Now it's dirt, concrete columns and walls. In a year it will be home to Stageworks Theatre. The 8,000-square-foot space will have a stage, 99 stadium seats with potential to expand to 130, a lobby, gallery space, an office, a control room and a rehearsal hall. ...more

April 1, 2009

As a playwright, Susan Hussey used her characters as prisms to cast an intimate light on global issues such as environmental disasters and AIDS. ...more

February 20, 2009

Every day is a new reality in Lee Blessing's "A Body of Water." Stageworks and Gorilla Theatre co-produced this fascinating work, in which truth is massaged and manipulated until it is virtually unrecognizable. ...more

February 19, 2009

A new theater company in Hudson will call on the humor and charm of a beloved figure in baseball in its premiere play next week. ...more

January 28, 2009

John Guare based his play "Six Degrees of Separation" on the true story of a con artist posing as the son of Sidney Poitier in the 1980s. The title came from the idea that no more than six steps separate an individual from everyone else on the planet. ...more

December 7, 2008

I am a confirmed ghost story/horror fanatic. I've seen and read so many hellacious tales, I've become desensitized to just about every spook out there. But once in a while, the Bogeyman catches me unaware and sets my heart racing. Such was the case with the Gorilla Theatre's production of "The Woman in Black," Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation of the 1983 novel by Susan Hill. ...more

October 23, 2008

Tim Crouch's "An Oak Tree" is a strange exercise that seriously messes with your mind. It's more of an intense acting class/therapy session than a play. But the fascinating discussion it generates between audience and actors makes up for any confusion. ...more

September 9, 2008

Theater is an exercise in manipulation of the senses. The actors and audience are at each other's mercy for what is seen, heard and felt. The question becomes, then: Are these responses grounded in reality or illusion? ...more

August 31, 2008

FAIRS & FESTS Saturday Gulfport Gecko Fest: Family festival and walking parade celebrates the end of summer with live music, street performers, sidewalk chalk art, face painting, drum circle, food vendors and street dance; noon to 10 p.m. (parade at 6 p.m., street dance at 8 p.m.); free; Beach Boulevard, Gulfport; (727) 322-5217 ...more

August 29, 2008

THEATER Today-Saturday "The Sleeping Beauty"; America's Ballet School takes you on a journey through enchanted lands filled with wondrous characters, including Princess Aurora, Puss 'n Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and more; 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday; $12 to $15; The Center for the Arts at Wesley Chapel, 30651 Wells Road, Wesley Chapel; (813) 558-0800 ...more

June 6, 2008