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The Thaw Will Not Be Televised

St. Pete’s Werk Gallery transforms spring fever into a fever pitch of political dissent. by Avery Anderson Spring in St. Petersburg usually arrives with the gentle hum of tourism and the pastel promise of renewal. But at The Werk Gallery, the season isn’t breaking with a bloom; it’

The Future is Buzzing (and Bloody): Why Urbanite’s The Apiary is the Dark Comedy We Need

By Avery Anderson Twenty-two years from now, the world hasn’t ended with a bang or a whimper, but with a sudden, deafening silence. The bees are gone. Or, more accurately, they are nearly extinct, huddled in high-tech laboratories like the one currently occupying Urbanite Theatre. In Kate Douglas’s

The Ghost in the Machine: Suzy Eddie Izzard’s Radical, Bare-Knuckle 'Hamlet'

One performer, 23 characters, and a fight for the "thickness of silence." In the age of the $200 million Marvel spectacle and the relentless, dopamine-chasing scroll of TikTok, the boldest thing an artist can do is stand on a bare stage and ask you to use your brain.

Throw Away Your High School English Class: Shakespeare as an Action Movie

Dramaturg and actor Roxanne Fay on adapting Julius Caesar for an all-female cast and finding humanity in the crosshairs of history. Host: Avery Anderson Guest: Roxanne Fay In this episode of the Tampa Bay Arts Passport Podcast, we sit down with one of the region’s most versatile theatrical chameleons:

Surfing the Wall of Sound: Why This ‘Magic Flute’ Isn’t Your Grandfather’s Opera

Reimagined for 2026, Opera Tampa trades museum-piece formality for a "living, breathing ocean of sound" and high-stakes human risk. By Avery Anderson If you walk into the Straz Center this weekend expecting a dusty museum-piece version of Mozart—powdered wigs, distant Masonic codes, and a story that feels