Our 11-12 season!

Jobsite Theater, the award-winning professional theater company in residence at the Straz Center, is proud to announce their 2011–12 season, marking their 14^th season of bringing quality innovative theater to Tampa Bay. Just last year Jobsite saw brisk growth in season ticket and individual ticket sales, private donations and foundation support. 2011 also saw Jobsite's Off-Broadway debut at HERE Arts Center with the new musical Pericles: Prince of Tires. Meanwwhile, Jobsite has continued to develop their Job-side Productions and Staged Readings, offering artists of all disciplines a work space to hone their crafts and let their voices be heard. Most recently, USF MFA candidate Ellen Mueller presented her Book of Enid to a crowd enthralled by her multimedia presentation featuring original artwork, writing, performance and video,

The 2011-12 season is highly representative of Jobsite's past, reflective of the company's strengths today and teases towards where the company wants to be in the future.

In a continuing effort to attract new audiences as well as encourage continued patronage in a down economy, Jobsite moves into their fifth straight season without a price increase. With a top individual ticket cost of $24.50, Jobsite easily ranks as one of the most affordable professional theater experiences in the region. “We hear over and over again that we are the best value in the region from fans who pay almost twice as much for tickets in the area. Regular folks can't afford that, and we feel like we've tried to be sensitive to that in our pricing” says Producing Artistic Director David M. Jenkins. All productions will run at 8p Thursdays through Saturdays and 4p on Sundays with all tickets priced at $24.50. A season ticket to all six plays will go on sale May 9 at 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 Sunday, August 7. As of August 8, the season ticket discount changes to 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 May 1. 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@jobsitetheater.org.

WHY SUBSCRIBE?

• Season tickets allow patrons to guarantee their seats to shows that consistently sell out in advance. No worries!

• Take advantage of a schedule-friendly exchange policy tailored to suit a busy lifestyle.

• Purchase extra tickets for friends or family at 10% off.

• Get free or greatly discounted admission to readings, side projects and other special events.

• Feel good knowing you're giving Jobsite much-needed financial stability – enabling them to spend more time making art and less time worrying about how they will get people to see it.

Jobsite’s 2011 – 2012 Mainstage Season

Sponsored by The Gobioff Foundation, Scherer Staffing, Creative Loafing and Discount Printing and Graphics

Commemorating the passing of 10 years since 9/11

The Guys

By Anne Nelson

“Stark and simple, potent and poignant, brimming with edgy humanity. It’s a generous, sad, touching play

about the braveries of grief.” – New York Post

Directed by Shawn Paonessa

Sept. 8­­­–25, 2011

1995 OBIE Award winner

Quills

by Doug Wright

“part theater of the ridiculous, part comedy of manners and part Grand Guignol, successfully blends intentional archness, grotesque exaggeration and bold humor to create a theatrical experience of real wit" – New York Times

Directed by David M. Jenkins

Oct. 19 – Nov. 6, 2011

WINNER of two Tony Awards and two Drama Desk Awards in 2008 as well as the 2007 Olivier Award

The 39 Steps

by Patrick Barlow, based on the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock

“Theater at its finest … Absurdly enjoyable! This gleefully theatrical riff on Hitchcock's film is fast and frothy, performed by a cast of four that seems like a cast of thousands.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times

Directed by Katrina Stevenson

Jan. 11–­29, 2012

Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka

by Christopher Buehlman

Aphrodite, goddess of love, and Pan, god of shagging everything, have come to wreak havoc on the

island of Ithaka. Fill your wine glass, nail down your goats, and prepare to laugh really hard.

Directed by Chris Holcom

March 7–­25, 2012

America’s most controversial topic is tackled in a provocative new tale of sex, guilt and bold accusations

RACE

by David Mamet

”There is intrigue within intrigue, showing how personal prejudice and individual missteps govern the course

of things … adroitly mixes comic darts with tragic arrows.” – Bloomberg News

Directed by David M. Jenkins

May 9–27, 2012

Closetland

by Radha Baradwaj, based on her 1991 screenplay

In an unnamed country, in an unspecified time, a man purporting to represent the government

interrogates a suspected subversive female author of children’s fiction.

Directed by Gavin Hawk

July 11–­29, 2012

Plus, Jobsite is offering the following special Job-side Productions as optional add-ons to the package:

Christmas Carol: A New Rock Musical

Music and concept by Joe Popp, book and direction by Kari Goetz

The man who brought the music to Maxwell and Pericles adapts Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol

into a new rock musical. The cast includes several Jobsite veterans in updated incarnations of Scrooge,

Marley, Cratchit plus of course all the ghosts and promises to be a rocking addition to your holiday plans.

One week only: Dec. 14–­18, 2011

Chapel Perilous

A new play by Artistic Associate Christen Petitt

Fraternal twins Mae and Jake own a dodgy beach bar and massage parlor. When they learn a hurricane is on the way, they do what comes naturally – throw a party and sing some karaoke. However, the forces of chaos, destruction, unrequited love, and poisonous hotdogs threaten to destroy everything.

Late nights July 19–29, 2012