Elvis Costello News

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce Gene Casey and The Lone Sharks, a concert on Saturday, February 27 at 8 pm. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of the event and available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500, open Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 5 pm.

Katie Noonan and the Brodsky Quartet will collaborate for the first time ever in With Love and Fury. The unstoppable collision of colossal talent will provide audiences with a spine-tingling experience as they re-imagine the words of Australian poet Judith Wright. The album is being recorded in London and will be released early in the year. The seven-city tour will commence in Brisbane at QPAC with the World Premiere on Thursday April 28, 2016.

Carnegie Hall today unveiled its 2016-2017 season consisting of more than 170 concerts as well as wide-ranging education and community programs created by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. The upcoming season includes performances by many of the world's greatest artists, including Tony winner Kelli O'Hara making her solo headlining debut at the renowned venue on Oct. 29, as well as ensembles representing classical, pop, jazz, and world music, with events presented on Carnegie Hall's three stages, in the Hall's Resnick Education Wing, and throughout New York City.

Poway OnStage presents The Smithereens performing their acclaimed cover of The Who's hit Rock Opera: Tommy tonight, January 23rd, 2016 at 8pm at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts.

Eureka California from Athens, GA announce the release of their new album 'Versus' on HHBTM Records on March 25th, 2016.

The internationally award-winning cabaret artist Tim Draxl returns to the cabaret stage on Thursday 18 February for one night only at Slide Lounge in his new show ONCE UPON ANOTHER TIME as part of the Sydney Mardi Gras celebrations.

Johnny Gallagher is best known for his work as an actor. Appearing under his full name, John Gallagher, Jr., he won a Tony Award at the age of 22 for his performance in the Duncan Sheik scored Broadway musical Spring Awakening.

Poway OnStage presents The Smithereens performing their acclaimed cover of The Who's hit Rock Opera: Tommy on January 23rd 2016 at 8pm at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. 

INTRODUCING DARLENE LOVE, Love's first solo LP in 27 years, was released this fall on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and other retailers. Now, you can stream the full album via Spotify. Check it out below, plus scroll down for a list of Love's 2016 tour dates!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Johnny Gallagher, known in the Broadway community as John Gallagher Jr., is releasing his first album in January. Now BroadwayWorld has a first listen to one of the tracks from the album, 'Dangerous Strangers.' Check it out below!

Glass Marbles is the sixth solo album from UK-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter, Edward Rogers, and his fifth on Zip Records. Glass Marbles is being released March 11.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to continue rekindling the popular "Fireside Sessions with Nancy Atlas and a special guest" this January. After sold out concerts in January and March this past year, the 2016 January concerts will again feature a special guest for each show every Saturday of the month. All concerts start at 8 pm. Tickets are $25 and available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500, open Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 5 pm. The concerts are sponsored by Dan's Papers. 

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to continue rekindling the popular "Fireside Sessions with Nancy Atlas and a special guest" this January. After sold out concerts in January and March this past year, the 2016 January concerts will again feature a special guest for each show every Saturday of the month.

Wells Fargo Center for the Arts announced today the addition of three new shows in 2016: Vince Gill on Wednesday March 23, Elvis Costello on Tuesday March 29 and Emmylou Harris on Friday September 30. All shows are at 8:00 pm in the Ruth Finley Person Theatre and tickets for the three new shows go on sale to the public Friday, December 18 at noon. Tickets for Vince Gill are $79 and $59; for Elvis Costello $85 and $69 and for Emmylou Harris $69 and $49 and they may be purchased online at wellsfargocenterarts.org, by calling 707-546-3600, and in person at the box office at 50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa.

Clinton Hill cultural hub and OBIE award-winner JACK launches its winter/spring 2016 season with an a cappella opera set in Zimbabwe by composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, a weekend of curated works by Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, the premiere of the dirty and bracing play Tom & Eliza, by Celine Song, the English-language premiere of Argentinian playwright Rafael Spregelburd's SPAM, The Geneva Project by Jennifer Harrison Newman, Antonio Ramos' Thirsty Mind, love and starvation sitting in a lonely tree and an exploration in minimalist/pop art performance by the No Face Performance Group.  JACK also engineers the return of Walter Dundervill's ARENA (which had two sold-out runs at JACK in 2014 and 2015). 

On Thanksgiving Day, BroadwayWorld announced the nominees in 14 categories for the 2015 BWW New York Cabaret Awards. BroadwayWorld's cabaret editors and reviewers congratulate all the deserving nominees and everyone who performs in the great art of cabaret in New York. But today, as you munch on the leftovers from last night's dinner, it's time to actually vote for that one performer who you think is the absolute best in each category. Voting ends on December 31 and after a review of the ballots, winners will be announced officially early the week of January 4, 2016. (Note: There will not be a BWW Awards Show this year.)

Happy Thanksgiving Day, Cabaret Fans! Here's some breaking news you can discuss and debate in between courses at tonight's dinner: It's the final nominees for the 2015 BroadwayWorld New York Cabaret Awards. This year, the cabaret editors and writers at BWW have cited 116 nominees (including duos and variety show/recurring series producers) in 14 categories. In addition, this year six performers or musicians have been cited for special “Editor's Choice Awards,” led by veteran New York cabaret stars Karen Mason and Mark Nadler who have been named “Performers of the Year.”

There's a sackful of Christmas crackers at Crazy Coqs this December.

Johnny Gallagher is best known for his work as an actor. Appearing under his full name, John Gallagher, Jr., he won a Tony Award at the age of 22 for his performance in the Duncan Sheik scored Broadway musical Spring Awakening.

In what has become an annual ritual, a total of 36 established and emerging composers, lyricists, and librettists will converge on the Goodspeed campus from mid-January through mid-February 2016 to participate in the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. The writing teams, representing 19 new musicals, will populate the campus, creating a truly exciting environment for discovery and inspiration. BroadwayWorld is excited to report that Goodspeed has announced its 2016 participants. Scroll down for details!