Tina Turner News

Atlanta Lyric Theatre, the metro area's only local professional musical theatre company, is pleased to announce its 2012-13 season! With five fantastic shows - Cole Porter's tap-dancing musical extravaganza Anything Goes; Irving Berlin's holiday classic White Christmas; the 1960's pop music revue Beehive; the powerful portrait of life in of turn-of-the-century America in the Tony Award winning Ragtime; and the delightfully eclectic score of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - we look forward to continuing to deliver unforgettable theatrical experiences to our patrons.

Five-time Grammy award winning legend and Blues Hall of Fame Inductee Robert Cray has announced that his brand new studio album Nothin But Love will be released in the UK by Provogue Records on Monday August 27th.

Following the season finale of 'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's,' OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will present a sneak peek of 'Iyanla, Fix My Life,' airing at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), tonight, June 2. See below for more details.

Bill Kenwright and John Miller will present a strictly limited West End season of SOUL SISTER, the new musical inspired by the music, life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, which caused a sensation during its inception at the Hackney Empire. Featuring Emi Wokoma as 'Tina Turner' - who's vocal and dance talents have attracted huge critical and public acclaim since the production's launch - SOUL SISTER will play at the Savoy Theatre from 20 August - 29 September 2012, with opening night on 23 August at 7pm.

Today, the spotlight falls upon Travis Kendrick, who continues his run as one of the go-to guys at Clarksville's Roxy Regional Theatre in The Wedding Singer, opening tonight. Coming up for Travis is the role of Chachi in Happy Days, which will close the company's 2011-2012 season. Not only an actor, Travis is also a certified yoga instructor, teaching classes around Clarksville and at the Roxy, and he's choreographer of note, having choreographed Just Another High School Musical at Clarksville's Northeast High School, Gallantry for Austin Peay State University Opera and he'll be doing a number for The Roxy's 101 Dalmatians the Musical later this year.

Following the season finale of 'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's,' OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will present a sneak peek of 'Iyanla, Fix My Life,' airing at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), Saturday, June 2. See below for more details.

Fifty years after its release, the MGM re-mastered film returns to the big screen in high definition with its original vocals and dialog intact. This classic romantic tragedy and the bitter battle between the Jets and the Sharks as Leonard Bernstein's seminal score, featuring the much loved 'America', 'Somewhere' and 'Tonight', is dramatically brought to life on stage by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Jayce Ogren at the Royal Albert Hall for four performances on the 22nd to the 24th of June, 2012.

TheatreWorks presents its 60th World Premiere, the GrooveLily musical WHEELHOUSE. The pop-rock trio GrooveLily, creators of the popular TheatreWorks/Off-Broadway hit Striking 12, stars in this irresistible autobiographical musical about traveling tunesmiths in desperate need of a tune-up as they rocket across the country in a worn-out Winnebago.

Just six contestants remain on American Idol this week, all vying for your votes. This, of course, begs the question: who of the six will rise to the occasion for the legendary songs of Queen?

Gary Naylor sees a West End show in the East End.

Das gefeierte Ensemble der Rockoper 'Tommy' kommt frisch importiert aus London, dem Geburtsort der britischen Kultband 'The Who'.

Rhythm and blues musician Robert Cray, along with his band, will perform at The Orleans Showroom April 14 and 15.

The New York Post reports that Bobbi Kristina, daughter of the late Whitney Houston, told friends that she would like to portray her mother in the upcoming film biopic.

Today we are talking to the composing half of one of the most talented and consistently exciting songwriting teams in musical theatre, Dempsey/Rowe - the force behind ZOMBIE PROM, THE FIX, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, and, now, the brand new rock musical at Washington, D.C.'s lauded and progressive Signature Theatre, BROTHER RUSSIA - Dana Rowe. Discussing the finer details of his previous collaborations with John Dempsey on the West End iterations of THE FIX and THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, as well as their subsequent American premieres at the Signature, Rowe and I dissect his career thus far, with a particular focus on his edgy new hard rock theatre piece, BROTHER RUSSIA, directed by frequent Dempsey/Rowe director, previous InDepth InterView participant Eric Schaeffer. In addition to all about the boundary-breaking and genre-spanning BROTHER RUSSIA and his other notable musicals, Rowe and I also outline his influences and his own personal favorite scores, as well as shine a light on his enthusiasm for the musical genre at large and what makes his exceedingly complimentary partnership with Dempsey so elemental to the success of their risky and rewarding shows, ZOMBIE PROM until now. All of that and much, much more!

The family docu-series 'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's' and new original series 'Beverly's Full House,' following two strong modern matriarchs and their families, will premiere back-to-back on Saturday, March 31 on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. 'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's' airs from 9-10 p.m. ET/PT, followed by 'Beverly's Full House' from 10-11 p.m. ET/PT.

VH1 Classic's THAT METAL SHOW is back for a 10th season that is jam-packed with a star-studded lineup of the 'who's who' in heavy metal.

VH1 Classic's THAT METAL SHOW is back for a 10th season that is jam-packed with a star-studded lineup of the 'who's who' in heavy metal.

Andrew Stone has cemented his celebrity with his prominent, albeit controversial, television series. Stone first shot to television stardom with the overwhelmingly popular and award winning Pineapple Dance Studios, and later with his appearances on Celebrity Big Brother.

The 14th season of DANCING WITH THE STARS, hailed as the "most competitive season ever" judge Len Goodman, continues this week with all twelve original competitors. The amateur dancers and their professional counterparts were given the choice between a quickstep or a jive, in hopes to survive tomorrow's elimination episode, set to air at 9 pm EST. Contestants' scores from this week will be added to last week's, creating cumulative scores that will be considered in the elimination process.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts today announced the recipients of the 2011 Sally Ordway Irvine Awards. Now in its 20th year, the Sally Awards honor extraordinary achievement in the visual, performing and literary arts.