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Weekend spotlight: Sebastian Bach, Ali Wong
The Catalyst’s every-Thursday guide to Tampa Bay entertainment and the arts.
Hair metal icon, actor and reality TV personality Sebastian Bach, the onetime lead singer for Skid Row, takes the stage Friday at Ferg’s Entertainment Complex, sharing the bill with White Lion and Stitched Up Heart.
Along with a solid handful of gold and platinum albums, with Skid Row, solo and with other players, Bach’s resume includes acting stints on TV’s Gilmore Girls and a national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. In 2023, he appeared on the performance series The Masked Singer.
Find tickets for Friday’s 7 p.m. outdoor concert at this link.
Ali Wong will be at the Mahaffey Theater Saturday and Sunday. Photo: Netflix.
Comedian and actress Ali Wong plays the Mahaffey Theater Saturday (her Sunday show at the Mahaffey is sold out). Best known for her two-time Emmy-winning turn on the Netflix series Beef, Wong also took home a Golden Globe Award for her (fourth) Netflix special, 2023’s Ali Wong: Single Lady. Tickets are at this link.
Friday brings the We Them One’s Comedy Tour to Benchmark International Arena. Mike Epps is the headliner; other comics on the bill include Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly, Chico Bean and Mojo Brookzz. From the venue website: “Artist(s) scheduled to appear are subject to change.” Showtime is 8 p.m., and tickets are here.
Sunday: The Cream of Clapton Band plays the Capitol Theatre. It’s in no way a tribute act, but more of a “family and friends” situation. The band includes Eric Clapton’s nephew Will Johns on lead guitar; drummer Steve Ferrone, of the latter-day version of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, who spent six years in Clapton’s touring band; keyboard player Noah East, son of Clapton’s longtime bassist, Nathan East. And Nathan himself, fresh off the latest Clapton tour, will be there on bass. Find tickets here.
On theater stages
The Stephen Sonheim musical Into the Woods, American Stage’s spring production in Demens Landing Park, came roaring (rather like a wolf in Grandma’s clothing) last weekend. The fairy-tale fantasy continues through April 25; click here for showtimes, tickets and other pertinent info. Singer/actress Ryan Joustra, who plays The Witch, is our guest Friday on the Arts Alive! podcast.
It’s the final weekend for Jobsite Theater’s production of The Shark is Broken, a behind-the-scenes looking at the making of Jaws. Show are tonight through Sunday afternoon; see the schedule and find tickets at this link.
Onstage nightly through Sunday’s matinee at Ruth Eckerd Hall: A touring production of the Tony-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical. It’s a stage adaptation of the hit 2001 film from Australian director Baz Luhrmann. Find showtimes and tickets here.
Jobsite’s “The Shar is Broken” (with Paul Potenza, left, Cody Farkas and Christopher Marshall) closes up shop after this weekend. Photo: James Zambon.
Coming up next
April 8 Blessd at the Mahaffey Theater
April 8 Billy Strings at Benchmark Arena
April 8-11 St. Pete Jazz Festival at the Warehouse Arts District ArtsXchange Stage
April 9-19 The comedy Ripcord at the Off-Central
April 10 & 11: Gasparilla Music Festival at Meridian Fields
April 10 & 11 Tampa Bay Blues Festival at Vinoy Park
April 10 Gabriel Iglesias (comedy) at Benchmark Arena
April 10-12 Hitler’s Tasters, a dark comedy from ThinkTank Theatre, at the Tampa Fringe Blackbox Theatre
April 10-May 17 And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank at freeFall Theatre
April 10 Santana at Ruth Eckerd Hall
April 11 Dwight Yoakam at the BayCare Sound
April 11 Demitri Martin at the Straz Center Ferguson Hall
April 11 Eric Church at Benchmark Arena
April 12 B2K & Bow Wow at Benchmark Arena
April 12 Lukas Nelson at Jannus Live
April 15 Chamber Series at the Palladium Theater
April 17 Bill Murray & His Blood Brothers at Ruth Eckerd Hall
April 17 Goose at the BayCare Sound
April 17 & 18 Breakaway Music Festival at Raymond James Stadium
April 17 Eric Johnson at the Capitol Theatre
April 18 Foreigner at the BayCare Sound
April 18 Saigon Kick at the Capitol Theatre
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