{"id":61358,"date":"2025-11-26T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61358\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:53:10","slug":"weekend-spotlight-thanksgiving-edition-st-pete-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61358\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend spotlight, Thanksgiving edition &#8211; St Pete Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLadies and gentlemen, put your hands together and welcome Tom Turkey to the stage!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now that our terrible Thanksgiving weekend spotlight joke is out of the way, how about we go all laser-focus on the actual onstage events over the next few days in the bay area?<\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t many, of course. Holiday weekends tend to skew that way.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you\u2019ve got family in town, and will be looking for entertainment, read on. Here\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today (Wednesday, Nov. 26)<\/p>\n<p>Twilight in Concert. There will be 12 musicians (a small orchestra) and more than a thousand twinkling \u201ccandles\u201d on the Ruth Eckerd Hall stage as the 2008 Twilight film (the first entry in the long-running vampire romance series) plays out in high definition. The music has been removed from the movie\u2019s soundtrack, so it\u2019s all performed live-to-screen. Tickets for the 7 p.m. event are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutheckerdhall.com\/events\/detail\/twilight-in-concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109568\" class=\"wp-image-109568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hannah-Berner-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-109568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comedian and podcaster Hannah Berner is at the Mahaffey Theater Friday. Photo: Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Friday (Nov. 28)<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Berner. The standup comedian, known for the podcasts Giggly Squad and a Netflix special, We Ride at Dawn, is onstage at 7 p.m. at the Mahaffey Theater. Find tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/themahaffey.com\/show\/hannah-berner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday (Nov. 29) <\/p>\n<p>Christian Nodal. The Mexican \u201cmariache\u00f1o\u201d singer and guitarist, winner of three Latin Grammys, performs at 8 p.m. at Benchmark Arena. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benchmarkintlarena.com\/events\/detail\/nodal-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Koz &amp; Friends Christmas. The genial jazz saxman\u2019s annual holiday visit to Ruth Eckerd Hall includes Jonathan Butler, with Haley Reinhart, Casey Abrams and Kayla Waters. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutheckerdhall.com\/events\/detail\/dave-koz-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cirque Dreams Holidaze. Circus arts (acrobatics, juggling etcetera) combine with singers and dancers, lights and effects and stage-sized holiday decorations for this touring show, an annual visitor to the Mahaffey Theater. Shows are at 4 and 8 p.m.; tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/themahaffey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blazing Saddles. Thanksgiving with the fam just wouldn\u2019t be complete without a screening of Mel Brooks\u2019 twisted 1974 cowboy comedy. Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Capitol Theatre. Tickets: Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutheckerdhall.com\/events\/detail\/blazing-saddles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>, pardner.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday (Nov. 30)<\/p>\n<p>Jagged Edge. Brothers Brian and Brandon Casey, Kyle Norman and Richard Wingo remain this veteran Atlanta R&amp;B group, which scored four consecutive gold albums in the early part of the 21st century. Jagged Edge\u2019s biggest and best-known hits include \u201cWhere the Party At,\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s Get Married,\u201d \u201cPromise\u201d and the Notorious B.I.G. mashup \u201cNasty Girl.\u201d Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are <a href=\"https:\/\/themahaffey.com\/show\/jagged-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Brass. Somewhere in your grandmother\u2019s scratchy old records is an album by Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass. While singer and trumpet player Davis passed away in 2008, at age 83, the group continues performing country and pop hits. They have a 3 p.m. matinee Sunday at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center. Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtampaartscenter.org\/events\/the-nashville-brass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Theater for Thanksgiving<\/p>\n<p>A Christmas Story. The beloved 1980s holiday film has been turned into a musical, from the team behind Dear Evan Hanson and La La Land, and the national tour is stopping at the Straz Center\u2019s Morsani Hall for six performances between Friday and Sunday. See all showtimes and get tickets (or shoot yer eye out, you decide) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strazcenter.org\/events\/2526-season\/broadway\/encore\/a-christmas-story-the-musical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ira Levin thriller Deathtrap continues at freeFall Theatre Friday through Sunday (showtimes and tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/ci.ovationtix.com\/34941\/production\/1244285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>), while LAB Theater Project has performances of Owen Robertson\u2019s So Long Life Saturday and Sunday (showtimes and tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeffy.com\/en-US\/ticketing\/so-long-life-by-owen-robertson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/category\/create\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Your Weekend Spotlight<\/a> appears every Thursday (normally) in the Catalyst\u2019s CREATE section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please add us to your mailing list \u2013 send all press releases and event info to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/weekend-spotlight-thanksgiving-edition\/mailto:bill@stpetecatalyst.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bill@stpetecatalyst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also submit your events to the\u00a0Catalyst\u00a0calendar, by clicking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/contribute\/event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLadies and gentlemen, put your hands together and welcome Tom Turkey to the stage!\u201d Now that our terrible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-61358","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\/61358","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=61358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}