Weekend spotlight: DJs Pearce and Oakenfold

British DJ, composer and master remixer Paul Oakenfold will be at Jannus Live Saturday, with the Crystal Method. Publicity photo. Jannus Live welcomes legendary British DJ producer and remix king Paul Oakenfold Saturday, with the Crystal Method (aka Scott Kirkland) opening. A key figure in the contemporary evolution of dance music, Oakenfold was a pioneer in techno, house and trance, and is considered in some circles the “father” of EDM (electronic dance music). He’s performed at Glastonbury, at Stonehenge, and at the base camp of Mount Everest. He has remixed huge artists including U2, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, the Stone Roses, Snoop Dogg and loads of others. Saturday’s showtime is 7 p.m.; find tickets here . Australian DJ Lenny Pearce brings his Toddler Rave to the Mahaffey Theater tonight (Thursday, Nov. 12). This is, literally a family show; Pearce famously re-makes children’s songs with techno beats. There are huge inflatable ducks, a life-sized castle made of milk bottles, confetti drops, lighting effects, costumed (and dancing) characters and constant audience interaction. “It’s 90 decibels, no louder than that, which we check all the time,” Pearce told NPR, “but it also has to feel like a rave. So we keep it fairly loud, but it’s not damagingly loud.” Tonight’s little-kid party begins at 6; find tickets (and more information) at this link . Quite a diverse marquee tonight at the BayCare Sound: The Maryland rock band O.A.R. (celebrating 30 years on the road), singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw (“I Don’t Want to Be,” “”Best I Ever Had,” “Not Over You”) and boundary-pushing Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall. Originally scheduled for the Seminole Hard Rock Live in Tampa (tickets for that date were automatically refunded). It starts at 6:30 p.m.; get BayCare Sound tickets here . Tonight at Benchmark International Arena, it’s the Italian pop/opera singing trio Il Volo , with orchestra. The Catalyst spoke with the three vocalists earlier this week (read that here ); tickets for tonight’s 8 p.m. show are at this link . Rapper and singer Doja Cat is onstage at Benchmark International Arena Friday. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show, part of the Tour Ma Vie World Tour , are at this link . Saturday’s Jimmy Eat World concert will close out the 2026 season at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre (cool weather, presumably, is on the way). Tickets are here . The next show at the outdoor venue is scheduled for May, 2027. Reggae’s Third World Plays the BayCare Sound Sunday. Photo: Paradise Artists. And more concerts Comedian Brad Williams performs at 7 tonight at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Tickets . Friday, the Mahaffey Theater: The oft-delayed return of husband-and-wide musical tag team David Foster and Katherine McPhee . Find tickets for the 8 p.m. performance at this link . A live, onstage band will provide the synch-to-screen music for Friday’s HD screening of Jim Henson’s 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Costumes are encouraged. Show’s at 8 p.m., tickets are here . Britain’s reggae-pop aggregate UB40 returns to the Mahaffey Theater Friday on its 40 th anniversary tour. Although the rhythm section has remained constant, best-known lead singer Ali Campbell, who fronts a competing version of the band, is not involved. Find tickets for the 8 p.m. performance at this link . Returning to the Capitol Theatre Saturday is Here Come the Mummies, the funk band dressed as Egyptian mummies. Show’s at 8; tickets are here . Reggae Sound Splash Fest (Sunday, 4 p.m. at the BayCare Sound) brings in the Legendary Wailers, including founding guitarist Julian Junior Marvin, plus Third World, Inner Circle and the veteran Jamaican ska outfit the Ska-Talites. Tickets . The Tampa Bay Symphony concert Wild Kingdom And Swan Dreams is presented Friday at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center (8 p.m., tickets here ), and again Sunday at the St. Petersburg Coliseum (2:30 p.m., tickets here ). On the program: Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Overture , Sy Brandon’s Animalia (International Composition Competition finalist) and The Waltzing Cat by Leroy Anderson. On theater stages Debbie Yones in the Off-Central’s “Destroying David,” opening tonight. Photo provided. Alexa Perez directs Debbie Yones in the one-woman show Destroying David , by Jason Odell Williams, at the Off-Central. Yones plays a cheery art restorer/tour guide leading a private viewing of Michelangelo’s David, in Italy, when the story takes a dramatic turn. Destroying David opens tonight and runs through Nov. 22 at the intimate (43-seat) black box theater. Find showtimes and tickets here . Also new is the solo show is A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998, written and performed by New York’s Iraisa Ann Reilly. It’s a Story Keepers production, at the intimate First United Methodist Church in Pinellas Park, in which Reilly recalls her favorite community holiday celebration as a child. Directed by Jose Aviles. Here’s our interview with the playwright/performer, with ticket link. The Da Vinci Code is in its second weekend at freeFall Theatre. The history/mystery potboiler is based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown. It’ll be at freeFall through Dec. 6. Showtimes and tickets are here . Another play based on a popular work of fiction (by Dave Barry and Ridley Pierson) is the ThinkTank/Tampa Repertory Theatre production of Peter and the Starcatcher , at the Straz Center Shimberg Playhouse. The fantastical Peter Pan origin story runs through Nov. 22. Showtimes and tickets are here . Meteor Shower , the cosmically uproarious  couples’ comedy by Steve Martin, is presented at American Stage through Nov. 22. Showtimes and tickets are here . Dead Canary Theatre’s production of the Paul Rudnick comedy Regrets Only enters its final weekend tonight at The Studio. Click here for showtimes and tickets. Sunday, 7 p.m. at Ruth Eckerd Hall: A Charlie Brown Christmas Live On Stage, the national touring production adapted from the classic Peanuts TV special, with Vince Guaraldi’s music. Tickets are here . Coming soon Nov. 18-29 ‘Twas the Night Before … by Cirque du Soleil at the Straz Center Morsani Hall Nov. 18 Kristin Key (comedy) at the Straz Center Jaeb Theatre Nov. 18 Blade Runner Live (film with synthesizer band) at the Tampa Theatre Nov. 19 The Florida Orchestra: Inside Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at the Mahaffey Theater Nov. 19 Lindsay Sterling at Ruth Eckerd Hall Nov. 19 Russ Taff, Steve Taylor at the Capitol Theatre Nov. 20-Dec. 27 Enchant Christmas at Tropicana Field Nov. 20 Blue October at Ruth Eckerd Hall Nov. 20-22 Suncoast Jazz Festival at Sheraton Sand Key Resort Nov. 20 Marty Stuart at the Capitol Theatre Nov. 20 A Magical Cirque Christmas at the Mahaffey Theater Nov. 20 The Florida Orchestra: The Blue Danube and Beyond at Zinober Hall, USF Tampa Nov. 20 Leslie Jones (comedy) at the Tampa Theatre Nov. 20 & 21: MIXed: Pulse of the City (projectALCHEMY dance) at The Studio Nov. 21 Rocky in Concert (film w/orchestra) at the Straz Center Ferguson Hall Nov. 21 The Florida Orchestra: The Blue Danube and Beyond at the Mahaffey Theater Nov. 21 Air Supply at Ruth Eckerd Hall Nov. 21 John Cusak and Say Anything screening at the Capitol Theatre Your Weekend Spotlight appears every Thursday in the Catalyst’s CREATE section . 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