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Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays is a star-studded benefit concert on Saturday, December 8th at New York City's historic Beacon Theatre to help raise awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth homelessness and support the True Colors Fund's Forty to None Project.
Cult Records is set to release STRIKE GENTLY, the long-awaited second full length from critically acclaimed New York-based band the Virgins, on March 12th. The group currently on tour in South America, having just recently completed a pair of shows in Santiago, Chile. Please look inside for a full track list and tour dates.
Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality HoWard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning today, November 20.
The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director), in association with PEN American Center, will present a Public Forum program on Monday, December 3 on behalf of writers and artists who have been imprisoned speaking truth to power. THOUGHT IS FREE: An Evening of Protest and Solidarity will be hosted by Liev Schreiber and feature Carl Bernstein, Nathan Englander, Shirin Neshat, Lou Reed, and Salman Rushdie. Member tickets, priced at $15, and single tickets, priced at $20, are on sale now and can be purchased at (212) 967-7555, www.publictheater.org, or in person at The Public Theater box office at 425 Lafayette Street.
Mies Julie was the hands-down, must-see hit and Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award-winner at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Building upon a rich history of importing standout Edinburgh productions and major international companies to America in recent years, St. Ann's Warehouse (Artistic Director, Susan Feldman; Executive Director, Andrew D. Hamingson) will present this American Premiere (and the Baxter Theatre Centre's American debut), which adapts the August Strindberg classic to post-apartheid South Africa. Performances will take place tonight, November 8 - December 2, marking the official opening of the new St. Ann's Warehouse at 29 Jay Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Mies Julie was the hands-down, must-see hit and Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award-winner at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Building upon a rich history of importing standout Edinburgh productions and major international companies to America in recent years, St. Ann's Warehouse (Artistic Director, Susan Feldman; Executive Director, Andrew D. Hamingson) will present this American Premiere (and the Baxter Theatre Centre's American debut), which adapts the August Strindberg classic to post-apartheid South Africa. Performances will take place November 8 - December 2, marking the official opening of the new St. Ann's Warehouse at 29 Jay Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Don't miss Lou Reed, Friday December 7th at 8PM in this only area performance at bergenPAC in Englewood, New Jersey located at 30 North Van Brunt Street. Tickets go on Sale Friday November 2nd at 11am at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling the box office at 201 227 1030. Hot off his successful European tour, the performance will feature a 5-piece band, including Lou Reed, Tony 'Thunder' Smith (drums), Rob Wasserman (bass), Kevin Hearn (keyboards), andAram Bajakian (guitar). Lou and band will perform material from his entire career, ranging from the Velvet Underground to his recent Metallica collaborative album Lulu.
Featuring a concert version of King's Bessie-nominated piece Astral Epitaphs that was commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for its final shows at the Park Avenue Armory in Dec. 2011, the music of New York composer John King (www.johnkingmusic.com) will be presented at Brooklyn's Roulette on Friday, December 7 at 8pm.
Macy Gray's upcoming new album, a 're-imagining' of the classic Stevie Wonder album 'TALKING BOOK,' had its digital release on Sunday, October 28th -the 40th anniversary of the iconic recording - and is available now @ Amazon for $9.99 (link be
Universal Music Enterprises and Castle Face Records have joined forces for the release of the 45th Anniversary of The Velvet Underground & Nico with a tribute album featuring indie artists Ty Segall ('Femme Fatale'), Thee Oh Sees ('European Son'), White Fence ('Run Run Run), The Fresh and Onlys ('All Tomorrow's Parties') among others. Brian Eno famously said 'the album may not have sold many copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.' This partnership between UMe and Castle Face Records is a true testament of the influence of The Velvet Underground.
Philip Glass, one of America's most esteemed composers, will be the subject of a remix project due today, October 23 on Orange Mountain Music. The idea for the record came together during a conversation between Philip and his friend and new collaborator Beck. The pair recruited producer Hector Castillo (David Bowie, Bjork, Lou Reed) to help assemble a collection of remixes of Glass' works by a list of critically acclaimed artists including Beck himself, Tyondai Braxton, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Johann Johannsson, Nosaj Thing, Memory Tapes, Silver Alert and many others.
Macy Gray's upcoming new album, a 're-imagining' of the classic Stevie Wonder album 'TALKING BOOK,' is available now for preorder @ Amazon for $9.99 .
Stephen Petronio Company presents The Architecture of Loss and Underland at Irvine Barclay Theatre as part of its Contemporary Dance Series, November 14, 2012 at 8pm. Get a first look at both pieces in the photos below!
Beginning this month, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) will celebrate the iconic work and enduring legacy of composer Kurt Weill with an unprecedented series of events. Opening on Friday, Oct. 19, and running through Tuesday, March 12, CCM's Kurt Weill Festival will incorporate the renowned theatre composer into a broad range of both public performances and classroom exercises.
Today we are talking to one of Broadway's biggest homegrown stars who has appeared in the original New York productions of many memorable modern-day classics, among them THE WHO'S TOMMY, AIDA, THE LAST FIVE YEARS and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, in additions to highly-regarded turns in the first replacement cast of RENT, the Tommy Tune/Jeff Calhoun revival of GREASE, the Off-Broadway curiosity DEBBIE DOES DALLAS, the first (and only) LA mounting of Randy Newman's FAUST, as well as her starring role in the recent Lincoln Center Theater's production of WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, and, of course, her own rapturously-received, award-winning solo showpiece, EVERYDAY RAPTURE - the convivially mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind Sherie Rene Scott. Discussing the major transitions in her life, including her transformation from ingenue to leading lady to solo performer, Scott illustrates a unique and varied career as well as opens up about the themes, songs, stories, experiences and encounters that formed the basis for her new solo piece premiering at 54 Below this week, PIECE OF MEAT. Additionally, Scott touches upon her work as the co-owner of the revolutionary Sh-K-Boom Records with her husband, Kurt Deutsch, as well as her own album work over the years, in addition to stories related to the recording of many of their most celebrated titles and the composers whose work is prominently featured on their releases - Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michael John LaChiusa and many more included. All of that, plus Mennonites, music and meat - and much, much more!
Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality Howard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning November 20.
Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality Howard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning November 20.
The forthcoming Philip Glass remix project REWORK_Philip Glass remixed is streaming in its entirety at NPR Music's First Listen:http://n.pr/ON560f. The album, a two-disc or 2xLP set of remixed Philip Glass works, is due October 23 on Orange Mountain Music/Ernest Jenning Record Co./The Kora Records. REWORK is now available for pre-order at http://www.philipglassrework.com as well as via the iTunes store and Amazon.com.
ANNIE, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, went into rehearsal today in New York City with its full company. The production begins previews October 3, 2012 and opens November 8, 2012 at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street). Meet the full cast below!
Fuse, the national music television network of The Madison Square Garden Company, is ringing audiences a week of interviews and live performances with FUSE MUSIC WEEK: LIVE FROM RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. Beginning on Friday, September 21, Fuse's newly created news division - Fuse News - will be stationed at Radio City Music Hall to capture exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage that will air on the linear network.
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