Weekend spotlight: Plays, concerts and opera (week 2)

Samantha Marti Parisi plays Texas journalist Molly Ivins in the new show at TheatreFor. Photo: Facebook.

In Clearwater, TheatreFor (1863 N. Highland Ave.) opens Red Hot Patriot – The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, a one-woman show with Samantha Marti-Parisi, tonight. It runs through June 22. Showtimes and tickets are at this link.

Continuing this weekend at American Stage: The outstanding production of James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winner Fat Ham (showtimes and tickets here). Two stars of the show, Deimoni Brewington and Andresia Moseley, will be our guests Friday on the Arts Alive! podcast.

Desiree Montes continues to shine as Billie Holiday in Stageworks Theatre’s production of the one-woman show Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (showtimes and tickets here).

Friday brings the debut of The House of Future Memory, the 2024-25 season closer for freeFall Theatre. Read all about this experiment in theater in this Catalyst story.

The Tampa International Fringe Festival, jam-packed with weird and wacky theater and comedy, is going strong in Ybor City. Find out all about it, check the performance schedule and purchase tickets at this link.

Continuing tonight through Sunday at the Off-Central: Daniel Harris: Dude, Are Those Your Nuts? The Pride Edition. Find tickets and showtimes here.

Carmen and goin’

Bizet’s Carmen is onstage at the Palladium Theater, courtesy of the St. Petersburg Opera Company, Friday (8 p.m.) and Sunday (2 p.m.). Tickets are at this link.

ICYMI, here’s last week’s Arts Alive! podcast, with SPO artistic director Mark Sforzini and Carmen herself, mezzo-soprano Sishel Claverie.

Singer Ari Chi performs Saturday at The Studio @620. Photo provided.

Concerts

The costumed Swedish metal band Ghost brings its “Skeletour” to Amalie Arena tonight at 8:30. Tickets are at this link.

It’s Nikki Glaser time. The comedian’s four shows at the Mahaffey Theater (tonight and Friday) are sold out. She trucks up to St. Augustine Saturday, but returns to performs Sunday at the BayCare Sound amphitheater. Tickets for that show are at this link.

Rescheduled from an earlier date, Puerto Rican salsa singer Victor Manuelle performs at the Yuengling Center at 8 p.m. Friday, with La India. Tickets are at this link.

The Studio @620’s “One Night Only” concert series continues with a Saturday performance from Ari Chi, a soulful St. Pete singer/songwriter who accompanies herself on ukulele. Tickets for the intimate 7 p.m. show are available at this link. 

EDM star The Polish Ambassador plays Bayboro Brewing Co. Saturday at 10 p.m. Find tickets here.

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