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Jennifer Holliday & Loretta Devine to Talk DREAMGIRLS on FRIDAY NIGHT VIBES
by Michael Major - May 26, 2022
This week Jennifer Holliday and Loretta Devine will sit down on Friday Night Vibes to discuss their experience working on 'Dreamgirls' with Tiffany Haddish and co-host Deon Cole. Additionally, super fan Diimond Meeks will perform 'And I Am Telling You' on the episode. Holliday and Devine starred in...
Thomas Bartlett to Release 'Bach: French Suites'
by Michael Major - May 25, 2022
As a producer, Bartlett has collaborated with an equally impressive array of diverse but like-minded artists, including St. Vincent, Florence and the Machine, Yoko Ono, Mandy Patinkin, and Sufjan Stevens, with whom he earned Academy Award and GRAMMY® Award nominations for “Mystery of Love' from C...
Student Blog: Three Ways to Heat Up Your Warm-Ups
by Student Blogger: George Concannon - May 05, 2022
As any performer knows, warm-ups are an essential part of pre-performance preparation. Singing through scales, going over your text, and stretching are all warm-ups we’re familiar with. But what if your warm-ups leave you still feeling cold?...
Expressions Of Interest Open For OUR MOB Aboriginal Art Exhibition
by Stephi Wild - May 02, 2022
Expressions of interest are open from today to South Australian Aboriginal artists wishing to present their work in the OUR MOB: Art by South Australian Aboriginal Artists exhibition and its youth equivalent, OUR YOUNG MOB....
Rebelution Releases 'Pretty Lady – Live in St. Augustine'
by Michael Major - April 29, 2022
A follow up to the band’s uber successful 2016 release Live at Red Rocks, the concert was recorded in full as a seven-piece band set, complete with the signature horns and saxophone combo that Rebelution’s live show has become known for, during their 2021 sold-out tour stop at the St. Augustine ...
BWW Review: GALLIM Dance Company's BLUSH is Anything But Shy
by Lora Strum - April 28, 2022
In GALLIM Dance Company's 'BLUSH,' so many moments feel like a mental breakdown. Perhaps that madness is what lies just outside the theater, or perhaps that’s what audiences will leave behind....
BWW Review: THE WICKER HUSBAND, The Watermill Theatre
by Jo Caruana - March 16, 2022
The Wicker Husband is a folk musical written by Rhys Jennings, with music by Darren Clark. Half world-premiere, half returning reboot, its original March 2020 run was cut short when theatres shut for the pandemic. Now it’s back in all its heartening glory and, from start to finish, it delivers in ...
VIDEO: Ponderosa Grove Unveils New Video for 'Changin''
by Michael Major - March 16, 2022
Ponderosa Grove has released the video for their uplifting new single, “Changin’.” The song, inspired by the challenges of the pandemic, brims with optimism and poetic insights and is lavished with heavenly harmony vocals and elegant Americana instrumental virtuosity. Watch the new music vide...
freeFall Theatre Presents LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL
by Stephi Wild - March 09, 2022
The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of on...
My Idea Share New Single 'Crutch'
by Michael Major - March 01, 2022
My Idea, the duo comprised of best friends Lily Konigsberg (Palberta) and Nate Amos (Water From Your Eyes) share “Crutch,” the new single from their upcoming debut album CRY MFER. CRY MFER, and “Crutch” specifically, exist as a document of Konigsberg and Amos’ collective breaking point, af...
CTC Announces Its 2022 Season in Chester
by Stephi Wild - February 24, 2022
Chester Theatre Company (CTC) returns to the Town Hall Theatre for the 2022 season with a full complement of four productions that includes a World Premiere Commission and a fresh restaging of a popular hit....
Spectrum Renews #1 Series JOE PICKETT for Second Season
by Michael Major - February 09, 2022
Based on the New York Times #1 best-selling book series by C.J. Box, JOE PICKETT has become the most viewed program in Spectrum Originals’ history. Season One followed a dedicated game warden (Michael Dorman) and his family as they navigated the shifting socio-political climate of a small rural to...
