Karen Oberlin (Our Sinatra) is not only a delicious singer blessed with great musical sensitivity and excellent diction, but she is also a wonderfully passionate actor who can bring a wide range of emotions to every well-formed phrase. Some singers take great care to make sure the emotions land on the audience. Oberlin has a much lighter touch. She has the gift of making sure the emotions land on her and then allowing the audience to come to her. It's a wonderful thing to watch a singer stop performing and practice the much more difficult art of just being. Ms. Oberlin makes all the hard work look very simple.
Portland Opera is delighted to launch the Ensemble Leaders Fellowship Program—a new course of professional development opportunities for emerging opera administrators with a focus on artistic operations, production, and community engagement. The goal of the Ensemble Leaders Fellowship is to focus on delivering meaningful career advancement experiences for emerging professionals who are Black, Indigenous, or people of color.
H.E.R. revealed that she is working on a Broadway score, bringing her closer to the goal of earning an EGOT. While the star didn't share further details about her project, she stated about an EGOT, 'I ain't gonna put a deadline on it... Maybe before I'm 30. I've got seven years.'
The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts has announced the recipients of the 2021 Dora Ancillary Awards which were presented in a virtual broadcast in Toronto this morning, June 16. The Dora Mavor Moore Awards, produced by TAPA, celebrate excellence in Toronto theatre, dance and opera.
NYSAF returns July 17-August 1 with in-person programming in Poughkeepsie for their 2021 Summer Season. In partnership with Vassar College, Marist College, and Revel 32 °, NYSAF will serve the needs of theater and film artists today, bringing them safely together in community to generate new stories and reconnect with one another and audiences.
Earlier this spring, Broadway veteran Christy Altomare revealed a project that has been years in the making- her first solo album, titled Wandering Bird. Today, she releases the first music video from the album for 'Freedom Inside,' chroeographed by Jess LeProtto.
The 138th season of the Hungarian State Opera will presents seventeen premieres including seven that had to be postponed. The three venues of the Opera await audiences with 400 opera and ballet performances, and a further 1300 concerts, chamber concerts, special events, and multimedia activities mean the beginning of a new era.
Austin-based singer/songwriter Jenn Hartmann Luck and 11-year-old founder of Kids Can Save Animals Kate Gilman Williams announce the premiere of the single “Kids Can Save Animals.” This is the first single from Hartmann Luck's forthcoming album to be released later this year, which will feature songs celebrating the kids who are changing the world.
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present Broadway’s Mike Wartella who is returning to Feinsteins/54 Below hosting a night of rock and roll, original music, and Broadway favorites reimagined.
When Aaron David Gleason had the idea to take his Tik Tok collaboration and make it the first single by a new artist on his Brashtooth Records label, he gave the world two special works of art: Emma Freeman and SILVER CUP.
Nine Miami artists, many of them using multimedia to connect with audiences during the pandemic, will share $300,000 in follow-on funding for projects conceived as part of Knight New Work 2020.
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present An Evening With Taylor Sorice on Friday, July 16th at 9:45pm. Taylor Sorice is a singer/songwriter/performer who has been singing since before she could walk.
After making a splashy smash with her Whitney Houston tribute show, Nicole Henry returns to the scene of the shine with a new nightclub act appropriately titled FEELING GOOD. Because she is.
Country singer, Corinne Cook, recently released her latest lyric video and single, 'Blah Blah Blah.' The single is a brand new unreleased track co-written and produced by Cook's trusty and talented producer Denny Martin.
He added guitar to his repertoire with a bit of help from his cousin, a gifted Chet Atkins style player, who taught him the Nashville number system of writing out chord charts.
'Redeemer' is Karima's update of the international Christian mega-hit, originally written and performed by Nicole C. Mullen. Karima's beautiful rendition is produced by Aaron Lindsey, a Grammy, Dove, and Stellar Award-winning artist, producer, composer, arranger, and musician.
With the prowess of Ledisi’s voice, the messages of Simone’s music—of personal empowerment and collective protest—retain a relevancy for a BLM generation facing the same harsh challenges and bitter struggles of the 1960s.
Kevin Clifton thrilled audiences as Stacee Jaxx on the 2018/2019 'Rock of Ages' UK tour and he is reprising the role in 2021. Kevin is best known known for being a professional dancer on BBC1's 'Strictly Come Dancing'. In seven years on the show Kevin reached the final, a record five times, winning four glitter balls including the main show Glitterball trophy in 2018 with Stacey Dooley before leaving in 2019. Since then, Kevin has gone on to appear in many other theatre productions including, 'The Wedding Singer' and 'Singin' in the Rain'.
