Weekend forecast: EDM at Raymond James Stadium • St Pete Catalyst – St Pete Catalyst
by June 5, 2024
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The Sunset Music Festival, which filled Raymond James Stadium with EDM (electronic dance music) every spring for a few years, took 2024 off for “rebranding.” Rode off into the sunset, in a manner of speaking.
In its place comes the Breakaway Music Festival, bringing a slew of DJs, dance tunes and throbbing lights on two stages to the stadium Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. to midnight each day. There’s also a silent disco. The country-wide Breakaway launched in 2016, although this is the festival’s first time in the Tampa Bay area.
Performers include Illenium, Kaskade, Zedd, Sofi Tukker (DJ Set), ACRAZE, CRANKDAT, Deerock, Dion Timmer b2b Calcium, Gudfella, Ian Asher, It’s Murph, Matroda, Moore Kismet, Night Tales and more.
Find tickets and details here.
St. Petersburg’s 19th Sunscreen Film Festival, with four days of independent film screenings, plus panel discussions and workshops for filmmakers, is today through Sunday at the AMC Sundial theaters. Info and tickets here.
We’ve done a few Sunscreen stories this year. Click on the links to read them:
In Sunscreen doc, Billy Dec looks for food … and family
Gender confusion, acceptance at the heart of Sunscreen’s ‘Two Lives’
Arts Alive! podcast: Film commissioner Lisa Dozois
‘The Green Flash’ documents Florida’s most famous smuggler
The cast of Stageworks’ multi-lingual production of “Our Town.” Photo provided.
Stageworks Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director Karla Hartley is directing a new production of Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s classic American drama, opening Friday in Tampa. The play, which is all about community, includes sections spoken in Spanish, and others in Haitian Creole, with supertitles projected over the stage. Most of the play is in English, and every word is exactly as Wilder wrote it. Preview performance tonight. Find tickets here; Hartley and Stage Manager Heather Krueger guest on Friday’s edition of our Arts Alive! podcast.
Also making its debut this weekend is director Bob Devin Jones’ take on Hamlet, with John H. Bambery in the title role. Aenea Little, David Warner, Tiffany Faykus, Dylan Barlowe and others are in the cast. The Shakespearean experience begins tonight and runs through May 5; find tickets here.
At freeFall Theatre, the uproarious comedy Nollywood Dreams continues through May 12 (tickets are here). Tonight’s cabaret from Broadway’s Becky Gulsvig is sold out.
Disney’s Beauty & the Beast – the American Stage production – continues outdoors at Demens Landing Park through May 5. Tickets are here.
Bay area actor and comedian Francine Wolf’s one-woman show Please Don’t Tell My Kids! is onstage Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Off-Central. She premiered the comic monologue in 2018 at the Tampa International Fringe Festival. For info and tickets, click here.
Johnny Mathis is in Clearwater tonight. Publicity photo.
Ann and Nancy Wilson seem to be on speaking terms again, which explains Friday’s Heart concert at Amalie Arena, with Cheap Trick opening. Find tickets here.
It’s an Adult Contemporary twin-spin at Ruth Eckerd Hall; the 88-year-old (but ageless) romantic crooner Johnny Mathis sings at the big Clearwater auditorium tonight, while smooth-jazz saxman Kenny G performs Friday. Oh, and The Price is Right Live returns to Ruth Sunday night. All tickets are here.
Meanwhile in downtown Clearwater, tonight’s Capitol Theatre show (the second one this month) from singer/songwriter Mac McAnally is sold out. Dixie Dregs and the Steve Morse Band share a Capitol evening Saturday, while Jakob Dylan’s Wallflowers play the theater Sunday. Tickets.
Sunday delivers Bad Religion and Social Distortion to the Baycare Sound amphitheater, also in downtown Clearwater. Tickets for this California punk-rock fest are here.
Colombian pop star Andres Cepeda sings Saturday at Morsani Hall, inside Tampa’s Straz Center. Tickets. And Sunday finds comedian Daniel Sloss at the Straz Center’s Ferguson Hall. Tickets.
Comedian Ben Hoffman (a.k.a. country music “artist” Wheeler Walker Jr.) is at the Seminole Hard Rock Live Event Center Sunday. Tickets.
Jazz pianist/composer Zachary Bartholomew brings his quartet to the Palladium Theater Side Door Saturday, with an additional set from St. Petersburg’s poet laureate Gloria Muñoz. Tickets.
Comic Dusty Slay takes the stage Sunday at the Tampa Theatre. Tickets are here.
As The Florida Orchestra approaches season’s end, four weeks away, the concerts continue to be rich with variety. Case in point is Saint-Saëns’ Third Symphony (the “Organ Symphony”), paired up this weekend with Fauré’s Requiem (with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay) and Lili Boulanger’s Of a Spring Morning. Chelsea Gallo conducts, Friday (8 p.m.) in the Straz Center’s Ferguson Hall, and at the Mahaffey Theater, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. All tickets are here.
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