Rufus Wainwright News

The iconic pop star impressed the Jazz At Lincoln Center audience this week during his concert for The American Songbook Series

Broadway's master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: DIARIES, to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall for one performance only on Sunday, February 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.

High Water Festival has revealed its daily lineups for the 2020 installment of the festival, which is set to run from April 18-19 at North Charleston, SC. The lineup, curated by Holy City natives Shovels & Rope, is split into two days as follows:

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Kristin Stokes in SOLO on Monday, February 10, 2020. After finishing her Broadway run in The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Kristin Stokes makes her Feinstein's/54 Below solo debut. In this intimate and spellbinding evening of songs, Broadway's favorite wise girl shows you sides of her you've never seen. Joined by some special surprise guests, Stokes will perform music by Paul Simon, Rufus Wainwright, Dave Malloy, and Stephen Schwartz, among others.

Sundance Institute will curate dozens of offscreen events, including behind-the-scenes panels on the art of filmmaking, musical performances and a?" around the theme of Imagined Futures a?" a public Bonfire and several extended post-screening conversations (known as IF Screenings), at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival taking place in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance, Utah, January 23 through February 2, 2020.

London-based duo Charlotte Spiral today reveal 'Only Place I Know', the second track to be taken from their debut EP Ideal Life. The EP is due for release 7 February 2020 via Chapped Lips.

MusicWorks today announced it will be presenting two performance events in The Eissey Theatre, located on the campus of Palm Beach State College, 11051 Campus Drive, in Palm Beach Gardens (33410).

San Diego Opera's 2019-2020 mainstage season continues with Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, which opens on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at the San Diego Civic Theatre for four performances.

The Art of Elysium held their 13th Annual celebration, HEAVEN, on Saturday, January 4, 2020. WE ARE HEAR, the artist empowerment label/publishing/management/production entity founded by multiplatinum producers Linda Perry and Kerry Brown, worked with artist Kii Arens to create their vision of 'HEAVEN.'

Union Hall has announced its upcoming schedule of events!

Audible Inc., the world's largest producer and seller of spoken-word entertainment and audiobooks, today announced that Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winning artist, actor, activist and two-time New York Times best-selling author Common, and Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright will create deeply personal musical narratives to be released as Audible Original productions in 2020 for millions of listeners. The two audio-only musical narratives will be created and produced in distinct ways – Common's Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics & Life is set to record over the course of three nights of live performances at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre in New York, and Wainwright's Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York will blend field recordings from the road that reflect on his relationship with his family with musical performance from intimate shows at the legendary McCabe's Guitar Store in Los Angeles. These projects follow critically acclaimed musical storytelling original productions from Patti Smith and Tom Morello. 

The Wallis and Mark Cortale present AN EVENING WITH CHRISTINE EBERSOLE on Friday, February 28, 2020, 7:30 pm, in the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts' Bram Goldsmith Theater. The two-time Tony Award-winning star of 42nd Street and Grey Gardens returns to The Wallis to perform music from the American Songbook, Broadway and more. With music direction by Larry Yurman and special guest Scott Frankel, both of whom worked with Ebersole on Broadway's War Paint and Grey Gardens, the evening is directed by Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Patti LuPone on Broadway, Nathan Lane, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rufus Wainwright).

This January, Lincoln Center presents a plethora of music and dance events across the campus. David Rubenstein Atrium continues its 10th anniversary year with free, eclectic live performances every Thursday. The 2019-20 season of LC Kids (October 5a?"June 7, 2020) is in full swingwith free and ticketed events developed for toddlers, children, and teenagers stepping into young adulthood; and American Songbook begins its latest season with artists performing Broadway, folk, classical, and more. 

Take a look at this Musicology Video about Irving Berlin's song a?oeWhite Christmas.a?? The video takes a look at what makes a?oeWhite Christmasa?? so special, besides of course, the fact that the original Bing Crosby recording is the Best Selling Single Record of All Time according to the Guinness World Records.

Broadway's master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: DIARIES, to Detroit's Fisher Theatre for one performance only on Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 8:00 p.m.

Eisemann Center Presents Broadway's master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: DIARIES, to the Eisemann Center 2351 Performance Drive in Richardson, Texas for one performance only on Friday, January 17, 2020 at 7:30 pm in the Hill Performance Hall.

San Diego Opera's 2019-2020 mainstage season continues with Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, which opens on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at the San Diego Civic Theatre for four performances.

Rufus Wainwright is set to release an A/B side 7' EP, Come A Little Bit Closer, on November 29, Record Store Day Black Friday. The limited edition EP arrives ahead of Wainwright's forthcoming 2020 album via BMG, and consists of two live performances of Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon' and Arcade Fire's 'Crown of Love.' Come A Little Bit Closer will be available exclusively at participating RSD Black Friday record stores, found here.

In January of 2020, as Americans get set to vote in the presidential primaries, Petaluma Records will release Stop, Hey What's That Sound: Classic Protest Songs Reimagined with liner notes from famed music critic Rob Tannenbaum.  Announced the compilation for a January 31, 2020 release with a premiere of a video for Renee Holiday & Nigel Harrison's (Blondie) cover of Patti Smith's 1988, “People Have The Power” via Audiofemme – share via YouTube.  Proceeds from the single, out tomorrow, will go to support Headcount.org.

High Water Festival is set to return for its fourth year to North Charleston, SC's Riverfront Park on April 18-19th. The two-day Celebration of Music, Food, and Libations – curated by the Holy City's own Shovels & Rope in partnership with AC Entertainment - has revealed its full lineup for 2020 today.