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Weekend spotlight: Alabama Shakes, Forbert repeats
The Catalyst’s every-Thursday guide to Tampa Bay entertainment and the arts.
Alabama Shakes’ first tour in eight years brings the roots rock/R&B trio to the BayCare Sound tonight. The multiple Grammy-winning band’s fulcrum is, and has always been, singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, whose voice goes somewhere beyond soul-stirring. Showtime is 7:15 p.m. (that’s not a typo). Alabama soul singer Lamont Landers (America’s Got Talent, Showtime at the Apollo) opens. Tickets are here.
Fans of veteran singer/songwriter Steve Forbert have two shots at seeing the folk legend, best known for his 1979 hit “Romeo’s Tune,” this weekend. Forbert plays an intimate show Saturday (6 p.m.) at the Jack Kerouac House. Find tickets here.
Forbert has a Sunday gig (7 p.m.) at Bayboro Brewing. Tickets for that one are at this link.
The Sit Down for Stand Up comedy show returns to the Palladium Side Door Cabaret tonight at 7:30, with Davis Sutton, Matt Fernandez and Amanda Hoffman. Tickets.
Australian rapper and singer The Kid LAROI brings his show to the Yuengling Center (on the University of South Florida Tampa campus) Friday. The 22-year-old is best known for the albums F*ck Love and Before I Forget, as well as the singles “Stay” (with Justin Bieber) and “Without You” (with Miley Cyrus). Tickets for the 7 p.m. concert are here.
Two Capitol Theatre (Clearwater) shows this weekend: Friday brings Rend Collective, the Irish Christian music band (tickets here), while Saturday’s 6 Guitars is a theatrical/musical show starring guitarist and storyteller Chase Padgett (tickets here).
Steve Forbert has two St. Petersburg shows this weekend. Photo: Marcus Maddox.
Sunscreen’s back
It’s the 19th Sunscreen Film Festival weekend; the celebration of independent filmmaking (today through Sunday) consists of screenings, workshops, panel discussions and more at several St. Petersburg locations. Check the website for full schedule and ticket information.
Here are Catalyst interviews with the creators of two of this year’s most aniticipated Sunscreen documentary films:
Occupational Hazard: The Original Coral Reefers
On theater stages
Perry Bruns heads the cast of LAB Theater Project’s “X Does Not Equal X.” Photo provided.
Continuing for its second and final weekend at the Off-Central in St. Pete is Janice Creneti’s one-woman show My Year of Saying No. Curtain is at 5 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets.
Ned Averill-Snell, an actor whose presence we’ve missed around here, is back in town to reprise his performance in the one-man show Every Brilliant Thing for the Tampa Repertory Theatre. Shows are 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at New Tampa Performing Arts Center. Tickets are here.
Sunday’s matinee will be the last show for Steven Patrick’s academic and philosophical drama X does not equal X at LAB Theater Project in Ybor City. The world premiere returns tonight and continues through Sunday. Find showtimes and tickets here.
The Meeting, in which Martin Luther King, Jr. has a sit-down (and a stand-up) with Malcolm X, also returns tonight, at Stageworks Theatre in Tampa, and concludes its run with Sunday’s matinee. Find showtimes and tickets here.
The Broadway tour of the Tony-winning Stereophonic, about a rock band in a recording studio, continues its run in Morsani Hall, in Tampa’s Straz Center, tonight through Sunday. Find showtimes and tickets here.
And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank continues Thursdays through Sundays at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg through May 17. All showtimes and tickets are at this link.
Where’s the orchestra?
Pianist Fei-Fei Dong joins The Florida Orchestra for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 this weekend. The Masterworks concert spotlights Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 and also includes Cantus arcticus; Concerto for Birds & Orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Friday, 8 p.m., Straz Center Ferguson Hall; Saturday, 8 p.m., Mahaffey Theater; Sunday, 2 p.m., Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Rune Bergmann conducts; find tickets and more information at this link.
Coming up next
May 5 Laura Jane Grace at Bayboro Brewing
May 6 Devon Allman’s Blues Summit at the Capitol Theatre
May 6 Jobsite Theater’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea opens
May 6 Fresh Ink (play reading by American Stage) at Green Light Cinema
May 7 10,000 Maniacs at the Capitol Theatre
May 8 Heroes Off Duty (comedy) at the Capitol Theatre
May 8 Kid Cudi at Benchmark Arena
May 8-10 Country Thunder at Coachman Park
May 9 Killers of Kill Tony (comedy) at the Mahaffey Theater
May 10 The Florida Orchestra Pops in the Park at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, Tampa
See the full list of announced May events here.
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