BeBe Winans News

Texas Performing Arts opens the 2015-2016 season with Grammy Award-winning pianist/composer Billy Childs' Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro featuring vocalists Dianne Reeves, Becca Stevens, and Alicia Olatuja, tonight, September 10 at Bass Concert Hall. The Cordova Quartet, the Butler School of Music's graduate quartet, will perform with Childs and his band for this special performance that delves into the expansive catalogue of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Laura Nyro.

Texas Performing Arts opens the 2015-2016 season with Grammy Award-winning pianist/composer Billy Childs' Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro featuring vocalists Dianne Reeves, Becca Stevens, and Alicia Olatuja, September 10 at Bass Concert Hall. The Cordova Quartet, the Butler School of Music's graduate quartet, will perform with Childs and his band for this special performance that delves into the expansive catalogue of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Laura Nyro.

The Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition is the world's most visible jazz vocal competition of its kind and provides a platform for one outstanding female singer to launch a career in the music industry. The competition started in 2012 and was co-produced by NJPAC and JAZZ ROOTS, a Larry Rosen Production. Jazz fans are invited to review and vote for entries online; then five finalists are selected for a live performance at NJPAC as part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival, where a panel of expert judges decides the recipient of the SASSY Award.

UPDATE: Eden Espinosa is officially heading back to the recording studio! The actress just tweeted, 'Drumroll please...... @raminkarimloo 's pledge took us to OUR GOAL!!!! We did it!!!!'

Eden Espinosa is headed back to the recording studio.

Tickets for the West End production of Motown the Musical, opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre in February 2016, are released for sale today (15 May 2015).  With music and lyrics from the legendary Motown catalogue and book by Motown founder Berry Gordy, Motown the Musical is directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.  London previews will begin on 11 February 2016 with press night on 8 March 2016 with the show booking to 22 October 2016.  Casting and further information about Motown the Musical will be released shortly.

Atlanta's nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre and Jennings Hertz Artistic Director Susan V. Booth are pleased to announce the 2015/16 Season for the Alliance Stage, Hertz Stage, Theatre for Youth and Families, and Theatre for the Very Young series. The 47th season includes five world premieres, a musical by BeBe Winans and Charles Randolph-Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, a literary classic featuring an all-Atlanta cast, and exceptional productions for youth and families.

Broadway superstar Shoshana Bean (Wicked, Hairspray) just performed her latest sing 'Runaway Train' on THE QUEEN LATIFA SHOW. Check out the performance below!

Oprah Winfrey hosts a gala of events honoring some of the legendary men and extraordinary women of civil rights, the arts and entertainment who made history and redefined what was possible for us all in the primetime television event OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS: LEGENDS WHO PAVED THE WAY

The American Museum of Natural History continues One Step Beyond's eighth season with DJ sets by Louie Vega and Duane Harriot. The event will take place in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe tonight, January 9 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Eden Espinosa has decided to speak out about social media behavior and respect. In a recent Tumblr post entitled 'It's All About Respect,' the Broadway veteran said that while she is grateful for how much easier self-promotion has become with social media, she also said she does not approve of how people utilize the tool.

OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK announces JANUARY 2015 highlights:

It wouldn't be Christmas at PlayhouseSquare without 'Santa Koz' coming to jazz up the holiday. Celebrating both his #1 charted new album and the 17th anniversary of his annual Christmas tours, multi-GRAMMY nominee and saxophonist extraordinaire DAVE KOZ brings his 'Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour 2014' to PlayhouseSquare's Connor Palace for one 7:30 pm show, tonight, December 12.

The American Museum of Natural History continues One Step Beyond's eighth season with DJ sets by Louie Vega and Duane Harriot. The event will take place in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe on Friday, January 9 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today a month-long celebration in January honoring civil rights legends who paved the way as we approach the 50th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed the trajectory of America forever.

It wouldn't be Christmas at PlayhouseSquare without 'Santa Koz' coming to jazz up the holiday. Celebrating both his #1 charted new album and the 17th anniversary of his annual Christmas tours, multi-GRAMMY nominee and saxophonist extraordinaire DAVE KOZ brings his 'Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour 2014' to PlayhouseSquare's Connor Palace for one 7:30 pm show, Fri., December 12.

Broadway superstar Shoshana Bean (Wicked, Hairspray) just debuted her new music video for 'Runaway Train.' Check it out below!

Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) continues to be at the forefront of hit music today, making strides in delivering new music from the much-anticipated album releases by 3 Winans Brothers, L. Spenser Smith, and Michelle Williams.

Soho Rep. and The Play Company, in association with John Adrian Selzer, announce casting and the creative team for the U.S. premiere of debbie tucker green's generations. The production, today, September 30-October 26, reunites the playwright with director Leah C. Gardiner, who worked together on the OBIE Award-winning 2011 production of born bad. generations features a 12-person community chorus led by music director Bongi Duma (The Lion King). The cast includes Shyko Amos (An Octoroon), Mamoudou Athie, Khail Toi Bryant (The Lion King), Ntombikhona Dlamini (Sarafina!), Thuli Dumakude (The Lion King, Poppie Nongena), Jonathan Peck (The Lion in Winter) and Michael Rogers (born bad, Breakfast With Mugabe).