{"id":218874,"date":"2026-04-04T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:11:09","slug":"mandy-keen-maggie-st-pete-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218874\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy Keen: Maggie &#8211; St Pete Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coming-of-bug tale about a trash-dwelling fly molting her way toward love, purpose, and human connection.<\/p>\n<p>From the depths of a landfill, a fly trudges her way out of the garbage and into the big city in this absurd, messy, and strangely heartfelt solo show.<\/p>\n<p>Packed with physical comedy and audience interaction, Maggie follows a tenacious misfit undergoing a strange metamorphosis as she searches for love, self-worth, and a place in the world while navigating the confusing rituals of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s weird. It\u2019s raw. It\u2019s unexpectedly emotional. There\u2019s no fourth wall.<\/p>\n<p>Written, directed, and performed by Mandy Keen, Maggie premiered to acclaim at The Commodore last spring and is heading to the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival this June.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences have called the show \u201cinventive, funny, and poignant,\u201d \u201chilarious, weird, touching,\u201d \u201cincredible,\u201d \u201cadventurous,\u201d and \u201c10\/10 comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coming-of-bug tale about a trash-dwelling fly molting her way toward love, purpose, and human connection. From the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-218874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218874","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=218874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}