Country music royalty and a fifty-one year member of the Grand Ole Opry, Jeannie Seely, took the stage on Friday, December 14 at Lipscomb University's Allen Arena for the Fifth Annual Nashville Senior Christmas ShinnDig for a very special performance of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Seely also joined Tim Atwood on his performance of "Something About that Name". Performers in addition to Seely and Atwood included Kathie Lee Gifford, Charlie McCoy, Julie Roberts, Matt Bagher, Paul Allen Coon and Sarah Martin.
GRAMMY® winners Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood; and past GRAMMY nominees Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry will join the performance lineup at the 2019 MusiCares® Person of the Year tribute concert honoring Dolly Parton on Feb. 8. Previously announced performers include Leon Bridges, Lauren Daigle, Vince Gill, Don Henley, Norah Jones, Shawn Mendes, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, Linda Perry, P!nk, Mark Ronson, Mavis Staples, and Chris Stapleton. GRAMMY winner Dolly Parton will close the evening's performances. Greg Phillinganes will be the musical director. More guest performers will be announced shortly.
To the beautifully appointed Laban Theatre on the banks of Deptford Creek (now a much sought after locale doncha know) for Trinity Laban's Christmas show, Thea Musgrave's A Christmas Carol.
The Downtown Cabaret Theatre, in Bridgeport, CT has assembled a first-rate cast for ANNIE, their finest production of 2018! I highly recommend this show to all audiences. The singing, dancing, choreography, and acting are all amazing and reflect incredible effort and hard work from an enthusiastic and highly talented cast.
Chart-topping singer Michael Bublé's son's battle with liver cancer was especially hard on his wife, he says in an interview with Tracy Smith for CBS SUNDAY MORNING to be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 16 (9:00 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
On Thursday evening, December 13, The Madison Square Garden Company (NYSE: MSG) and AMC Networks (NASDAQ: AMCX) hosted the 18th Annual Holiday Rock & Roll Bash to benefit the Lustgarten Foundation, the nation's largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research. The Bash is the Foundation's premier fundraising event, and this year, raised more than $1 million. Thanks to separate funding to support administrative expenses, 100 percent of every dollar raised goes directly to pancreatic cancer research.
BroadwayWorld has a first look at A Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring the songs of Petula Clark and multiple hit-makers of the 1960s, at the Delaware Theater Company's 40th Anniversary Season now through December 23.
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler announced the cast of the second production of its 2018-19 Season: Birdy, adapted by Naomi Wallace from the novel by William Wharton, and directed by Steven Maler. The production runs February 27 through March 10 at the Carling-Sorenson Theater at Babson College in Wellesley.
Where were you in 1987? PERFECT CRIME, the Off-Broadway 'whodunit' was just opening and so will celebrate 31 years and 13,000 performances tonight - continuing on as the longest running play on or Off-Broadway in the city's history. The smart, funny and fast-paced thriller at the Anne L. Bernstein Theater in The Theater Center in Times Square (1627 Broadway) first opened in 1987 - and its leading lady Catherine Russell has performed in all 13,000 performances - earning her a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records!
Epix has renewed Get Shorty for a a seven-episode third season, according to Deadline. The dark comedy is one of Epix's three original three scripted series, along with Berlin Station and Graves, and comes from the now-sole owner MGM.
Camerata Pacifica kicks off the new year with a continuation of its ambitious "Why Beethoven?" project with a performance of the composer's Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, Mozart's Quintet for Piano & Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452, and Poulenc's Sextet.
After last year's successful Christmas Concert with Katerina Mina and Jazz Trio, the outstanding artists return at the Rialto Theater in a new Chrismas Jazz Show.
Lisa Kron's IN THE WAKE draws parallels between the personal and the political to suggest that even the most unimaginable outcomes aren't really that out there -- it's just that we're really bad at seeing past the end of our own nose.
The Danish String Quartet, lauded by critics, presenters, and audiences internationally for their unparalleled musical mastery and allure, has today received their first Grammy Award nomination, for their latest recording, PRISM I. This is the first in a series of five albums in which the DSQ present one of Beethoven's late string quartets in the context of a related fugue by J.S. Bach as well as a linked masterwork from the modern quartet literature. Prism I comprises the first of Beethoven's late quartets, his grandly life-affirming Op. 127 in E-flat Major, alongside Bach's luminous fugue in the same key (arranged by Mozart) and Dmitri Shostakovich's final string quartet, No. 15 in E-flat minor, a haunted and haunting sequence of six adagios.
New Philharmonic's immensely popular New Year's Eve program returns to ring in 2019 with three concerts at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at 2, 5:30 and 9 p.m.
There have been many announcements in the last few weeks about upcoming stage to screen adaptations. WEST SIDE STORY announced a casting call for Maria, the first official teaser for THE LION KING was released, and RENT LIVE released the first cast photoshoot.
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