Tampa Bay Performing Arts Ctr

Jobsite Theater is the award-winning resident professional theater company at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Tampa. We produce a wide-array of quality productions from new cutting-edge works to relevant takes on the classics.

Make a night of it and hit downtown bars and restaurants. May we suggest Four Green Fields or the Ashley Street Grill.

Tickets are usually way cheaper than the glitzy, big productions in neighboring theaters. Expect to shell out $10-$15 for a good seat.

With 335,000 square feet, this is the second-largest arts complex south of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Among the facilities are the 2,500-seat Carol Morsani Hall, a 1,047-seat playhouse, the 200-seat TECO Theater, a 300-seat cabaret theater, and a 120-seat black-box theater. Opera, concerts, drama, and ballet performances are presented here.

The Scene
It boasts four halls of varying sizes (2,500 seats; 1,000 seats; 300 seats; and 120 seats). The Center truly presents it all--from Broadway shows and alternative theater to...

The Goods The Playhouse is an absolutely perfect mid-sized theater with a proscenium stage and a classical configuration. There are no bad seats, so if you're on a tight budget you needn't fret about having to sit in the rear or in the balcony--you'll see and hear just fine. Dance Fever Despite the theater's name, there aren't a whole lot of actual plays produced here. The Performing Arts...

The Straz Center began as a dream by visionary citizens of Tampa who persevered to bring to reality one of the finest performing arts centers in the nation. It is many things to many people and it’s more than just a building, more than just a performing arts center. It is a presenter, a producer, an educator, a community partner and an economic engine for the Tampa Bay area. It is a cornerstone...