FALL IN TAMPA BAY — A COLORFUL AND CULTURAL ARTS SCENE

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The Fall Arts Season in Tampa Bay

“Exterior In: New Murals” on show at The Dali Museum, via Oct. 26, 2025.

Fall in Tampa Bay brings in a season of reflection and cultural celebration at museums, theaters and venues all through the Tampa Bay space. It’s a time when audiences are emerged and open to contemporary, thought-provoking tales after a sizzling summer season. METRO’s compiled some must-see reveals, performances and fundraisers that profit the humanities scene.

 

Dalí Museum

Pink Floyd: The Darkish Aspect of the Moon within the Dali Dome. Picture coutesy of the Dali Museum

The Dalí Museum invitations audiences to expertise a spread of experiences from digital installations to world-class exhibitions. Exterior In: New Murals impressed by Dali, a hanging mural exhibition options customized painted works impressed by Salvador Dalí from international road artists. On view via Oct. 26, 2025. This exhibition tabs instantly into Tampa Bay’s vibrant dialogue of the worth and visibility of public artwork. It’s a strong reflection of St. Petersburg’s identification as a metropolis the place daring expression thrives contained in the gallery partitions and past. Visitor may take pleasure in Pink Floyd: The Darkish Aspect of the Moon within the Dali Dome with the band’s iconic music and 360-degree visuals via October. Opening Nov. 15, the particular exhibit Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dalí explores the works of Swiss sculptor Giacometti (1901-1966). The season’s theme facilities on identification, notion and surreal responses to the fashionable world.

There are additionally a spread of distinctive occasions designed to interact new audiences with Flavors of Spain dinner collection that commemorate wealthy culinary traditions of Spain with high space cooks. As soon as once more, the Museum’s annual fundraiser Suenos de Dali with a dreamlike night might be held Oct. 25. Friends will take pleasure in a dreamlike night with imaginative costumes, handcrafted cocktails and dancing contained in the Museum’s surreal setting.

For extra info, go to www.thedali.org

 

American Stage

The American Stage
The upcoming season for American Stage invitations the season that brings you residence – to your roots, your metropolis, your folks and your coronary heart. For the reason that pandemic and extra lately the back-to-back Hurricanes Helene and Milton, American Stage goals to herald themes of reconnection and restoration and along with bringing us again to ourselves, additionally they echo our collective return, rebuilding our cultural residence stronger than earlier than. By way of tales of transformation, resilience and rediscover, the 2025/26 gives an area to reconnect with what issues most. The Good Peaches opens Sept. 20 at Mahaffey Theatre and incorporates a multi-artform collaboration between American Stage, The Florida Orchestra and mission ALCHEMY Dance Firm. The present blends theatre, dance and orchestral music to inform the highly effective story of a woman who makes a want that turns right into a stormy reckoning with nature. It’s an incredible instance of how inventive partnerships can amplify our influence, coming collectively to ship a one-of-a-kind expertise to Tampa Bay audiences.

Bizarre in St. Pete (Oct. 2-19) might be held at The Duncan McClellan Gallery. This guided theatrical tour brings St. Pete’s oddball folklore to life. As a part of the Past the Stage collection, it guarantees to immerse audiences within the metropolis’s distinctive historical past and eccentric spirit. Hundred Days (Oct. 22 – Nov. 16) explores the love story of playwrights Abigail and Shaun Bengson. Themes of affection, resilience and discovering hope within the face of mortality are woven all through. The combination of ecological, emotional, and musical themes in American Stage’s programming mirrors neighborhood priorities in Tampa Bay—environmental consciousness, emotional reconnection, and love for shared experiences.

For extra info, go to www.americanstage.org.

 

The Florida Orchestra

The Florida Orchestra’s 58th season, Music Director Michael Francis is taking audiences on a journey that spans continents and cultures via the common language of music. Every season, the orchestra performs greater than 100 live shows in venues all through Tampa Bay, together with a variety of classical, in style, movie and family-friendly music, in addition to performances with international stars akin to Depraved star Cynthia Erivo.

