderson On paper, Gin Mummy sounds like a punchline — a drawing-room comedy with “all the wit of Oscar Wilde,” as Dr. Jennifer Kokai puts it, except this time the queer characters are allowed to step out of the shadows and actually exist. And also: yes, there is a

Ann Morrison’s Great Adventure

by Avery Anderson Ann Morrison spends her nights doing something that sounds impossible on paper: playing a 15-going-on-16 New Jersey teenager whose body is aging four and a half times too fast. “I’m 70 and so I am a 16-year-old in a 70-year-old body,” she said. “I don’t

The Season of Flowers (and the People Who Deserve Them)

Introducing the Orange Blossom Awards — coming this December December has a reputation for being… a lot. Family gatherings, year-end deadlines, the existential dread of realizing you’ve once again ignored your dentist. But in Tampa Bay, we’re proposing something different this year — a month-long love letter to the people

A Year of Stories Ends With a Battle Cry

If you’ve been craving a book that hits like a hymn, a punchline, and a family secret all at once, December’s Arts Passport Book Club is your last — and loudest — invitation of 2025. We’re closing the year with Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language, a memoir that

Starting a Theatre in 2025? Bold Move. Beyond the Wings Did It Anyway.

By Avery Anderson On a recent weeknight inside a church in Pinellas Park, a six-year-old and an eighty-something actor were rehearsing a battle scene. Across the room, three teenagers argued over prop coconuts. Belle was trying to keep a straight face. And the King—who is, according to the script,