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Pinellas County Theatre Week.
Nov 9–22, 2026 · Buy one ticket, get the second free — automatically, on every show, no promo code. Pick your show and a Theatre Week date, then choose two or more seats at checkout.
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After the Shift: How American Stage Is Restructuring Season 49 for Sustainability
Following Helen R. Murray's departure, American Stage is rebuilding Season 49 around a revised slate — and a sliding-scale ticketing model designed to keep regional theater accessible.
'Nobody Is on Their Phone': How Beyond the Wings Theater Built a Community Out of Fairy Tale Chaos
At Beyond the Wings Theater, the off-stage moments matter as much as the punchlines. Inside the Pinellas troupe's riotous take on The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon.
Party Over Principle? Not in 1950: Powerstories Theatre Brings Margaret Chase Smith's Historic Takedown to Tampa
Powerstories Theatre brings Joe DiPietro's political drama Conscience — the story of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's stand against McCarthyism — to Stageworks Theatre for a three-day staged reading, Aug 14–16.
How Jobsite Theater Made Me Fall in Love with Green Day All Over Again
A punk-rock catharsis in the Jaeb: Cody Farkas, Matthew Morris, Kiara Dorothea and a live band rip through Green Day's rock opera under David M. Jenkins' direction — and Maggie Duffy hasn't stopped humming since.
Don’t Stop Believin’ in the Gods: Bash of the Titans Rocks freeFall Theatre
by Maggie Duffy There’s a party going on at freeFall Theatre , a celebration to last throughout the millennia. Bash of the Titans , an “Unauthorized Parody Party” takes playful aim at the 1981 film,…
How to commit elite vandalism (the corporate way)
Welcome to another week of surviving the Florida summer. It is still meltingly hot outside, but thankfully, the Tampa Bay arts scene is providing the ultimate air-conditioned asylum. This week, we…
Stories bring you in. The scene keeps you.
You read a review on your lunch break. It sticks with you. Suddenly you know what you're doing this weekend.
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You know the artists by name. You post about opening night. You're the reason someone else showed up.
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Each month, the Passport Book Club pairs a book with a live show or museum visit. One price covers your copy of the book — picked up at Tombolo Books — and your ticket in. Members join with 3 Passport credits.
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Hosted by Tampa Bay Arts Passport founder Avery Anderson. Long-form conversations that go deep on every corner of the region's arts scene — theatre, visual art, music, literature, and the people who make it all happen.
A monthly roundtable with former Tampa Bay Times critic Maggie Duffy and local writer Jana Henson. They dish on what's on their minds, the shows worth talking about, and the bigger conversations happening in Tampa Bay arts.
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