Past the live performance halls, TFO packages deliver the transformative energy of music to varsities, youth and senior facilities, to underserved areas and to those that wouldn’t have such alternatives in any other case. It begins with a “September to Bear in mind:” 4 extraordinary live shows in a row, highlighted by an unprecedented collaboration with native arts organizations. Cynthia Erivo with The Florida Orchestra (Sept. 3, Ruth Eckerd Corridor). Amadeus LIVE (Sept. 13 & 14, Mahaffey Theater). The Good Peaches (Two reveals Sept. 20, Mahaffey Theater). Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Expertise (Sept. 25, Mahaffey Theater).

In November, Maestro Michael Francis conducts a deeply transferring evening of music and storytelling with Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish” (Nov. 7 & 8, Straz Heart and Mahaffey Theater). This work options textual content written by Samuel Pisar, who defied all odds to outlive the Holocaust. On this uncommon efficiency, his widow, Judith, and daughter, Leah, will present particular narration.

A family-friendly efficiency within the Pops collection makes the TFO is Troupe Vertigo (Nov. 1, Mahaffey Theater), wherein the live performance corridor meets the massive high, launching acrobats and high-flying aerialists over the musicians, all completely choreographed to classical favorites.

For extra info, go to www.floridaorchestra.org.

 
Morean Arts Heart

Chihuly Collection
Pictured from left to proper: Golden Rose Seaform, Inexperienced Apple Persian, River Rock Macchia
© 2025 Chihuly Studio. All rights reserved.

On the Morean, they embrace Fall as a time to open their doorways even wider and remind folks simply how transformative artwork may be. Audiences can stay up for a vibrant lineup of exhibitions throughout all the venues, every one celebrating neighborhood and artistic exploration. On the Morean Arts Heart, Influencers, the 2025 Members Present, highlights the unbelievable vary of expertise in our personal yard, whereas Caelan Jeffery: Appalachia—Latch-not-Lay gives a deeply private lens into identification and reminiscence.

On the Chihuly Assortment, Dan Alexander: A Universe Inside continues via September, and invitations viewers right into a transcendent world of type and emotion via glass.

In October, the Morean Arts Heart is host to the SHINE Mural Competition Exhibition which connects the person artist’s studio work to the bigger mural motion occurring throughout St. Petersburg. In November, the annual Vacation Present, Heaven and Nature Sing, will supply whimsical and significant methods to buy native and assist native artists.

On the Morean Heart for Clay, the annual members present Potter’s Area and Earth and Ocean by Charles Morrison and Nina Samuels supply compelling reflections on nature and the human expertise. Holly Rose Moore: Diaries of Convergence and an exhibition by artist Karina Yanes will delve into highly effective private and cultural narratives.

Along with exhibitions, the Fall I and II lessons and workshops will supply tons of of alternatives for the neighborhood to create, be taught, and develop via completely different mediums together with clay, glass, portray, printmaking, or pictures. These packages are a core a part of the mission, and so they flip curiosity into inventive observe. For the Morean Arts Heart, Fall is formed by themes of belonging and connection, each to position and to at least one one other. The objective whether or not on the Chihuly Assortment or one of many Up to date Artwork Galleries or on the Heart for Clay is to foster creativity, confidence, and a way of belonging, empowering the following technology to see themselves as artists.

For extra info, go to www.moreanartscenter.org.

 

Museum of High-quality Arts


Autumn is especially momentous time on the Museum of High-quality Arts as they have fun the sixtieth anniversary, and the galleries might be alive with contemporary views and extraordinary exhibitions.

