Theater and Arts Events & Things to Do
Near Tampa

Food Fight is an exhibition by Aimee Jones, Ashley Lester, Chase Palmer, Aubrey Vollrath and Ian Wilson focused in painting and ceramics. The artists explore a body of work that depicts the subject of food and consumerism.

Join Curator of Public Art and Social Practice Sarah Howard for a gallery tour and discussion of the exhibitions Sponge Exchange + FloodZone.

Continue your calligraphy journey by exploring uppercase letterforms, colors, metallic inks, and digitizing your calligraphy.

USF School of Music professor Dr. John Robison, with members of the Bay Baroque Ensemble, perform a varied concert including solo lute, theorbo, and archlute music, as well as Baroque ensemble music featuring Baroque recorder, strings, and harpsichord

A multi-faceted musician, Dr. Liza Stepanova (University of Georgia) is particularly noted for her recent solo CD “Tones & Colors,” featured in BBC Music Magazine and on Performance Today, and her international tours with the Lysander Piano Trio.

Tickets are $42.00 and include a pre-signed hardcover copy of A Long Petal of the Sea in English or Spanish, available at the historic Franklin Street Box Office or online ($1.00 service fee applies).

“The comedy whodunit that will keep you guessing (and laughing) to the very end.“

Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist whose work explores gender, identity, race and power through performance, video, interactive installations and critical writing. The Lecture will be held in Arts Lecture Hall (FAH 101).

The McCormick Marimba Festival features guest university performers and professional artists from around the USA.

Our amazing DanceUSF students showcase their own original choreographic work in this once a year concert.

The McCormick Marimba Festival features guest university performers and professional artists from around the USA.

Learn to bind and make your one one-of-a-kind notebook with luxurious paper from Nepal, Japan, and Italy, complete with a bow on top. Perfect for your next photo album, recipe book, journal, and more.

Go from beginner to writing fluently in the centuries-old style of traditional Copperplate calligraphy.

Spark creativity, confidence, clarity and mindfulness with the healthy habit of journaling. Explore the various types of journaling to find the one perfect for you.

The USF Composition in Asia Symposium and Festival no. 3 concludes with a concert dedicated to the music of two internationally known composers, Taiwanese woman composer Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee and Ewha Womans University professor Michael Timpson.

USF school of music presents guest artist violinist Daniela Shtreva along with her musical friends, including USF faculty violist John T. Posadas, in a program featuring the incredible music of Martinu.

Settle in on the lawn to watch a series of short documentaries featuring WLNR’s Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Tale and Jack Black’s Saving Miami, exploring our impact on the health and well-being of the waters, species and ecologies of South Florida.

We brought you The Vagina Monologues. We brought you The Penis Monologues. Now we’re opening Pandora’s box with original monologues, by local writers, about sex!

Make a truly heartfelt “I Love You” for friends and family in this fun make-and-take using vintage and modern materials.

Learn to use the versatile brush pen to create the thin and thick strokes and motions of beautiful calligraphy. Learning the fundamentals of this skill gives you endless possibilities.

Inside, there will be games, prizes, free popcorn and soda, hair and makeup touch-ups with professional stylists, the OSCAR® Red Carpet Live pre-show on the big screen, and a cash bar. ABC’s live coverage of the Academy Awards begins at 8:00pm.

Please join us for The Stone Garden & Subtlety: A User’s Manual Exhibition from the USF School of Art & Art History. There will be a reception on Feb 14 at 7:00 pm in the USF Carolyn Wilson Gallery. This is a free event so please bring a friend or two.

New York saxophonist/composer Dave Pietro takes a break as a member of the Grammy Award-winning Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Gil Evans Project and Maria Schneider Orchestras to share his talents and music.

Join artist Anastasia Samoylova and Ksenia Nouril, PhD, Jensen Bryan Curator, The Print Center, in a talk contextualizing Samoylova’s work within the historical and contemporary role of photography in society.

Winner of 4 Tony Awards, Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida is an epic tale of love, loyalty and betrayal, chronicling the love triangle between Aida, a Nubian princess stolen from her country, Amneris, an Egyptian princess, and Radames, the soldier they love.

