ThinkTank’s TYA Playwrights Festival is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working forum for progressive and forward-thinking TYA productions for today’s theatres. The goal is a collaborative workshop process, with local Tampa Bay Theatre professionals and members of our YAE Company, allowing time for playwrights to hear and adapt their work. Submissions for the […]
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REWIND: Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
The Sarah Rose American Teen Princess Pageant is a beauty contest to die for! And that’s exactly what the contestants in Mount Rose, Minnesota, are doing. Ever since the vivacious-but-vicious former beauty queen Gladys Leeman started pushing her charm-challenged daughter, Rebecca, to win at all costs, the competition has been dropping like flies. Between exploding […]
Lights OUT. The 2024 LGBTQ+ One Act Play Festival
A Special CWP Mainstage Production by Various Playwrights July 19th – 28th, 2024 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Sundays at 2 p.m. Join us for one of our most popular events, featuring 8 original LGBTQ+ themed short plays in one theatrical experience Audiences will enjoy an eclectic mix of short plays, featuring comedy, drama, […]
Annie
Leapin’ Lizards! The irrepressible comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world’s best-loved musicals. Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The beloved book and score features some of the greatest musical theatre hits ever written, including […]
Veronica’s Room
This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary’s Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by its dissolute caretakers, the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan’s strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, the long-dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple […]
Baskerville – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Get your deerstalker cap on – the play’s afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious […]
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol
CWP’s annual holiday tradition returns to its roots as we present the beloved, classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas, adapted for the stage by Jim Russell with all the Victorian splendor, warmth, laughter and storytelling you expect from the original Dickens novella. Will Ebenezer Scrooge change his ways in time for Christmas? Will Tiny […]
Sylvia
A romantic comedy about marriage and a dog! Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate’s career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in […]
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Sundays at 2 p.m. In the original 1912 play that inspired the beloved musical My Fair Lady, Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, is so confident that he can train anyone to speak perfect English that he makes a bet with his associate Colonel Pickering that he will train a poor […]
Florida Jazz Express: Fourth of July Concert
Florida Jazz Express is back at New Tampa Performing Arts Center for this special concert. Enjoy the patriotic songs that symbolize America, Independence Day, and summer traditions in true big band style.