Tim Russell News

The 2025 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series has added John Mulaney, further expanding the season’s lineup. See who else is performing and learn how to purchase tickets.

Four iconic artists join the 2025 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series, which each year brings a star-studded lineup of musicians and performers to Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed. See the lineup and learn more!

The Tanglewood Popular Artist Series, which each year brings a star-studded lineup of musicians and performers to Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed, adds two exciting new concert dates to the 2025 season.

The Tanglewood Popular Artist Series, which each year brings a star-studded lineup of musicians and performers to Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed, added two exciting new concert dates to the 2025 season. Learn more!

Tanglewood has revealed details of its 2025 season, opening in late June. The 2025 Tanglewood season features more than 100 performances. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The lobby of the HERE Theatre in SoHo was buzzing after Saturday’s performance of the new opera EAT THE DOCUMENT—not just for the performance we’d just watched but for the memories of the age that the piece evoked for many in the audience. Based on the novel of the same name by Dana Spiotta, DOCUMENT is a story of the ‘70s underground, with its activism, and a tale of sacrifice and living a secret.

New York’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival—produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, which has been showcasing visionary, nontraditional opera-theatre and music-theatre pieces since 2013—kicked off its 2025 edition on January 9 followed by BLACK LODGE/BARDO, IN A GROVE, POSITIVE VIBRATION NATION, AROOJ AFTAB: NIGHT REIGN, ART BATH, through January 19.

Even if Garrison Keillor fans can't attend the December 15th Prairie Home performance at St. Louis's Fabulous Fox, they can take a break from the holiday whirlwind and tune in to the livestream at 7:00 p.m. CT (8:00 p.m. ET).

While the Maltz Jupiter Theatre technically opened its doors for two weeks in April 2022 after a two-year renovation, the largest LORT B+ regional theatre in the southeastern United States is thrilled to produce a full season starting this October.

Take a break from the whirlwind of holiday shopping and cooking and decorating and planning, and schedule some plain old fun. We've got just the thing for you — and your visiting relatives too: On Thursday, December 15, Garrison Keillor takes his Prairie Home Companion Christmas Show to St. Louis's Fabulous Fox Theatre.

Garrison Keillor and Company will bring their signature humor, music, no end of fun, and, of course, all the latest News from Lake Wobegon when Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion American Revival heads to The Anthem in Washington DC and New York City's iconic The Town Hall.

La MaMa has announced the lineup for the 17th edition of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the three-week festival will feature new works by nine dance artists/companies with bold and diverse approaches to performance.

The American Opera Project has released the first issue of a self-published “‘Zine” providing a unique trip into the revolutionary world of Eat The Document, a new opera written by composer John Glover and librettist Kelley Rourke, directed by Kristin Marting, and now in development at AOP.

On Thursday, April 14th at 7pm ET, The American Opera Project will push play on The AOP Mixtape #1: No More!, the first concert in its new annual series The AOP Mixtape – a live, handwritten love letter of music featuring world premiere songs from contemporary operas and music theater.

New funk/rock outfit The Ninth recently shared their album Olympic Dream/Nightmare. A musical explosion combines rock & roll, funk and soul as it scoops listeners up for a unique dive into the story of one of the world's biggest sports scandals: the 1994 skating controversy between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. It was a dramatic, immersive case that mesmerized the world at the time, and The Ninth bring it all back to life - 25 years later - in their theatrical inspired release.

On Monday, July 29th, stars from Broadway and Off-Broadway will come together in support of The Fund for College Auditions (TFCA) in 'Broadway for a Day: A Benefit for TFCA' at Peter Norton Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. TFCA is thrilled to also feature students from Musical Theatre College Auditions' Class of 2019.

Honeck-Moss Productions is proud to present "In The Works."  Now in it's 3rd Hit Season, this exciting series was conceived as an opportunity for composers to try out new work in front of an audience and see how it plays in a supportive environment.  It is also an opportunity to create community among the composers and their performers.

Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap for your entertainment pleasure, thanks to the efforts of theater companies all over Middle Tennessee. Here's our calendar for November 5, 2018, to help you plot your course through the end of the year...

Hillsboro High School's Tim Russell is deep into tech week with his castmates for their upcoming production of Bertolt Brecht's The Causasian Chalk Circle, which opens Thursday night, November 1, and is presented by The Hillsboro Players under the direction of Will Butler and Kristin Moon.

Some well-known names–new to public radio–will join Chris Thile on stage for the upcoming season of Live from Here. Over the past two years, Thile has brought his eclectic mix of music and guests to the show, appealing to curious music fans. As the creative force, Thile continues to retool and shape the weekly live public radio performance. This year, he's added new talent to the mix with a focus on providing an even better experience for live and radio listeners to Live from Here, which has increased its listenership among young listeners, ages 18-44, including a 22 percent gain for those ages 25-34.