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Popular actor/playwright Jim Brochu returns to Union County Performing Arts Center's Hamilton Stage Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, with a lively and affectionate tribute to Broadway musical stars past and present.
For the millions of U.S. fans who fell in love with the astonishing talent of Il Volo following their show stopping PBS Special Il Volo Takes Flight, or as special guests of Barbra Streisand's fall 2012 tour, the boys will return to North America for a series of 17 concerts, heading to the Fox Theatre tonight, September 5 at 7:30 p.m.; Il Volo made their Fox Theatre debut in 2011.
Pet Shop Boys have announced that Jacques lu Cont will support the duo for several dates on the approaching North American leg of their Electric tour.
Tamar Braxton's anxiously awaited debut album Love and War [Streamline/Epic Records] is now available in stores everywhere(including a Best Buy exclusive with an added bonus track) and online.
Tamar Braxton is a TV star, a talk show host, and a brand new mother, but with her Streamline/Epic debut album, she's offering up a potent reminder that she's also a spectacular singer. Love and War shot up to No. 1 on iTunes R&B chart after pre-orders began, and the first single, the album's title track, was a No. 1 Adult Urban Contemporary hit for 10 consecutive weeks, and the second single, 'The One,' was equally well received. By the time Love and War is officially released today, September 3rd, it will be clear why Tamar's voice has always been the foundation of her career.
Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, nurtured and grown under the direction of Ballet Master Vladimir Issaev since October of 1997, leaps into its 16th Season starting October 12, 2013 with Pentimento, and Firebird and ends with their Spring Gala on May 3 and 4, 2014.
One of the original Kings of Comedy will close out 2013 as the must-attend Atlanta event when he brings his hilarious stage show to the Fox Theatre on December 31 at 8 PM. Tickets start at $49 and tickets are on sale now and are available at the Fox Theatre Ticket Office, at foxtheatre.org, 855-285-8499, all Atlanta area Whole Food Markets and Ticket Alternative outlets.
Bad Boy/Wondaland/Atlantic recording artist Janelle Monáe has announced plans for her upcoming North American headline tour. The dates which celebrate the acclaimed artist's eagerly anticipated new album, 'THE ELECTRIC LADY' get underway October 13th at Philadelphia's Electric Factory and then continue through late November (see below itinerary). Additional dates extending into 2014 will be announced soon. Ticket sales begin at most venues on Friday, August 23rd please check local listings.
fter one of the most successful PBS pledge runs to date, Il Volo returns with their newly recorded PBS special, We Are Love: Live from The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater. Available today, August 6 th, We Are Love: Live from The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater comes as the second live CD and DVD from the young Italian trio and is available exclusively as a CD from Amazon's CreateSpace service (http://www.amazon.com/Fillmore-Miami-Jackie-Gleason-Theater/dp/B00DUZDMBG) and exclusively as a DVD from Barnes & Noble .
Dubbed 'The greatest white female singer in the world' by none other than Ella Fitzgerald, star vocalist Marilyn Maye took Provincetown audiences by storm in her highly anticipated debut at The Art House two summers ago, and again last year. She returns to The Art House by popular demand this summer on August 8, 9 and 10 at 7:00 PM featuring Billy Stritch on the piano. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com, or call 1-800-838-3006.
The album is the first Pet Shop Boys studio album to be produced by Stuart Price. Visit Stereogum for an extensive 'Progress Report' interview with the duo -- along with the debut of the new track 'Axis'
About halfway through Jim Brochu's Saturday, June 29 performance at the Metropolitan Room of his new show Character Man, I realized I was witnessing what was probably the best cabaret show I'd seen this year, and perhaps was one of the best in my almost three years of reviewing cabaret. By the time the show ended, I had changed my mind. Not because the show fell apart in the second half, but because what Jim Brochu had created (and is opening tonight at the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs, Florida, where it will be performed until August 11) was more than a cabaret show. Character Man is a delightful, extremely well-crafted Off-Broadway theater piece that is destined for a run that might rival his critically-acclaimed one-man Zero Mostel tribute show, Zero Hour, which played throughout the country between 2006-2012 and earned Brochu 2010 Drama Desk and Helen Hayes Awards.
Electric, the new studio album from Pet Shop Boys, is now available to stream in it's entirety via Pandora HERE. Electric is the duo's first album to appear on their own label x2 (via Kobalt Label Services) and the first to be produced by Stuart Price.
According to The New York Times, Sardi's caricaturist Donald Bevan passed away on May 29, 2013, in Studio City, Calif. He was 93.
Drama Desk and Helen Hayes Award winner Jim Brochu ('Zero Hour,' 'The Big Voice: God or Merman?') just debuted his new solo show 'Character Man' at the Metropolitan Room. Check out photos from the concert below!
In the early 1980s when rock and roll exploded in Brazil, Marisa de Azevedo Monte wanted to be an opera singer. Through her studies, she found she loved Billie Holliday and Brazilian rock as much as Maria Callas. Upon arrival at age 19 in Rome to study opera, her musical influences came together and led her back to a greater appreciation of classic Brazilian music.
In the early 1980s when rock and roll exploded in Brazil, Marisa de Azevedo Monte wanted to be an opera singer. Through her studies, she found she loved Billie Holliday and Brazilian rock as much as Maria Callas. Upon arrival at age 19 in Rome to study opera, her musical influences came together and led her back to a greater appreciation of classic Brazilian music.
For the millions of U.S. fans who fell in love with the astonishing talent of Il Volo following their show stopping PBS Special Il Volo Takes Flight, or as special guests of Barbra Streisand's fall 2012 tour, the boys will return to North America for a series of 17 concerts, heading to the Fox Theatre on Thursday, September 5 at 7:30 p.m.; Il Volo made their Fox Theatre debut in 2011.
David Rogers, Broadway playwright who also wrote for television, opera and night clubs, and authored novels and short stories, died on Wednesday, June 5th in Westport, Conn. He was 85.
Jerry Mitchell has won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Choreography for KINKY BOOTS.
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