VIDEO: Red Hot Chili Peppers Reveal New Single 'Black Summer'
by Michael Major - February 04, 2022
Red Hot Chili Peppers will unveil their new, twelfth full-length album, Unlimited Love. It notably marks their first recording with guitarist John Frusciante since 2006 and first with producer and longtime collaborator Rick Rubin since 2011. To herald Unlimited Love, the Los Angeles band just shared...
THE WANDERERS Will Play Off-Broadway in January 2023
by Nicole Rosky - January 31, 2022
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) has just announced updates to the next season’s Fall/Winter programming Off-Broadway. The Wanderers, by Anna Ziegler, directed by Barry Edelstein will start performances on January 26, 2023 at the Laura Pels Theater in the Harold & M...
VIDEO: Josh Levi Shares 'NASA' Performance
by Michael Major - January 26, 2022
With his soulful spirit, and attesting to his singular creative vision, Josh Levi gifts us with a live performance of his single “NASA”. Beginning his performance with an intimate approach while showing off his R&B cadence, Levi escapes the song using the black ambiance to his advantage and cent...
ON THE EXHALE Comes to Stage West
by Stephi Wild - January 21, 2022
How do you keep yourself from turning into the very thing you fear? Stage West Executive Producer Dana Schultes, starring in her first ever one-woman show, tackles this question in Martín Zimmerman’s engrossing On the Exhale. ...
The Hopkins Center Presents World Premiere Of HAINT BLU By Urban Bush Women
by A.A. Cristi - January 13, 2022
The women-led company premieres a new dance-theater work reflecting on familial lines as part of an evening program celebrating 35+ years of bringing untold and under-told stories to light through dance....
Casting Announced For HAMLET at Shakespeare's Globe
by Stephi Wild - December 20, 2021
Shakespeare's Globe has announced the full cast of Hamlet which will be performed for the very first time in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by the Globe Ensemble, directed by Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes....
Aeon Station Shares New Single 'Alpine Drive'
by Michael Major - December 07, 2021
“Alpine Drive” is a poignant track that longs for a feeling of “home” appropriately concluding an album awash in emotion, reflection and melodies that were touchstones of his other band The Wrens. Gently hinting at the holidays with its elegiac instrumentation, Whelan claims that the song is...
Chaka Khan And Leela James Will Perform This Weekend In Newark And Brooklyn
by Stephi Wild - November 02, 2021
See The reigning Queen of funk, soul, and R&B—and ten-time GRAMMY winner—Chaka Khan with special guest Leela James this weekend at either NJPAC on Saturday, November 6, at 8:00 p.m. or Kings Theatre on Sunday, November 7th at 7:00 p.m. ...
STEW By Zora Howard Will Have its Milwaukee Premiere This Month
by Stephi Wild - October 19, 2021
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre announce full casting and production details for STEW by Zora Howard, a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play and Milwaukee Premiere. ...
Photos: First Look at DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA Reopening on Broadway This Sunday
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 15, 2021
David Byrne’s American Utopia will reopen on Broadway this Sunday, October 17 at the St. James Theatre (246 West 44th Street)....
Chor Leoni Returns To Live Performance With BREATHE IN HOPE
by A.A. Cristi - October 12, 2021
Chor Leoni Men's Choir returns to live performance with Breathe in Hope, the ensemble's 30th annual Remembrance Day concerts at Vancouver's spectacularly renovated St. Andrew's-Wesley United church, Nov. 10 at 7:30pm and Nov, 11 at 2pm and 7:30pm. ...
Belinda Davids Makes Return To UK Stages With Tour Kicking Off This Month
by Stephi Wild - October 05, 2021
One month out, Australian producers of the hit Whitney Houston tribute concert The Greatest Love of All starring Belinda Davids have confirmed that their UK national tour is on track to kick-off later this month as scheduled....
THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL Whitney Houston Tribute Comes To St Helens Next Week
by Stephi Wild - September 27, 2021
The Australian producers of a Whitney Houston tribute concert bring their smash-hit show to St Helens Theatre Royal next week starring Britain's Got Talent finalist Belinda Davids. ...
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