Michael Bolton News

FOX has renewed interactive music game show BEAT SHAZAM for a fourth season. Jamie Foxx will return as host and executive producer, along with executive producers Mark Burnett, Jeff Apploff, Barry Poznick and Lauren Zalaznick. Corinne Foxx, daughter of Jamie Foxx, also will return as deejay.

The Las Vegas Academy of the Arts Jazz Ensemble will perform at the Newport Beach Jazz Party on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 8:15 pm PST with guest soloists KP, Wycliffe, Tom Scott and James Morrison. The Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa located at 900 Newport Center Drive Newport Beach, CA 92660 hosts the four-day event. Tickets are available at etix.com or newportbeachjazzparty.com.

Diplo's rapidly growing Higher Ground imprint continues with its latest release from Lisbon-born Angola house pioneer DJEFF, who brings the heat on Time & Freedom EP with two deep club cuts — “Time & Freedom” and “Jagun Jagun” — sealed off with a proper remix of the title track from East Coast house legend Harry Romero.

Last night, Sunday, October 13, Tawni O'Dell's new play, When It Happens to You, opened off-Broadway at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture.

Southern Nevada's Heart of the Arts, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts continues to present a wide variety of live entertainment for every taste and interest this fall and coming spring with an eclectic mix of programming. See below for listing information for performances through the end of 2019 and just-announced engagements in early 2020.

The iconic Grammy-winning and Emmy nominated songwriter-producer Desmond Child has shared the first track, “Livin' On A Prayer” from his upcoming album DESMOND CHILD LIVE, available worldwide on October 25 via BMG. The track can be heard and serves as sneak preview to this new live album showcasing Child's global mega-hits recorded at Feinstein's/54 Below in New York City.

Detroit's own Aretha Franklin truly was the a?oeQueen of Soul,a?? recording more than 100 charted singles including 17 Top 10 Pop singles and 20 No. 1 R&B singles. The first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Franklin was ranked number one Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time in 2010. 

The Academy of Vocal Arts' annual favorite vocal competition returns to the Kimmel Center this fall.

Fresh from the combined creative minds of Jake O'Flaherty and Tom Misuraca, their SUICIDAL BLONDE will world premiere September 19, 2019 at the Whitefire Theatre. Their dark comedy take on suicide will be directed by Candi Milo. I had the opportunity to field a few questions to Pam Trotter, who plays BLONDE's integral Felicia. 

The Piper, a new musical unfaithfully adapted from a?oeThe Pied Piper of Hamelina?? by Robert Browning receives one of three staged reading slots at Rave Theater Festival. The staged reading will be presented on Monday, August 19th at 12pm at Teatro Latea at The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk Street, New York NY 10002).

Su nombre es sinonimo de cine y teatro musical. Ha creado las bandas sonoras de la epoca dorada de Disney como LA BELLA Y LA BESTIA o ALADDIN, y tambien musicales inolvidables como LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS o NEWSIES, por el que gano el Premio Tony.

Across the board, from masterpieces to movies, it's going to be a big, fun 201920 season for the Kansas City Symphony.

Many fans and supporters will remember one of S.A's most successful bands, the Staccatos and their hit song, "Cry to Me",sung by one of their lead singers, Steve Ashley. 

Worthing Theatres have announced that Mark Read, star of hit boyband A1, will play Prince Charming in their traditional Christmas pantomime, Cinderella, at the Pavilion Theatre.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Porter Carroll, Jr in The Evolution of Cabaret. On May 18th 2019, at 9:30pm. Porter Carroll, Jr. founder of Atlantic Starr the Rhythm and Blues Hit machine from the 70's and 80's and performing worldwide in his brand new roll with the number one selling duo in Music history Hall & Oates as their percussionist and vocalist returns to Feinstien's/54 Below by popular demand, with his own sold out shows in 'The Evolution of Cabaret', featuring a tasty musical panoply that runs the gamut from R& B and improvisational Jazz to soul, funk, blues, Rock & Roll and more.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas today announced complete details for Festival 2019, which opens on June 8 and continues for two weeks through June 22 in New Haven, Connecticut.

Gateway for Cancer Research, a non-profit dedicated to funding transformational cancer research, hosted their 3rd Annual Vino con Stelle, a signature fundraising event showcasing Wines Around the World on Friday, April 12 at the Gemini Hangar in Scottsdale, Arizona. Since 1991, Gateway for Cancer Research (Gateway) has provided over $85 million in funding for more than 170 clinical trials at leading institutions worldwide. This week, Gateway announced a $1.5 million grant to fund a first-of-its-kind pediatric brain cancer study at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

FOX is announcing summer premiere dates for returning series BEAT SHAZAM, MASTERCHEF and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, as well as for new series SPIN THE WHEEL. Air dates for PARADISE HOTEL and MISS USA® were previously announced.

The legendary "Bishop of Jazz", Rio Clemente, will present his debut of "Rio Plays Rio," full of original music mixed in with jazz favorites, the American Song book, full band numbers plus piano solos at the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum on Monday, April 8 at 7:30PM.

On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7:30pm, Billboard top-selling violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and Grammy-winning classical guitarist Jason Vieaux join forces for a performance in Weill Hall (1801 E Cotati Ave) at Sonoma State University, presented by the Green Music Center.