Otis Redding News

Immediate Medium presents the World Premiere of CHUCK.CHUCK.CHUCK., a collaborative, multi-media piece based on William Faulkner's classic novel As I Lay Dying, from February 10 - 28 at The Collapsable Hole, 146 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. With text inspired by As I Lay Dying, CHUCK.CHUCK.CHUCK. is a collage of spoken word, video, music and dance. An investigation of dislocation, failure and loss, the piece follows the family members of Addie Bundren as they decide to leave their home to fulfill her dying wish - to be returned to her birthplace for burial. CHUCK.CHUCK.CHUCK. charts their arduous journey and examines crises of family and faith.

B.B. King Blues Club & Grill one of the nation's most respected music venues and New York's premier home for Broadway stars and cabaret and and Lucille's Grill,a bar/restaurant located inside B.B. King Blues Club & Grill present their schedule of performances, with recently added or altered shows.

The West Bank Café announces their June, 2008 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

1968, a hard rock, psychedelic, Motown, folk, and country cabaret, plays May 2nd at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.

According to NYTimes.com, the lineup for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's 23rd Powerhouse summer theater season will include productions of John Patrick Shanley's Romantic Poetry: A Musical Play, featuring a score by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) and starring Mark Linn-Baker and Idina Menzel, Stephen Belber's (Match) new play, Geometry of Fire, and concert readings of Pete Towshend's new rock opera, The Boy Who Heard Music, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T, a musical featuring hit songs originally by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett and more.

Join Hairspray's Chester Gregory for a birthday bash that will give you better than cake: a night of his original songs that fuse R&B and soul with lyrics CDBaby.com dubs 'poetically poignant and captivating.'