THEATER & PERFORMING ARTS

St. Petersburg Shakespeare Festival

St. Petersburg Shakespeare Festival continues to offer the community an outdoor Shakespeare experience. Through innovative readings of plays and two full-length Shakespeare in the Park productions each year, they aim to keep Shakespeare engaging and relevant. Join them in Williams Park each fall and spring for modern adaptations that will make theater-goers fall in love with Shakespeare all over again. stpeteshakesfest.org

Suncoast Singers

Suncoast Singers provides uplifting singing experiences for adults with a variety of musical backgrounds. Their musical library includes classical, Broadway, rock, and pop selections. The organization has mastered a balance of discipline and humor while encouraging all ages to experience being part of a unique instrument — the human voice. Elementary through high school students take part in their November Patriotic concerts. Churches provide venues for their popular dinner concerts.

suncoastsingersfl.com

Tampa Bay Symphony

In its 37th season, the all-volunteer Tampa Bay Symphony’s (TBS) primary goal is to enrich the community by broadening exposure to classical music through fall, winter, and spring concerts. They host the annual Jack Heller Young Artist Competition, the state’s longest-running young artist competition, and annual International Composition Competition, which receives entries from 90 composers in 17 different countries. TBS performs at the Palladium in St. Petersburg and St. Pete College Clearwater Campus.

tampabaysymphony.com

727-827-8087

Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center

The Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center (PAC) is located inside City Hall, which is itself an old, historic school building and designated historic landmark. The PAC has a state-of-theart theater with 300 seats, where Tarpon Arts presents large-scale performances and concerts featuring world class musicians, as well as classical, folk, and Celtic genres in their year-round lineup. tarponarts.org/event-location/ performing-arts-center/ 727-942-5605

The Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre

The Nancy and David Billheimer Capitol Theater located in downtown Clearwater’s Cleveland Street District, was constructed in 1921 and is one of Florida’s oldest operating theaters. In 2019, their theater underwent a massive expansion to include expanded seating and lobby spaces, six private loge boxes, an outdoor balcony overlooking the Clearwater Causeway, a VIP lounge, and a rooftop terrace. This theater offers the perfect setting for live performances including music, comedy and one-man shows.

rutheckerdhall.com/capitol-theatre

727-791-7400

The Off-Central Players at Studio Grand Central

Performing as Studio Grand Central’s resident theater company, The Off-Central Players is a 501c3 nonprofit, professional arts organization committed to providing instruction, development, and theatrical storytelling for St. Petersburg’s diverse community.

studiograndcentral.com

The Sound

Experience this world class music and performing space nestled inside an expansive park. It includes a gateway plaza and bluff walk that connects the park to downtown, a bay walk promenade overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, a lake area with picnic shelters, and an ocean-themed play area with an interactive pop-jet water feature.

rutheckerdhall.com/the-sound

727-791-7400

The Studio@620

The Studio@620 is a hub for visual and performing arts in downtown St. Petersburg. Transforming frequently from art gallery to performance stage to meeting hall to movie theater, the Studio is an extraordinarily diverse venue. Residents and visitors alike flock to the Studio@620 and leave with shared experiences that spread across the community.

thestudioat620.org

727-895-6620

West Coast Players

West Coast Players is a 90-seat theater and a nonprofit organization committed to developing and enhancing community theater and the arts in the greater Clearwater and Tampa Bay area. Because of their intimate “black box theater” setting, they are able to offer cutting-edge shows and performances. Their unique approach to local theater has drawn the interest and participation of extremely talented actors and directors from all over the Tampa Bay area and beyond wcplayers.org

727-437-2363

Your Real Stories

Your Real Stories (YRS) creates programs to engage people in conversation about race in America. Using “theatrical journalism,” YRS challenges people to talk and listen to each other across perceived differences of identity, experience, and opinions. They record and archive reallife stories of people around Florida, produce plays and documentaries, create curriculum materials for K-12 and for university-level courses, and produce an annual storytelling festival. yourrealstories.org