John Harris News

BRIT Award winner, cultural commentator, critically acclaimed director and actor, and musical maverick Ben Drew, aka Plan B, has released his anticipated fourth studio album, 'Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose' (HBAHBL) today via Atlantic Records.

Queensland's Chamber Orchestra promises to deliver their trademark energy as it takes to QPAC's Concert Hall in its highly anticipated season finale on Sunday 3 December.

It's hard to watch Legally Blonde The Musical without becoming at least a little infected with the fluffy American can-do-anything attitude that prevails throughout this fast, frivolous and fun show.

Purva Naresh's new play, JATINGA, shares a heartbreaking side of India that the rest of the world has tried to ignore. In its world premiere, this 80 minute play delves into the stories of India's forgotten girls, based on Naresh's personal experience with girls she met in the Kamathipura region of India.

Following the critically acclaimed, sell-out season of The Laden Table (March 2017), bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company is proud to present the world premiere of Jatinga - an international co-production inspired by the daughters of sex-workers in Kamathipura, Mumbai's oldest and Asia's second largest red-light district.

This week, Alexandra Burke celebrated unprecedented success for an individual performer in Musical Theatre at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre.

"I am talking, but you don't listen. I am speaking but you don't hear me."

'Expressions of Love from the Mountaintop Volume I': a candid book of poetry to exalt God and honor the journey to spiritual fitness. 'Expressions of Love from the Mountaintop Volume I' is the creation of published author, Judith Beverly-Webb, who was born in Harrisburg, PA. Two weeks after graduating from John Harris High School, she met Alfred Webb, a young soldier home from Vietnam. Two weeks later she became engaged to Alfred and they married seven months later. They have been married now for forty-five years. After serving twenty years as a military wife, Al and Judith retired from the U.S. Army. Judith became a minister in 1984, and Al became an ordained minister in 1988. Judith's ministry includes women's ministry, youth ministry, couples and marriage counseling, outreach ministry, and more. Al served as assistant pastor in 1989 with Judith by his side. Judith and her husband have six children, fifteen grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Judith faithfully works to serve God and his people.

The 37th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards for the 2015-2016 season were handed out in a star-studded ceremony in Toronto on the evening of Monday, June 27 at Harbourfront Centre's Concert Stage, hosted by two-time Dora Award winner and leading actor, Bruce Dow. Scroll down for the full list of winners!

A deluge of heavy-hitting support from some of the most legendary titans in dance music marks the return of award-winning Canadian producer Glenn Morrison to the dance floor.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music will host the Third International Maurizio Biasini Guitar Competition and Festival, an event celebrating the tradition and proclaiming the future of classical guitar, from January 14 to 17, 2016.

Leoš Jana?ek's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN is reinterpreted by Michael Campbell (Director) in this new collaboration between Pacific Opera, Sydney Youth Orchestra and Sydney Grammar School.

Louisville Orchestra Performance of Bernstein's Mass is Triumphant

The waiting is over, Holt Festival, North Norfolk's award winning international festival of music, drama, visual art, literary giants, talks, dance and comedy, has announced its full programme for 2015, its seventh year.

Adapted from a scene of Euripides' Medea, the Tapestry Opera's latest production of M'DEA UNDONE brings the myth and tragedy of this classic story to modern times. The opera takes place in the twenty-first century as Jason, a former army captain, begins a new political career and begins to distance himself from his wife M'dea and son Chase. A complicated and powerful piece, themes of love, revenge, and jealousy are explored. Librettist Marjorie Chan and Composer John Harris compliment each other perfectly in this stunning new work.

Experience the unraveling of mythology's most controversial heroine in a modern wartime context, set against the stunning industrial backdrop of Toronto's reclaimed brick factory, Evergreen Brickworks. TAPESTRY OPERA presents a recreation of the classic myth in the world premiere of M'DEA UNDONE. Written by Dora Award-winning playwright Marjorie Chan and brought to life by the lush orchestral and electronic soundscape of Scottish composer John Harris, M'DEA UNDONE will receive its world premiere in Toronto for a limited engagement May 26-29.

A band of British soldiers, hunkered down in the trenches in France in World War I, battle their own demons as they await a rumored German attack in R.C. Sherriff's landmark play, Journey's End, the next offering of the Deep Dish Theater Company. This warm and clear-eyed drama opens tonight, February 27 and plays through March 21, continuing the company's fourteenth season at University Mall.

A band of British soldiers, hunkered down in the trenches in France in World War I, battle their own demons as they await a rumored German attack in R.C. Sherriff's landmark play, Journey's End, the next offering of the Deep Dish Theater Company. This warm and clear-eyed drama opens February 27 and plays through March 21, continuing the company's fourteenth season at University Mall. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the show below!

A band of British soldiers, hunkered down in the trenches in France in World War I, battle their own demons as they await a rumored German attack in R.C. Sherriff's landmark play, Journey's End, the next offering of the Deep Dish Theater Company. This warm and clear-eyed drama opens February 27 and plays through March 21, continuing the company's fourteenth season at University Mall.