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Saturday at Raymond James Stadium: Country music hitmaker Zach Bryan, who\u2019s also a major player on the pop charts (his latest album, With Heaven on Top, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200). The Navy veteran\u2019s massive crossover singles have included \u201cI Remember Everything\u201d with Kacey Musgraves, \u201cPink Skies,\u201d \u201cSomething in the Orange\u201d and the recent \u201cBad News,\u201d which was roundly criticized by the Trump administration. Tickets for Saturday\u2019s 7 p.m. show are at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Concert calendar Jazz vocalist Veronica Swift plays the Palladium Side Door Cabaret tonight (Thursday, March 12). Publicity photo.<\/p>\n Versatile jazz vocalist Vernonica Swift is at the Palladium Theater\u2019s Side Door Cabaret tonight at 7:30 with her Trio. Swift has performed or recorded with, among others, Postmodern Jukebox at Wynton Marsalis\u2019 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Friday at Benchmark International Arena: An \u201cin the round\u201d performance from comedian and actor Matt Rife (Natural Selection and Lucid on Netflix). Tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bay area singer\/songwriters Ed Woltil and Kirk Adams team up again for a Friday night performance at the Palladium Side Door Cabaret. Tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Comedian Paula Poundstone returns to the Capitol Theatre Friday. Ticket link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s Red Elvises show at the Safety Harbor Art & Music Center is sold out.<\/p>\n At the Capitol Theatre Saturday: 1970s pop crooner Gino Vanelli. Tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Florida Orchestra\u00a0will play along to an HD screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2\u00a0at the Straz Center\u2019s Morsani Hall, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday. This is a national tour with its own conductor. Find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Young Oklahoma ventriloquist Darci Lynne, who won Season 12 of America\u2019s Got Talent and purportedly has 5 million TikTok followers, will on onstage Saturday in Ferguson Hall, at Tampa\u2019s Straz Center. Tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Saturday at the Palladium Side Door Cabaret: Blues guitarist Sean Chambers and his Trio (former Savoy Brown players Pat De Salvo\u00a0on bass, and\u00a0Garnet Grimm\u00a0on drums). The show\u2019s at 8 and tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Progressive bluegrass pioneers the Yonder Mountain String Band have a Sunday show at Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo. Tickets for the 7 p.m. concert are at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday at the Palladium Theater, the annual Listening Room Showcase concert delivers acoustic performers Daniel Kimbro, Andy Sydow, Hobo Can, and The Honey Badgers. Find tickets for the 3 p.m. concert at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, a chamber quintet performing the \u201cnuevo tango\u201d music of Argentinian composer and bandleader Astor Piazzolla, takes the Ferguson Hall (Straz Center) stage Sunday at 3 p.m. Find out more, and find tickets, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday brings comedian Gary Gulman to the Capitol Theatre. Tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday afternoon in Ferguson Hall: Quinteto Astor Piazzolla Tango. Publicity photo.<\/p>\n Shakespeare: A different take<\/p>\n It\u2019s the first of two weekends for director Kristin Clippard\u2019s production of Shakespeare\u2019s Julius Caesar <\/a>at The Studio@620. Roxanne Fay\u2019s adaptation is performed by an all-woman cast. Showtimes and tickets are here<\/a>. The play opens tonight.<\/p>\n Friday through Monday at the Jaeb Theatre, in Tampa\u2019s Straz Center complex, the very British standup comedian and dramatic actor Eddie Izzard performs Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet, every character. It is not, repeat not, a comedic performance, as Izzard made clear in this Catalyst video interview<\/a>. Find showtimes and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In \u201cThe Drawer Boy\u201d at the Off-Central: Stephen Riordan, left, Michael Menszycki and Lucas Ethington. Photo: Facebook.<\/p>\n More theater<\/p>\n Michael Healey\u2019s drama\u00a0The Drawer Boy\u00a0will conclude its run at The Off-Central Sunday. The entire cast \u2013 Stephen Riordan, Michael Menszycki and Lucas Ethington \u2013 will guest on Friday\u2019s edition of the Arts Alive! podcast. Find weekend show info and tickets at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Aaron Posner drama\u00a0My Name is Asher Lev\u00a0continues through March 22 at Stageworks Theatre, Tampa. Here\u2019s our profile of actor Jaryn McCann from earlier this week. Showtimes and tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last but by no means least is The Shark is Broken <\/a>at Jobsite Theater. This comedy-slash-drama follows actors Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss, and their trials and tribulations during the production of Jaws. Read more at this link; find showtimes and tickets here<\/a>. The show will run through April 5 in the Shimberg Playhouse (Straz Center).<\/p>\n Your Weekend Spotlight<\/a>\u00a0appears every Thursday in the\u00a0Catalyst\u2019s CREATE section.\u00a0<\/p>\n Please add us to your mailing list \u2013 send all press releases and event info to\u00a0bill@stpetecatalyst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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