There are movie stars in our midst.

Macaulay Culkin (that Home Alone kid, all grown up now) and Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) are doing stage shows in Tampa.

Who’s NOT here this weekend is Bill Murray, who’s been periodically singing with a blues band called Blood Brothers. The Murray/BB show scheduled once upon a time for this Friday at Ruth Eckerd Hall has been moved to April 17.

Instead, Blood Brothers, featuring guitarists Albert Castiglia and Mike Zito, will gig Friday at Skipper’s Smokehouse. Tickets for that performance are here.

As for young Master Culkin, the little scamp is 45 now, and he’ll be reminiscing about Home Alone (and, one hopes, the underrated Uncle Buck) tonight in Morsani Hall, in Tampa’s Straz Center. The movie’s on at 7:30, and Culkin will participate in a stage interview at its conclusion. Tickets are here.

Which brings us to Crispin Hellion Glover, as he’s now known. The erstwhile George McFly is known for being a tad … well, eccentric … and that seems to be the case for the events happening at Sun-Ray Cinema in Tampa tonight, Friday and Saturday. It’s called Big Slide Show, and Glover will screen a different film he’s directed on each of the three nights including his latest, No! Young Wrong, preceded by a slide show and followed by an audience Q&A and autograph session.

Or something like that. The schedule seems to change frequently.

From the Sun-Ray site: “Mr. Glover deeply appreciates the enthusiasm people have for the many other productions in which he has acted; however, he will not be signing any items associated with those productions at his currently scheduled personal shows and thanks everyone for their continued support.”

Here’s the website, which at press time did not jibe with the venue’s social media. It’s recommended that you call Sun-Ray at 813-896-4786 for the latest.

 

The gang’s all here for the latest Sesame Street Live family musical show, “Elmo and Friends Say Hello.” It’s at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mahaffey Theater. Publicity photo.

Concert calendar

Dark Star Orchestra, the world’s longest-lived Grateful Dead homage band (they reproduce entire set lists from historic Dead shows) is onstage tonight at the BayCare Sound amphitheater. The show starts at 6 p.m.; find tickets here.

The Florida Orchestra weekend schedule: The annual holiday performance of Handel’s Messiah, with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, is at the Straz Center’s Morsani Hall Friday, and the Mahaffey Theater Saturday. The TFO Holiday Brass performs Saturday at Clearwater’s Church of the Ascension, and Sunday at the USF St. Pete Student Center Ballroom. Tickets for all concerts are at this link.

Friday at the Capitol Theatre: Comedian Chelcie Lynn. Tickets.

Saturday at Ruth Eckerd Hall: Lady A (the country music artist formerly known as Lady Antebellum). Tickets.

Comedian and writer John Mulaney’s Saturday concert at the Straz Center is sold out, but tickets remain for his shows Dec. 8 and 9 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Mahaffey Theater. Find tickets here.

Elmo and Friends Say Hello is the new singing and dancing production from Sesame Street Live, the touring family show, and it’s onstage Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Mahaffey Theater. Find all tickets here.

Stephanie Nicks, also known as Stevie Nicks, returns to the bay area with a performance Sunday at Benchmark Arena. Tickets are at this link.

The 1970s hitmaking machine Three Dog Night visits Ruth Eckerd Hall Sunday, with an opening set by ‘60s Brit-pop star Peter Noone, of Herman’s Hermits fame. The Catalyst spoke with Three Dog founder Danny Hutton this week (read that interview here). Tickets here.

Monday at Ferg’s Entertainment Complex (part of Ferg’s Sports Bar): The 1980s British hitmakers known as Wang Chung (“Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” “Dance Hall Days”). Singing/songwriting founders Jack Hughes and Nick Feldman are still on board. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show can be found at this link.

 

American Stage’s holiday musical “The Magi” (with Tristan Braboy and Morgan Tapp) begins its run this weekend. Publicity photo.

On theater stages

Helen Murray, artistic director at American Stage, wrote this year’s holiday show The Magi, a musical interpretation of O. Henry’s short story The Magi. The music is by Eli Pafumi. There’s a preview performance tonight; the show will run through Dec. 21. Tickets and showtimes are at this link.

Also new is A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play from Tampa Repertory Theatre, opening with a preview tonight and running through Dec. 23 at the Shimberg Playhouse, in the Straz Center. Find tickets and showtimes here.

Nestor Meldez stars in John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons (it’s a comedy, if that wasn’t obvious) opening Friday and running through Dec. 21 at Stageworks Theatre. Here’s our interview with Melendez, discussing this show, from earlier this week. And find showtimes and tickets at this link.

Sunday means The Final Curtain for two excellent productions: Owen Robertson’s So Long Life, at LAB Theater Project (tickets and all showtimes at this link) and freeFall Theatre’s Deathtrap (tickets and all showtimes at this link).

 

And in visual art …

Approximately 23 artists will participate in the annual Art Jones Gulfport Studio Tour Saturday (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) and Sunday (11 a.m.-4 p.m.), at nine locations around the city. “Art lovers tell us each year that seeing the creative process alongside the finished work deepens their interest in both the work and the artist,” says Brenda McMahon, who founded the free Gulfport tour nine years ago. Details, and a handy map, are available at this link.

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