2015 – 16 Season
Jobsite Theater is proud to unveil their 2016–17 season, a year where the company will celebrate notions of home. Jobsite is proud to call the Straz Center home: after being made resident theater company of the 99-seat Shimberg Playhouse in 2003, the company also expanded into the adjacent 300-seat Jaeb Theater in 2014. Jobsite is dedicated to providing an artistic home in Tampa Bay area with an ensemble of performing artists of all disciplines who not only work on mainstage productions, but offer late night events, special staged readings, and one-off productions as part of the Job-side program. Jobsite also recognizes that the region is home to so many people from so many walks of life and wants to feel like home, a place where everyone can come together in comfort to enjoy great company as well as engage in important conversations and debate. Finally, Jobsite is “going home” in a way by returning to the kinds of plays, playwrights, styles, and themes that made the company a formidable regional presence.
2016 BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Award
- Best Professional Theater Company
Mainstage Season
Almost an Evening
By Ethan Coen
Directed by Matthew Ray
Sep. 11 – Oct. 4, 2015
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Preview Performances: Sep. 9 – 10 | Wed. – Thr. 8pm | Tickets: $14
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Three satiric shorts by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan Coen. Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading – the Coen brothers’ films are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo adds playwriting to his eclectic bio. Almost an Evening ran to sold-out houses Off-Broadway in 2008. The overall theme of the collection of hilarious shorts is hell – both on earth and in the hereafter. Clever, provocative, and as engaging as the best fiction, these plays showcase yet another talent of one of our most celebrated contemporary writers.
Silence! The Musical
The unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs
Music and Lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan
Book by Hunter Bell
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Oct. 16 – Nov. 15, 2015
Thu. – Fri. 8pm | Sat. 4pm & 8pm | Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $29.50
Preview Performances: Oct. 14 – 15 | Wed. – Thr. 8pm | Tickets: $15
Jaeb Theatre, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
With brilliant musical numbers like “Papa Shtarling,” “Quid Pro Quo,” and “Are You About a Size 14?” Silence! The Musical is a howlingly entertaining night at the theater. Originally premiering on the internet before moving Off-Broadway, Silence! went on to win awards and find itself in Top 10 lists of New York theater.
Lebensraum
By Israel Horovitz
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Jan. 8 – 31, 2016
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Preview Performances: Jan. 6 – 7 | Wed. – Thr. 8pm | Tickets: $14
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Jobsite is honored to continue this collaboration with one of America’s greatest living dramatists, who Jobsite is once again bringing to Tampa for a residency. This time Horovitz comes to town for a full production after Jobsite’s successful evening with him and a rehearsed staged reading of his play Sins of the Mother. Using a cast of 3 actors performing quicksilver changes to play dozens of sharply drawn characters, this bold work of penetrating intelligence is based on the fanciful, explosive idea that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite 6 million Jews to Germany with a promise of citizenship and jobs.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
By Christopher Durang
Directed by Paul J. Potenza
Feb. 26 – Mar. 26, 2016
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Preview Performances: Feb. 24 – 25 | Wed. – Thr. 8pm | Tickets: $14
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
A send-up of Chekov’s plays so hilarious on its own merit that it doesn’t even matter if you think Chekov is just the name of that Russian guy on Star Trek!
Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their movie-star sister, Masha, swoops in with her new boy toy, Spike. Old resentments flare up, eventually leading to threats to sell the house.
The Maids
By Jean Genet
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Apr. 29 – May 22, 2016
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Preview Performances: Apr. 27 – 28 | Wed. – Thr. 8pm | Tickets: $14
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Inspired by the famous 1933 French murder trial of Christine and Lea Papin, two sisters employed as maids, role-play while the lady of the house is away, ritualistically acting out fantasies of both love and revenge. As the games intensify, the incipient violence escalates as they await Madame’s return from a romantic rendezvous.
Time Stands Still
By Donald Margulies
Directed by Summer Bohnenkamp
Jul. 8 – 31, 2016
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $28
Preview Performances: Jul. 6 – 7 | Wed. – Thr. 8pm | Tickets: $14
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Time Stands Still focuses on Sarah and James, a war photojournalist and her foreign correspondent boyfriend, who are trying to find happiness after their return from Iraq in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Theirs is a partnership based on telling the toughest stories, and together, making a difference. But when their own story takes a sudden turn, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life.
Ensemble
Job-side Productions
Full. The Musical
Book and Lyrics by Katie Berger
Music by Katie Berger and Alan Blake Conley
Directed by Sean Ryan Paris
Sep. 27 – 29, 2015
Sun. – Tue. 8pm
$10 at the door | Free for Jobsite Rock Stars and Season Ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
How does a person find herself again when she has lost everything? In this original musical, we explore the pursuit of a thriving life, in spite of the daily struggles that make us feel insubstantial and powerless. Everyone has a demon they have to fight. Everyone can become the hero of their own story.
Speech and Debate
By Stephen Karam
Directed by Sean Ryan Paris
Jan. 17 – 19, 2016
Sun. – Tue. 8pm
$10 at the door | Free for Jobsite Rock Stars and Season Ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon discover they are linked by a sex scandal that’s rocked their town. When one of them sets out to expose the truth, secrets become currency, the stakes get higher, and the trio’s connection grows deeper in this searching, fiercely funny dark comedy with music.
Inappropriately Funny Moments: Part Deuce!
By April Bender
Co-produced with Ghost Light Theatre Tampa
Directed by April Bender with Special Guest Director Johnny Garde
May 9 – 10, 2016
Mon. – Tue. 8pm
$10 at the door | Free for Jobsite Rock Stars and Season Ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Hold on to your seats and prepare for laughter! Ghost Light Theatre Tampa has teamed up with Jobsite Theater in a Ghost Light/Jobside Production… our finest collection of original, hilarious plays written by April Bender.
No Time to Pack: A Cabaret
Presented by Full: The Musical
May 16, 2016
Mon. 7:30pm
$10 at the door | Free for Jobsite Rock Stars and Season Ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
How does a person find herself again when she has lost everything? In this original musical, we explore the pursuit of a thriving life, in spite of the daily struggles that make us feel insubstantial and powerless. Everyone has a demon they have to fight. Everyone can become the hero of their own story.
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A Job-side Production
By Giles Davies and Nicole Jeannine Smith
Jul. 24 – 25, 2016
Sun – Mon. 7:30pm
Pay What You Can at the door | Free for Jobsite Rock Stars and Season Ticket holders.
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
A man, a woman and a list. What happens when we throw aside what we are supposed to do and just do what we want? This will be asked in an original piece created and performed by two of your Tampa Bay actors, Giles Davies and Nicole Jeannine Smith, who live to entertain you.
