Billy Hayes News

Stax Records and Craft Recordings will release Stax Christmas, a new 12-track collection of holiday classics and originals from soul music’s biggest stars, including Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & the M.G.’s and the Staple Singers. Get all the details now!

Porchlight Music Theatre will present New Faces Sing Broadway 1984, hosted by Honey West, directed by Tommy Novak with music direction and arrangements by Micky York.

Porchlight Music Theatre announces the cast of New Faces for its latest offering in its 2022 - 2023 season, New Faces Sing Broadway 1951, hosted by multi-award winner and Broadway veteran David Girolmo, directed by David Fiorello with music direction and arrangements by Dr. Michael McBride.

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the latest offering in its 2022 - 2023 season, New Faces Sing Broadway 1951, hosted by multi-award winner and Broadway veteran David Girolmo, directed by David Fiorello with music direction and arrangements by Dr. Michael McBride.

Chillicothe Civic Theatre has announced a production of Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, which will be livestreamed March 4-14.

10 PM With Galinsky is a new, thirty-minute talk-variety show that stars performer, artist, activist Robert Galinsky streaming live each night from his Alphabet City NYC studio. Galinsky interviews celebrities, newsmakers, and exceptional people doing extraordinary things.

10 PM With Galinsky is a new, thirty-minute talk-variety show that stars performer, artist, activist Robert Galinsky streaming live each night from his Alphabet City NYC studio. Galinsky interviews celebrities, newsmakers, and exceptional people doing extraordinary things.

TRIAD THEATER presents RAINBOW SUN PRODUCTIONS in We Are Santa's Elves: The Songs of Rankin/Bass on Tuesday, December 24,2019 and Wednesday, December 25, 2019. Celebrate the season with Rainbow Sun Productions as they take you on a musical journey through the stories of Rankin/Bass!

Actor and entertainer Pamela Shaw, traces her journey from an obedient and deferential childhood to the independent and irreverent personality she has become, in this humorous and captivating musical memoir. Through expanded musical numbers and dance, spiced up with witty narrative and film clips, Shaw gets naughtier than ever in her funny, provocative, musically eclectic new show, Naughty with a Band, which comes to Feinstein's at Vitello's in Studio City for One Night Only on September 17 at 8:00 p.m.; doors open for dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Celebrated actress and singer Pamela Shaw gets naughtier than ever with her fun, provocative, musically eclectic new show Naughty with a Band. Direct from a critically acclaimed run in Australia, England, and the Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, this Los Angeles premiere is a musical melange of pop, blues and rock with a live band.

Actor and author of the international best-seller "Midnight Express" returns to the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre with his riveting performance "Riding the Midnight Express" in which he recounts the true story of his time in Turkish prisons and his brazen, harrowing escape. In 1970, Hayes was arrested at the Istanbul Airport with four pounds of hashish strapped to his body in an attempt to smuggle the drug back to the U.S. He was caught and made an example in Nixon's war on drugs; the result: a life sentence in prison.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers, announces the top ASCAP holiday songs of 2018. According to an ASCAP analysis of streaming and terrestrial radio data, the hit classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” written by ASCAP songwriter Walter Afanasieff and pop star Mariah Carey, holds the #1 song position for the second year in a row.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers, announces its Top Holiday Songs for 2017. According to an ASCAP analysis of streaming and terrestrial radio data, 1994's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You,' written by Walter Afanasieff and Mariah Carey, moves to #1, joining enduring Christmas classics like 'A Holly Jolly Christmas'(written by Johnny Marks, 1962) and 'Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow'(written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, 1945), at the top of the charts. (Check out ASCAP's interview with Afanaseiff about writing 'All I Want' at http://bit.ly/2k8S9E0)

West Coast premiere of Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes - Billy Hayes recounts the true story of his arrest in 1970 at the Istanbul airport with two kilos of hashish taped to his body, his time in Turkish prisons and his brazen, harrowing escape from Imrali Island prison in the dead of night.

The Downstairs Cabaret has announced nearly a dozen different shows as part of its 2017 Summer Program.

Starting May 15, Sundance Now members will be able to stream new release Midnight Return, a documentary that provides a postscript on the explosive, Oscar-winning Midnight Express.

Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the first production in a new musical revue series, New Faces Sing Broadway. The first edition with Director Porchlight Music Theatre Artistic Associate Christopher Pazdernik, Music Director Kory Danielson and Emcee Meghan Murphy is NEW FACES SING BROADWAY 1991, tonight, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at Uptown Underground, 4707 N Broadway.

Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the first production in a new musical revue series, New Faces Sing Broadway. The first edition with Director Porchlight Music Theatre Artistic Associate Christopher Pazdernik, Music Director Kory Danielson and Emcee Meghan Murphy is NEW FACES SING BROADWAY 1991, Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at Uptown Underground, 4707 N Broadway.

This year, ASCAP brings its 100th birthday celebration into the holiday season by unwrapping the top 30 ASCAP holiday songs of all time. Topping the list is 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,' written by Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie.

The hit Off-Broadway show Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, directed by Jeffrey Altshuler, ends its run in New York at The Barrow Street Theatre today, November 30, 2014 as it prepares for an international tour in 2015.