Freddie Mercury News

Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell - The Musical is a romantic adventure about rebellious youth and passionate love, set against the backdrop of a post-cataclysmic city adrift from the mainland. Strat, the forever young leader of The Lost, has fallen for Raven, daughter of Falco, the tyrannical, ruler of Obsidian. The show made its world premiere tonight at the London Coliseum and the critics are weighing in. 

With hundreds of theatre productions to choose from at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BroadwayWorld reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue has narrowed down her top picks from the theatre section of the programme

???????The world's premier Queen tribute show, Queen: It's A Kinda Magic, will complete a 15-stop national tour from May - taking fans back to the glory days of Freddie Mercury and his iconic band Queen.

Iconic rock opera Tommy visits the Crucible from Thursday 22 June - Saturday 1 July, featuring two new songs written by legendary lead songwriter of The Who, Pete Townshend.

Seiriol Davies' sell-out show from Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 was a huge hit with audiences and critics alike; now the musical extravaganza will be returning to the Fringe and touring the UK.

Internationally renowned composer Warren Wills presents the world premiere of his new musical Bowie & Mercury Rising in his hometown of Melbourne in July 2017 at Chapel off Chapel.

Join thousands of fans around the UK in 2017 to celebrate 70 years of Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest recording artists of the twentieth century.

ARLENE: THE GLITZ, THE GLAMOUR, THE GOSSIP, the tell-all show from renowned choreographer, director and former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips, comes to London's Duchess Theatre on 20 November. Book tickets now from £34

Avant-pop songstress Maisy Kay has released her new single, 'Out Of My Mind', which premiered yesterday on PopDust. The song was written by Maisy Kay, along with Adam Argyle and Martin Brammer, who also produced the track.

Today, talented composers Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner speak exclusively to BWW and explain how they pulled off an original musical episode of this beloved series!

SOMETHING ROTTEN!'s heading to Omaha and someone local along with it. Actually, there are two "local" actors in this wonderfully silly, delightful Tony-nominated hit. One is Daniel Beeman from Bellevue, Nebraska. Daniel is a 2011 graduate of Bellevue West High School and is traveling in his national touring debut as chorus member and understudy for the character of Shakespeare, played by Broadway favorite Adam Pascal. I called Daniel and questioned him a bit about his new career and the show.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents The Ultimate Queen Celebration Starring Marc Martel. It's simple: Queen's Roger Taylor and Brian May handpicked singer Marc Martel to take on the lead vocals for their Queen tribute tour known as the Queen Extravaganza. If that isn't a personal endorsement for this amazing artist, then we're not sure what is. His audition video of 'Somebody to Love' garnered 13 million views on YouTube. Marc not only sounds dead-on like Freddie Mercury, but he embodies the heart-and-soul Freddie poured into every song that he performed.

Anna Coogan has been preparing for this moment her whole life, ever since she was a girl growing up in Boston, influenced by her classical opera training and her father's protest albums by Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan.

Employing a three-octave range and the ability to create electric guitar soundscapes and turn them into pointed social commedntary, guitarist Anna Coogan will release her operatic rock album, The Lonely Cry of Space & Time this Friday, April 28.

Ghostland Observatory's entire approach to music - sonically, aesthetically, conceptually - is essentially a melding of the two distinctly different personalities of its two members, Thomas Ross Turner and Aaron Behrens. Whereas Turner, the producer/drummer/keyboardist of the duo, finds solace in the minimal, bleak cable-patch squawks of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the analog-disco-thump of Giorgio Moroder, Behrens' interests lie more along the lines of psychedelia, rock and various country and blues artists.

The world's premiere Queen tribute show, Queen: It's A Kinda Magic, will complete a 16-stop national tour from May - taking fans back to the glory days of Freddie Mercury and his iconic band Queen.

Join us for One Night of Queen performed by Garry Mullen and The Works at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Sunday, April 23 at 7PM.

Students in Valencia College's House Band will pay tribute to rock legends, including Prince, Chuck Berry, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, at an April 13 concert on Valencia's East Campus.<

Eclectic pop singer Maisy Kay has released a new video to celebrate Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast film, starring Emma Watson, in theaters today!

???????Emma Brunjes Productions (ebp) are delighted to announce that ARLENE! The Glitz. The Glamour. The Gossip. will open at Assembly Checkpoint Edinburgh on Tuesday 22 August, where it will play until Saturday 26 August as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ahead of a national tour.