Steve Hamilton

Masters of Tradition celebrates its 21st anniversary this year and takes place from 23 – 27 August in Bantry, west Cork. Its mission remains the same as every other year – to journey to the heart of Irish music and provide a platform where subtle elements of the music can be heard.

Ragtime the Musical, the much-anticipated finale to Bay Street Theater’s 2022 Mainstage Season, opened on Saturday, August 6, in Sag Harbor. Check out opening night photos here!

Whoever said you can't get sober for someone else never met my mother, Mama Jean.” So begins the bitingly funny, raw, and insightful story, “Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother,” told by Jamie Brickhouse. Tickets are on sale now for the virtual performance, presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and sponsored by Steve Hamilton and Keith Norwalk, on Saturday, March 20, 2021. 

You've admired Elton John's talent, seen the fabulous movie, 'Rocketman,' and now it's time to get the book that chronicles it all. Weldon Owen International has published Rocketman: Inside the World of the Movie based on the recent blockbuster from Paramount Pictures. Film fans and all those who have followed the career of Elton John will love having this beautiful book.

A partir de hoy 31 de mayo, la musica y la magia de la increible vida de Sir Elton John llegan a la gran pantalla de la mano de la pelicula ROCKETMAN.

El proximo 31 de mayo llega a nuestros cines ROCKETMAN, biopic que cuenta el ascenso a la fama del iconico cantante britanico Sir Elton John.

For the past eight years, Theatre Kalamazoo (TK) has been providing a platform for local playwrights to develop and share new plays with the community. Theatre Kalamazoo is proud to announce that the ninth annual Theatre Kalamazoo New Play Festival will be held February 8-9, 2019 at the Judy K. Jolliffe Theatre inside the Epic Center in downtown Kalamazoo. The free event will feature works by nine local playwrights, performed and directed as staged readings by local actors and directors representing the member theatres of Theatre Kalamazoo.

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) announced today the winners of the 31st annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers Concert of Arias, which took place in the Cullen Theater of the Wortham Theater Center. This is the third year the Concert of Arias was streamed live on Facebook, and the second for livestreaming on YouTube. The livestream was hosted by HGO Studio alumna Andrea Carroll. She is currently performing in The Pearl Fishers as Le la and placed first in the 2012 Concert of Arias. The winners were announced during the second portion of the program.

For the past eight years, Theatre Kalamazoo (TK) has been providing a platform for local playwrights to develop and share new plays with the community. Theatre Kalamazoo is proud to announce that the ninth annual Theatre Kalamazoo New Play Festival will be held February 8-9, 2019 at the Judy K. Jolliffe Theatre inside the Epic Center in downtown Kalamazoo. The free event will feature works by nine local playwrights, performed and directed as staged readings by local actors and directors representing the member theatres of Theatre Kalamazoo.

El proximo mes de mayo llega a nuestros cines ROCKETMAN, biopic que cuenta el ascenso a la fama del iconico cantante britanico Sir Elton John.

Bay Street Theater is pleased to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Executive Director Tracy Mitchell at Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center of the Arts.  Her term has seen growth in nearly every aspect of the theater, building upon the devoted passion of its founders 27 years ago--Emma Walton Hamilton, Steve Hamilton, and Sybil Christopher.

Bay Street is pleased to announce that Ana R. Daniel has been named Chair Emeritus by the Bay Street Board of Trustees. She served two different terms, the first from 1991-2004, and the second from 2013-2015.  She announced her retirement from the board at the end of 2017, and the board voted unanimously to create the role of Chair Emeritus in her honor.

Urban Stages' Board of Directors and founding artistic director Frances Hill presented the 2017 Urban Stages' Lifetime Achievement Award to Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-winning legendary set and costume designer Tony Walton.  The celebrated Broadway, TV and film star,  Melissa Errico, ("Billions", My Fair Lady, High Society, Encores' Do I Hear a Waltz?), presented the award to her mentor and close friend, Tony Waltonat the annual benefit at the Boathouse in Central Park. 

What happens when a group of top studio musicians get together in their free time? A unique mixture of sophisticated composition, passionate improvisation, scathing social commentary and biting humor, BANDZILLA play furious funk, sleazy soul, punk jazz and heartfelt ballads.

But Harrison is nobody's fool. Partially disabled, he is faced with the loss of his career, the loss of his mobility, and lots of therapy to mitigate all that. But, there's an up side. With damning evidence of misconduct and erratic behavior by his boss, he successfully sues the company. Now, having financial security, he is ready for a new life.

Elton John's Rocket Pictures has acquired the film rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's global stage phenomenon, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and is embarking on an all-new animated family feature film, in association with The Really Useful Group,the company announced today.

Tom Hardy will star as Elton John in Rocket Pictures' Rocketman, and Focus Features has come aboard to give the film a major U.S. release, producers announced today.

According to the UK's Guardian, music promo and commercials director Michael Gracey has signed on to helm the long-awaited Elton John biopic ROCKETMAN from John's Rocket Pictures.

Co-founder and artistic director of Bay Street Theatre Sybil Christopher passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2013, according to an announcement by the theatre's website. She was 83. Christopher served as artistic director at Bay Street for nearly 22 years until 2012, when she stepped down.

Macmillan Publishers, one of the largest and best-known international publishing groups, announced today an agreement to make a collection of popular eBooks available to libraries via OverDrive before the end of the first quarter.