The MFA invitations audiences to discover a dynamic season that spans centuries and sensibilities. Nina Yankowitz | Within the Out/Out the In, the primary career-retrospective for this groundbreaking artist, closes September 21, with a full of life line up of packages occurring forward of its shut. Be a part of a late-night dialog and sound lab with The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker on the ins and outs | Quantity III on Friday, September 12. Baker, who collaborated with Yankowitz and the MFA on an unique 6-track sonic interpretation of the exhibition, will information workshop contributors via her technique of turning visible artwork into sound. Friday, September 19 is the return of the MFA’s new hit younger grownup celebration collection AFTER HOURS (21+) in celebration of the Yankowitz exhibition. The night might be stuffed with nice meals, enjoyable drinks, stay artmaking, and, in fact, music! Closing day of the exhibition, the artist herself, Nina Yankowitz, might be In Dialog with the MFA’s Sr. Curator of Up to date Artwork, Katherine Tablet, discussing the artist’s decades-long profession and the way this retrospective got here to be.

In October, the MFA will premier In Caravaggio’s Gentle: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi. It options Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s celebrated, sensual, and startling Boy Bitten by a Lizard, and 40 different work by artists who responded to this revolutionary use of sunshine, drama, shade, and emotional engagement. Regardless of having been born over 500 years in the past, Caravaggio is having a second—and who doesn’t love a gifted, tortured artist who was frequently moving into road fights and midnight duels? Lots of the artists on this exhibition—from the tempestuous Jusepe Ribera to the impulsive Valentin de Boulogne—have been equally troubled and immensely gifted. Their work are nonetheless contemporary, gripping, and revelatory, exhibiting humanity in all our weak spot and glory. Accompanying this exhibition are a set of packages for all ages, impressed by the drama, magnificence, and pleasure of the Baroque.

The MFA is thrilled to announce its first-ever Teen Arts Council, a cohort of highschool college students from throughout Tampa Bay who will assist form programming for his or her friends, supply contemporary views on exhibitions, and develop management abilities via artwork. These college students will develop participating workshops and occasions for the brand new MFA Teenagers program collection, culminating in a teen-planned celebration referred to as “untitled” | an MFA Teen Night time in November.

For extra info, go to www.mfastpete.org.

 

The Palladium

On the Palladium, audiences can stay up for over 40 performances from September via November, spanning jazz, blues, classical, reggae, world music, and rock tributes — plus a full vacation season of reveals nonetheless to return. Past the music, the season displays what The Palladium is all about: bringing artists and neighborhood collectively for world-class performances — all in a welcoming, reasonably priced setting. September highlights a number of performances by the Palladium Artistic Fellows, a program that helps rising artists locally.

This fall, audiences may take pleasure in live shows by St. Petersburg School college students, the world premiere of a documentary on St. Pete’s personal Albert Whitted Airport, WEDU PBS presenting America’s Check Kitchen stay on stage, and the return of St. Pete Opera with their mainstage manufacturing of Susannah, kicking off the corporate’s twentieth anniversary season.

It’s a season that celebrates each native tales and international sounds, all on the Palladium. On Sept. 18, the Temporal Taal Collective brings a novel, multi-sensory expertise to Hough Corridor, mixing Indian classical music, jazz, international influences — and even delicacies — in an intimate occasion that invitations audiences to discover connection via sound and storytelling. On Sept. 27, acclaimed jazz bassist Alejandro Arenas presents MIXTURA: A Multicultural Journey in Sound on the Aspect Door. Backed by an all-star band of immigrant musicians from all over the world, Arenas shares his journey from Colombia to the U.S., reminding us that music has no borders.

Set contained in the cherished historic venue, the Palladium stays a house for unforgettable arts experiences and a spot the place music, tradition, and neighborhood come collectively within the coronary heart of St. Petersburg.

For extra info, go to mypalladium.org.

 

The Straz Heart

The Straz Center
Tony Award Successful Greatest New Musical, The Outsiders.

This Fall on the Straz Heart is all about what’s new and unique in Tampa Bay. The Straz is concentrated on twenty first and twentieth century artists and their work.

Dracula—A Comedy of Excursions is a brand new play produced by “Straz Produces” within the Jaeb Theatre. The present is presently in rehearsals in New York and prepared for the forged to reach in Tampa and start engaged on stage. It’s a brand new piece that may solely be seen in London and Tampa this Fall.

