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Golden Globe Winner Jill Eikenberry to Take the Stage at 54 Below

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Golden Globe Award-winner Jill Eikenberry this Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 at 7:00pm. Best known for her starring role on the NBC drama L.A. Law and Obie award winning turns in the?plays Lemon Sky and Life Under Water makes her? Feinstein's/54 Below debut in her brand new concert , Songs I've Sung. Join this multi-talented artist as she sings from the soundtrack of her life - from Broadway to off- Broadway to way off-Broadway. The show will include songs by Rogers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Keith Herrmann, Barbara Damashek, Randy Newman, and more. In addition Jill will invite a few talented friends, including members of the Gay Men's Chorus and maybe even Jill's notoriously shy husband, actor and author, Michael Tucker, to join the musical celebration of her first 70 years!

LOVE FOR SALE Opens at Soho Playhouse Huron Club

Paris, 1934. A naive American songstress turns up in a cafe, hoping to escape the Depression & make her name…but there are other things in store for her in the City of Light.

Kurt Weill's Anti-Apartheid Musical LOST IN THE STARS Among LACO Series Lineup

Celebrating the unique ability of music and the arts to address challenging social and moral issues, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) presents LIFT EVERY VOICE, a three-week, city-wide series of free and ticketed concerts, conversations and community engagement curated by LACO Music Director Jeffrey Kahane from January 14 to 29, 2017, at venues across the Southland. 

Soprano Julia Migenes Returns to Odyssey with Musical Portrait of Claude Debussy

Celebrated soprano Julia Migenes returns to L.A. with the world premiere of her newest musical portrait of a great composer. Accompanied on piano by Manuel Arellano and directed by Academy Award-nominated director Peter Medak (The Ruling Class with Peter O' Toole), Migenes' Debussy: His Letters and His Music opens at the Odyssey Theatre on Feb. 10 for a three-week run.

Alan Gilbert to Lead NY Phil in World Premiere of HK Gruber's Piano Concerto, Today

Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in the World Premiere of HK Gruber's Piano Concerto - a Philharmonic co-commission with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras - with pianist Emanuel Ax as soloist; Weill's Little Threepenny Music for Wind Orchestra; and Schubert's Symphony No. 2. The performances will take place Today, January 5, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, January 6 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, January 7 at 8:00 p.m.

THREEPENNY OPERA Opens Next Week at Spotlighters Theatre

In 1928, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill adapted John Gay's 18th-century The Beggar's Opera to fashion a savage, biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality, set to unforgettable music with tunes that have been famous for 90 years. 

LA Chamber Orchestra to Present Two Premieres, Violinist Daniel Hope & Vocalist Storm Large

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, presents the US premiere of Kurt Weill's Song-Suite for Violin and Orchestra, arranged by Paul Bateman, and the West Coast Premiere of Bruce Adolphe's Violin Concerto 'I Will Not Remain Silent,' which is dedicated to Rabbi Joachim Prinz and his friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on Saturday, January 21, 8 pm, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and Sunday, January 22, 2017, 7 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Trinity Church's TIME'S ARROW Festival to Celebrate 250 Years of St. Paul's Chapel

Trinity Church Wall Street's annual series of concerts in January has long been a highlight of the musical season. Entitled 'Time's Arrow' to allude to Trinity's signature juxtaposition of early and modern music, the 2017 festival (Jan 1-12) celebrates the 250th anniversary of the opening of St. Paul's Chapel, the oldest church building in Manhattan.

STAGE TUBE: Get to Know Jill Eikenberry, Heading to Feinstein's/54 Below with SONGS I'VE SUNG; Plus Preview!

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Golden Globe Award-winner Jill Eikenberry on Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 at 7:00pm. Best known for her starring role on the NBC drama L.A. Law and Obie Award-winning turns in the plays Lemon Sky and Life Under Water is making her Feinstein's/54 Below debut in her brand new concert, 'Songs I've Sung.' Get to know this multi-talented artist in the video below!

BWW Review: Timeliness Meets Timelessness in THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KURT WEILL at Urban Stages' WINTER RHYTHMS

In THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KURT WEILL, one of the more than 20 shows put together to form the Winter Rhythms festival benefiting arts education, old met new and timeliness met timelessness. At Urban Stages on December 6, six skilled performers were assembled to interpret several of the most well-known songs of the composer Kurt Weill (who died in the year 1950), through the lens of the world as we see it in 2016. This meant that each song from shows such as ONE TOUCH OF VENUS or THREEPENNY OPERA was introduced with a framing device that was the statement of an accurate and modern headline or situation ("The Refugee Crisis in Syria Worsens," "Donald Trump Wins the Election in Shocking Upset").

Bremner Duthie to Sing the Songs of Kurt Weill at Don't Tell Mama

Acclaimed cabaret singer Bremner Duthie & a swinging trio led by pianist Luke Marantz, celebrate the dark, decadent and always lovely music of Kurt Weill, with songs from his dangerous 1920's Berlin collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, to his final works on Broadway in the 1940's on Sunday, January 8th at 7pm.

DESDE 'AL SUR DEL PACÍFICO' HASTA 'MÁS ALLÁ DE LA LUNA'

Esta Guia de Teatro Musical, escrita por Iñigo Santamaria y Xavier Martinez, hace un recorrido de casi 6 decadas de este genero en nuestro pais revisando todas aquellas producciones estrenadas desde 1955 (fecha de la presentacion South Pacific) hasta finales de 2012 (año que se cerro con el estreno Over the moon).

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Presents LOST IN THE STARS, 1/28

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, in partnership with CAP UCLA, presents the first Los Angeles performance since the 1950s of LOST IN THE STARS Kurt Weill's powerful, uncompromising social indictment of apartheid-era South Africa, on Saturday, January 28, 8 pm, and Sunday, January 29, 2017, 7 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall. 

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