Tampa Bay’s theater scene enters a new stage of collaboration for Pinellas Theatre Week kicking off November 9

Iraisa Ann Reilly Credit: Headshot / iraisaannreilly.com Pinellas County is home to seven professional theater companies, and six of them are taking part in Pinellas Theatre Week, happening Nov. 9-22. The series is part of the county’s not-so-new November celebration of local arts, now called Arts Everywhere. Funded by Creative Pinellas and Visit St. Pete-Clearwater (VSPC), Pinellas County Theatre Week includes 36 performances—and buy-one-get-one-free tickets to all of them. In a recent episode of CLTV, Avery Anderson, publisher of Tampa Bay Arts Passport and founder of the series, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that 340 tickets had already been sold, equating to about $5,000 in free tickets to the community. Because of the grant from Creative Pinellas and VSPC, the local theaters still get money for the free tickets, meaning they won’t take a loss, which was crucial to making Pinellas Theatre Week work. “Budgets are so tight right now, so the theaters can’t be giving away