Straz’s Opera Tampa has a manufacturing of Flip of the Screw. Primarily based on Henry James horror novella, Flip of the Screw is a twentieth Century opera written by Benjamin Britten for modern audiences. That is the primary time this opera is produced right here within the Tampa Bay space.

The Broadway collection has an entire host of hits together with return engagements of Les Miserables, Stomp and A Christmas Story. There may also be the Tampa premiers of Kimberly Akimbo, Water for Elephants, the brand new revival of The Wiz and Broadway’s Tony Award Successful Greatest New Musical The Outsiders, a brand new musical based mostly on the novel by S.E. Hinton and the Frances Ford Coppola-directed movie.

The Straz Heart is a number one performing arts heart within the U.S. with a serious concentrate on arts training. Straz’s Patel Conservatory will enroll greater than 1,500 college students this fall and can concentrate on performing arts lessons that embody top-notch instruction with interactions with working performing artists and technicians.

For extra info, go to www.strazcenter.org.

 

The James Museum

The James MuseumThe James Museum programming this fall will function a number of artist talks, music nights, movies, and family-friendly packages impressed by themes discovered within the particular exhibitions and collections. From the Oregon Path to artwork actions that influenced the photographic work of Edward S. Curtis to Citrus Wizard Lue Gim Gong, guests might be impressed and intrigued by how the previous and the current, folks and locations close to and much encourage artists’ inventive observe. The James Museum continues construct connections between our Tampa Bay neighborhood and the numerous inventive and cultural voices of the American West.

Visitor can view Uncommon Air: Endangered Birds, Bats, Butterflies and Bees via Sept. 14. The 70 illustrations of endangered North American species by artist Sarah Kaizer showcases the crucial significance of conservation. On view via Sept. 28 is Perserverance: A Ladies’s Journey West. The exhibition presents nineteenth century farm life and the Oregon Path journey impressed by a lady’s journal.

Works by Utah-based artist Ben Steele might be on view opening Oct. 11 with whimsical work that depict scenes from the American West. Images of Edward S. Curtis might be on view from Nov. 8, 2025 – March 29, 2026. The exhibition gives a novel window into the altering panorama of American artwork and tradition.

For extra info, go to www.thejamesmuseum.org.

The Tampa Museum of Artwork

Tampa Museum of ArtGeared to take pleasure in youthful members of the Tampa Bay artwork neighborhood, the Tampa Museum of Artwork will host Arts & Aces for the Tampa Museum of artwork that includes an unforgettable on line casino evening of leisure and video games, this yr impressed by the casinos in Macau. This essential fundraiser will concentrate on artwork education schemes for teenagers and the TMA Youth Council. The signature black-tie occasion of the Tampa Museum of Artwork is Pavilion XXXIX to be held on Nov. 1, 2025 with 2025 Co-Chairs Sandra and Walt Chancey and Christine and John Phillips honoring Marian and Hal Flowers.

On exhibition on the Tampa Museum of Artwork via Nov. 30, 2025, In a New Gentle: American Impressionism 1870–1940 Works from the Financial institution of America Assortment.
The exhibition brings collectively over 100 works that showcase how American artists perceived their world throughout a time of profound change, spanning from the American Industrial Revolution to the beginning of World Battle II. It’s a uncommon alternative to see these work that inform the nation’s story via daring shade, expressive brushwork, and acquainted surroundings, from coastlines to metropolis streets.The exhibition showcases the range, magnificence, and depth of regional artwork colonies throughout the nation, from New Hope and Taos to Carmel and Cape Ann.

Presently on view embody Focal Level: The David Corridor Pictures Assortment on view via April 19, 2026 and The American Gaze: Work from Tampa Bay Assortment on view via Feb. 1, 2026.

To interact within the making and understanding of artwork, The Tampa Museum of Artwork gives a wide range of studio lessons to interact youth, adults and 55+ in varied types of workshops.

For extra info www.TampaMuseum.org.

 

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