Jacob Yates

Review: ROE HARTRAMPF Takes His Turn In His Solo Show Debut at 54 Below

It's been a long time coming but Roe Hartrampf worked hard on his first-ever solo show and the hard work has yielded a cabaret and concert performer who shows great promise.

BWW Review: HADESTOWN Is Out-Of-This-World Spectacular at BroadwaySF's Orpheum Theatre

What did our critic Linda Hodges think of HADESTOWN at Orpheum Theatre? Right now, before reading the rest of this review, go online and buy your BroadwaySF tickets for Hadestown before the show sells out. It is that good. Playing now through July 3, 2022, Hadestown is song and story woven together then ripped apart and put back together again, all conspiring to grip your heart. And grip your heart it will.

VIDEO: HADESTOWN National Tour Cast Performs 'Way Down Hadestown' on THE LATE LATE SHOW

Watch the Hadestown Tour Cast TV performance which featured Nicholas Barasch as Orpheus, Morgan Siobhan Green as Eurydice, Levi Kreis as Hermes, Kimberly Marable as Persephone, and Kevyn Morrow as Hades. The Fates are played by Belén Moyano, Bex Odorisio, and Shea Renne.

HADESTOWN Touring Cast Will Perform on 'The Late Late Show With James Corden' Next Week

The Late Late Show with James Corden will feature a performance from the North American touring company of Hadestown airing Tuesday night, May 17, 2022, on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Check local listings for air times.

Photos: HADESTOWN Celebrates Opening Night at Center Theatre Group

The Los Angeles engagement of 'Hadestown' opened this week at Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre.

BWW Review: HADESTOWN at Ohio Theater

Even before patrons of the opening night of HADESTOWN arrived at the Ohio Theater (39 E. State Street in downtown Columbus), the lush red seats were being filled. On top of each seat was a red carnation, thanking attendees for returning to the theater after a long shutdown due to the Covid 19 virus.

BWW Review: HADESTOWN at Kennedy Center

It is mere coincidence that Anaïs Mitchell’s remarkable, Tony Award-winning Hadestown, now being given a solid production at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, debuted on Broadway just before our twenty-month plague began, but it fits. Mitchell’s story is at bottom a moral call to arms, which cleverly mines the saddest tale in all of mythology and marries it to a still older myth – one which was designed to explain the seasons.

Photos: JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY Welcomes Cast Members Of SPEAKEASY

On Monday, July 19, some uber-talented people stormed the Birdland stage for another installment of Jim Caruso’s Cast Party. 

SPEAKEASY - TIMES SQUARE at Bond 45 Extends Through the Summer

Speakeasy - Times Square, an all-in-one immersive mixology experience that combines the worlds of burlesque, cirque, illusionists, and musical theater with a decadent cocktail, dining, and nightclub experience, will extend performances throughout the summer due to popular demand.

Photo Flash: First Look at SPEAKEASY- TIMES SQUARE at Bond 45

Speakeasy - Times Square, an all-inclusive, immersive supper club experience that combines lavish performances with a deliciously decadent cocktail, dinner, and nightclub experience, is now in performances at Times Square’s legendary eatery, Bond 45 in the Hotel Edison.

VIDEO: HADESTOWN National Tour Cast Performs 'Way Down Hadestown' on THE LATE LATE SHOW

Watch the Hadestown Tour Cast TV performance which featured Nicholas Barasch as Orpheus, Morgan Siobhan Green as Eurydice, Levi Kreis as Hermes, Kimberly Marable as Persephone, and Kevyn Morrow as Hades. The Fates are played by Belén Moyano, Bex Odorisio, and Shea Renne.

A new arrangement of the iconic song 'MEMORY' from CATS with current CATS cast member Jessica Hendy on vocals and Jacob Yates on cello.

A Very Funny Broadway Holiday concert took place at Feinstein's/54 Below on Sunday, December 6. If you missed it, FamousInNY has you covered!

Celebrate 60 years of theatre history when Bill Hanney's award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) presents a glittering production of DREAMGIRLS, the dazzling Tony and Oscar award-winning musical. DREAMGIRLS will electrify audiences beginning tonight, June 2 and will play thru Sunday, June 14. Press night is scheduled for Wednesday, June 3 at 7:30 pm.  Check out a sneak peek below!

In 1916, King George V declared the May 20th 'Eliza Doolittle Day' (at least in the heroine's imagination, as she sings in MY FAIR LADY's Act I song 'Just You Wait'). Below, see Broadway vet Heather Parcells' modern twist on 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly?', as she and fellow actors Nicloas Dromard and Denis Lambert galavant around New York City in honor of Eliza!

David Davila, the zany, not-so-hip-hipster from South Texas made his 54 Below debut on November 18th when he premiered songs from his upcoming musical, VOX POP: a musical revolution. Click below (and keep clicking 'next' under the bottom, far right corner of each video) to watch all of the performances!

Jacob Yates and Jessica Hendy met while performing in a regional production of NEXT TO NORMAL. Yates was the Cellist/Keyboard 2 for the production and Hendy played the lead role of Diana. They became fast friends and after discovering a mutual love for music and covers of well-known songs, they decided to collaborate. Watch their cover of Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' below!

Jessica Hendy just finished a run of NEXT TO NORMAL at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, for which she won the 2011 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (local), and became very good friends with the cellist from the production, Jacob Yates. The pair has begun making music together and filmed this cover of Lada Gaga's 'Edge Of Glory.' Watch the video below!