The Hideaway Cafe is a music venue and studio located in St. Petersburg. The venue offers live entertainment, featuring local and national singers, songwriters and musicians. A full calendar of events is available online. The Hideaway Cafe offers patrons craft beers, wines and food items such as pizza, salads and sandwiches. For further inquiries about ticketed events or the venue's production studio, phone the Hideaway Cafe.
Attendance at American Stage Theatre Company has soared since it moved into new digs at the Raymond James Theatre, just a block south of Bay Walk. The new theater space is in the same building as St. Petersburg College's downtown campus.
Parking is convenient, because Synovus Bank lets patrons use its parking lot for free during performances; it is one block away, on 3rd Street. Also, St. Petersburg College's parking garage is open to patrons for $5 on Friday night, Saturdays and Sundays.
Interested in helping promote theater downtown? The stage company has a volunteer hotline: 727-823-1600, ext. 222.
The Palladium is St. Pete's premier community theater for up-and-coming artists. Its primary interest is live drama; nevertheless, you can always find music on offer, particularly in the winter season. Founded in 1998, the Palladium is housed in a Romanesque church.
The Freefall Theater, located near Treasure Island, serves the performing arts needs of Gulfport. It is a three acre complex, with 200 seat mainstage theater and 150 seat studio theater, and looks to put on interesting shows and performances. The theater's mission is to use art to attain a feeling of community within the larger Gulfport area.
Open since 2004, the Studio @ 620 has played a major role in the downtown St. Petersburg art scene. It hosts special events of all kinds, whether it's live music, poetry readings, theater, art exhibitions or film screenings. Since its opening, the Studio has maintained a consistently full calendar, making them a very active spot to catch unique performances or works of art. Fans can even become members of the Studio with different levels of membership offering various benefits and freebies.
