David A.Straz, JR. CENTER for the performing arts

Show Dates & Times

Thurs. 8 p.m., Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m.

Pricing

Regularly priced tickets start at $24.50; $10 for preview on Aug. 4.

Group ticket prices:  Groups 12+ 15% off

Students, Senior, Military: Students 18 years or younger, college students with valid ID cards, adults 65 years and older and members of the military with valid ID qualify for special half-priced tickets to selected Center-presented shows indicated below, on the day of the performance, 30- to 90-minutes before curtain, availability permitting. Limit one ticket per ID, cash only. Not valid with other discounts. Tickets already purchased for events may not be exchanged or refunded.

There is a maximum ticket allotment of eight tickets per account/household/business for paid, ticketed events. (For some shows, it may be less.) Applicable service charges added at point of purchase. There is no maximum for free, non-ticketed events.

Pursuant to s.817.36, Florida Statutes, no Straz Center ticket may be offered or resold for more than $1 over the face value of the ticket.

What to Expect

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY: Contains strong adult language, subject matter and situations

About the Show

Jobsite presents the "unauthorized parody" that features America's favorite cartoon gang 10 years after the events of their 50-year old comic strip with the darkly comic and poignant Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.

In 2004, Dog Sees God was one of the breakout hits at the New York International Fringe Festival, winning the Excellence Award for Best Overall Production, as well as Theatermania's Play Award of 2004, the GLAAD Media Award for Best off-off-Broadway production, Broadway.com's 2006 Audience Award for Favorite Off-Broadway Production and the 2006 HX Award for Best Play.

Dog Sees God features Shawn Paonessa as CB, Kari Goetz as CB's Sister, Jason Vaughan Evans as Van, Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins as Van's Sister, Richard Kennedy as Matt, Spencer Meyers as Beethoven, Meg Heimstead as Marcy and Katrina Stevenson as Tricia. Dog Sees God is directed by David M. Jenkins with a lighting and set design by Brian Smallheer.

Reviews

"... audiences will laugh until their eyes water and then, possibly, shed genuine tears of sadness, tooboth totally warranted responses that speak to the scripts generic range and delicate subject matter as well as the merits of this production." – Drama Daily

"True to the heart of [the original] comic strip ... phenomenal entertainment, sometimes hysterically funny, sometimes sweetly philosophical and ultimately poignant ... hugely entertaining and even mildly thought-provoking." - St. Petersburg Times

"In the pressure-cooker that is high school, Dog Sees God might even save a life ... the acting in this Jobsite Theater production is topnotch ... superbly directed ..." - Creative Loafing

 “A welcome antidote to the notion that the Peanuts gang provides merely a slice of American cuteness.” – NY Times

“Inventive and raunchy…hysterically funny.” – NY Post

"Dog Sees God doesn't feel like the same old high-school-warfare schlock. The characters – teenage and reckless – are both genuinely sympathetic and unquestionably cruel. Growing more hysterical – and more harrowing – as it flows to an inevitable, uncomfortable end, this taut comedy manages to make tired clichés about stoners and popular homecoming airheads funny and endearing." – NY Magazine