The Odd Couple (staged last February at Jobsite) would hardly seem a vehicle for outstanding acting, but Paul Potenza brought the character of Felix Unger to a level of existential despair that was both hilarious and deeply authentic. This cleanliness-obsessed sad sack had been to the edge of the abyss and wasn’t the better for it. But we in the audience surely were. (And he just keeps turning in memorable performances; in Jobsite’s current production of The Guys, he is utterly convincing as a NYC fire captain trying to come to terms with the loss of his comrades in 9/11.) jobsitetheater.org.

Cabaret and burlesque have been all the rage this year, but no locals tickled our fancy with their showgirl feathers — until now. Along comes the cutie-pie miscreants in Coco & Homo, a “dynamic duo of trash and hedonism” who have created a “post-modern religious experience for the 21st Century.” Coco, the female half, belts out with pipes that rival the late, great Amy Winehouse, whom she covers, and together the duo performs an eclectic mix, from Kurt Weill to Tom Waits to Ke$ha. Their act includes interactive, playful and “sometimes naughty” games. cocoandhomo.com.

Easybreezy, who’s working on its first full-length, busts out a random triptych of styles. It’s impossible to capture all the snippets of genres coming at you when they play. Their music is like a soundtrack to your waking dreams — a subconscious repository of the last three decades, from metal to indie to demento stuff to garage rock. Josh Greenberg (guitar and vocals), Chase Leonard (drums) and Charlie Curtis (bass) package the madness quite nicely. myspace.com/easybreezymusic.

An amalgamation of activist groups and organized labor, the movement — inspired by the reality that Florida had actually lost its collective mind and elected Rick Scott as governor — was a powerful display of protests that showed that Democrats maybe, just maybe, aren’t dead yet in Florida.

No need to fly to New York for professionalism when the spectacularly talented Fanni Green is on stage in Tampa. A member of USF’s theater faculty with extensive stage, film and TV credits (and great stories about working with the likes of Vanessa Redgrave and Joe Papp), she made her area professional debut this season in Jobsite’s Yellowman. In a wrenchingly authentic performance, she showed us how a girl becomes a woman, a country mouse becomes a city mouse, and a self-hating Southerner becomes a self-confident Northerner. Here’s hoping this teacher gets lots more opportunities to teach us what good acting’s all about. (She’s also a writer and director; see Best Dance Performance)