Leonard Cohen News

Feinstein's/54 Below Salutes The Second Act Series which, on February 27, 2018, will present a one-night-only concert of the much-loved, madcap musical Charlotte Sweet (Music, Gerald Jay Markoe; Libretto, Michael Colby).

GODFREY JOHNSON IN CABARET is the perfect end of year show. Starring Godfrey Johnson and Nicholas 'Magic Fingers' McDiarmid, the show features the songs of Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Madonna, Kermit the Frog and many more.

SOUTHERN BLOOD, the extraordinary final album from the legendary Gregg Allman, has been honored with two prestigious nominations for the upcoming 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has entered into an exclusive consultancy with music industry veteran Jay Landers and his Lighthouse Company. In this role, Landers will mine Sony/ATV's vast catalog of songs and develop motion picture and theatrical projects.

On Friday, November 24 the band also released their latest full-length album The Best Of viaRepublic Records in North America.

The Recording Academy kicked off the 60th GRAMMY Awards nominations by revealing nominees in the four General Field categories (Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Album Of The Year) live on CBS THIS MORNING.

Joe's Pub at The Public welcomes back the legendary Judy Collins for a ten-show residency, performing material from her celebrated project, A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim. Collins gives Sondheim's treasured catalog her distinctive vocal treatment from Send in the Clowns to the lesser-known gems of his repertoire.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced events for February 2018. See the full schedule below:

Celebrated performer Barb Jungr put this collection of songs together a couple of years ago (alongside long-time collaborator and pianist, Simon Wallace) and has been taking the songs across the UK and the US, amongst other places, as well as appearing on the bill of the Art of Protest cabaret at the Donmar Warehouse earlier this year. Jungr describes the show as hundreds and hundreds of words packed together incomprehensibly , hoping to show the nice side of Dylan and the nastiness of Cohen.

Experience the enduring power and popularity of American folk music with The Lonesome Traveler, the stirring concert version of the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical at the Gettysburg College's Majestic Theater, Gettysburg, PA today, November 10, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.

Urban Stages announces the line-up for this year's award-winning series, WINTER RHYTHMS 2017, which will begin Tuesday, December 12 and will feature some of New York's best musical performances through Saturday, December 23, 2017 at Urban Stages Theatre (259 West 30th Street, just East of 8th Avenue).

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in association with Pomegranate Arts, will present Taylor Mac's epic A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA).

In 24-Decade History: Holiday Sauce, a concert at The Town Hall in New York City, on Tuesday, December 12th, Taylor Mac explores Christmas as calamity, celebrating the holiday season in all of its dysfunction.

The extraordinary life and legacy of Gregg Allman will be honored by the University of Georgia with a very special halftime celebration during the highly anticipated SEC Football game between the #1-ranked Georgia Bulldogs and the University of South Carolina Gamec*cks, set for this Saturday, November 4th at Sanford Stadium in Athens, GA. The UGA will honor Allman for his remarkable contributions to American music as well as his personal generosity towards the University.

Mary Fahl, formerly of October Project will perform at The Cutting Room (44 E 32nd St., New York, NY 10016) today, November 3rd at 7:30 p.m.

Irish Arts Center is set to present The Whistling Girl, the U.S. premiere of the collaboration between Dublin-based composer/keyboardist Trevor Knight and jazz singer/actor Honor Heffernan that sets the fabulously mordant words of 20th Century poet/critic/playwright/screenwriter/New York legend Dorothy Parker to song.

La compagnie BJM fera vibrer la sc ne du Th tre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts pour une repr sentation suppl mentaire du spectacle Dance Me / Leonard Cohen, le samedi 9 d cembre 15h. Cette repr sentation s'ajoute celles d j programm es du 5 au 9 d cembre, par Danse Danse en Premi re Mondiale.

Today we celebrate Broadway favorite, Raul Esparza, who is celebrating his birthday!

A crime tragedy with comic elements, a clever plot, Yiddish, Jewish identity struggles, gangsters, circus acts, singing, Leonard Cohen songs, dancing and even a puppet, all these and so much more is happening in Beit Lessin Theatre's new play, King of Dogs, directed by Irad Rubinstain.