Musical Theatre West has announced the return of one of the world's most popular musicals, Grease, to its stage this summer! Fifty years after the original show hit Broadway, MTW's 2022 production of Grease will tell the classic love story of Danny and Sandy, featuring a talented cast that reflects the diversity of a typical Long Beach high school.
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre has announced its 2022-2023 season. The 2022-2023 Season at Metropolis includes a series of popular theater productions including Cabaret, Xanadu and more!
The Ali Cultural Arts Center continues to expand the South Florida musical landscape by providing a stage for the area's best bands with the Live and Local Concert Series, showcasing all genres, including rock & roll, hip-hop, grunge, reggae, blues, classic pop, alternative and more!
The first track to be released is South London vocalist Ego Ella May’s reimagining of visionary drummer Chico Hamilton’s “The Morning Side Of Love,” which first appeared on Hamilton’s 1975 Blue Note album Peregrinations. Mirroring the understated, laid-back groove of the original while showcasing Ella May’s arresting vocals.
Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles in MacArthur Park presents, in conjunction with LACMA Latin Sounds and La Banda Elastica El Gran Silencio, Buyepongo, Las Chikas, and La Ba as part of Levitt LA's 15th season of free summer performances in MacArthur Park, reflecting the cultural mosaic of Los Angeles in an iconic LA outdoor setting, June 18, 2022.
Florida is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced casting for its new staging of the Tony Award-nominated play Choir Boy by Oscar-winning Steppenwolf ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), June 16 – July 24, 2022 (press opening on Sunday, June 26 at 6 p.m.).
“Karma” is the newest single off the Miami-based indie singer/songwriter’s debut album, it is what it is — releasing independently, and though it is one of the oldest songs off the album, it’s one of the songs she’s the proudest of on this collection. The first music to come from this new approach to were her singles '1:30' and 'Hair Salon Vibes.'
SThe Mavericks will return to Mayo Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, June 2 at 8 pm as part of their En Español World Tour. Tickets are $39-$79.
South Street Seaport Museum's monthly sea-music event Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music - the original NYC chantey sing, now made popular on TikTok - continues on Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 2pm ET, in-person aboard 1885 tall ship Wavertree.
Sydney-based duo Royel Otis today drop the Lazy Eyes remix of their latest single, “Oysters In My Pocket”, released on House Anxiety / Ourness. “Oysters In My Pocket” follows the band’s greatly-received debut EP Campus in winter 2021, and was released alongside a brilliant video directed by Tim Nathan.
LookOut, Steppenwolf Theatre's popular performance series that presents the work of artists and companies across genre and form, proudly announces its Summer 2022 season, featuring a riotously eclectic lineup of performances spanning the gamut of music, drag, storytelling and more.
Produced by Eraserhood Sound, the song follows their recently released debut single and video “Forget Me Not” (produced by Sergio Rios) – both tracks have earned early support from KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. The band will release their debut 45 Forget Me Not b/w Blow My Mind. Watch the new music video now!
Ragtime, The Musical is the highlight of the end of the 100th anniversary season at Theatre Memphis in the Lohrey Theatre, June 3 - 26, 2022. Emotional and inspiring, the show is set at the dawn of a new era in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-20th-century New York. Everything is changing and anything is possible. Three distinctly American tales are woven together … a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician. United by their courage, compassion and belief, together they confront timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair … and what it means to live in America.
Actor/Writer/Comedian Yusuf Yildiz is bringing his feature-length stage comedy 'Not That Illegal' to the Hollywood Fringe Festival for its world premiere. Written by the producer himself, 'Not That Illegal' follows Ali Can, a Turkish immigrant, in his struggles to stay in the US even though his chances look slim.
Today, Jamaican genre-blurring dancehall star Projexx returns with the Konshens-assisted “Brace It,” the fast-rising singer’s first new offering of 2022. Listen HERE via Warner Records. Club-ready and instantly catchy, “Brace It” showcases Projexx’s pop instincts and vulnerable lyricism. It might only be May, but this is shaping up to be a Song of the Summer contender.
No matter how much you know about the Titanic disaster, the musical grounds the story, humanizes it, and you leave the theatre an emotional wreck.
Iodine Recordings will release a limited U.S. pressing of Rebel Songs by Nathan Gray & The Iron Roses on July 22. Pre-order it here. Rebel Songs is powerful, energetic, and politically charged — featuring Tim McIlrath of Rise Against and produced by Brian McTernan of Be Well/Salad Days Studio.
After a two-year hiatus, Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston returns for its 53rd summer season on the main stage at the Robinson Theatre (617 Lexington St. Waltham, MA, 02452). Under the direction of new Artistic Director Rachel Bertone, the curtain will rise on two iconic American musicals: West Side Story, the powerful tale of young lovers caught between prejudice and warring street gangs (July 8-16, 2022) and Pippin, Stephen Schwartz's unforgettable musical masterpiece of a young prince searching for passion, adventure, and the true meaning of life. (August 5-13, 2022).
