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    1. Take your pick, ballet or modern dance

      05/15/13 StageBy John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic

      Take your pick, modern dance or ballet, both are on the agenda this weekend.

    2. Kevin James bringing standup tour to Mahaffey

      05/14/13 StageBy Sharon Kennedy Wynne, Time Staff Writer

      Paul Blart is coming to the Mahaffey Theater. Working class funnyman Kevin James, star of Zookeeper, Paul Blart, Mall Cop and TV's The King of Queens, is following his successful 2012 return to standup with another tour that will bring him to St. Petersburg's Mahaffey Theater on Aug. 24. James started his …

    3. Hard-rocking 'American Idiot' plays at Straz Center for 3 days

      05/14/13 StageBy John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic

      The rock musical has been around since Hair in the 1960s, and some of them have rocked pretty hard, such as Spring Awakening and Rock of Ages. But none rock as hard as American Idiot.

    4. Three more albums like 'American Idiot' to rock Broadway

      05/14/13 StageBy Sean Daly, Times Pop Music Critic

      By SEAN DALY

      Times Pop Music Critic

      An album about growing up wild, free and possibly insane during the Bush administration, Green Day's conceptual classic American Idiot was dramatic, loud, larger than life. In other words, perfect for a lively, and profitable, stage adaptation. …

    5. Award-winning musical 'A Chorus Line' soars at Richey Suncoast Theatre

      05/14/13 StageBy Barbara L. Fredricksen, Times Correspondent

      A strong cast and crew, spirited piano by music director Jackie Doxey Scott and flute by Judy Polatshek and one of Broadway's best and most beloved shows combine for wonderfully satisfying entertainment as Richey Suncoast Theatre concludes its season with A Chorus Line. The show tells the stories of those almost …

    6. Mel Brooks' irreverent comedy 'The Producers' will make you laugh

      05/11/13 StageBy Barbara L. Fredricksen, Times Correspondent

      Mel Brooks's musical The Producers is impudent, insulting and irreverent. But the neat thing about it, it's triple "i" to just about everyone — sex-starved little old ladies on aluminum walkers, gays, actors, directors, Jews (especially Jews), sexy dames, literary giants, hokey Broadway shows, politics, …

    7. Jobsite Theater's 'Behind the Gates' better left in the dark

      05/10/13 StageBy John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic

      TAMPA — Behind the Gates intends to shine light on a closed world, the ultra-Orthodox Haredi sect in Israel, and the Jobsite Theater staging of Wendy Graf's play gets off to a promising start, with a marathon monologue by a troubled 17-year-old named Bethany Leiberman.

    8. Brace yourself for Amy Schumer at Straz

      05/08/13 StageTimes staff

      Her new show Inside Amy Schumer scored Comedy Central's biggest launch of the year and her one-hour standup special, Mostly Sex Stuff, was the channel's second-highest rated special of 2012, so Amy Schumer is on a roll. She arrives in Tampa on Saturday with her girl-next-door looks, but don't be fooled. …

    9. Review: 'John & Jen' is a rich family portrait

      05/07/13 StageBy John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic

      ST. PETERSBURG — Right from the beginning, John & Jen gets its principal point across, as 6-year-old Jen sings Welcome to the World to her newborn brother, John.

    10. 'The Producers' brings Broadway high jinks to Stage West

      05/07/13 StageBy Barbara L. Fredricksen, Times Correspondent

      A record-breaking 12 Tony Awards, a Grammy Award for its album, two movie versions, productions all over the world — Mel Brooks' irreverent, zany musical farce The Producers broke the mold on Broadway and continues to grab audiences wherever it goes.