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Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro & More Set for Los Angeles Philharmonic The Ford 2024 Season


The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association has revealed The Ford’s 2024 season, featuring performances from July 14 to October 31. See who is featured and learn how to purchase tickets.

Symphony Space Hosts BLACK OPRY IN RESIDENCE Concert Series in November


Symphony Space has announced that, for its fall 2023 music residency, which gives artists the opportunity to showcase new work and nurture emerging talent, the institution has joined forces with Black Opry, the rapidly growing organization created to provide a home for Black artists in country, Americana, blues, and folk music.

Fault Line Theatre Reveals Complete Casts for (plays) In Previews Workshop Series


Fault Line Theatre has revealed the casts for (plays) In Previews., their new play development program. Learn more about the program and see how to purchase tickets!

The Magnetic Fields Add Additional Dates To 69 LOVE SONGS Anniversary Shows At San Francisco's Curran Theater


Due to popular demand, the Magnetic Fields have added additional dates to their '69 Love Songs' anniversary shows at San Francisco's Curran Theater (445 Geary St.). The newly added dates are Sunday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29, 2024. Tickets (starting at $55.50) go on sale to the public beginning Friday, July 28 at 10 a.m. PT at www.broadwaysf.com. Prices are subject to change without notice.

The Magnetic Fields to Bring '69 LOVE SONGS Anniversary Show to the Curran Theater in 2024


In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its release, the Magnetic Fields will perform ‘69 Love Songs’—the 1999 three-disc masterwork that marked a significant breakthrough for the American band—live for the first time in over two decades.

The Magnetic Fields Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of '69 Love Songs' With Select Shows


The tour will feature all the players from the 1999 triple disc, including Claudia Gonson, John Woo, Sam Davol, Shirley Simms and composer Stephin Merritt, joined now by recent members Chris Ewen and Anthony Kaczynski. The Magnetic Fields will play the album as it was originally performed in the early 2000’s: in order over 2 nights.

Fault Line Theatre Sets 2023 Season Featuring New Plays in Development


Fault Line Theatre has announced their 13th Season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets!

Symphony Space Announces Spring 2023 Programming


Symphony Space has announced its Spring 2023 programming, featuring a robust lineup of visionary artists and writers in unique, one-night-only, only-at-Symphony Space events. In these evenings of literature, music, musical theater, comedy, and more, Symphony Space creates intimate exchanges between artists and audiences—producing shows centered on everything from fresh-off-the-presses literature to fresh, creative interpretations of integral music.

Lemony Snicket Author Daniel Handler Will Workshop New Play at Black Box PAC


Limited tickets for $30 are now on sale for a staged-reading workshop presentation of Imaginary Comforts, Or The Story of The Ghost Of The Dead Rabbit, the remarkable new play by Daniel Handler, creator of Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events!

Hamish Hawk Releases New Album 'Angel Numbers'


Each track on Angel Numbers feels like its own world. There are allusions to Leonard Cohen, Karen Carpenter, David Hockney, Dylan Thomas and Britt Ekland and that’s just on the first song, the gloriously panoramic “Once Upon An Acid Glance.” On “Elvis Lookalike Shadows,”  listeners are granted a visitation from Presley in his ’68 Comeback special.

XAVIER SMITH'S LADIES OF SOUL TRIBUTE Celebrates 10 Years At Joe's Pub, February 9


XAVIER SMITH'S LADIES OF SOUL TRIBUTE returns for it's tenth anniversary on Thursday, February 9 @ 9:30pm at NYC's Joe's Pub.

Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos at Joe's Pub with The Skivvies & More


Joe’s Pub has announced upcoming shows fom October 18 - November 7. Join The Spooky Celebration With The Fourth Annual Bowery Boys Halloween Ghost Story Live Show, shows From Renee Goust & Epic Players, plus more. 

Review: VENUS, CUPID, FOLLY, & TIME: 30 YEARS OF THE DIVINE COMEDY, The Barbican Centre


Celebrating thirty years of cerebral pop, The Divine Comedy return to the Barbican to pick up where they left off in 2020.

Jane Lynch & Kate Flannery, Hannah Corneau, The Skivvies & More to be Featured in Joe's Pub Fall Programming


Joe’s Pub has announced fall programming. This season presents incredible performances from Latine artists: Afro-Cuban jazz grooves from Dayramir González, an evening of Latin alternative music with Jessica Medina & Mai-Elka Prado, and more.

Michael Urie, Mallory Portnoy & More Join Fault Line Theatre's IRONS IN THE FIRE


 Fault Line Theatre will continue the 2022 Season of Irons in the  Fire, the organization’s reading series of new plays in development, with God Save the Queer by Zackary Grady, directed by Portia Krieger and featuring Michael Urie (George), Mallory Portnoy (Charlotte), Keshav Moodliar (Tariq), Seth Clayton (Louis), and Mary McCann (Kate).

'Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono' Tribute Compilation Released Today


Imagined and curated by Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie’s lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter), the album is comprised of 14 all-new versions of Ono’s tracks performed by a diverse range of rising artists and legendary stars. Listen to the new compilation, plus the accompanying podcast, now!

David Byrne & Yo La Tengo Join Yoko Ono Tribute Album


Imagined and curated by Benjamin Gibbard, Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono is comprised of 14 all-new versions of Ono’s tracks performed by a diverse range of rising artists and legendary stars including David Byrne and Yo La Tengo, whose collaborative cover of “Who Has Seen The Wind?” is streaming now. Watch the new lyric video here!

Composer Joe Wong Talks Duncan Trussell's THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL On Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM


THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL composer Joe Wong, Stephen Merritt and director Chuck Smith are Tom Needham's special guests on WUSB's SOUNDS OF FILM.

Maulik Pancholy, Alison Pill and More to Take Part in SHELTER IN POEMS: A VIRTUAL READING


The Academy of American Poets will present Shelter In Poems: A Virtual Reading on Thursday, April 30, at 7:30 pm EDT, the organization's first-ever virtual poetry reading, inspired by the overwhelming number of people turning to poetry for comfort during the current global crisis.

This Alien Nation, Tony Trischka and More Are Coming to Joe's Pub Feb 12-22


Joe's Pub has released its schedule for Feb 12-22! Brown Girls Burlesque: Love Got Game - Valentine's Edition (Feb. 12), Isaac Oliver Is Your Valentine (Feb. 13), and Lea DeLaria: f**k Love and more will take to the stage!

Stephin Merritt FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Stephin Merritt written?

Stephin Merritt has written 1 shows including My Life as a Fairy Tale (Composer).

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