Cole Porter News

Pianist Adam Birnbaum interprets selections from J.S. Bach’s Klavier on his new album 'Preludes.' Discover his fresh and improvisatory arrangements for jazz trio. Adam Birnbaum presents his own vision of Bach, having created jazz-trio arrangements of the composer's preludes and recorded them with bassist Matt Clohesy and drummer Keita Ogawa.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running October 16th - October 29th. Get all the details here!

Join California Pops Orchestra on Oct. 29th for a Broadway In Concert at San Mateo Performing Arts Center. Don't miss this amazing show!

The remarkable Mr. Adam T. Biner takes the cabaret stage at The Winter Park Playhouse to debut his latest solo cabaret - Always A Classic- in the theatre's popular Spotlight Cabaret Series - November 15 and 16, 2023. 

Porchlight Music Theatre’s Porchlight Young Professionals has announced its fall fundraiser, Broadway Open Mic, a live karaoke special event during Porchlight’s Cole Porter Festival: A Celebration of the Man and his Music, Friday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. at The Understudy Coffee and Books.

The Mill at Sonning has announced the cast for their next musical, High Society, with Joseph Pitcher returning to direct. Performances run 29 November, 2023 - 20 January, 2024. Find out who is starring in the show here!

Duluth Playhouse opens Youth Theatre Season with a Cole Porter Classic, Anything Goes: Youth Edition. Don't miss this family-friendly musical comedy at the NorShor Theatre.

Special Offer: Patti LuPone comes to Charleston

Rian Keating will return to Don't Tell Mama with Womansongs. Join the 2023 MAC Award Winner for a night of powerful performances beginning this month.

Two trips to Birdland, two gifted artists, and two trips into the past make for a spiffy, swellegant look at why the jazz club has staying power, all these years later.

Discover the upcoming jazz programming at Birdland from October 9th to October 22nd. Get ready for a lineup of incredible jazz performances at this renowned venue.

State Theatre New Jersey will present Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive. The program includes a collection of many of Patinkin's favorite Broadway and classic American tunes—from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim, and from Cole Porter to Harry Chapin.

Gettysburg Community Theatre has announced their “16 Going On 17” Season for 2024! Tickets, audition, class registrations, and volunteer information can be found here!

Porchlight Music Theatre is launching the Cole Porter Festival - A Celebration of the Man and his Music this October. The festival includes a production of Anything Goes starring Meghan Murphy. Don't miss this incredible tribute to Cole Porter's career.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has announced the line-up of the highly anticipated 12th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival, running from November 3-19, 2023.

Becca Kidwell explores dark paths in IF YOU HADN’T…BUT YOU DID at Don’t Tell Mama on November 4th & 12th

Stay updated with the latest jazz programming at Birdland from October 2nd to October 15th. Find out what performances and events are coming up at this iconic jazz venue!

Live at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will feature a number of exciting performances from top jazz artists this October. Check out the lineup here!

BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB will present the return of celebrated pianist and singer Steve Ross in his new evening “Fall Collection” on Monday, October 30 at 7:00 PM. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

While we wait for Ethel Waters to get the large-scale showbiz treatment she deserves, Nashville audiences, for now at least, can show respect and give recognition to the legendary figure who is brought to life onstage once more by Connye Florance and Saaneah Jamison via the Kennie Playhouse Theatre production of Parr’s His Eye Is On the Sparrow: The Ethel Waters Musical. Director Kennie Dozier’s production is somewhat uneven, but his two leading ladies – the aforementioned Florance and Jamison – are mesmerizing, each one creating her own indelible portrait and unique interpretation of Ethel Waters in two acts that feature some of her best-known songs, tunes that are a part of the Great American Songbook and among the most haunting, most beautiful melodies ever written.