Jobsite's 2010-11 season

Jobsite Theater, resident theater company at the Straz Center and recipient of the 2009 Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Award for Best Theater Company, is proud to announce our 2010–11 season, marking our 13th season of bringing quality innovative theater to Tampa Bay.

Year after year, Jobsite’s audience has grown in size anywhere from 5% to 55%. Jobsite productions consistently rank high in annual lists, like those made by Creative Loafing, and the unique nature of their programming draws an unmatched share of the elusive 18–35 year old demographic. Jobsite’s Job-side Projects are giving voices to new and upcoming artists as well as mid-career professionals through their staged readings and fully-mounted second stage productions. At the time of this release, Jobsite is two weeks out from making their Off-Broadway debut with Pericles: Prince of Tires. Jobsite estimates that they will service nearly 10,000 patrons in this current season.

This 2010–11 season features: a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a stage adaptation of a popular thriller, another adaptation of a best-selling novel, a Tony Award-winning comedy by a modern American legend, a hot new play from the Big Apple, and one of the Bard's best-loved comedies.

For the fourth straight season Jobsite has kept prices frozen to encourage continued patronage in a down economy. All productions will run at 8p Thu. – Sat. and 4p Sun. with all tickets priced at $24.50. A season ticket to all six plays will go on sale Mon., April 26 for 30% off the regular price – that’s $102.90 per season ticket plus a $10 handling fee per order (whether you purchase one season ticket or 100.) This offer will be valid through Friday, July 9. As of July 10, the season ticket discount changes to the standard 20%, or $117.60 per season ticket plus a $10 handling fee per order. In an effort to be more green, renewals for existing subscriptions will be e-mailed on or around April 23. Any account without a valid email will have a hard mailing sent. If you are not a current season ticket holder, you can get on the list to receive email notification when season tickets are available by emailing tickets-AT-jobsitetheater-DOT-org.

Season tickets allow patrons to guarantee their seats to shows that consistently sell out in advance, feature a schedule-friendly exchange policy tailored to a busy lifestyle, include free admission to Job-side Projects and other events, and give Jobsite much-needed financial stability – enabling us to spend more time making art and less time worrying about how we will get people to see it.

Jobsite’s 2010 – 2011 Mainstage Season
Sponsored in part by Creative Loafing, Gobioff Foundation, Discount Printing and Graphics, SticksofFire.com

"Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly."
Einstein's Dreams
Based on the international best-seller by Alan Lightman
Adapted by David Gardiner & Ralf Remshardt
Sept. 16 – Oct. 3, 2010

Jobsite unleashes another macabre Halloween treat in this three-person thriller
Mindgame
by Anthony Horowitz, based on his novel by the same name
Oct. 21 – Nov. 17, 2010

A contemporary comic masterpiece from one of America's best-loved playwrights
The Odd Couple
1965 Tony Award winner for Best Play
by Neil Simon
Feb. 3 – 20, 2011

Finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Yellowman
Starring Fanni Green, directed by Karla Hartley
by Dael Orlandersmith
March 10-27, 2011

The finale of the trilogy including The Shape of Things and Fat Pig
reasons to be pretty
by Neil Labute
"It is tight, tense and emotionally true, and it portrays characters who actually seem part of the world that the rest of us live in." —Time Magazine
May 12-29, 2011

Brush up your Shakespeare for this modern-dress commedia dell'arte-infused production
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by David M. Jenkins
July 21 – Aug. 7, 2011

Pericles returns to Tampa for 1 WEEK ONLY before heading to NY!

We are very excited to be bringing back a rock showcase staging of Pericles: Prince of Tires for one week only in Tampa (April 7-11) before making our Off-Broadway debut at HERE Arts Center (April 15 - 17).

We would really love to share this momentous occasion with all of you - whether you missed the show when it played last August or if you were one of the devoted few who saw the show several times. The Tampa dates are not only another chance to melt your faces off, but they are a fundraiser to help us cover the expenses associated with taking a show like this to the Big Apple.

WE TRULY NEED YOUR SUPPORT.

All tickets are $15. There are no discounts, and no rush. We are also selling AWESOME original cast recording CDs ($10) and official Pericles t-shirts ($15) at all shows.

If, for some reason, you don't think you'll be able to make it down to the theater you can still provide us meaningful assistance by making a donation at JobsiteTheater.org, or even by purchasing a CD or t-shirt online that we could mail to you. To buy Pericles merch now just write us at info@jobsitetheater.org and we'll get your order going.

Of course the most meaningful way you can always help us is by buying tickets and telling your friends. We really need to pack this theater out for all 5 shows.

Also, since The Straz is the host of the Florida State Thespian Festival that week, we STRONGLY encourage advance sales as we expect students to scoop up tickets quickly once they are in town.

So many of you spoke so highly of this show, or were so apologetic for missing it the first time around. We hope that this is an opportunity you take advantage of.

We would love to make this an annual event - taking new work to New York - but we will need your help and direct support to make that a reality.

I hope to see you all at the theater April 7-11. I didn't miss a single performance last August, and I have a feeling my streak will continue. :)

Pericles contains adult language and subject matter and is intended for mature audiences only.

This production is being presented in New York through HEREstay, a curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.

boom! appears to be a hit

Three performances, three wholly different types of audiences but what appears to be a universal consensus - boom! is a hit!

You can check out the feedback already rolling in from Twitter and Facebook at our Media page. As soon as we get more reviews, patron or critic, we'll try to get them up.

As of the writing of this blog, there are a few open seats for tonight's 8p show, and decent availability for all other performances. As usual, Saturdays look like they'll be the first to sell out - so we strongly encourage anyone planning to come on a Saturday to buy as far in advance as possible to avoid disappointment.

Check out the video I made opening night. I was playing with our new camera, mic and software. It's a little buggy, there are things that could be better about it, but it was meant to be a test. I figured it was already made, so what the hell - share it!

Boom Review

I'm not normally one to share reviews of other productions of plays that we're doing, but this Variety review of the original Ars Nova production of boom! captures what I believe to be the real heart of this piece.

I fell in love with the script on the first read. On Wed. night I watched my first rehearsal of our production and was very encouraged as to what's going to be given to local audiences next week. This is a thoughtful and bawdy, smutty and sweet show that rings at a primal level underneath the gut-busting laughs.

I'll post more later, but read this review. Then buy your tickets. Your opening weekend support is vital to our success.

boom! Variety review

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