Weekend spotlight: A plethora of entertainment choices

Disney’s groundbreaking 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl screens Friday (7:30 p.m.) and Saturday (2 p.m.) at the Mahaffey Theater, with the music performed live-to-film by The Florida Orchestra. Includes the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. Lawrence Loh conducts. Tickets are at this link.

Two rock legends on a single bill? All righty then. John Fogerty, the founding singer/songwriter of Creedence Clearwater Revival (he’s done all right on his own, too) is co-billed with Steve Winwood, of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith (ditto on the solo career trajectory. The show is Saturday, 7 p.m. at the BayCare Sound. Find tickets here.

Sunday (3-5 p.m.) brings Spanish guitar showman Benise to the New Tampa Performing Arts Center. Benise will be there with his full complement of musicians and dancers, celebrating 25 years since he burst onto the scene via PBS. Tickets are right here.

Sibling rivalry in the Off-Central’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” Tracey Reynolds, left, Michael Gregory and Jill Schroeder. Image: Chaz D. Photography.

On theater stages

It’s the final weekend for the exquisitely funny Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Off-Central (Sunday’s matinee closes the show). For tickets and showtimes, visit this link.

New this weekend: The rock ‘n’ roll musical A Night With Janis Joplin, with Laura Frye as America’s best-ever white blues singer. For tickets and showtimes, visit this link.

At freeFall Theater, they’re opening the musical comedy What a Glorious Feeling! this weekend; it’s a backstage look at the making of the movie musical Singin’ in the Rain. For tickets and showtimes, visit this link.

Fresh drama at LAB Theater Project: As We Like It by Oded Gross. This is a psychological drama about a family rehearsing a Shakespeare play in Nazi-occupied Poland … or are they? For tickets and showtimes, visit this link. The playwright, and LAB director Owen Robertson, guest on Friday’s Arts Alive! podcast.

Coming soon

Sept. 22 Roxanne Fay in My Unspeakable Confessions at the Dali Museum

Sept. 22 W.A.S.P. at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Sept. 23 TLC, Salt N Pepa, En Vogue at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sept. 23 Michael Franti Trio at Jannus Live

Sept. 23 Sept. 24 Wu Tang at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sept. 23 Pierre Bensusan at Azalea Recreation Center

Sept. 24 Little Big Town at the Mahaffey Theater

Sept. 24-26 Nocturne at the Off-Central

Sept. 25-Oct. 11 Jane Austen in 89 Minutes at Stageworks Theatre

Sept. 25 Tim McGraw at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sept. 25 Rise Against at the BayCare Sound

Sept. 25 Winger at Ferg’s Pavilion

Sept. 26 Don Lemon & DL Hughley at the Mahaffey Theater

Sept. 26 Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet at Straz Center Ferguson Hall

Sept. 25 Randy Brecker with Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge and New Tampa Performing Arts Center

Sept. 27 Bonnie Prince Billy at Bayboro Brewing

Sept. 29 ProjectALCHEMY Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving Surreal at the Dali Museum

Sept. 30 Vitamin String Quartet/Girl Named Tom at Straz Center Ferguson Hall

Oct. 1-11 The Wash at The Studio@620

Oct. 2 and Oct. 4 The Florida Orchestra/Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture at the Mahaffey Theater

Oct. 2 America at Ruth Eckerd Hall

Oct. 3 Treaty Oak Revival at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Oct. 3 Janis Ian at Catherine Hickman Theatre, Gulfport

Oct. 4 Ziggy Marley, Gov’t Mule at the BayCare Sound

Oct. 6-11 Broadway Series: Buena Vista Social Club at Straz Center/Morsani Hall

Oct. 10 Aziz Ansari at Straz Center/Ferguson Hall

Oct. 10 The Artimus Pyle Band at Central Park Performing Arts Center

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