George Michael News

Could experiencing the lives of aging performing artists through young actors cause people to rethink their beliefs about aging and disrupt implicit biases? Of a Certain Age-a verbatim performance comprised of eight students portraying 16 performing artists and professionals over the age of 65-will explore this concept through performances at the Provincetown Playhouse from Friday, February 23 to Sunday, March 4.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Donell James Foreman in The Dirty 30 Tour or, Play-List: A Pop Music Memoir on Monday, March 19th. Donell James Foreman - currently in The Book of Mormon - makes his Feinstein's/54 Below solo concert debut

The Philly POPS announced its 40th Anniversary 2018-19 concert season today. Subscriptions for this celebratory 40th Anniversary Season go on sale at 10 a.m. Moe Septee founded the POPS in November 1979 with a concert at the Academy of Music. Celebrated jazz pianist Peter Nero conducted the POPS from 1979 until 2013.

Pata Productions will present Andy James, at Rockwell Table & Stage for one special performance on Monday, March 5, 2018 at 8 p.m.

The event features a concert showing of brand new musical Crossroads by Beverly Andrews and Tim Sutton, exploring a hypothesis for the death of blues legend Robert Johnson.

Circles Productions in association with Workin Process presents A Night of the Blues, featuring new musical Crossroads, book by Beverly Andrews, lyrics by Tim Sutton, music by Tim Sutton and Hugh Burns, arrangement by Hugh Burns.

Iconic American singer, songwriter and performer Don McLean is set to release his new album Botanical Gardens on March 23rd 2018 via BMG. With over 40 gold and platinum records worldwide, his prowess for writing timeless songs is once again captured on Botanical Gardens, as he artfully weaves country, Americana, folk, and boot stomping rock for an eclectic, yet American sound that he is known for.

American singer, songwriter and musician GREGORY DARLING will release MADLY, his debut solo album in the U.S. in late April (exact date TBA), after having released three albums throughout the U.K. and Europe, with the first two discs achieving Top Ten positions. MADLY, due out on FOD Records, will be preceded by the March 19 release of the first single, 'My Sleeping Heart,'an upbeat slice of piano-based soulful pop marked by his distinctive croon, cascading melodies and incisive lyrics about a busted-up relationship. The song will be accompanied by a video in the weeks to come. *View the EPK with DARLING here.

Sweeney Entertainments are bringing a fantastic new show to Liverpool's Epstein Theatre, featuring the very best of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in The Best of Wham! on Friday 11 May. It is 37 years since the pop duo formed one of the most enduring groups of the 80s. In four short years WHAM! sold more than 28 million records, topping the charts with three albums, four number one singles and eleven top ten hits.

The Houston Symphony and Music Director Andr s Orozco-Estrada announced today details of the 2018-19 season, which marks Orozco-Estrada's fifth year as music director. Highlights of the season include conducting appearances by world-class violinists Joshua Bell and Itzhak Perlman; the world premiere of Aurora, a violin concerto by Houston Symphony Composer-in-Residence Jimmy L pez; and a semi-staged opera performance of Bart k's Bluebeard's Castle.

SYDNEY BROWN is a Pop singer/songwriter from San Francisco, CA, and together with Bay Area legend NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN wrote and recorded the single LOVE IS STRONGER THAN SMOKE AND FIRE as a benefit for the victims of the 2017 California fires.

TEG DAINTY & Nice Events are excited to announce BRAIN CANDY LIVE! This new live show starring Adam Savage, editor-in-chief of tested.com and former co-host of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters, and Michael Stevens, creator of award-winning YouTube Channel Vsauce , will be touring Australia in January 2018.

When an actor has an opportunity to bring a celebrity onstage, should they take it? Well James Corden did in 2012, during his Tony-winning run in One Man, Two Guvnors. The celebrity in question? Donald Trump.

From her lonely White House bedroom, 'Melania Trump' sings about wanting to be where the people are and sounds a lot like Ariel from THE LITTLE MERMAID. Below, watch James Corden's First Lady perform a parody of 'Part of Your World'!

A musical extravaganza is promising to put the boom boom into your heart as it heads to town in celebration of a global superstar.

REELZ today announced original programming for winter, spring and early summer 2018 including six new original series, new episodes of five returning viewer favorites and four new specials.

Now graduated from college and out in the real world where it takes more than a cappella to get by, the Bellas return in PITCH PERFECT 3 the next chapter in the beloved series

Tickets go on sale to the general public today, Wednesday, December 13 at 1 PM ET for Second Stage Theater's Broadway premiere of KENNETH LONERGAN's LOBBY HERO, directed by TRIP CULLMAN and starring MICHAEL CERA, CHRIS EVANS, BRIAN TYREE HENRY, and BEL POWLEY.

Don McLean, one of America's best-known singer-songwriters, interviewed by producer Ed Freeman and musician Jake Bugg, whose musical path was initiated when hearing 'Vincent' for the first time on the TV, is featured in the BBC Classic Album Series titled, Don McLean: American Pie this weekend. The program also highlights a poignant archive performance of George Michaelsinging McLean's 'The Grave'.

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)