Theatre Odyssey

It’s time to get ready for Theatre Odyssey’s 12th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival! The Festival will be held May 4-6, 2017, 7:30 p.m. & May 7, 2017 at 2 p.m. at the Cook Theatre (Cook Theatre at FSU/Asolo Performing Arts) ALWAYS, drama by Stephen Cooper. We meet Vivian and Edward, as they discuss their future, […]

The true story of an English slave trader whose life-changing experience inspired him to write the hymn “Amazing Grace” was the subject of the winning play in Theatre Odyssey’s Fifth Annual Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival. Written by Luke Valadie of Saint Stephens Episcopal School, “Amazing Grace” was one of eight plays by local high school […]

Theatre Odyssey is taking off on a new adventure! Our On the Road program will bring full productions of one-act plays to a growing community of retired theatre lovers along the gulf coast who are unable to get to the theatre. We are planning four productions in 2017, each with performances at three different retirement […]

Some 20 local playwrights with a connection to Theatre Odyssey attended a workshop Nov. 15 by playwright Dipika Guha, author of “The Art of Gaman” and “The Mechanics of Love.” A visiting fellow of The Hermitage Artist Retreat, where the workshop was held, Ms Guha used Aristotle’s six elements of dramatic structure (plot, character, theme, language, […]

Join Theatre Odyssey to meet and hear one of America’s great playwrights, Arthur Kopit, as he shares stories and wisdom to inspire the continuing work of area playwrights. Kopit is the author of such plays as “Indians”, “Phantom”, “Nine”, “Oh, Dad, Poor Dad”, “High Society” and “Wings”. He is a two-time Pulitzer finalist and a […]