GRAMMY® winners Norah Jones, P!nk, Mark Ronson, and Chris Stapleton; GRAMMY nominees Leon Bridges and Lauren Daigle; and singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes will perform at the 2019 MusiCares® Person of the Year tribute concert honoring Dolly Parton on Feb. 8. GRAMMY winner Parton will close the evening's performances. GRAMMY-nominated musician Greg Phillinganes will be the evening's musical director. More guest performers will be announced shortly.
Renowned director Radu Jude's ('Aferim!') haunting adaptation of M. Blecher's celebrated semi-autobiographical novel will have its DVD debut on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, from Big World Pictures. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, and Best Director at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, Scarred Hearts stars Lucian Teodor Rus in an extraordinary film debut, and co-stars Ivana Mladenovi? ('Soldiers') Serban Pavlu ('Aferim!') and Gabriel Spahiu ('I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians') in a mesmerizing and darkly comic adaptation of Blecher's novel.
Rockwell Table & Stage presents the brand-new 'Unauthorized Musical Parody of Stranger Things' running Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at Rockwell October 26th thru November 17th.
But in the rarefied world of make-believe and magic aka musical theater, in which comedy and tragedy are equally celebrated and where a memorable song can lift one's spirits soaring toward the heavens, a princess means so much more: The princess of musical theater legend and lore is able to transform from a poor orphan who has found herself tempest tossed throughout her difficult life into a woman of great stature and regal deportment, she can express herself with such artistry and majesty that all those around her may feel the impact of her actions, their dreary lives brightened by her very existence.
ETHEL is comprised of Ralph Farris (viola), Kip Jones (violin), Dorothy Lawson (cello) and Corin Lee (violin) but when they come together their strings of a feather breathe as one. Perhaps two decades together has birthed such camaraderie, consistency and maturity with a good dash of daring and rebellious nature present in any typical twenty year old. Their sense of playfulness (with each other and the audience) is alive and well, but only becomes profound when teamed with their remarkable discipline and skill. Much like the circus artists -- they merely make it look easy when it is anything but.
The Holiday Hootenanny Radio Hour is pleased to announce Nick Thornton's heart warming new radio play CRICKET ON THE MANTLE, with music directed and arranged by Mike Mazzocca, as its inaugural presentation. All proceeds from this pay what you will production will go to benefit the Chicago chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER).
Amassing over 12 million Spotify streams since release, the original of Black Coffee & David Guetta's 'Drive' has received a full rework treatment, with a flurry of artists contributing a range of diverse remixes for the popular hit.
Today, to mark the forthcoming reissues of Paul McCartney's 11th and 12th classic works from his revered catalogue, 'Dear Friend', the John Lennon-inspired closing track to Paul McCartney And Wings' debut album 'Wild Life', has been made available to hear as two special instant grats. The first a remastered version, and the second a beautifully intimate unreleased home recording. The re-releases come fully remastered and expanded across multi format installments of his GRAMMY-winning Archive Collection, to be released December 7, 2018 via MPL/Capitol/UMe.
“Grown-ish” star Francia Raisa and “13 Reasons Why” executive producer Mandy Teefeyare will join forces on a feature surrounding the 1946 Mendez vs. Westminster school desegregation case, Variety reports.
London Musical Theatre Orchestra are proud to announce the full cast of the 2018 production of their spectacular concert version of A Christmas Carol adapted by Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent from the original story by Charles Dickens.
Center Theatre Group will offer Spanish-language translations of the 8 p.m. performance of Luis Valdez's "Valley of the Heart" on Friday, December 7 at the Mark Taper Forum. Each show will be performed in English with Spanish translations running simultaneously on open caption screens. Audience members wishing to view the open captions should request to be seated in the captioning area when purchasing tickets.
After wrapping up this fall's ALT Nation Tourwith Big Data earlier this week, Sydney, Australia's rising alternative band Castlecomerhas announced that they are hitting the road early in 2019, this time with Magic Giant. The tour kicks off on January 23rd in Phoenix, AZ and winds its way through the South and Midwest before heading down the West Coast, wrapping up in San Francisco, CA on March 1st. Tickets are on sale now! Castlecomer, who made a huge impression at SXSW in 2017, will be returning to the Austin, TX festival in March 2019.
Yesterday, one of the world's biggest bands, Coldplay were given the big screen treatment with A Head Full of Dreams from director, Mat Whitecross (Supersonic). Trafalgar Releasing distributed the film in over 70 countries worldwide and across 2,650 movie theaters on November 14. The one night only engagement attracted more than 300,000 attendees with a global box office of over $3.5million.
Appearing in a gender swapping Measure for Measure, Lowden returns to the London stage at the Donmar Warehouse. Tackling the subjects of gender and sexual misconduct, Lowden shares just how much the play resonates today, how audiences are reacting, and the joys of doubling characters alongside Hayley Atwell.
On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland, a politically engaged and vibrant 28-year-old African American from Chicago, was arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town. After three days in custody, she was found hanging from a noose in her jail cell. Bland's death was quickly ruled a suicide, sparking allegations of a racially motivated police murder and cover-up, and turning her case and name into a rallying cry nationwide.
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