{"id":187796,"date":"2026-03-11T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:44:06","slug":"straz-to-present-cristela-alonzo-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187796\/","title":{"rendered":"Straz to present Cristela Alonzo | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Stand-up comedian Cristela Alonzo will take the stage on Friday, March 20, 7 p.m., in Jaeb Theater at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $47.40. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/strazcenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alonzo grew up dirt-poor in Texas, but she can laugh about it now. In fact, she makes her living making other people laugh about it. The comedienne\u2019s third stand-up special is streaming on Netflix. It\u2019s called \u201cUpper Classy\u201d and was preceded by \u201cLower Classy\u201d and \u201cMiddle Classy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alonzo created and starred in her own sitcom, \u201cCristela.\u201d She guest hosted on \u201cThe View,\u201d and wrote a memoir, \u201cMusic to My Years: A Mixtape Memoir of Growing Up and Standing Up.\u201d She\u2019ll be standing up and doing stand-up in Jaeb Theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Stand-up comedian Cristela Alonzo will take the stage on Friday, March 20, 7 p.m., in Jaeb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13426,8973,88090,276,5168,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-187796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-comedian","9":"tag-comedy","10":"tag-cristela-alonzo","11":"tag-hillsborough-county","12":"tag-straz-center","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187796","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=187796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}