{"id":34444,"date":"2025-11-05T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34444\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:46:11","slug":"straz-to-present-ali-siddiq-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34444\/","title":{"rendered":"Straz to present Ali Siddiq | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA \u2014 Ali Siddiq will take the stage on Saturday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m., in Morsani Hall at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n

Tickets start at $39.20. Visit strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Siddiq discovered his ability to make people laugh while doing time in Texas penitentiaries where, presumably, hecklers weren\u2019t his biggest challenge. Upon release, he began making his name in the comedy clubs of Houston. He also began developing a style of performance that was as much storytelling as stand-up. He\u2019s celebrated for his brutal honesty and thought-provoking material, as well as that ability to draw laughs from even the toughest crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Ali Siddiq will take the stage on Saturday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m., in Morsani Hall at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24010,13426,8973,276,5168,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-34444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-ali-siddiq","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-straz-center","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444","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=34444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}