Eric Johnson News

ASCAP Award-winning playwright/producer Chip Deffaa's latest album, 'Irving Berlin: Ragtime Rarities,' will be released on November 20th.

OUCH! a heartwarming tale that will delight the little learners in your life. HTY is extremely fortunate to have back our exceptional team of specialists who created this show specifically for your 'ohana. OUCH! by Annie Cusick Wood uses the magic of theatre to teach the precious life lesson of compassion. I believe our preschool performances are a perfect venue for exploring how we interact with one another, says Artistic Director Eric Johnson, building empathy towards others is crucial to our development. Our ability to empathize and to heal ourselves and others may be our greatest super power.

Residents of the Grand Rapids, Michigan area and its surrounding communities who are harboring the dream to build, renovate, or maintain a Log Home or Cabin are invited to speak with the industry's top log home and timber frame companies and builders along with industry experts during the Grand Rapids, MI Log & Timber Frame Home Show being held at The Deltaplex Arena, November 10-12.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents an evening with G3: Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Phil Collen. For Joe Satriani's G3 2018 tour, the guitar superstar welcomes fellow six-string legends John Petrucci (of Dream Theater) and Phil Collen (of Def Leppard) for an action-packed, livewire celebration of pure guitar wizardry. Since 1996, Satriani's massively popular G3 tours have brought together many of the world's greatest guitarists (everyone from Steve Vai and Eric Johnson to Steve Lukather and Robert Fripp), and have become a consistent sell-out attraction across the U.S and around the world. Each G3 incarnation has been known for creating its own particular musical chemistry.

Broadway By The Bay closes their 2017 season with the award-winning stage adaptation of one of the greatest musical comedies of all time Singin' in the Rain.

AEG Presents is proud to announce that guitar superstar Joe Satriani is bringing the 2018 incarnation of his massively popular G3 tour to the Pompano Beach Amp on February 18, 2018. Satriani will be joined by fellow six-string legends, John Petrucci of Dream Theater and

World-renowned guitar virtuoso, JOE SATRIANI, announces the release of his 16th solo album, What Happens Next, set for release, January 12, 2018 on Sony/Legacy Recordings.

World-renowned guitar virtuoso, JOE SATRIANI, announces the release of his 16th solo album, What Happens Next, set for release, January 12, 2018 on Sony/Legacy Recordings.

Combined Artform/WTFN are proud to bring back “THE SECOND COMING OF KLAUS KINSKI” (written & performed by Andrew Perez).  After an Encore Award-winning run at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival, for which it was named “Best of the Fringe” by TVolution, “KINSKI” opens September 29for a 6-week run, now presented within a ceremonial Kinski sacrarium at The Blank's Second Stage Theatre, 6500 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90038.

Broadway By the Bay continues its 2017 Season with NEXT TO NORMAL, running August 11 - 27, 2017 at the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City (2215 Broadway Street, Redwood City, CA).

HTY is excited to begin their 2017-2018 season with a play created by HTY company member Alvin Chan.  Chan's original retelling of the ultimate "girl-power" story, The Ballad of Mu Lan mixes traditional Chinese theatrical techniques with original music for a new take on a classic story!  Not since Chan's Five Chinese Brothers has HTY incorporated this level of acrobatic athleticism, training and live music into a single production. 

Sony Music Entertainment and Experience Hendrix L.L.C. have agreed to renew their historic licensing partnershipfirst announced in 2009which covers the ongoing curation and distribution of the Jimi Hendrix catalog and archives, making the artist's music and film materials available to fans around the world across all media formats and platforms.

When the first episode in ESPN Films' and ESPN Audio's much-anticipated new series 30 for 30 Podcasts debuts on Tuesday, June 27, MINI USA will serve as the presenting sponsor.

"The Power of People" is the theme of the 2017-2018 season at Honolulu Theatre for Youth.  Kicking off in August, the season will feature eight inspiring stories created for Hawaii families.  Artistic Director Eric Johnson says, "This season we will journey to ancient China, re-examine the modern ohana and explore underwater worlds.  What these stories of perseverance, ingenuity, empathy and understanding have in common is that each play celebrates our most precious resource, each other."

Cinemax has cancelled Steven Soderbergh's THE KNICK following two seasons. Starring Clive Owen, André Holland), Eve Hewson and Juliet Rylance, THE KNICK kicks off its ten-episode second season, exclusively on CINEMAX.

In 50 days, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will unleash Fifty Shades Darker Unrated Edition, plunging fans even deeper into the mesmerizing, hidden world of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, as the year's hottest romance comes home on Digital HD on April 25, 2017 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray , DVD and On Demand, on May 9, 2017.

The iconoclastic YouTube musician Andy McKee joins classical guitarist Celino Romaro for one-night-only to perform at Poway OnStage April 8, 2017 at 8:00pm. The difference in styles displayed by the two guitarists come together in a night marked by different approaches to the same instrument in this eclectic pairing.

Based on the popular fairytale about a tiny girl born from a flower, the world premiere of Thumbelina, by Y York, is the grand finale production in HTY's 2016-17 season.

Broadway By the Bay opens its 2017 Season with THE PRODUCERS, the Mel Brooks laugh-out-loud musical spectacle.  THE PRODUCERS runs March 17th through April 2nd at the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City (2215 Broadway Street, Redwood City, CA).

Honolulu Theatre for Youth presents the world premiere of Home, a short play for the littlest of theatre patrons by Annie Cusick Wood. Show times are Todays February 11, 18 and 25 at 9:30 and 11: 30 a.m., at Tenney Theatre on the grounds of The Cathedral of St. Andrew. (The 11:30 a.m. performance onSat., Feb. 18 will be ASL-interpreted.)