Sting News

Craig Morgan continues to put his fans first in sharing his excitement over the new single “Wake Up Lovin' You” by releasing the brand new music video directly to them via YouTube yesterday.

According to an Equity casting notice, Sting's new stage musical, THE LAST SHIP, which will soon have a benefit concert at the Public Theatre, will be heading to Broadway in 2014. Rehearsals are set to begin in May of 2014, with an out of town run beginning in June, and Broadway previews beginning in October/November.

The music, humor, warmth and life of Marvin Hamlisch will once again grace the Heinz Hall stage whenPlay It Again, Marvin! A Marvin Hamlisch Celebration makes its world premiere with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during the weekend of June 27, 2014.

A bomb goes off in New York City. The course of nine lives and a nation are irrevocably changed. Sifting through the pieces of the past and the future, Somewhere Safer's provocative story examines questions of polarization, citizenship and idealism in modern America. This fast paced and fiercely intelligent play was the inaugural recipient of Square One development with On the Square Productions and was twice featured as part of the company's Write Angle Reading Series. It was also a finalist for the 2012 Old Vic/New Voices Playwrights' Exchange, and featured in Flux Theatre Ensemble's 2013 Have Another series. Atmospheric and evocative, Somewhere digs into the serious and timely questions America faces today about what kind of nation we can and should be, and who will lead us there.

Renowned Grammy winning sax player Branford Marsalis and his innovative, hard-working jazz ensemble will perform at The Palladium for one special night on Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Elvis Costello embarks on SOLO East Coast U.S. Tour with Philadelphia Stop at Merriam Theater on Sunday, November 10 at 8 p.m. Costello's performance includes new work from Wise Up Ghost (to be released September 17, Blue Note Records), the collaborative album of Costello and The Roots, produced by longtime Roots associate Steven Mandel along with Costello and ?uestlove. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, August 9th at 10 a.m.

Deadline reports exclusively that 'Exorcist' franchise owner Morgan Creek is shopping the networks for interest in adapting William Peter Blatty's novel THE EXORCIST into a TV drama series.

PBS will close the 27th season of its critically-acclaimed American Masters series with a look at the life of one of stage and film's most prolific composers when Marvin Hamlisch: The Way He Was (working title) premieres on December 27, 2013. He was one of only two PEGOT winners ever, receiving a Pulitzer, four Emmys, four Grammys, three Oscars, and one Tony Award over the course of his distinguished musical career.

Promoting THE WAY HE WAS, Hamlisch's widow Balir Hamlisch revealed during the TCA press tour that her late husband 'had a very large music library... there's a lot, some unpublished,' said Blair Hamlisch. 'It's floor-to-ceiling, and I've been told it's one of the largest of a modern day composer.'

The Broadway at Birdland concert series welcomed Broadway's Clarke Thorell in Songs I Wish I'd Written for one night only, Monday, August 5 at 7pm. The concert featured songs by Harry Nilsson, Paul McCartney, Adam Guettel, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Elvis Costello, Chris Thile, and Sting. Joining Clarke were Musical Director/pianist Dan Lipton, along with singers Brian d'Arcy James, Cortes Alexander, Haven Burton and Jim Caruso. The band also included Simon Kafka on guitar & other strings, Mark Vanderpoel on bass and Shannon Ford on drums. Scroll down for photos!

Once again, 'La Musica No Se Toca' from Alejandro Sanz maintains its position as one of the 10 most sold pop albums in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, forty-four weeks after its release according to the Soundscan monitoring system published by Billboard magazine.

K.D. Jennings juggles law school, a job as a paralegal at Ingram and Associates, and falling in love with fellow student Trip Folsom. She lives in small-town Alabama with her clinically depressed mother and the memories of the father who abandoned them both. Anger and resentment from her childhood fuel the motivation to succeed at all costs as an adult. The case of a lifetime walks through the door of K.D.'s financially-strapped employer, Ezra Ingram. A poor, naïve, but endearing couple wants to sue the doctor who they allege killed their son, the local football star, treating him for a concussion rather than the heat stroke which took his life. The firm, well-versed on property-line disputes, dog bites, and Ingram's ongoing divorce with his wife, has never argued a wrongful death complaint. K.D. wades through discovery documents, unearthing secrets about the doctor and his relationship with an ER nurse and shoddy reports from the understaffed hospital. The hired medical expert will attest to a clear-cut case of malfeasance. The court winnings could provide K.D. a big enough bonus to finance law school, purchase the medication for her mother's depression, as well as stabilize the firm's finances. Yet K.D. discovers the doctor is her new love, Trip's, uncle. She must decide whether to proceed with the suit and risk losing true love or turn her back on her boss, the closest thing to a father she's ever known.

The Clotilde Rullaud Quartet will play in the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon on Friday, 6 September at 7.00pm. Celebrated French chanteuse Clotilde Rullaud comes from the new generation of French jazz musicians, she builds a world where Gainsbourg meets Bill Evans, where Sting adapts to jazz wonderfully, and where the landscapes of Africa and the scents of South America do not let go.

Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), the not-for-profit professional theatre company, which recently completed its inaugural season in Warwick, is pleased to present the Multi Award-winning cabaret performer and OSTC fan favorite, Lennie Watts, in his funny, yet poignant show, Bloody Bloody Lennie Watts for one performance only on Friday, August 16 at 7:30pm.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series is proud to present the club's debut of Clarke Thorell in Songs I Wish I'd Written for one night only, Monday, August 5 at 7pm. Broadway's Brian D'Arcy James will duet with Thorell.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced the line-up of unrivaled talent for today, August 5 - August 11, 2013.

Get ready to groove as Pacific Symphony and Music Director Carl St. Clair deliver music's greatest hits-from the last four centuries! Think 'American Bandstand' with a European twist: Great pop, rock and soul hits are mixed with favorite classical pieces for the Symphony's third concert of Summer Festival 2013, presented by Hoag. For this whirlwind 'best of' night, the Symphony shares the stage with the 40-piece dance band, J.T. and Friends, for a sonic 'Roll Over Beethoven-From Bach to Rock.'

The current popularity of English Renaissance choral music owes much to the groundbreaking work of the CARNEGIE TRUST, which celebrates its centenary in 2013. In 1922, the Trust inaugurated the Tudor Church Music edition - a landmark series of ten hugely influential volumes, unearthing a wealth of extraordinary music that had languished unperformed for centuries.

Ticket prices: Previews: $25 and $35. Regular Run: $38 and $58. Discounts are available for seniors, those under age 30, and groups. Tickets are on sale at the Park Square box office, 20 W. Seventh Place, or by phone: 651.291.7005, (12 noon-5 p.m. Monday through Friday), or online at www.parksquaretheatre.org.

Thorell recently chatted with BroadwayWorld about the upcoming concert and you can check out what he had to say below!