A. Gentle News

Escapist, dated nonsense, but such fun and beautifully done.

Oakland Theater Project’s production of Every Brilliant Thing is an attempt to address existential questions of life, death, depression, suicide, and love – exploring why we continue living and what we live for in a deft and humorous way that feels congruent with the experiences of living through a pandemic.

With her recent shows at The Birdland Theater, Nellie McKay maintains her life-long commitment to quality in her art and blistering commentary in her honesty.

From the arrival in the city of Little Amal, a giant puppet who is travelling 8,000km in support of refugees, to a celebration of Sound System Culture, more events have been announced and will form part of the year-long festival that reflects Coventry as a diverse, modern city, with hundreds of ways for citizens and visitors to take part. 

This was a thoroughly entertaining and engaging show.

My Car Plays Tapes is the new storytelling show by John Osborne, about getting older, jobs, cars that don’t really work and how to make big decisions with your life.

The FADER, who premiered the video and profiled Duffy today, is saying 'Fun House is lush, bright, in constant forward motion, in a constant state of change. Duffy’s third and best record, it possesses some grimy, earthen magic.'

Happy Idiot Production’s subversive parody Not: Lady Chatterley’s Lover will bring a fresh twist to DH Lawrence’s classic story this autumn. Writer Lawrence Russell, has given this scandalous story the Mel Brooks treatment, with the help of acclaimed artists Simon Godwin, Stephen Harper and Laurence Pears.

Broadwayworld recently had a virtual visit and wine tasting with Romain Teyteau, the Export Director for Les Vins Georges Duboeuf. He gave us fascinating insights about five wines from the Beaujolais region. Several years ago, we had the pleasure of traveling to Beaujolais, meeting the charming Duboeuf family, and visiting domains and chateaux in the region.

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Ensemble Connect presents a free concert series - Music on the Green - curated by Carnegie Hall and presented within Madison Square Park Conservancy's current public art installation, Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest.  

Last month, Lionel Boy shared an intimate live performance of “Tide” via FLOOD Magazine’s ‘Neighborhoods’ session.

Fox Concerts has announced Grammy Award-winning singer Erykah Badu will perform at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Saturday, October 16 at 8:00 p.m. with special guest.

This summer, Greenwich Dance is celebrating love in all its forms with From Greenwich with Love a new work by award-winning choreographer and Rendez-Vous dance artistic director Mathieu Geffré. 

Vienna, Austria dream pop trio Lucy Dreams source a sense of peace in outer space with their new single and psychedelic video for 'Dreamland' - available now.

Madison Square Park Conservancy today announced the program and lineup for Music on the Green, a series of free performances curated by Carnegie Hall and presented within and in response to the Conservancy's current public art installation, Maya Lin's Ghost Forest.

In a first for New York City, the Consulate General of France in New York, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), and the Committee of French Speaking Societies (CAFUSA) will present a special Bastille Day Celebration in Central Park.

The new single arrives with a wonderfully hypnotic animated music video that is as attention grabbing as Netflix’s critically-acclaimed The Midnight Gospel.

This smartly-curated collection of five short, lively, skillfully-mounted plays -- running without intermission for a fast-moving 90 or so minutes -- is a fine and fun way to become reacquainted with the kind of pleasures only live-audience theater can offer. (Zoom theater ably serves its purpose as a stop-gap -- not a substitute -- for in-the-room theater.)

Members of the theater, film and voice-over communities in Nashville and beyond are still reeling from the news of the passing of LaQuita James, one of the region’s most prolific and best-loved artists, who was found dead in her home last Thursday, June 17. Her cause of death remains unknown, but she is thought to have died from natural causes, according to those close to her.