Spend your summer with us! Camps and classes in dance, theater and music - for all ages and experience levels - are on sale now.
Our 2025 season includes two Opera Tampa premieres and a fresh production of a perennial favorite − in all, a blend of American and Italian fare that will appeal to both die-hard fans and newcomers.
Arts Legacy REMIX is a grassroots, ground-up undertaking that demonstrates how The Straz continues to discover new and innovative ways to create and present art that is entertaining, accessible, empowering and inspiring.
From classroom visits, to scholarships for deserving students, to Riverwalk Stage performances – donations make it all possible. Make a donation and help us reach beyond our theaters to bring the arts where they are needed most!
Tim Curry has played hundreds of roles on stage and screen, and in many of his films, he embodied a message: Embrace yourself, your strangeness, your inability or unwillingness to fit in. Give yourself over, if not to absolute pleasure, then to believing in yourself.
No other arts discipline requires the sheer physicality of ballet. Their strength is built through hours and hours of practice. Plus, particularly in a role such as Giselle, dancers must silently express a range of emotions while executing a range of motions as demanding as that of any athlete.
The tuba’s function in the orchestra is the equivalent of the bass guitar’s in a rock band. Both instruments provide a steady, rhythmic pulse without which the music could descend into chaos. However, while a bass guitar usually weighs little enough that even skinny Englishmen can smash it to pieces, a tuba rests its 25-30 pounds on the lap of its player, ensuring nobody’s gonna be smashing anything up in here.