Add 'singing in Hebrew' to Lin-Manuel Miranda's list of talents! A former member of Miranda's Jewish a cappella group in college, Lisa Stein, shared a video to Twitter of the star belting out solos in Hebrew during one of the group's performances.
With Spring fast approaching, Rhymesayers Entertainment and Rose Presents reveal the details for the 11th annual Soundset Festival. Once again, the pre-eminent Midwest music and lifestyle experience takes over the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on the Midway Sunday May 27, 2018.
Today Southbank Centre announces its 2018/19 performance, dance and comedy programme, celebrating the reopening of its restored and redesigned cultural venues, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, and welcoming new and returning companies to its stages.
Tonight's primetime coverage live across all time zones on NBC begins at 8 p.m. ET, highlighted by the finals in the inaugural men's big air competition as 17-year-old snowboarder Red Gerard, who won gold in men's slopestyle earlier in these Games, Kyle Mack and Chris Corning lead the U.S. team. Live coverage also features the inaugural team event in alpine skiing as four athletes each (two men and two women) compete in a series of head-to-head slalom races against teams from other countries. (Outdoor events subject to weather conditions.)
Ladies' figure skating highlights tonight's live primetime coverage on NBC and NBCSN beginning at 8 p.m. ET as reigning U.S. champion Bradie Tennell leads the Americans, joined by 2010 Olympian Mirai Nagasu, who became the first American woman to land a triple axel at the Olympics earlier at these Games, and 2017 U.S. champion Karen Chen. The gold medal will likely come down to a duel between two-time reigning world champion Yevgenia Medvedeva and her 15-year-old training partner Alina Zagitova, competing as Olympic Athletes from Russia.
Walt Disney Records is set to release the digital version of the original motion picture soundtrack to Disney's “A Wrinkle in Time,” from visionary director Ava DuVernay on March 9th as the film opens in theaters nationwide.
In her final Olympic downhill race, 2010 gold medalist Lindsey Vonn looks to reclaim her title in the women's downhill as NBC's primetime coverage live across all time zones continues tonight at 8 p.m. ET. (Outdoor events subject to weather conditions.)
The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced today a one-week extension for the world premiere of KINGS, written by Sarah Burgess and directed by Thomas Kail. Part of The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work at 425 Lafayette Street and the 50th Anniversary of HAIR, KINGS officially opens on Tuesday, February 20 and will now run an additional week through Sunday, April 1.
Tonight's primetime coverage live across all time zones on NBC begins at 8 p.m. ET, as medals are at stake in the ice dance competition. 2018 U.S. champions Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue are in medal position (third place) heading into the free dance. Three-time world medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani, currently fourth, are also in contention. Fellow Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates are in the top 10 (seventh). Gold medal favorites include Vancouver winners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, and two-time world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France.
Illuminating the night with a fiery fury, 'Blaze the Dance Floor,' the latest single from new artist JoAnna Michelle, continues to burn up the charts. For the week of February 15, Billboard is reporting that 'Blaze the Dance Floor' moved up four more notches to No. 12 (with a bullet) on the magazine's Dance Club Play chart. DJs are supporting the super-sizzling single from coast-to-coast and around the world. 'Blaze the Dance Floor' is the follow-up to JoAnna's previous single, 'Too Sophisticated,' which reached No. 22 on Billboard last July.
Damian Woetzel continues his innovative interdisciplinary series uniting artists from across fields in a special one-night only performance, March 7 in the Terrace Theater. Part of the inaugural DIRECT CURRENT, the Kennedy Center's two-week celebration of contemporary culture, this installment of the multi-genre series will present recently commissioned works, including a world premiere, and Washington, D.C. premieres by some of today's most creative and groundbreaking voices in dance and music.
PEN America presents the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival: Resist and Reimagine, this year's incarnation of the renowned international literary festival, which will bring together the world's foremost authors and other luminaries at a time when many are turning to literature and the arts not for escapism, but as a guide to navigate contemporary crises. Salman Rushdie founded the festival in the isolationist aftermath of September 11, 2001, to fortify links with the rest of the world; now again the need to connect and draw inspiration from beyond America's borders is pressing.
Tonight's primetime Winter Olympics coverage live across all time zones on NBC continues at 8 p.m. ET, as Mikaela Shiffrin is expected to contend for gold in women's giant slalom in her delayed PyeongChang debut. Her first run will take place in primetime, while the final run of women's giant slalom will air in 'Primetime Plus,' beginning at 12:05 a.m. ET. In speed skating's 1000m gold medal final, American Heather Bergsma, who won gold in this event at last season's World Single Distance Championships, and teammate Brittany Bowe, the 2015 world champion in this event, are expected to contend.
ACTORS OF SOUND, a documentary that features interviews from many well-known Foley artists in the industry today, will be released on February 27th via Freestyle Digital Media. The film, which premiered at LA Film Festival and was also nominated for Best Documentary Feature at last year's Nashville Film Fest, is directed and produced by Lalo Molina.