{"id":177780,"date":"2026-03-04T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:39:08","slug":"matt-rife-to-bring-tour-to-benchmark-international-arena-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177780\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rife to bring tour to Benchmark International Arena | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA \u2014 Record-breaking comedian Matt Rife recently extended his highly successful \u201cStay Golden World Tour,\u201d with a stop in the Tampa Bay area on Friday, March 13, 8 p.m., at Benchmark International Arena, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa.<\/p>\n

Tickets start at $53.15. Visit www.ticketmaster.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rife will introduce a new 360 in-the-round stage design at his Tampa date, giving fans a completely immersive experience.<\/p>\n

The 2026 leg follows 2025\u2019s \u201cStay Golden Tour,\u201d which saw Rife play shows across San Diego, Austin, Philadelphia and more including two sold-out nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden, making him the youngest comedian to sell out the venue. Rife has shattered multiple venue records across the country on this tour, including the most single-event tickets ever sold at both Columbus’ Nationwide Arena and Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, as well as the all-time ticket sales record at Manchester’s SNHU Arena and the paid seat record for the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He also set a new benchmark at Anaheim’s Honda Center, breaking the record for most tickets sold by a comedian in the venue’s history.<\/p>\n

Rife’s newest special for Netflix premiered in December 2025. \u201cMatt Rife: Unwrapped A Christmas Crowd Work Special\u201d explores gifts, traditions and who’s made it on the naughty or nice list this year. Directed by Erik Griffin, the special was taped in Phoenix, Arizona. Rife also executive produced along with Christina Shams. His company, Carpe Noctem, produced the special along with Avesta Entertainment and Above Average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Record-breaking comedian Matt Rife recently extended his highly successful \u201cStay Golden World Tour,\u201d with a stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1412,13426,8973,276,84090,84091,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-177780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-benchmark-international-arena","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-matt-rife","tag-stay-golden-world-tour","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}