It’s hello, goodbye for a theatrical three-pack at Tampa’s David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts:
This week in Morsani Hall (tonight through Sunday): It’s the national Broadway tour of the musical adaptation of The Notebook. You know the story. Music and lyrics by singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, book by Bekah Brunstetter (This Is Us) and choreography by Katie Spelman. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea closes Sunday at Jobsite Theater, in the Shimberg Playhouse. Find showtimes (tonight through Sunday) and tickets at this link.
And at the Jaeb Theatre, it’s last call for the British magic-and-cocktails show The Magician’s Table, with Sunday’s 2 and 5 p.m. performances. Showtimes, tickets and other pertinent info can be found here.
Concert calendar
Ruth Eckerd Hall, 7 p.m. Friday: It’s the annual bay area stop from the Happy Together Tour, with all kinds of serious ‘60s (and a bit of ’70s) pop radio nostalgia. This year’s lineup is the Association, the Troggs, Gary Puckett And the Union Gap, Ron Dante (hey! He sang the Archies song “Sugar Sugar”), the Vogues, the Cowsills and Jason Scheff (he was Chicago’s lead singer for 40 years, much longer than the guy he replaced, founding member Peter Cetera). Find tickets at this link.
The annual Smooth Jazz Jam takes over Ruth Eckerd Hall Saturday and Sunday. Hometown sax-playing lady Mindi Abair is on the bill, along with David Benoit, Norman Brown, Brian Culbertson, Boney James and RnR featuring Rick Braun & Richard Elliot. Shows are at 7 each night; tickets are available here.
Saturday at Benchmark International Arena, it’s hard-rocking Shinedown, with Coheed and Cambria. Tickets for the 7 p.m. concert are at this link.
Kid Rock is at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre Saturday. Tickets.
Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson and their hard-rocking band the Black Crowes play the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre Sunday, with Whiskey Myers. Find tickets at this link.
Sarasota-born guitarist Duane Betts and his Palmetto Motel play the Capitol Theatre Sunday. Duane’s dad was the Allman Brothers Band legend Dickey Betts, who passed away in 2024. Find tickets at this link.
Where’s the orchestra?
Piano soloist Janice Carissa joins The Florida Orchestra for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Friday at 8 p.m. in the Straz Center’s Ferguson Hall; and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mahaffey Theater. On the same program, the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay collaborates with TFO on A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Find all tickets here.
Coming up next
June 2 Young the Giant at the Yuengling Center
June 3-28 The Hot Wing King at American Stage
June 4 Pianist Raquel Garzás at the Dali Museum
June 5 Stewart Copeland (spoken word) at the Capitol Theatre
June 5 Hank Williams Jr. at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 5 Quiet Riot, Vixen at Ferg’s
June 5-14 St. Pete Opera La Boheme at the Palladium Theater
June 5-28 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Stageworks Theatre
June 6 The Florida Orchestra Symphony by the Sea at the Baycare Sound
June 7 The Florida Orchestra Defying Gravity – The Music of Stephen Schwartz at the Straz Center Morsani Hall
June 9 Lucy Darling at Ruth Eckerd Hall
June 9-14 Broadway Series Beetlejuice at Morsani Hall, Straz Center
June 10 “An Evening in New Orleans” at Central Park Performing Arts Center
June 10-21 Tampa International Fringe Festival, Kress Contemporary & The Commodore (Ybor City)
June 11 Steve Earle at the Capitol Theatre
June 11-21 Passing Strange at The Studio@620
June 12-Aug. 2 Bash of the Titans at freeFall Theatre
June 12 Evanescence at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 13: Kalis Uchis at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 13 Chris Stapleton w/Lainey Wilson at Raymond James Stadium
June 14 Ne-Yo, Akon at Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 16 Mad Beach Band at Palladium Side Door Cabaret
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