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[Click and drag to move] Coming to a laptop, cell phone, or computer near you is Powerstories Theatre's Shine Bright Talent Showcase Competition FUNdraiser. If you missed Saturday's performance, anyone can watch the recorded competition online and enjoy performances by local and national contestants. This competition featured 12 singers, musicians, spoken word artists, storytellers, and family-friendly comedians who will be solely judged by you, the audience. Voting is available until 2 pm, with results announced at 5 pm on Facebook Live.

In Rick Foster's play, Kate: The Unexamined Life of Katharine Hepburn at American Stage, actress Janis Stevens simply is Kate. She channeled the spirit of 92-year-old Katharine and wore her as easily as one puts on a sweater. From the warble in her speech to the essential tremor, wheelchair-bound in an attic of memories, on New Year's Eve 1999, Janis took us on a behind the scenes journey of an unlikely Hollywood star in the 1930s.

If you’re told a lie long enough, you begin to believe it, says the riveting Katherine Stenzel as federal prisoner up for a second parole hearing, Lorelei Beatrice Beckmann. Along with her inexperienced public defender, Benny, expertly brought to life by William Statzer, we fall prey to her exploitation of the truth to suit her will, bent, twisted, but never fully broken.

Commissioned by the theatre, the play posed the question, 'how do you mend a country with a broken heart?'

Created by Ted Swindley, debuting on November 5 and running through December 6, Heather Krueger plays the lead role in Always… Patsy Cline, the legendary country singer who died tragically in a plane crash at only 30 years old and her friendship with Louise, a fan she met at a Texas country bar.

As many theatres struggle to keep their doors open during the pandemic, New Tampa Players wants to bring attention to the many creative arts venues facing the same hardships through a fun, interactive, masked, and socially-distanced, innovative method.

On Friday evening, September 4, on televisions and computers across Tampa Bay and beyond, American Stage virtually debuted their 2020-2021 season from Vimeo live. Appropriately named REIMAGINE, for a season designed to ensure productions can be presented during social distancing, the season features a virtual series, a series available both safely in-theatre and online, a family series, and two festivals.

Powerstories Theatre, in collaboration with Outcast Theatre Collective, is excited to introduce the inaugural The Voices of Truth Theatre Festival on March 10-28, 2021, in our film-friendly enhanced theatre. For three weeks, we will showcase real-life a?" humorous, heartbreaking, eye-opening, conversation-starting plays and stories a?" performed safely in the theatre, and using the latest technology, live-streamed.

Alongside his socially-distanced masked band, Christopher Jackson will be performing Broadway show tunes, pop hits, original songs, and sharing personal stories about his involvement in many popular musicals including IN THE HEIGHTS and HAMILTON.

Nerve-racking. That's the word that comes to mind when reviewing Innovocative Theatre's virtual production of Lauren Gunderson's Natural Shocks. Artfully directed by Staci Sabarsky, it is a powerful one-woman performance with the talent of Marie-Claude Tremblay as Angela, a woman hiding in the basement, unable to escape the destructive path of an oncoming tornado.

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. In response to the civil uprising, a reaction to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others before them, Jobsite Theater and Stageworks Theatre have teamed up with Rory Lawrence Productions. They will join a national presentation of the Juneteenth Justice Theatre Project, a nationwide movement by American theater companies striving to 'change the world, one play at a time.'

The Tampa Film Institute, Inc. will host the 6th Annual Tampa Bay High School Film Competition as a part of the 2020 Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival ('GIFF'), held virtually on Sunday, June 14th (1pm-3pm) on Twitch.

'At Powerstories we have always celebrated women on stage through our plays, musicals, and SheVolution festivals,' said founder Fran Powers. 'Today, there are no lights, sound action at the theatre, but we are still shedding light on women through our Mother's Day Edition of PositivelyPowerstories.'

Powerstories Theatre is going back to its roots to ask everyone a?' young and old a?' a?oeduring this unprecedented time in our history, what brings you joy? What is your story?a?? Participants can share their true stories that bring them joy, create a short maximum 3 minute YouTube or Vimeo video hashtag #positivelypowerstories and post the link, or email an MP4. Storytellers can also make an audio file MP3, or email their personal artwork, their photograph, their sketch, their painting, etc. and email as JPG, GIF, or PNG. During everyone's time sequestered, Powerstories is trying to put the social back in isolation safely.

Featuring beloved hits like a?oeSherry,a?? a?oeBig Girls Don't Cry,a?? a?oeWalk Like A Man,a?? a?oeCan't Take My Eyes Off Youa?? and a?oeDecember 1963 (Oh What A Night),a?? Jersey Boys tells the story of the trials and tribulations of the quartet. The audience will learn how they went from being The Four Seasons to being a solo artist of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.

Opening on March 13 and running through April 5 at American Stage, the world premiere of The People Downstairs tells the story of Mabel, a lonely, middle-aged shut-in, a visually-impaired woman who lives with her funeral home custodian father, Miles in Buffalo, NY. When a court-appointed guardian threatens to put them in a nursing home, Miles sets out to find true love for his daughter.

Melina: A Steampunk Musical is a dash of Shakespeare, a dollop of Jules Verne, a pinch of Sherlock Holmes, a smidgen of Phantom of the Opera, and a splash of Greek tragedy mixed with an utterly original pop opera. It is something that you'll definitely want to support to get to future theatre festivals, and way beyond staged readings to a real set and props, lighting and sound, to fully realize this incredible Steampunk/Steampop vision inside of Gretchen's head.

a?oePowerful. Raw. Real.a?? Producer, director, and actress Samantha Stevens described the upcoming production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues tonight. In celebration of VDAY St. Pete 2020, for one night only, on March 3, at the event space NOVA 535, a dozen talented women will be talking, laughing, shouting, and sobbing about something frequently whispered in hushed tones.

Featuring the professional talents of Scott Daniel, Dan Franke, Georgia Mallory Guy, Colleen Cherry, Kara Sotakoun, Ryan Bernier, Kristin Carbone, Michael St. John and Young Artists Ensemble members Caroline Howard, Jamesyn Horton, Emily Stephens, Kate Shamblin, Jake Perez, Nikala Hale, Blase Roque, Collage also showcases over 20 students of HB Plant High School Theatre Company.

Returning August 17 is Shout! The Mod Musical at Straz Center's Jaeb Theatre. Shout! The Mod Musical is a nostalgic and fun jukebox musical revue into the subculture of 60s London that helped define a decade, showcasing many of the iconic songs that captivated the UK and the US.