Laura Nyro News

Mandy Gonzalez has started a new series on YouTube called the #FearlessSquad Show. She released the first episode of the web series on June 1.

Broadway and TV star MANDY GONZALEZ - currently starring in Hamilton- will follow up Fearless, her debut recording from earlier this season, with Fearless: B-Sides, available today, Friday, May 18.

The Marsh San Francisco extends performances by the Bay Area's beloved Clown Prince of Fools, Unique Derique, in his zany extravaganza Fool La La! Over the Rainbow. Featuring a sweet new bag of tricks and side-splitting physical comedy, this all-ages show will leave audiences laughing and dancing through 2018.

Classic Stage Company announced today that Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose will play the title role in the company's new production of the musical CARMEN JONES beginning performances Friday, June 8.

Celebrate the leading ladies of country music when Rubicon Theatre Company presents Broadway's Melissa Hammans in NASHVILLE GAL as part of the 2018 Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Broadway Concert Series.

Los Angeles singer, MaryJo Mundy will bring her one-woman show entitled 'Nearly Nyro' to the Arthur Newman Theater in Palm Desert on Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 2 PM. The show is based on the music and life of singer and songwriter Laura Nyro and will feature a full band directed by Ross Kalling along with MaryJo's back up singers. Tickets are $15 cash at the box office that opens at 1 PM. The Arthur Newman Theater is located at 73750 Catalina Way in the Joslyn Center in Palm Desert.

Outdoor summer entertainment venue Music by the Lake, presented by George Williams College of Aurora University, announces its 18th annual season presenting artist debuts and a range of musical genres and shows, including orchestral music, contemporary and nostalgic pop/rock, country and family programming. The summer series, which includes weekend events from June 24 through August 11, features events for all ages to enjoy.

FIELD REPORT, the Wisconsin-based quartet founded and fronted by Chris Porterfield, have released the new album, Summertime Songs, 3/23/18. The album has garnered the band attention from national outlets such as CBS This Morning, Stereogum, Relix, Uproxx and more, as well as cemented their status as rising hometown heroes in Milwaukee, WI. 

As a woman, a musician, a writer/illustrator, and a single mother, Block faced her share of setbacks and naysayers. Now in her 60s, she's back once again to prove the naysayers wrong and show that Baby Boomers still have plenty to say with her new solo show, DRAMA OF THE GIFTED GROWNUP: A MUSICAL JOURNEY. The show, which combines Block's music, writing, and visual art, starts a three-city tour in Portland on Thursday.

Broadway and TV star MANDY GONZALEZ, taking a week vacation from Hamilton, will tour the coasts next week celebrating Fearless - her remarkable debut solo recording bridging pop and R&B. She will be performing with the brave student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Monday, March 12 in Delray Beach, FL.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2017-18 Kumble Theater season with jazz singer/songwriter Alicia Olatuja. Drawing from a wide range of musical influence including classical, R&B, soul, and gospel, this Brooklyn resident brings her scintillating jazz stylings to Brooklyn's Kumble Theater, including a preview of selections from her yet-to-be-released second album, Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women.

As a nor'easter surrounded New York City on Friday, March 2nd, the REAL storm was on stage in Midtown's Feinstein's / 54 Below, as Desmond Child hit the stage after an absence of 38 years, playing a gig in New York City.

:April Fools' Day will mark the return of Bay Area's beloved Clown Prince of Fools, Unique Derique, in his zany extravaganza Fool La La! Over the Rainbow at The Marsh San Francisco. Featuring a sweet new bag of tricks, side-splitting physical comedy and a free 20-minute Hambone and juggling workshop after each performance, this all-ages show will leave audiences laughing and ready to spring through the season. Fool La La! Over the Rainbow will be presented 1pm Sundays April 1 - May 6, 2018 at The Marsh San Francisco Studio, 1062 Valencia St., San Francisco. For tickets ($15-$35 sliding scale, $55-$100 reserved), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-282-3055 (open 1pm-4pm, Monday through Friday).

Mandy Gonzalez shared a video to Instagram of herself and fellow Schuyler Sisters, Lexi Lawson and Joanna Alexis Jones covering 'Here Comes the Sun' in celebration of George Harrison's birthday, as well as 'the fight for love and change.' Watch the video below!

FIELD REPORT, the Wisconsin-based quartet founded and fronted by Chris Porterfield, have made their national TV debut on CBS This Morning Saturday Sessions, in advance of the upcoming album, SUMMERTIME SONGS. In anticipation of the new album, the band recently  premiered the first single, 'Never Look Back,' with Stereogum. 'Never Look Back' and an additional track, 'If I Knew,' are now available everywhere, as both singles and instant downloads when pre-ordering  Summertime Songs. A national tour will follow the release of the album.

Mandy Gonzalez shared a video on Twitter of herself joined by Hamilton cast members James Monroe Iglehart, Lexi Lawson, and more singing a beautifully harmonized version of the civil rights song 'Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around.' The tweet that accompanied the video encourages people to join in the March For Our Lives, a march organized in the wake of the recent school shooting in Florida to end gun violence.

We're throwing back this Thursday as we celebrate ten years since the first Broadway preview of In the Heights. Watch below as Mandy Gonzalez, who played Nina in the original cast, chronicles her last day in the show that took over Broadway back in 2008!

The most musically satisfying Beatles tribute band and State Theatre audience favorite returns to Easton performing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in its entirety plus a mixed set of favorites! The Fab Faux will perform accompanied by The Hogshead Horns, The Creme Tangerine Strings and Erin Hill.

Mandy Gonzalez performed at Adelphi University on February 2. The performance featured choirs from Adelphi University and Garden City High School. She posted a video on YouTube of inside warmups, rehearsals, and the performance. Watch the video below!

Choreographer, playwright, and dancer Jinah Parker's momentous and timely work SHE will run March 31 - May 19 at the Gym at Judson in Manhattan. This moving work of dance-theater-"a Choreoplay"-opens up all-too-necessary conversations about sexual trauma, systemic racism, women's healing and ownership of their bodies, and the undoing of rape culture.