Michael Jackson News

New Jersey Performance Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark presents INVINCIBLE a spectacular, Multi-Media, Live Performance honoring Michael Jackson, the Greatest Entertainer of All Time on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 8pm. This is the ONLY show that brings back the spirit and the essence of seeing Michael Jackson Live again onstage! Three talented singers portray Michael at different stages of his dynamic career in this multi-media spectacular featuring his greatest hits. See the world's most amazing Michael Jackson impersonators re-create the experience of seeing the King of Pop in an onstage concert. Invincible is breaking new ground this year featuring Darrin Ross, Pete Carter, Jeffrey Perez and the most amazing cast along with Doron Uglybraine Lev and the Invincible Orchestra, Anointed, Harlem Gospelive and many more spectacular guests and surprises. Tickets for INVINCIBLE go on-sale Friday, December 18, 2015 at 10am, be sure to reserve your ticket at NJPAC.org or by calling 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722).

The supernatural power of love will take Australia by storm when the Broadway and West End hit GHOST THE MUSICAL, adapted from the Academy Award-winning film, premieres in Australia in Adelaide on 8 January 2016 before touring nationally. Click below to go inside rehearsals with the Australian tour company!

Due to circumstances beyond our control, The Jackson's 50th Anniversary and Holiday Show originally scheduled for Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at The Ridgefield Playhouse has been cancelled. The band will be ending their tour a few days early.

On Tuesday, December 8th, Questlove, founding member of musical group The Roots and Musical Director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, supported the Seeds of Africa Foundation

The amazingly talented performers of THE BLACK VERSION - HOLIDAY SPECIAL rocked the audience at Largo @ The Coronet with their lightning quick improv wit, some incredible vocals and ridiculously sharp rapping. Karen Maruyama directed her six-member cast in a racehorse pacing with just enough time for hearty laughs between hilarious lines after hilarious reactions after hilarious comebacks.

The Beaux Arts Society held its annual Beaux Arts Society Ball, coronating its annual royalty and holding its famous annual costume event.

Now, There are a few things that happen when the voices of Phil Burton, Toby Allen and brothers Andrew and Michael Tierney of the Australian harmony group Human Nature come together. Your eyes close, your head begins to sway, your foot taps and you are transported into a place of pure bliss.

Tempe's Stray Cat Theatre is certainly not the Valley's only alternative theatre, but their stellar show selection and quality showmanship makes them arguably the best. The group, run by locally celebrated actor and director Ron May, will soon vacate their home at the Tempe Performing Arts Center, leaving behind nearly a decade of unique, creative history that is art in the truest sense. However, with their current production of HEATHERS, Stray Cat gets ready to depart the venue (literally and figuratively) with quite a bang!

INSPIRATIONAL BROADWAY -- an evening of Broadway, R&B, Gospel, and Pop classics featuring four of Broadway's brightest lights and an ensemble of uplifting voices -- will debut at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on February 15, 2016 at 7:30 PM (Doors at 6:00 PM).

MOURNING SUN, a new play by Antu Yacob slated for production by Theatre 167, sheds light on brutal traditions impacting girls and women across the world. Set in Ethiopia and New York, this remarkable love story spans continents and cultures while exploring the way our lives are our lives are shaped by trauma and recovery, dislocation and identity, and the power of human connection.

Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its upcoming nightly performances, running December 9-20, 2015. Scroll down for details or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!

Producers Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris and Berry Gordy, and Broadway at the National present the Washington premiere of Motown the Musical, playing the National Theatre now through January 3, 2016. BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening night festivities, featuring Berry Gordy himself, below!

Jamie Wilson, Gavin Kalin Productions and Paul Elliott are delighted to present a national tour of the Watermill Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black's classic musical TELL ME ON A SUNDAY starring Jodie Prenger, opening on Wednesday 2 March 2016, following a season at the Watermill Theatre from Thursday 28 January to Saturday 20 February 2016.  Full tour schedule attached. www.tellmeontour.co.uk

Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its upcoming nightly performances, running December 9-20, 2015. Scroll down for details or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!

Sundance Institute today completed its feature film lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with the highly anticipated narratives, documentaries, episodic work and events in the Premieres, Documentary Premieres, Spotlight, Sundance Kids and Special Events sections.

Clinton Hill cultural hub and OBIE award-winner JACK launches its winter/spring 2016 season with an a cappella opera set in Zimbabwe by composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, a weekend of curated works by Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, the premiere of the dirty and bracing play Tom & Eliza, by Celine Song, the English-language premiere of Argentinian playwright Rafael Spregelburd's SPAM, The Geneva Project by Jennifer Harrison Newman, Antonio Ramos' Thirsty Mind, love and starvation sitting in a lonely tree and an exploration in minimalist/pop art performance by the No Face Performance Group.  JACK also engineers the return of Walter Dundervill's ARENA (which had two sold-out runs at JACK in 2014 and 2015). 

Champagne Jerry, Neal Medlyn's hip-hop project/ performance piece, is poised to present a series of shows and assets in anticipation of the release of his second LP.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Dave Steakley, currently playing at ZACH Theatre, is a stellar way to celebrate the holidays. Reimagined as a musical with contemporary songs and performed by a Broadway caliber cast, Dickens' classic has never been more entertaining.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts today announced that individual tickets go on public sale next month for four upcoming Kravis On Broadway shows, all of which were major hits on the Great White Way.

Today, December 5, Target First Today will explore the history, culture, and fantasy of Coney Island, with music, dance, and performances from the famed amusement park. The evening's highlights include a pin-up mermaid costume contest, a screening of The Wiz, entertainment by Brown Girls Burlesque and sideshow acts,and musical performances by Amour Obscur, Fright Barker and Sons, and Raya Brass Band.