Elvis Presley News

Lighthouse Youth Theatre presents GREASE, live at the Westchester Broadway Theatre, today, May 12 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and May 19 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and children 16 and under. To purchase tickets, call Westchester Broadway Theatre at (914) 592-2222. Tickets are not available online.

'Million Dollar Quartet' is an exciting, get-up-and-dance, rock and roll phenomenon that allows the audience to be present at one of the greatest moments in rock and roll history.

On Sat, May 5th, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and Chris Isaacson celebrating Cinco de Mayo by presenting Upright Cabaret's 'Rhythm Of The Night' celebrating the Music of Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan and Santana.

Patrons were treated to a classic trip down memory lane this week as four leading ladies of the legendary Persian Room New York came together for a book signing. Lainie Zazan, Michele Lee, Connie Stevens and Barbara Van Orden gathered at Barnes and Noble in California's The Grove to celebrate the release of Patty Farmer's new book "The Persian Room Presents." Anecdotes involving audience celebrity sightings included Barbara Streisand (by Stevens), Milton Berle (by Van Orden), Jack Jones and his thighs (by Lee) and a mob king who struck her while performing (by Kazan). See photos of the leading ladies at the event below!

AMERICAN IDOL's Season 11 Top Four compilation album, featuring full-length recordings of performances from last night's show, is now available at the iTunes Store. The compilation includes music in accordance with this week's themes, 'California Dreamin' and 'Songs We Wish We Wrote,' and for the first time this season, also features duets.

Live at Hard Rock Cafe Seattle, the cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" will perform an exciting preview performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

Redd, who appeared in the Broadway productions of RING OF FIRE and PARADE, will assume the role of Jerry Lee Lewis on Monday, May 14. Bouril, who was a part of the second season of HBO's acclaimed series "Boardwalk Empire," will begin performances as Sam Phillips Wednesday, May 16.

'One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go-go-go' to Broadway San Jose to experience Million Dollar Quartet, tonight May 8 through May 13th for a limited engagement. It's a good bet that you'll be dancing all night long with rock and roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lewis as they bring you along on their famous jam session.

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is kicking off its 10th anniversary season celebration with a spectacular lineup of outstanding concerts, plays, special events and more!

'One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go-go-go' to Broadway San Jose to experience Million Dollar Quartet, May 8 - 13th for a limited engagement. It's a good bet that you'll be dancing all night long with rock and roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lewis as they bring you along on their famous jam session.

Running tandem with the awards, one courageous band will board a tricked-out bus and zigzag across the region in attempt to break Jay-Z's Guinness World Records® title for the Most Live Concerts In 24 Hours (Multiple Cities) hitting a total of 8 cities starting in Memphis and ending in New Orleans.

The lunatics, lovers and poets merrily charge onto the stage in full force in Classic Stage Company's raucous and witty, sexy and sensual mounting of A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Director Tony Speciale's playfully romantic staging of Shakespeare's tale of earthbound lovers fleeing to the woods to escape an arranged marriage, only to find themselves mixed up in the petty squabbles between a royal faerie couple, features a completely winning ensemble and entrancing visuals.

Dundalk Community Theatre brings to stage the new musical comedy, set in the 1950's and based on the music of Elvis Presley: ALL SHOOK UP, from tonight, May 4 to May 13.

Lifetime has green lit the Original Movie THE JUNE CARTER CASH STORY (working title), starring four-time Grammy(R) Award-nominee Jewel and based on John Carter Cash's narrative of his mother June Carter Cash's life, Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash.

AMERICAN IDOL's Season 11 Top Five compilation album, featuring music in accordance with this week's theme, 'The Sixties/London Calling,' is now available at the iTunes Store.

On December 4, 1956, an auspicious twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley together. The place was Sun Records' storefront studio in Memphis. The man who made it happen was Sam Phillips, the 'Father of Rock 'n' Roll,' who discovered them all. The four young musicians united for the only time in their careers for an impromptu recording that has come to be known as one of the greatest rock 'n' roll jam sessions of all time.

On Friday, May 25th at 7:30pm, the Ridgefield Playhouse Film Society 'Documentary Film Series' presents 'God Is The Bigger Elvis', produced and directed by Rebecca Cammisa. The documentary is the story of a remarkable place in Bethlehem, CT and a woman whose unlikely story opened the door to a world seldom seen by outsiders. Fifty years ago, Dolores Hart was a rising star in Hollywood. She had starred in ten movies with numerous iconic actors including Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani and Elvis Presley.