LETTERS LIVE is delighted to announce Benedict Cumberbatch as the first confirmed performer for its New York debut engagement on May 18 & 19, 2018, at The Town Hall. Performances begin at 8pm ET and will run for 2 hours and 20 minutes with a 20 intermission. The Town Hall is located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan. Additional celebrity cast members will join Cumberbatch for these events. Some will be announced prior, the rest will be a surprise on the nights.
'I'm supposed to be dead!' Canvey Island's Dr Feelgood guitar legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed in late 2012 with terminal pancreatic cancer. However, despite the doctors' worst predictions, he continued to perform with a new lust for life and even made the most successful album of his career 'Going Back Home' with the legendary Roger Daltrey.
A new Southbank Centre exhibition, Concrete Dreams, is announced today, bringing to life the creative spirit of iconic arts venues, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room and celebrating their public reopening after two years of extensive restoration and redesign.
Chorlton Arts Festival returns from the 18 May - 3 June 2018. Following the appointment of new Artistic Director, Thomas Moore, we are excited to announce this years festival.
'International Blue' is the first new release from MANIC STREET PREACHERS in four years and is available today in the U.S. Taken from the band's thirteenth studio album RESISTANCE IS FUTILE out on Shornday/The Orchard on April 13, 2017, the single is unfiltered and classic Manic Street Preachers. Inspired by the city of Nice in the mid winter sun and the life's work of French Nouveau realisme artist Yves Klein, the song is built over an immense riff that echoes the twin Manics album peaks of Generation Terrorists and Everything Must Go.
A Turntable Friend Records has announced the forthcoming 'Magical Thinking' EP from Liverpool-based The Room in the Wood. Comprised of Paul Cavanagh and Dave Jackson, the duo shall present their debut EP digitally on April 20, followed by an 11-track album, to be released later this spring on vinyl, CD and digitally.
Lulu returns to the West End after 30 years to join the cast of 42nd Street, the dazzling and romantic homage to the world of musical theatre in the iconic role of 'Dorothy Brock' in this five star production. In this exclusive interview, she reveals why she took the role, acting lessons and the dramatic part she wants to take on next!
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) announces five productions as part of its complete 2018/19 Season, and the first production of their 2019/20 Season. The season begins in Fall 2018 with WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME by two-time Obie Award winner Heidi Schreck (Grand Concourse, "I Love Dick") and directed by Obie Award winner Oliver Butler (The Amateurs, The Light Years); followed by the New York Premiere ofSLAVE PLAY by Jeremy O. Harris (Daddy).
Pop recording artist Rich Hennessy is set to perform a one night only Adele tribute concert entitled, Rich Hennessy Chasing Pavements on Sunday, April 15th at The Cutting Room in New York City.
TITAS Presents, in association with the nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center, announces the 2018/2019 TITAS Presents season featuring five Dallas debuts. This exciting and diverse array of artists range from the
Dallas, Texas band Messer are set to release their self-titled debut album on April 20th, 2018. The band is touring in support of the release in March and April with Red, Lacey Sturm, and Righteous Vendetta; and Shallow Side in late April and May.
The '80s are back and bigger than ever on IFC. The network recently partnered with Night Flight, the cult late night series that originally aired from 1981 to 1989.
IFC announced today new 'slightly off' on-air short form programming, digital comedy content and a unique take on the classic game of Bingo. The lineup of unexpected offerings will add to IFC's current roster of original series, including Brockmire, returning for Season 2 on April 25, Stan Against Evil, returning for Season 3 this fall, and Documentary Now!, heading into production for Season 3 this spring.
THE CUTTING ROOM, presents Guilty Pleasures Cabaret in their 'Friday the 13th Freak Show' on Friday, April 13th, 2018. NYC's premier song and dance variety show takes on a sexy circus-themed vibe for their debut performance at this prestigious venue. The show features fishnet-clad dancers with synchronized routines who contort, tap dance, and entertain alongside cheeky comedians, magicians, drag acts, and phenomenal singers for night of spectacle and variety.
The Sol Project, the new theater initiative dedicated to amplifying Latinx voices and building a kaleidoscopic body of work for the new American theater, is proud to announce the expansion of its mission with its first national partnership.
Rocktopia opened on Broadway last night, March 27. BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet and we're taking you inside as the stars arrived. Check out the photos below!
Rocktopia opened on Broadway last night, March 27. BroadwayWorld attended the big night and we're taking you inside the opening night after party. Check out photos below!
Rocktopia opened on Broadway last night, March 27. BroadwayWorld attended the big night and you can check out photos from the show's opening night finale below!
There's no time more appropriate for a PEACE AND LOVE concert than now, and on April 6, 2018, TJP (formerly known as The Jost Project) is proud to perform in the Great Stair Hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of their Friday Nights series. TJP will perform two sets of music at 5:45 and 7:15 p.m. As the perfect complement to the Museum's exhibit -- Design in Revolution: A 1960s Odyssey - TJP's music and the exhibit have a similar focus on the 1960s, a time of tumultuous political and social change, when messages of "peace and love" were everywhere. The exhibit is in Perelman Building, located at 2525 Pennsylvania Avenue, across from the museum. The concert is free with museum admission.
The producers of the Broadway concert ROCKTOPIA are thrilled to announce that rock icon Dee Snider, lead singer of multi-platinum-selling band TWISTED SISTER, will triumphantly return to Broadway as a special guest vocalist in the show for the fourth week of its limited engagement, April 9 - 15, 2018.