Celebrate Love with your friends, family and significant other on Sunday, February 16th, 2020!! This day is filled with Showcases by talented students and their teachers, Mini Match Dance Competition, classy Valentine's Day Celebration in the evening!

Hailed as “one of the most talented pianists of his generation”, Polish pianist Marian Sobula presents an evening featuring some of the most beloved works by Chopin and Paderewski.

The USF Wind Ensemble will join forces with the Durant High School Wind Ensemble for a side-by-side concert of thrilling and poignant wind band music. Durant is led by USF graduate Bruce Herrmann and we look forward to welcoming him back to his home stage

Join us for our five weeks Level 1 Sensual Bachata Progressive Course. This course focuses on fundamentals of Bachata, weight transfer, body movement, body isolation and dissociation and turns. Everything you need to start mastering Sensual Bachata.

Working paints a vivid portrait of the men and women that the world so often takes for granted.

Join us for our five weeks Level 1 Salsa on One. This course focuses on fundamental steps of Salsa on one, weight transfer, turns, leading and following techniques and musicality. Everything you need to start mastering Salsa.

Students in the USF School of Music SYCOM composition and electronic music studio program perform original compositions inspired by Sponge Exchange + FloodZone exhibitions.

Dive deeper into the practice of artist and educator Hope Ginsburg as she presents on her past and current interdisciplinary projects which explore the sponge as a metaphor for the exchange and ecology of learning and as a catalyst for social change.

The Rutenberg Chamber Music Series presents the Baumer String Quartet with pianist and USF Resident Artist Dr. Eunmi Ko. The Baumer SQ brings together four accomplished artists who each tour nationally and internationally.

The fourteenth performance in Hope Ginsburg's Land Dive Team body of work proposes the practice of present moment awareness as a tool for coping with the overwhelming fear associated with climate change.

This concert will feature Igor Stravinsky’s exciting Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with Professor Ko solo, Huapango by Moncayo, Bjork’s Overture to Dancer in the Dark, Daugherty’s Bells for Stokowski, and Into the Silent Land by Steve Danyew

FloodZone presents Miami-based artist Anastasia Samoylova’s ongoing photographic series reflecting the impacts of sea level rise in South Florida, and highlighting the friction between natural and constructed landscapes.

USF Jazz Ensemble II, directed by James Suggs, is a 17 piece big band made up of young talented jazz musicians in the USF Jazz Studies program. This group will perform an exciting repertoire of Jazz music, ranging from early Jazz styles to contemporary.

Starting at CAM, participants will join USF Curator of Public Art and Social Practice Sarah Howard and CAM Events Coordinator Ashley Jablonski on a free walking tour of selected works in the USF Public Art Collection on the Tampa campus.

Murder is on the menu and everyone is a suspect! Set sail on Yacht StarShip’s Murder Mystery Dinner Cruise! Ditch the costumes and pre-conceptions, this mystery cruise pairs a comedic who-done-it with an unforgettable dinner cruise experience.

Gasparilla Festival of the Arts - 50th Anniversary

Gasparilla Festival of Art

Tampa Theatre is proud to announce comedian Jo Koy is returning LIVE to the Tampa Theatre stage at 7:00pm Saturday, February 29 with his Just Kidding World Tour, presented by ICON Concerts.

Sponge Exchange expands artist Hope Ginsburg’s work with ecology and knowledge transfer in two new collaboratively-produced video and sculpture installations.

Jeff Dunham: Seriously

Tampa Theatre and AEG Presents are proud to announce that Postmodern Jukebox will return to Tampa Theatre next spring with a stop on their Welcome to the Twenties 2.0 Tour at 8:00pm Saturday, March 7.

Brandon Ballet's 4th Annual Princess Tea Party is a family friendly event for all generations to enjoy! Guests will spend the afternoon with all of their favorite Disney characters while enjoying entertainment an cupcakes from Sweetie's Delights and more

We’re rolling in the piano, setting up the spotlight, and bringing in some of the funniest singers around to take you on a madcap cabaret-style journey through some of the best Broadway comedy songs of all time.

In one of the most renowned plays of the American theater, Blanche DuBois, a school teacher, arrives in New Orleans and takes a streetcar named “Desire” to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski, live.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!