Mike Taylor News

Distinguished Concerts International New York will present a thrilling, pop-forward repertory, featuring Total Vocal with Deke Sharon at 2 PM at Stern Auditorium, Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Inspired by the acclaimed book “Boundless,” by The Wall Street Journal reporters Nick Kostov and Sean McLain, the series includes never-before-seen interviews and footage with the prime players who lived in the Ghosn orbit, his rise to corporate power in Japan, his several arrests and the details of his harrowing escape to Lebanon. Watch the video!

HAHA is a band born of humans, two of them - Maria Taylor (Azure Ray) and Mike Bloom (Jenny Lewis, Julian Casablancas, Richard Edwards).  It strives to celebrate the very existence of all creatures and things: the knowable, the unknowable, the in-between, the gentle, the strange, the dangerous, the otherwise..

Queer Prom is back for a second consecutive year. Queer activist, designer, entrepreneur, and event producer NiK Kacy presents Queer Prom - Behind the Velvet Rope!

The Ridgefield Playhouse is celebrating its Fall Fundraising Gala with one of Broadway's most critically acclaimed performers - Bernadette Peters!

The Chocolate Factory Theater presents the world premiere of VESSEL, a new durational performance installation by David Thomson.

RAWdance has announced Step/Song/Story: A Sunday Series at TJPA's Salesforce Rooftop Park. Conceived, curated, and choreographed by RAWdance Co-Artistic Director Katerina Wong, Step/Song/Story is a live, collaborative storytelling event bringing together Bay Area dancers, musicians, and text-based/literary artists for a public cross-disciplinary performance.

Off the heels of his 'SiX TAPE'' record release, award-winning artist Bleu is back with a song that embraces the chaos of 'A Crazy Life!' Teaming up with co-writer and multi-instrumentalist Mr. McGinty (Kanye, Lizzo, Pharrell), the new track focuses on loyalty, love, and what it means to 'grow up.' It's about finding beauty in both the good and bad times; a culmination of memories that make us who we are now.

VINCINT has released his eagerly anticipated debut EP, The Feeling, available everywhere now. The six-track EP features VINCINT's newest single “Save Myself,' an uplifting proclamation of independence co-written with Brandon Colbein (Liam Payne, Hayley Kiyoko) and Ryan Hartman, as well as the previously released and celebrated singles 'Someday,' and “Please Don't Fall In Love.”

Just two weeks after their album HERE WE GO! debuted at #1 on Neilsen's Pop Albums chart, the critically-acclaimed Canadian pop group Walk Off the Earth has announced a 23-date US tour. The all theater run, which spans over three months, will be an intimate and interactive experience that the band says will be like nothing fans have seen before. They're promising that from the moment the concert goer walks into the venue until the moment they leave, they will truly be immersed in a one of a kind experience. Tickets for all shows go on sale on Friday, November 22 at 10 a.m. local time via the band's official website HERE. 

Tackling roles that involve the depiction of historical figures can be a mountainous task. For most, it takes research, time, and great direction to execute. The same could be said about mental health. They are enthralling when mastered, captivating audiences as the drama unfolds. The flawless cast and crew of Breakfast with Mugabe at Black Theatre Troupe is a prime example of drama done right, thanks to great direction and a cast with a commitment to their craft.

After an extremely tough year, critically-acclaimed multi-platinum musical phenomenon Walk Off the Earth returns with the new uplifting original pop single 'I'll Be There,' their response to the last year coping with the heartbreaking and unexpected loss of band member Mike 'Beard Guy' Taylor. The track is off their highly anticipated forthcoming full-length album of original songs to be released on October 25 via RED MUSIC. 

The Broadway at Birdland concert series presented two-time Tony nominee Laura Osnes in another exciting night of "Repertoire Roulette" on Monday, July 8.  

Nestled in the Catskill Mountains, Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) is an artist-founded laboratory space dedicated to supporting artists in the creation and presentation of new works of contemporary art. Beginning on June 15, they will present eight new experimental performances-deeply rooted in collaboration and activism-through their Watershed Lab. Guided by the metaphor of the Catskills as the watershed for New York City, MTA serves as the artistic headwaters for works that are incubated through residencies and performances before traveling to presenting partners in NYC.

The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City's premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, today announced the nominees for the 2015-16 season. Scroll down for the full list!

The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City's premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, today announced the nominees for the 2015-16 season. Scroll down for the full list!

The Kitchen is pleased to present The Tear Drinkers, the second musical work from beloved performer and Bessie-Award-winning composer Mike Iveson. The Tear Drinkers is a suite of sci-fi songs for six performers and piano; it follows four humans who have been abducted by the United States government and brought to an underground holding tank in New Mexico, so that the government can determine which of them is actually an alien from another planet masquerading as an earthling. Downtown performer Mike Iveson leads a team of exceptional artists, including pioneering video artist Charles Atlas, in a look at the private heartaches and private bathroom rituals of humans and aliens alike.

The Old Globe's 18th annual production of DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, starring J. Bernard Calloway in the title role, will run on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, November 7 - December 26 -- one week earlier than usual -- in order to give more San Diego families the chance to attend affordably priced performances. Previews run November 7- November 11. Opening night is November 12 at 7:00 p.m. Get a sneak peek at the cast below!

The Kitchen is pleased to present the New York Premiere of Scaffold Room in an expanded format created by choreographer, director and conceptual artist Ralph Lemon. This installation, performance and reading series of seminal, subversive texts refracts ideas and images of the female artist in American pop and contemporary art.

The Operating Theater presents The Oracle, an immersive living wax works, which transforms The Brick into an exhibition hall where artifacts and a series of live dioramas tell the story of Iris Atalanta Lee.