Fever News

 Los Angeles based Cambodian and American rock band DENGUE FEVER announced today that they are surprise dropping the extremely limited edition of Dengue Fever 2003-2015 anthology today via Greece's Green Cookie Records. This limited release of only 300 copies (200 black, 100 orange vinyl) is only available via the band's website & the Green Cookie Records website in Greece.

Following a highly successful West End run of two and a half years and a sell-out tour in 2017/18, Paul Blake, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Mike Bosner in association with Michael Harrison are delighted to announce full casting for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning BEAUTIFUL a?" THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, playing at The Bristol Hippodrome in February 2020.

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the full cast for Globe on Tour, directed by Brendan O'Hea. The company of eight actors will once again offer audiences around the world a trio of plays, which this year explore the relationship between humankind and Mother Nature. Audiences will cast their votes for either A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It or The Tempest, each of which explores the natural world and its great potential for abundance and transformation.

Psychedelic post-hardcore group CIRCA SURVIVE will be reissuing their major label debut Blue Sky Noise on vinyl via Hopeless Records on March 20th. The album had a big debut landing on numerous Billboard charts including #1 Billboard 200, #1 Tastemakers, #3 Top Rock Albums, #11 Top Current Albums, #11 Top Album Sales, and #17 Vinyl Albums. The band will be celebrating the 10th anniversary by hitting the road with Polyphia and Gouge Away in tow on their Blue Sky Noise 10 Year Anniversary Tour that will kickoff on release day.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced complete casting for two productions today: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames, directed by Whitney White (April 2 a?" May 17, 2020); and Catch as Catch Can by Mia Chung, which also announced ensemble member Amy Morton as director (June 4 a?" July 26, 2020).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Queen Latifah-led CBS series 'The Equalizer' has received a pilot pickup.

MTC Music Academy presents a 5 week Vocal Masterclass featuring intensive technique coaching with Founder and Voice Teacher, Tegan Miller, as well as expert input from rest of the creative team, Music Director, Assaf Gleizner (Office the Musical) and Rep Coach, Andre Catrini (Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit). The classes will also include handpicked, personalized audition material for each student and a showcase for two Casting Directors, Holly Buzcek (HDB Casting/Wojcik/Seay Casting) and Alison Franck (Franck Casting), as well as the creative team. In this showcase, actors will present their new material and receive live, constructive feedback.

As BroadwayWorld previously announced, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's classic musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is returning to New York in a special concert presentation from Manhattan Concert Productions on February 17th at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall! In celebration of the highly-anticipated production, we're giving you a guide to the star-studded cast, including Noah Galvin, Alex Newell, Jessica Vosk, Andy Karl, and so many more!

Following the release of her latest single, “fever dream,” mxmtoon is announcing her North American dawn & dusk tour today, with support from Temporex, Verzache, and Claud. Her last US tour sold out months in advance and demand is already through the roof for her next round of dates. mxmtoon will kick things off May 8th in San Diego at House of Blues, playing songs from her 2019 debut album the masquerade, as well as new material. There will be an Artist + Spotify Presale this Wednesday January 29th at 10AM local time, and tickets will be on sale to the general public on January 31st at 10AM local. Tickets will be available HERE. 

Montana-based rising stars, The Lil Smokies, are pleased to announce the release of their third studio album, Tornillo, available everywhere today. Recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, TX, with producer-engineer Bill Reynolds (The Avett Brothers, Band of Horses, Midland) Tornillo is a focused and refined representation of the sound The Lil Smokies have become known for, Live For Live Music deeming the release “...an album with a point to make.” Click here to stream or purchase on your platform of choice. 

Coming off a 'Hot Girl' vacation, Megan Thee Stallion is back in the studio and her latest track 'B.I.T.C.H' drops today. The song samples Tupac Shakur's 'Ratha Be Ya Ni**a' and was teased last week on Megan's Instagram featuring her spitting bars and her hotties twerking in the back. 'B.I.T.C.H' will be a featured track on Suga, Megan Thee Stallion's highly anticipated debut album - following her other successful projects Fever and Tina Snow. 

Broadway power couple Andy Karl and Orfeh return to Feinstein's/54 Below this month with their hit show Legally Bound. The pair performed their first show of the four last night, January 23. Watch clips of a sampling of their songs!

On her 2019 debut album the masquerade, 19-year-old singer/songwriter mxmtoon delivers what she calls 'rhyming diary entries': an off-the-cuff account of her most private thoughts and feelings, usually dashed off very late at night, straight from her brightly lit brain. In her deliberate refusal to hide behind metaphor, the now Brooklyn-based artist otherwise known as maia achieves a quiet bravery, an unrestrained honesty that gives voice to those who often go unheard.

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati today announced the second edition of its performance festival This Time Tomorrow (TTT), which commissions and presents new, cutting-edge work from international, domestic, and local artists. Spread across five days in April 2020, this year's festival will feature a diverse assembly of performance works, including four CAC commissions and two North American premieres. Activating the CAC and partner venues throughout the Greater Cincinnati area, TTT 2020 engages with crucial themes that speak to our contemporary time.

STAYIN' ALIVE brings the songs and sights of a full Bee Gees playlist to the Van Wezel on Monday, February 10 at 8 p.m., including blockbusters such as a?oeNight Fever,a?? a?oeJive Talkin',a?? a?oeHow Deep is Your Love,a?? a?oeYou Should be Dancing,a?? a?oeNights on Broadwaya?? and a?oeStayin' Alive.a?? In addition, the group performs softer poetic ballads such as a?oeI Started a Joke,a?? a?oeMassachusetts,a?? a?oeFanny be Tender,a?? a?oeWordsa?? and a?oeTo Love Somebodya?? among other great hits.

Join Little Theatre of Virginia Beach and LGBT Life Center as local Billboard Chart Topper Pamala Stanley takes to the LTVB Stage for a Mardi Gras party of fun and fabulous proportions!

A and B meet to recreate the feats of a famously homosexual serial killer who's haunting the streets of London. A, who's providing the service for a price, creates the scenarios of choice while B gets off on the pain and shame that comes from it. After a successfully sold-out run at The Glory, Alexis Gregory has taken Sex/Crime to Soho Theatre leaving one to wonder if audiences at the East End venue co-owned by Gregory's co-star Jonny Woo were seeing the same piece.

A Soldier's Play officially opened on Broadway on January 21 for a limited engagement at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street).

A nameless woman starts writing a novel in Mexico City. She is regularly interrupted by her family as she tells about a younger version of herself living wildly in New York and little known poets in need of translation. Her reality interweaves with memories from different, distant lives as she transcends narratives through exceptionally vivid storytelling. Valeria Luiselli's 2011 novel Faces in the Crowd (originally translated by Christina McSweeney) is directed and adapted by the Gate Theatre's artistic director Ellen McDougall in a quiet but intense production.

The fun flavor of the 1970s is a?oeStayin' Alivea?? at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre with its premiere production of Saturday Night Fever, starting Feb. 6.