Elton John News

The Abbey has announced additional acts that will be joining the Monday Night Cabaret Series. Jennica McCleary will take the Abbey stage on November 3, followed by local stars Tod Kimbro and Carol Lee/Matthew Arter. Tickets to each cabaret show are just $10 and can be purchased at TicketWeb.com.

Singer, songwriter and Grammy®-winning artist Rosanne Cash teams up with husband and fellow Grammy® winning musician and producer John Leventhal for a new tour celebrating the release of their much anticipated album, The River and the Thread. The two arrive at Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre tonight, October 23rd for one show at 7:30 p.m.

The NAMM Foundation has announced that Nathan East, one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music, will be inducted into the NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards Hall of Fame.

School and amateur licensing for Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's hit musical MARY POPPINS is now available exclusively through Music Theatre International (MTI).

Disney's THE LION KING celebrates two anniversaries among its 10 productions worldwide. The London production marks its 15th anniversary on Sunday, October 19th at The Lyceum Theatre. The award-winning musical has entertained over 12 million theatregoers and remains the West End's best-selling stage production. It also recently became the sixth longest-running West End musical of all time. The critically-acclaimed production remains the West End's most popular musical with over 810,000 guests per year. To celebrate this milestone and to thank Londoners for embracing and supporting the show, Disney gave away 1500 tickets earlier this week to the anniversary performance.

Back by overwhelming public demand following a sold out show this past May, The Seacoast Repertory Theatre has announced two performances of the 'Michael Troy is the Elton Joel Show'. Performances will be on consecutive Fridays, today October 17 and October 24, 2014 at 8:00pm.

Music Director and Conductor Michael Krajewski, the nationally recognized Pops conductor who performs with orchestras throughout the country, brings back his innovative programming and lighthearted approach with the 2014-2015 concert season of The Philly POPS. Encore Series, Inc, the presenter of The Philly POPS, is pleased to introduce this exciting series of concerts which begins in October, 2014 with the Era of ABBA, followed by Classic Soul. It continues with a salute to the American Songbook Then and Now and a visit to the movies with Epic Hollywood Soundtracks. The season ends with the Legends of Rock.

A first look at the hotly anticipated upcoming Fathom Events movie theater presentation of multi-award-winning musical hit BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL is now available to view.

Tony Award nominee Tony Sheldon (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) has joined the cast of the Encores! Special Event The Band Wagon in the role of Jeffrey Cordova, an egotistical British director. (Roger Rees, previously announced in the role, is no longer available.) The Band Wagon cast stars Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell, seven-time Emmy Award winner Tracey Ullman, Academy Award nominee Michael McKean, Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes, Tony Award nominee Michael Berresse and Don Stephenson. The Band Wagon will open on Sunday, November 8.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Alliance Theatre's annual holiday gift to Atlanta, returns for its 25th season, November 21 - December 24, 2014. The most heartwarming story of the season comes to life with holiday carols, stunning stage magic and your favorite Atlanta actors. Directed by Rosemary Newcott, the Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth, A CHRISTMAS CAROL has become a tradition for many families around the southeast.

Fathom Events brings top theater from London's iconic West End to the big screen with 'Billy Elliot the Musical Live' which will be screened in select U.S. cinemas for three showings only: November 12 at 7 p.m., November 15 at 12:55 p.m. and November 18 at 7 p.m., all local times. This unique performance was previously captured live when it was broadcast to eight countries from the show's West End home at the Victoria Palace Theatre, hitting number one at the UK box office. It has been dazzling audiences in London since it opened in 2005, and has gone on to captivate audiences across five continents, winning more than 80 theater awards globally including 10 Tony Awards®.

Below, watch Driver perform the Elton John classic, 'Love Song' from her third studio album 'Ask Me to Dance.'

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announces the label's line-up of collectible 12', 10' and 7' vinyl releases created especially for Record Store Day's Black Friday 2014, celebrated this year at the nation's independent record stores on Friday, November 28, 2014.

I was invited to attend Mary Lambert's intimate and beautiful concert at SubCulture. With just a piano and her remarkable voice, she previewed songs off HEART ON MY SLEEVE and played other songs that both she and the audience love. I left that concert floating on an elevated plane of human existence, and I am happy to report that HEART ON MY SLEEVE takes me back to that transcendental field of bliss.

Music industry legend Peter Asher is slated to perform with his band at Arnold Palmer's Restaurant in La Quinta, California on Saturday, November 15th

Disneys DER KÖNIG DER LÖWEN erreicht im Oktober 2014 die magische Zahl von 10 Millionen Besuchern im Stage Theater im Hafen. Damit ist es nicht nur das am langsten laufende Musical Hamburgs, sondern konnte auch die meisten Besucher verbuchen, die ein Hamburger Musical je hatte: im Schnitt jeder achte Deutsche. „Das Musical ‚Konig der Lowen' ist zu einem pragenden Bestandteil der Hamburger Kultur- und Tourismuslandschaft geworden. Die Spieldauer von 13 Jahren und 10 Millionen Besucher sind ein großes Kompliment an Stage Entertainment, Disney und Hamburg. Von der ungebrochenen Anziehungskraft profitiert die gesamte Stadt", so Dietrich von Albedyll, Geschaftsfuhrer der Hamburg Tourismus GmbH.

Rumors have recently surfaced that Ellen and and her wife Portia de Rossi were having a baby. So on yesterday's ELLEN, the couple decided to address the reports head-on.

Disney's THE LION KING continues to reign across North America with a sold-out engagement in Boston, which concluded on Sunday, October 12 at The Boston Opera House. Heralded as a "visual feast" by the Boston Globe, the triumphant five-week return grossed over $8.8 million at the box office and entertained more than 94,000 patrons during 40 performances, one of which was tailored to the needs of patrons on the autism spectrum.

2014 Best Actor In A Musical Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris's new amusingly titled autobiography CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY hits the shelves today, October 14.

CENTRIC today announced the nominees for SOUL TRAIN AWARDS 2014, which will celebrate and honor R&B's finest and most soulful artists on November 7, 2014 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.