James Gavin News

Veteran CAST PARTY and LINEUP guest Bryce Edwards will finally play Birdland with his own show.

The raucous and sexy Soul Searching has played multiple times in Los Angeles to sold-out houses at the legendary Catalina Jazz.

Multiple talents and multiple awards, and Meg Flather is out with a new show for 2023.

In the five years since, MLB has had well over 100 released songs as either a co-writer or a producer, including songs with BTS, Lizzy McAlpine, Sam Tompkins, Dylan, Jacob Banks, Gavin James, Victoria Canal, James Smith, Greta Isaac, Orla Gartland, Sody, Jack Kane, and many more (co-writes with YUNGBLUD and Galantis to come this summer). 

The American Theatre of Actors has announced SEASON 47 and the RAISE THE CURTAIN TO 50 CAMPAIGN.

ATAwrights: The American Theatre of Actors Playwrights' Festival will present two short plays in their world premieres: The North Forty written & directed by ATA founder and member of the original Off-Off Broadway Movement, James Jennings, and Wild Duck in Little Neck - loosely based on Ibsen's Wild Duck.- written and directed by Meny Bariro.

There are parties and there are parties.  When the party is celebrating a stellar cast of performers for a great cause and they are put together with the Board Members and supporters of The BARBARA SINATRA CHILDREN’S CENTER, you have a special formula of merriment. See photos here!

Oliver! The Musical is currently playing at the new home of The Secret Theatre to delighted crowds. This is perhaps the most ambitious Secret Theatre Academy production to date with a large cast of 24, smoking chimneys and a multi level set. See photos from the production.

James Gavin finds the man, but doesn't quite find his place in this detailed biography

CAROL LIPNIK — the spellbinding, wistfully-humorous singer and songwriter called an “ethereal vocal phenomenon” by The New York Times — will celebrate her second new major recording of the season, the new EP Blue Forest, with a special return to Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, NYC) on Wednesday, June 8 at 7:00 PM.

CAROL LIPNIK will celebrate her second new major recording of the season, the new EP Blue Forest, with a special return to Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, NYC) on Wednesday, June 8 at 7:00 PM.

Recorded live in 2019, Carol Sloane's Birdland concert is captured wonderfully on this Club 44 Records release.

Agatha Christie’s murder mystery novel, And Then There Were None, published in 1939 and adapted for the stage by Ms. Christie in 1943 is being staged at the Players Theatre in The West Village. The production is part of Be Bold! Productions’ Murder on MacDougal series which produced Murder on the Links in 2021 and Murder on the Nile in 2019.

Actor/Director & founder of the Secret Theatre, Richard Mazda, returns to the stage as Judge Wargrave after a three year hiatus in Be Bold Production's And Then There Were None at The Players Theatre

CLUB44 RECORDS has announced the new album Carol Sloane, Live at Birdland, which is available on streaming platforms and on CD in stores and online today, Friday, April 8. This release marks the veteran vocalist’s 60th anniversary as a recording artist, and her first album in over a decade. Recorded at the legendary New York jazz boite in September 2019, she was joined by an all-star trio, including the late Mike Renzi on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass, and Scott Hamilton on saxophone. The album features liner notes by award-winning writer James Gavin and is produced by Joel Moss and Mark D. Sendroff. Stream, download or order the album at club44.lnk.to/LiveAtBirdland.

Agatha Christie's renowned murder mystery novel, And Then There Were None, published in 1939 and adapted for the stage by Ms. Christie in 1943 is being staged at the Players Theatre in The West Village.

CLUB44 RECORDS has announced the new album Carol Sloane, Live at Birdland, which will be available on streaming platforms and on CD in stores and online Friday, April 8. This release marks the veteran vocalist’s 60th anniversary as a recording artist, and her first album in over a decade.

On December 10, ZOHO Music, a latin, jazz, and rock indie CD label, is releasing the studio recorded CD version of My Ship: Songs From 1941, which Dawn Derow will celebrate with a One-Night-Only return of the award-winning show at New York's Green Room 42 on January 15, 2022 at 7 pm.

Just as Quentin Tarantino suggested an alternate reality to one of the industry's most famous scandals in “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” George Bugatti, takes our country's most notorious scandal and asks “What if … President Richard M. Nixon had not resigned?,”

Ask any of the women working in the nightclub industry who their idol is, who their role model, there heroine, and chances are they will say one of these names.