Cab Calloway News

Award-winning actress and vocalist Gabrielle Lee and her swinging four-piece jazz band will deliver an evening of ragtime, blues and Tin Pan Alley jazz standards celebrating Black History Month. A Tin Pan Alley Celebration of Black History Month plays at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Friday, February 11 at 7 PM.

What do Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Tony Bennett, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson all have in common? Each of these legends once graced the stage of Palisades Amusement Park! Now a spectacular new musical is in the works celebrating the glory days of 'America's Amusement Park' and some very big names have already thrown their support behind the show. For over one hundred years, Palisades Amusement Park was the most popular amusement park in the entire world! It was immortalized in numerous movies and was the title of a #1 Billboard hit from Freddie Boom-Boom Cannon. Now the producers are inviting fans who love Palisades Amusement Park to be a part of the action!

Major’s show became about paying an hour-long tribute to his former Disney employers. Explaining how his early consciousness was informed by The Mouse’s Movie Musicals, Attaway went thataway with his setlist, giving forth fab numbers from their copious catalog, leaning (surprisingly) on the more villainous characters from some of Disney’s most famous animated features.

Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, the time-twisting musical collective known for putting “pop music in a time machine,” is set to make the '20s roar again with The Grand Reopening Tour, performing some of modern music's biggest hits in the classic styles of bygone eras. Bradlee's generation-spanning arrangements are brought to life by an ensemble of multi-talented singers and musicians, making for one of the most thrilling live music experiences of this or any other time period.

​​​​​​​To share an outstanding solo show with the widest possible audience, Theater for the New City has extended its world premiere production of 'I Just Want To Tell Somebody,' written and performed by Ronald 'Smokey' Stevens, through February 6.

To share an outstanding solo show with the widest possible audience, Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., has extended the world premiere of 'I Just Want To Tell Somebody,' written and performed by Ronald 'Smokey' Stevens, through January 30. (Its original run was January 6 to 23.)

Virginia Arts Festival has cast one of Broadway's leading lights in the role of a new, key position at the Festival: The Goode Family Artistic Advisor for Musical Theater and American Songbook.

Smokey Stevens, one of Broadway's great musical comedy performers, has adapted his autobiographical novel, 'I Just Want to Tell Somebody: The Autobiography of Ronald Smokey Stevens,' into a one-man, two character theater production.

Masego, who has amassed over two billion combined global streams in his career to date, recently earned his first GRAMMY nomination. Studying Abroad: Extended Stay, the deluxe edition of his acclaimed EP, is nominated for Best Progressive R&B Album. The collection includes the hit “Mystery Lady Ft. Don Toliver.'

Ronald 'Smokey' Stevens has adapted his autobiographical novel, 'I Just Want to Tell Somebody: The Autobiography of Ronald Smokey Stevens,' into a one-man, two character theater production.

Santa's gonna be  jumpin' and jivin' to the swingin' sounds of the George Gee Swing Orchestra as they spice up the season with big band versions of your favorite holiday music at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Sunday, December 12 at 3 pm.

Pal Joey, the Rodgers and Hart-John O’Hara classic musical, has been revised in a brand-new production that will be heading to Broadway in the 2022-2023 season.

The State Theatre will welcome Postmodern Jukebox on Thursday, October 21st! Show time is 7:30PM. Tickets and VIP Packages are $40 - $192.50 and are on sale now.

For Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe's 22nd anniversary gala, “A Night at the Savoy,” the arts organization will recreate the look and sound of Harlem's famous ballroom – the first integrated ballroom in New York.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre is preparing for a heartwarming romantic comedy this fall when its production of the Broadway classic The Pajama Game takes to the stage.  Opening Friday, September 10th, the production was rescheduled from earlier this season. 

On October 10, pianist Jeffrey Siegel officially relaunches indoor Hylton Presents performances in Merchant Hall with his concerts with commentary Keyboard Conversations Classics Declassified. Siegel hands off the baton to the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra on October 30 for their Big Band Era performance Swingin' with the Met.

1st Stage will kick off the celebrated Logan Festival of Solo Performance with two outstanding productions by renowned opera singer, Lori Brown Mirabal.

1st Stage has announced its 2021-2022 season. The season will begin with a reimagined and expanded Logan Festival of Solo Performance. This engaging outdoor festival of incredible solo shows will be a collaboration between 1st Stage and the new mixed-use development The Boro located just blocks from 1st Stage.

Urban Stages is bringing back Lori Brown Mirabal's play with music, CHARMED LIFE , From Soul Singing to Opera Star beginning performances on July 9, in advance of its Wednesday, July 14 opening night. The play will enjoy a limited run through August 1, 2021 at Urban Stages Theatre (258 W 30 Street).

Urban Stages will bring back Lori Brown Mirabal's play with music, CHARMED LIFE, From Soul Singing to Opera Star beginning performances on July 9, in advance of its Wednesday, July 14 opening night.