2025 – 26 Season
We are an award-winning, cutting-edge professional theater company that splits time between the Straz Center’s intimate 98-seat Shimberg Playhouse and 320-seat Jaeb Theater. We believe that this new lineup is not only both accessible to traditional theater audiences and the broader public but conforms to the unique, edgy, intimate experiences audiences have come to expect from the Jobsite aesthetic!
Tickets
A season pass is the best way to save money and provide meaningful support to Jobsite’s ensemble of over 70 regional artists. A pass for the six mainstage performances will be available May 7 for $168, with no added fees. Passes are not subject to additional per-ticket fees or demand-based pricing (saving folks up to 80%), they come with unlimited free ticketing exchanges (up to 24-hours in advance of the show time), passholders may swap their tickets out from any one show in the season in return for additional tickets to another, and passholders may purchase additional tickets to any show for $35. A special preview pass is available for $138 and carries all benefits except free exchanges, the difference in ticket price from date to the other must be paid if exchanged. Passholders may purchase additional tickets for $25.
Single ticket pricing varies by title and seating location, and increases by date based on demand. Single tickets are subject to ticketing and restoration fees levied by the Straz Center. A schedule of when single tickets to the individual shows go on sale will be released this summer.
Mainstage Season
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
Book by Stephen King
Music & lyrics by John Mellencamp
Oct. 15 – Nov. 9, 2025
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center
Jobsite’s Halloween streak remains undefeated! A blues-inflected country score by legend John Mellencamp and a claustrophobic, refractured parable from the master of thriller Stephen King combine to create the spooky, cautionary tale of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.
In an eerie cabin in the woods, a young couple come across its caretaker, the Troubadour, who reveals to them an almost Biblically violent story that took place in that very house, about a set of brothers who are in love with the same woman and the ensuing rivalry that sparks between them. The young couple hearing this tale realize that this cabin’s past is certainly like their present. When the young man’s brother shows up to stake a claim for the woman he loves, will they repeat the sins of the past — especially if it means staying alive?
Jobsite is proud to offer the Florida premiere of this work using new orchestrations approved by the creators — just in time for Spooky Season!
The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by David Jenkins
Featuring an original score by Jeremy Douglass
Jan. 14 – Feb. 8, 2026
Jaeb Theater, Straz Center
A stranger arrives in town only to find that everyone knows their name but thinks they’re someone else. In this fairy tale of a farce believed to be one of the Shakespeare’s earliest, everyday miracles, mistaken identity, and double double (oh what trouble!) vision makes for a brisk evening of laughs!
Set against the backdrop of 1960s beat-era San Francisco, The Comedy of Errors will leave both the Bardophile and Shakespeare novice in stitches. Like, hey, daddy-o — wherefore art thou Dromio?
Jobsite is a six-time finalist for the NEA’s Shakespeare in American Communities Award. “No one ‘Rocks the Bard’ as hard, as daring, or as relevant as Jobsite and their players” – BroadwayWorld.
This show is also offered as weekday field trip matinees for high school students Jan. 20, 21, 27, 28, Feb. 3 and 4. Please write to fieldtrips@strazcenter.org or call 813.222.1016 to learn more or make your reservation!
The Shark Is Broken
By Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon
Mar. 12 – Apr. 5, 2026
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center
FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed … again. The lead actors — theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider — are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic… if it doesn’t sink them all.
Step aboard the Orca and into The Shark Is Broken, a “profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws” (The Daily Telegraph, ★★★★). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is “hilariously brilliant and pure genius” raves the Sunday Express (★★★★★).
The Shark Is Broken celebrates movie history and peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster. Short tempers. Short circuits. 95 minutes, no intermission.
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
By John Patrick Shanley
May 6 – 31, 2026
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center
Have you ever been caught in an earthquake? A chance meeting. A dive bar. Some encounters are so dangerous and so beautiful, they redefine the meaning of love. Follow two desperate people in the Bronx, Danny and Roberta, as they walk the line between destruction and transcendence.
As their initial reserve upon meeting begins to melt and they decide to spend the night together, the possibility of a genuine and meaningful relationship begins to emerge — the first for both of them.
“…the play is the equivalent of sitting at ringside watching a prize fight that concludes in a loving embrace.” —The New York Times.
The successful 2023 Broadway revival starred Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbot and earned two Drama League and three Lucille Lortel nominations.
American Idiot
Music by Green Day
Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong
Book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer
July 15 – Aug. 9, 2026
Jaeb Theater, Straz Center
What better way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? This two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical, based on the Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, boldly takes the American musical where it’s never gone before. This high-octane scorcher includes every song from Green Day’s album, American Idiot, as well as several songs from its follow-up release, 21st Century Breakdown.
A high-concept rock opera, American Idiot explores disillusionment, consumerism, and the manipulation of the media and government through a trio of friends struggling to find meaning in a world they barely recognize.
“a pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions [only] to transcend them through the power of its music and the artistry of its execution, the show is as invigorating and ultimately as moving as anything I’ve seen on Broadway.” – The New York Times.
American Idiot is professionally licensed by Music Theatre International.
Penelope
Music and Lyrics by Alex Bechtel
Book by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean, and Eva Steinmetz
Based on writings in The Odyssey by Homer
Aug. 19 – Sep. 6, 2026
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center
Penelope has been waiting … and waiting … and waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return from a decade-long war. Given the rest of the soldiers came home years ago — forgive her, but she’s going to need a drink while she tells you about it.
With a beautiful folk-inflected pop score backed by an onstage band of strings, piano, and drums, Penelope confides in us about her loneliness, her son’s disappearance, her suitors, her gods, her faith in her marriage — and ultimately, the faith that she must have in herself. So go ahead and grab a drink too and listen to this ancient tale made new: A woman wondering who she is if she’s alone, and discovering that she has, is, and will always be complete, with her husband by her side or otherwise.
This one-woman musical starring Artistic Associate Colleen Cherry is by turns aching, hilarious, haunting, and explosive. After successful productions at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Signature Theatre DC, and Joe’s Pub NYC, Jobsite is excited to offer the southern US premiere of Penelope – we’ve been waiting over 2,500 years to hear her side of the story.
Command Productions
Jobsite Rocks!
Sat., Dec. 6
New World Music Hall
Enjoy an incredible variety show featuring members of the Jobsite ensemble and our friends from around the region, food, drinks, silent auctions, opportunity drawings, and more! This ticket is separate from the season pass, but Rock Star and All-Star donors get free entry for this event.
