Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
The wildly popular online series of specials that offer clean "Comedy for Everyone" is expanding to live shows featuring comedians who've become Dry Bar fan favorites.
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Internet series Dry Bar has amassed a substantial following – 8.4 million subscribers for its YouTube channel - for its lineup of comedians who don’t, as the old showbiz saying went, work blue. Dry Bar’s comedy is intended to be appropriate for all ages and at least most sensibilities. Now, Dry Bar is hitting the […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Raised on hip-hop and schooled in the classics, Black Violin makes music that brings the conservatory to the street and vice versa. Kev Marcus (Kevin Sylvester, violin) and Wil B. (Wilner Baptiste, viola), whose multi-genre sound has been described as “classical boom,” have built an enthusiastic fan base through frequent live appearances. Straz audiences have […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Attention, all internet P.I.s and smartphone sleuths: Cold Case Live takes your favorite topic out of your earbuds and onto the stage in Ferguson Hall. Host Joe Kennedy, founder of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s cold case unit, is a legend in the field. He will walk the audience through the stages of a cold […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
So you loved Disney’s animated hit Encanto but hated not being able to sing along in the movie theater? You’re in luck. The “Sing-Along Film Concert” is designed with you karaoke heroes in mind. See the film on a giant screen and sing to hearts content on Encanto numbers such as “We Don’t Talk About […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Comedienne, author, and singer Heather Land tells it like it is with sarcasm and Southern charm. Practically overnight, Heather burst through the clutter of the online world with her hilarious and witty videos, which have garnered more than 300 million views. And she’s captured the attention of more than 2.8 million followers on Facebook.
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Start your holiday season with hilarity at a screening of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation followed by an appearance by Clark Griswold himself, Chevy Chase. Chase will share behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes about the making of this beloved movie that has become a Christmas tradition. But the laughter doesn't stop there! Chase also will be taking […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Author C.S Lewis is playing host to a group of American writers in his home outside Oxford. The man whose books (The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity) have impacted so many offers his guests his thoughts, insights and observations on the festive season as well as the events that have shaped his life and decisions. […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Buddy was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. This holiday season, relive this heartwarming holiday classic on a […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Dec. 8 marks the 44th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination. Honor Lennon by celebrating his music instead of mourning his murder. Drew Harrison doesn’t just sing Lennon’s songs, he goes for the energy and intensity he believes Lennon would have brought to the stage. He will be joined by pianist Tommy Consentino for an evening […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Enter Clara and Drosselmeyer's fantastical world of dancing sweets, sword-fighting rodents and some of ballet's most famous music. Next Generation Ballet’s Nutcracker features award-winning young dancers from NGB alongside guest star dancers from American Ballet Theatre, Chloe Misseldine and Jarod Curley. Curley is the first NGB alumnus from a major American ballet company to guest […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Cirque Dreams Holidaze will keep the seasonal cheer going with a dazzling celebration of the red and the green. Characters from holiday stories come to life on stage as acrobats soar above, dancers sparkle and contortionists contort in ways not thought possible. Classic holiday songs might get a twist as well. Cirque Dreams Holidaze is […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Photographer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur is on a mission to highlight his home country’s lesser-known felines to help protect their future. With landscapes spanning the towering Himalaya mountains, arid plains, and dense jungles, India is home to an unmatched diversity of wild cats. Discover the tiny, grumpy-faced Pallas’s cat, the fishing cat that jumps into […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
The incomparable Forever Tango, from its multiple runs on Broadway to legendary stages around the world wows sold out venues everywhere in an unmatched fully produced show. Direct from Argentina, this production features the best Tango dancers in the world, internationally renowned musicians and vocalists and a story line true to the art of Tango.
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Arturo Sandoval is one of the most acclaimed musicians in contemporary jazz. Born just outside Havana, Sandoval has been and continues to be one of the most ardent champions of not only Latin jazz but the broader influence of Latin music on jazz. Maybe that’s what happens when your mentor is Dizzy Gillespie, a longtime […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Impractical Jokers combines the hidden-camera humor of Candid Camera with the jokers’ unstoppable quest to humiliate each other. Sal Vulcano and his fellow jokers emerged from an improv/sketch comedy crew called The Tenderloins. The ‘Loins made a successful transition to posting online material which evolved into Impractical Jokers. Sal’s leaving the gang behind for this […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Sunny Jain is a one-man fusion factory. The Indian-American composer-musician is rooted in the sounds of Southern Asia, which he mixes and merges with jazz, hip-hop and other sounds from Jain’s ever-expanding musical universe. His band Red Baraat was a frenetic explosion of bhangra, rock and hip-hop. Jain’s latest release, Wild Wild East, is a […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
Tom Rush emerged during the early 1960s folk revival and made a successful – artistically, at least - transition to 1970s singer-songwriter. He’s known more for introducing his listeners to new songwriters – Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor among them – than for writing them himself (although his tune “No Regrets” has been […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
If you’ve ever wondered what happens after “happily ever after,” Disenchanted! has your answer. The musical lifts the curtain on the happy endings of storybook princesses and, sister, it’s not so sparkling. The musical Disenchanted goes behind the magic to ask the question, “Did I eat a poisoned apple for THIS?” See how the princesses […]
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
1010 N WC MacInnes Pl, Tampa, FL
The “In Memoriam” segment of this year’s Academy Awards® was particularly poignant, thanks to an emotional duet featuring tenor Andrea Bocelli and his son, Matteo. Their rendition of “Time to Say Goodbye” lit up the internet and made clear that the younger Bocelli was a talent to watch. His debut solo album, Matteo, was released […]