{"id":285756,"date":"2026-05-27T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285756\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:22:11","slug":"looking-forward-the-month-of-june-in-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285756\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward: The month of June in the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reasonable amount of big-name performers will visit the Tampa Bay area during June; as usual during the summer months, many of the most notable shows will be held outdoors:<\/p>\n<p>County music icon Hank Williams Jr. is onstage June 5 at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre (Tampa).<\/p>\n<p>Quiet Riot and Vixen perform June 5 at Ferg\u2019s Event Center (St. Petersburg).<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Amy Lee and her band Evanescence are at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre June 12 (Tampa).<\/p>\n<p>Colombian\/American R&amp;B performer Kalis Uchis has a June 13 date at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre (Tampa).<\/p>\n<p>June 13: Another country show, this one starring Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson, at Raymond James Stadium (Tampa).<\/p>\n<p>R&amp;B singers Ne-Yo and Akon share the bill June 14 at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>Country music\u2019s Billy Currington will sing June 20 at the BayCare Sound amphitheater (Clearwater).<\/p>\n<p>Singer and actress Hilary Duff stops into the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre June 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYe,\u201d the artist formerly known as Kanye West, is scheduled to appear June 26 at Raymond James Stadium (Tampa).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Concert calendar<\/p>\n<p>June 2 Young the Giant at the Yuengling Center<\/p>\n<p>June 4 Pianist Raquel Garz\u00e1s at the Dali Museum<\/p>\n<p>June 5 Stewart Copeland at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n<p>June 5 Hank Williams Jr. at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>June 5 Quiet Riot, Vixen at Ferg\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>June 5-14 St. Pete Opera La Boheme at the Palladium Theater<\/p>\n<p>June 6 The Florida Orchestra Symphony by the Sea at the BayCare Sound<\/p>\n<p>June 7 The Florida Orchestra Defying Gravity \u2013 The Music of Stephen Schwartz at Morsani Hall, Straz Center<\/p>\n<p>June 9 Lucy Darling at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n<p>June 10 \u201cAn Evening in New Orleans\u201d (Clearwater Jazz Holiday event) at Central Park Performing Arts Center<\/p>\n<p>June 11 Steve Earle at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n<p>June 12 Evanescence at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>June 13: Kalis Uchis at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>June 13 Chris Stapleton w\/Lainey Wilson at Raymond James Stadium<\/p>\n<p>June 14 Ne-Yo, Akon at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>June 16 Mad Beach Band at Palladium Side Door Cabaret<\/p>\n<p>June 18 Eden Brent at Palladium Side Door Cabaret<\/p>\n<p>June 18 Marcello Hernandez at the Seminole Hard Rock Event Center<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116633\" class=\"wp-image-116633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/JoshGroban_590x357-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-116633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Groban sings at Benchmark Arena June 19, with Jennifer Hudson. Publicity photo.<\/p>\n<p>June 19 Josh Groban, Jennifer Hudson at Benchmark Arena<\/p>\n<p>June 19 Vince Gill at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n<p>June 20 Billy Currington at the BayCare Sound<\/p>\n<p>June 20 The Florida Orchestra Music of Studio Ghibli\u00a0 at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n<p>June 23 Hilary Duff at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>June 24 Jessi Uribe at Seminole Hard Rock Event Center<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26789\" class=\"wp-image-26789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Todd-Rundgren-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"432\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-26789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Rundgren performs at the Capitol Theatre June 25 and 26. Photo: Bridget Burke.<\/p>\n<p>June 25 &amp; 26 Todd Rundgren at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n<p>June 26 Travis Tritt at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n<p>June 26 Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival at the Dali Museum<\/p>\n<p>June 26 Ye (Kanye West) at Raymond James Stadium<\/p>\n<p>June 27 &amp; July 1 projectALCHEMY at the Palladium Theater<\/p>\n<p>June 27 Classic Albums Live The Beatles\u2019 \u201cWhite Album\u201d at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n<p>June 27 The Florida Rock Symphony at Ruth Eckerd Hall<\/p>\n<p>June 28 Micky Dolenz at the Capitol Theatre<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The classics<\/p>\n<p>Puccini\u2019s La Boheme was the opera that inspired Jonathan Larson\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent in 1996. Those who swear by that groundbreaking show might want to roll the clock back to 1895 and investigate when the ground was well and truly broken.<\/p>\n<p>La Boheme will close out Season 20 for the St. Petersburg Opera Company, June 5-14 at the Palladium Theater.<\/p>\n<p>As reported Tuesday, The Florida Orchestra\u2019s June concerts (also closing out the season) are Symphony by the Sea, a free performance June 6 at the Baycare Sound; Defying Gravity \u2013 The Music of Stephen Schwartz, at 2 p.m. June 7, Straz Center Morsani Hall; Music of Studio Ghibli (7:30 p.m. June 20, Ruth Eckerd Hall).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116634\" class=\"wp-image-116634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/beetlejuice-slide1-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"292\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-116634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Straz Center\u2019s Morsani Hall, June 9-14: The national tour of \u201cBeetlejuice.\u201d Publicity photo.<\/p>\n<p>On theater stages<\/p>\n<p>June 3-28 The Hot Wing King at American Stage. Katori Hall\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about a group of gay Black men preparing for a cooking competition in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>June 5-28 I Love You, You\u2019re Perfect, Now Change at Stageworks Theatre. The lighthearted musical comedy about relationships.<\/p>\n<p>June 10-21 The Tampa International Fringe Festival, Kress Contemporary &amp; The Commodore (Ybor City).<\/p>\n<p>June 9-14 Broadway Series Beetlejuice Morsani Hall, Straz Center. Touring production of the hit musical adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>June 11-21 Passing Strange at The Studio@620. Stew and Heidi Rodewald\u2019s rock musical combining elements of punk, blues, gospel, and jazz.<\/p>\n<p>June 12-Aug. 2 Bash of the Titans at freeFall Theatre. An original musical by freeFall\u2019s Eric Davis, Matthew McGee and Michael Raabe. It\u2019s an \u201880s jukebox musical love story-slash-Greek mythology romp.<\/p>\n<p>June 26 Cubiche at Stageworks Theatre. A one-man autobiographical musical with J.L. Rey.<\/p>\n<p>June 25-27 Dirty John\u2019s Dirty Pride at The Studio@620. Bawdy sketch comedy from St. Petersburg\u2019s resident bawdy sketch comedy troupe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reasonable amount of big-name performers will visit the Tampa Bay area during June; as usual during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-285756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}