Sting News

In anticipation of this weekend's North American tour launch Saturday, February 10near Washington, D.C., CELEBRATING DAVID BOWIE is excited to reveal the initial list of special guest stars that will be joining the lineup throughout the tour's 27-date run, including Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Sumner, Mr Hudson, Corey Glover and more. See below for full list of guests and which cities to catch them in.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has promoted Lettice Summerscale to VP, Marketing, Digital and Catalogue Promotion, UK, based in the company's London office.

Filmed in Kingston, Jamaica, the new video was directed by Gil Green (Nicki Minaj, Drake, John Legend) and celebrates the duo's mutual love of Jamaica - its music, the spirit of its people and the vibrancy of its culture. Following their broadcast debut performance of “Don't Make Me Wait” on the Grammys live from New York City's Madison Square Garden, Sting & Shaggy also performed their new single at the NFL's Superbowl Tailgate event that aired on NBC this past Sunday. “Don't Make Me Wait” – the new, Caribbean-flavored song from Sting and Shaggy – was released on January 25th and will be followed by a collaborative, island-influenced album, entitled 44/876, on April 20th.

While MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG is quite a dark show, it's undeniably one of my favorite Sondheim musicals-and Porchlight's production does well to demonstrate why this is the case.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of i by Jeff Talbott. The new play was featured in our 2016-2017 Play-by-Play new play reading season and will take the main stage Friday, Feb. 16 through Saturday, March 3, 2018.

The Coral Springs Center for the Arts embraces Spring with four audience-wowing performances in March.

Not only does Comedy Central comedian Bill Santiago take on his two favorite frenemies, Religion and Science , in his new show, "The Immaculate Big Bang," but he launches into the audacious material from a poignant narrative framed by the death of his father and subsequent birth of his daughter . Yeah, it's ambitious. And, wait for it... hilarious.

Rock 'n' Roll legend EDDIE BRIGATI will begin a monthly residency with EDDIE BRIGATI: AFTER THE RASCALS at the Cutting Room, 44 East 32 Street, New York City. Created and directed by the legendary STEVEN VAN ZANDT, Brigati's shows are 7:30 PM Thursday, March 1; Thursday, April 5 and Wednesday, May 2. Tickets are on sale now https://tickets.thecuttingroomnyc.com/event/1641646 This is a return engagement to the Cutting Room where the show debuted last Spring to SRO crowds. Additional shows will be announced soon.

Ahead of the opening of their new venue - NST city, Nuffield Southampton Theatres today announces that Harriet Walter and Craig David will join the theatre as patrons, working alongside Samantha Bond, Laura Carmichael, Tom Hiddleston and Celia Imrie. They also join the recently announced new associates, Inua Ellams and Drew McOnie adding to the breadth of ambassadors for the theatre.

The world's biggest selling jazz instrumentalist, CHRIS BOTTI, returns to Australia in early 2018, playing at the nation's leading concert venues.

NBC Sports Presents Six Hours Of Super Bowl LII Pre-Game Coverage This Sunday

In 2015, African-American schoolteacher Breaion King was stopped for a minor traffic violation in Austin, Texas - and what should have been a routine encounter quickly escalated into a harrowing arrest that was captured in detail by police dash cams.

Pioneer Theatre Company continues its 2017-2018 Play-by-Play new play reading series with Alex Lewin's The Envelope. The staged readings will take place at the Dumke Auditorium of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) on Friday, Feb. 2 and Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. 

It was announced today that the hilarious new Broadway musical comedy THE PROM will star Tony Award Nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Something Rotten!), Tony Award Winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone), two-time Tony Award Nominee Christopher Sieber (Shrek the Musical), Caitlin Kinnunen (Bridges of Madison County), Isabelle McCalla (Aladdin), Michael Potts (Jitney), Angie Schworer (The Producers), Courtenay Collins (Broadway Debut) and Josh Lamon (Groundhog Day) and will officially open on Broadway on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at a Shubert theater to be announced.

HELLO, DOLLY! at the Shubert Theatre displayed a warm welcome for the 90th Annual Grammy Awards' return to New York City in anticipation of the upcoming broadcast this Sunday, January 28th. The hit revival is a 2018 Grammy Award® nominee for Best Musical Theater Album and winner of the 1965 Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

The New York Philharmonic announces program updates for its Lunar New Year Concert and Gala, led by Long Yu, on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. The program will feature Andy Akiho's Ricochet, Concerto for Ping Pong, Violin, Percussion, and Orchestra, featuring Philharmonic violinist Elizabeth Zeltser (in her Philharmonic solo debut), ping pong players Ariel Hsing and Michael Landers (Philharmonic debuts), and percussionist David Cossin (Philharmonic debut). As previously announced, the program will also include Li Huanzhi's Spring Festival Overture and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, with pianist Serena Wang, the Farmers' Chorus of the Yunnan Province, soprano Vanessa Vasquez, tenors Chad Johnson and Issachah Savage, and bass Alex Rosen, all in their Philharmonic debuts (the additional soprano and mezzo-soprano will be announced at a later date).

Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) 2018-2019 Subscription Series presented by Carnegie Hall, will open on October 25, 2018, with Bernard Labadie on the podium for his official debut as Principal Conductor of the Orchestra. Works of Haydn are the thematic thread to this 32nd Carnegie Hall subscription season and the three programs will also feature works by younger contemporaries and 20th-century composers he influenced. The program, for the first of three concerts, pairs two great masterworks of the choral repertoire, Haydn's Mass in D Minor, Hob. XXII: 11, 'Nelson Mass,' and Mozart's Requiem, K. 626.La Chapelle de Quebec, the choir founded and directed by Maestro Labadie, makes its first appearance with OSL, joined by guest soloists German tenor Lothar Odinius, French-Canadian bass-baritone Philippe Sly, and acclaimed American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.  

This year's Pre-Grammys gala, hosted by Clive Davis and the Recording Academy, will get a taste of Broadway. According to Variety, Davis revealed that the event will include a segment to honor Broadway, with performances from Tony winners Leslie Odom Jr and Ben Platt.

The Recordings and Musical Editions Company (known by its Spanish acronym EGREM) and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have signed a global licensing agreement, the largest-scale international agreement with a Cuban music publisher in history.