By Mark E. Leib for Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, 11 March 2015
The Tampa Shakespeare Festival has arrived, and it’s off to a good, if imperfect, start. There’s some excellent acting (along with the so-so sort), fine costume design (but evening lighting is a problem), and so much wonderful Shakespearean English, you don’t really mind the occasional competition from airplanes, powerboats, and Fido the Unimpressed. Water Works Park turns out to be an ingratiating venue for free, outdoor histrionics, and the bare stage of the Downtown Rotary Pavilion is capacious — too capacious? — and easy to see from your lawn chair or blanket. So give these artists time to iron out a few wrinkles, and the Bay area will have something even American Stage in the Park never offered: the Bard’s works, classically performed (no anxious jazzing-up). By all indications, something valuable this way comes.
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