Rufus Wainwright News

America's Got Talent Live: The All-Stars Tour! featuring some of the most popular performers from the hit NBC variety competition series, will launch its first ever all-stars tour.  Top acts from ten years of the #1 rated summer reality television series are coming to Mayo Performing Arts Center on Monday, October 26 at 8 pm to provide the ultimate variety show experience.  Tickets are $49-89.

This fall, America's Got Talent Live: The All-Stars Tour! featuring some of the most popular performers from the hit NBC variety competition series, will launch its first ever all-stars tour, making a stop in Detroit on October 15 at Sound Board inside MotorCity Casino Hotel. The 42-city tour will include some of the show's most captivating and entertaining talent, including Season 8's favorite comedian, Taylor Williamson, Season 9's powerhouse performer Emily West, Season 8's comedic hand balancing duo The KriStef Brothers, the memorable "junk rock" performers, Recycled Percussion, from Season 4, and recently added acts, shadow dance duo, Blue Journey, and magician, Smoothini, from Season 9.

Segerstrom Center's Chamber Music Series continues on Wednesday, November 11 at 8 p.m. with leading piano ensemble, Faure? Quartett. For its Center debut, the quartet will perform Mozart's Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 493, Martinu?'s Piano Quartet No. 1, H. 287 and music from its namesake, Gabriel Faure?'s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15. The Quartett, which includes Dirk Mommertz, piano; Erika Geldsetzer, violin; Sascha Fro?mbling, viola and Konstantin Heidrich, cello, is known for its adventurous repertory that pushes the boundaries of chamber music programming by spanning centuries and musical genres. To help enrich the experience for audiences, a free Preview Talk with musicologist and author Herbert Glass will take place at 7:15 p.m. in Samueli Theater.

Just announced! The NYC debut of ELIJAH JAMAL QUINTET and Guests performing on Friday, September 4!  The quintet is led by saxophonist and composer Elijah Jamal Balbed, a Washington DC native named 'Best Tenor Saxophonist' and 'Best New Jazz Musician' by the Washington City Paper. 

Rick McKay has shared another video from his trilogy, BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE. In his words, 'Here is a tribute to my pal Marian Seldes, one of the great actresses of the stage of the last century and well into this one. Marian passed away yesterday, leaving many of us devastated. However, she lived a long, full life and touched many, many people with her work. In her later career she was known variously as "Broadway's Quiet Lioness," "The First Lady of Broadway," or as theater critic Clive Barnes called her, 'America's theatrical diva for our time.' Check out the tribute video below!

2014 MAC Award & 2013 BroadwayWorld Award Winner for Best Male Vocalist Jonathan Whitton (HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH) returns for one night only at Don't Tell Mama. Following his award-winning concert residency at the same venue, BLACK SHEEP REDUX VARIATIONS will be presented on Friday, September 18 @ 7PM.

This fall, America's Got Talent Live: The All-Stars Tour! featuring some of the most popular performers from the hit NBC variety competition series, will launch its first ever all-stars tour.  Top acts from ten years of the #1 rated summer reality television series are coming to the King Center, providing the ultimate variety show experience.  The 42-city tour will include some of the show's most captivating and entertaining talent, including Season 8's favorite comedian, Taylor Williamson, Season 9's powerhouse performer Emily West,  Season 8's comedic hand balancing duo The KriStef Brothers, and the memorable "junk rock" performers, Recycled Percussion, from Season 4, with more acts to be announced soon. 

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is proud to announce the addition of a major new addition for the whole family. November 1, 2015 at 8 pm (Sunday) AMERICA'S GOT TALENT LIVE: The All-Stars Tour! This fall, America's Got Talent Live: The All-Stars Tour! featuring some of the most popular performers from the hit NBC variety competition series, will launch its first ever all-stars tour. 

Happy Birthday Deborah Voigt! On the heels of a sell-out for 'Deborah Voigt: Voight Lessons', this past weekend at The Art House in Provincetown, MA, we want to celebrate 'Debbie's' birthday, where we found out, on this day, that she's teaching at Glimmerglass. 'Mark Cortale Presents' has his Broadway Series at The Art House in Provincetown for the 2015 Summer Season, where the show was standing room only.

TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, and PBS are thrilled to announce the first ever TED TALKS LIVE, a six?night speaker event featuring TED Talks, short films and performances at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) in New York's famed Theater District.

Fire Island Dance Festival returned for its 21st edition July 17-19, 2015, with some of the most talked-about world-class dance companies, raising a record-breaking $544,555 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The festival, performed outdoors on the picture-perfect shores of the Great South Bay in Fire Island Pines, included the world premieres of five works. Scroll down for photos from the performances!

 The Art House in Provincetown, MA, headed by Mark Cortale, will present Metropolitan Opera Star Deborah Voigt in "Voigt Lessons" created by Terrence McNally, Francesca Zambello and Deborah Voigt, for one night only on August 2 at 6:30 PM. Music Direction is by Kevin Stites, and the production is Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander. "Voigt Lessons" was originally created by the Glimmerglass Opera in 2011. This performance will mark Ms. Voigt's Provincetown debut as part of the critically acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House concert series. For tickets and information visit www.ptownarthouse.com  or call 800-838-3006.

'Come Together' for an unforgettable evening with the acclaimed Beatles' tribute band, The Fab Faux featuring the Hogshead Horns and Creme Tangerine Strings, at Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center tonight, July 18 at 7:30 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. 

Timeless artists Don McLean and Judy Collins will perform classic American hits at The Orleans Showroom this weekend, July 18 and 19.

Dancers touring like rock stars might invoke some doubt, but the motto of Derek and Julianne Hough's Move Live on Tour is "Motion=Emotion," and it's a safe bet that the audience at Wolf Trap on Friday night was feeling it. One of the great trends over the past decade, has been the emergence of a measure of fame for dancers who, in the past, would have been nameless talent backing up the headliner. Even in the most hallowed ballet companies, it is the principal dancers who get the billing. But with the advent of shows like Dancing With the Stars, where the Houghs gained their reputations, to So You Think You Can Dance, and America's Best Dance Crew, we're now getting to know the names and faces of a multitude of dancers in more dance styles than most of us knew existed, and these performers are finally getting their due.

"Come Together" for an unforgettable evening with the acclaimed Beatles' tribute band, The Fab Faux featuring the Hogshead Horns and Creme Tangerine Strings, at Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Saturday, July 18 at 7:30 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. 

In 1969, McLean recorded his first album 'Tapestry' in Berkeley, Calif. Student riots were going on outside the studio as Don was singing 'And I Love You So' inside. The album was first released by Mediarts and achieved commercial success.

Welcome to the latest entry of 'Broadway's Hottest Singer/Songwriters' featuring some of theater's hottest talents sharing insight into their own original music.

After playing to sold-out crowds last October, Storm Large of Pink Martini fame returns to Feinstein's at the Nikko for three performances only with her new show, Taken By Storm, tonight, May 28 (8 p.m.), Friday, May 29 (8 p.m.) and Saturday, May 30 (7 p.m.).