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The play hopefully titled THE BEST TEN MINUTES EVER turned out to be the judges’ pick for best script at Theatre Odyssey’s Twelfth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, held this past weekend May 4-6 at the Asolo Theatre. Written by Dylan Jones, the production featured Philip Troyer and Johana Davila as actors whose lives are thoroughly entangled […]

Spend this Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14, with Theatre Odyssey and do something different for Mom. Treat your Mom to lunch at the Starlite Room, theatre lovers’ go-to place to see and be seen, followed by a matinee performance of four short plays. Theatre Odyssey’s latest initiative, “On the Road,” which brings theatre to those […]

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, […]