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Longer runs and multiple venues are part of the new artistic director's drive to make performances by Tampa Bay's oldest theater company bigger and better-attended. 'Stones' makes a splash
This London satire, well received on Broadway, has become an international hit.
The American Stage season starts with Stones in His Pocket by Marie Jones and continues with the Eugene O'Neill classic A Moon for the Misbegotten (Oct. 31-Nov. 23), also directed by artistic director Todd Olson; Santaland Diaries (Dec. 5-21), a one-man show by David Sedaris about working as a Christmas elf at Macy's; Rebecca Gilman's Spinning Into Butter (Jan. 30-Feb. 22), which has been hailed for its provocative take on political correctness; the David Rambo comedy on high-powered religion, God's Man in Texas (June 4-July 3); and the revue by Olson and David Grapes, My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra (July 16-Aug. 15). The 19th annual Shakespeare in the Park will be Olson's staging of Much Ado About Nothing (April 18-May 16).
