Performances tonight and Wednesday afternoon of A Christmas Carol in Concert at freeFall Theatre are sold out.<\/p>\n
The Tampa Repertory Theatre\u2019s A Christmas Carol \u2013 A Live Radio Play in onstage at the Straz Center Shimberg Playhouse at 3 and 7:30 p.m. today. Tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Created in London more than three decades ago, Stomp was, and is, a non-linear theatrical production (meaning there\u2019s no plot), richly choreographed, that features cast of \u201cordinary people\u201d making all-percussion music with everyday household and industrial objects (matchboxes, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters et cetera).<\/p>\n Broadway.com describes Stomp as \u201ca journey through sound, a celebration of the everyday and a comic interplay of characters wordlessly communicating through dance and drum.\u201d<\/p>\n Somehow, it connected with audiences \u2013 Stomp ran for 29 years and 11,475 performances in New York City alone, and has been on the road nearly that long.<\/p>\n The 2025 Stomp tour is in Ferguson Hall, in Tampa\u2019s Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Dec. 26, 27 and 28. Find showtimes, and tickets, at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Tony-winnig musical \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d opens Saturday at Morsani Hall, in Tampa\u2019s Straz Center. Publicity photo.<\/p>\n In Morsani Hall, the Straz Center theater that\u2019s a few hundred seats bigger than Ferguson, the Broadway Series ends with year with The Outsiders, the Tomy-Winning Best Musical of 2024, Dec. 27-Jan. 4.<\/p>\n The Outsiders is based on film director Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s 1983 drama about rival gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, itself an adaptation of S.E. Hinton\u2019s 1960s novel. Come and see Ponyboy and his fellow Greasers contend with their affluent and stuck-up rivals, the Socs.<\/p>\n Find showtimes, and tickets, at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Featuring dancers and artisans from the Ukraine and Russia, the show called NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet\u00a0began touring the world in the 1990s as The Great Russian Nutcracker.<\/p>\n Sometimes it seems as if it\u2019s been coming to the Mahaffey Theater for that long, because it performs there every Christmas season. Whatever, there\u2019s always something grand and gratifying about watching a fully professional company dance to the strains of Tchaikovsky\u2019s timeless holiday music.<\/p>\n NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet\u00a0\u2013 there are three performances Sunday (Dec. 28) \u2013 features elaborate sets and costumes, all of the classical European design.<\/p>\n For all showtimes, details and tickets, visit this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Friday at the Mahaffey Theater, comedian Gary Owen performs. Named \u201cBlack America\u2019s Favorite White Comic\u201d by Ebony in 2011, Owens had his own eponymous sitcom on BET, and appeared in Daddy Day Care, Little Man, Think Like a Man and others, and on Tyler Perry\u2019s House of Payne series.<\/p>\n Tickets for Owen\u2019s 7 p.m. standup show are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ventriloquist Terry Fator has a Sunday show at Ruth Eckerd Hall, along his regular coterie of fast-talking dummies \u2013 let\u2019s use the word lightly \u2013 including Winston the Impersonating Turtle; country star Walter T. Airdale; Apollo Theater legend Julius; perpetual slacker and stoner Duggie; Vikki the Cougar and the world\u2019s greatest Elvis impersonator, Maynard Tompkins.<\/p>\n The show, Pure Imagination: Once Upon a Voice, starts at 7 p.m. Find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Your Weekend Spotlight<\/a>\u00a0appears every Thursday in the\u00a0Catalyst\u2019s CREATE section (this week, of course, is an exception).\u00a0<\/p>\n Please add us to your mailing list \u2013 send all press releases and event info to\u00a0bill@stpetecatalyst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Outsiders-Straz-Center-300x166.jpg\")
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