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Hotsy Totsy Burlesque presents A Tribute to Game Of Thrones
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 24, 2017


Once again Cherry Pitz has been binge watching Game Of Thrones to the point where it again has caused a psychotic break, this year she is convinced that she is Lady Olenna Queen of Thorns. The gals at the home for wayward girls are happy to play along as long as she doesn't poison any body.

Steve Martin, John Mulaney, Martin Short & More Will Honor David Letterman with Mark Twain Prize
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 20, 2017


A lineup of leading performers, including Jimmy Kimmel, Steve Martin, John Mulaney, Bill Murray, Paul Shaffer, Martin Short, Sarah Silverman, Eddie Vedder, and others will salute David Letterman at the 20th annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 8 p.m. The 20th Anniversary program will pay tribute to the humor and accomplishments of Letterman, and will be taped by WETA Washington, D.C. The program will air on PBS stations as David Letterman: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize nationwide on Monday, November 20 at 9 p.m. (check local listings). Artists are subject to change.

54 SINGS 1776, Kyle Dean Massey, Samantha Barks and More Coming Up at Feinstein's/54 Below This July
by BWW News Desk - Jun 30, 2017


This July, Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Joseph Lorenzo Wise Releases Spanish Language Single 'Eres Tu'
by Caryn Robbins - May 30, 2017


Joseph Lorenzo Wise is channeling his Latin roots. On June 1, 2017 Joseph Lorenzo releases his new single, the Spanish Ballad Romantica “ERES TU”. The song made famous by Mocedades is a power ballad and anthem fantastica.

BWW Review: Boston Pops Open With John Williams Celebration and Special Guest, Queen Latifah
by Nancy Grossman - May 11, 2017


The 2017 Boston Pops Spring season is a tribute to Boston Pops Conductor Laureate John Williams who celebrates his 85th birthday this year. Opening night featured film and recording star Queen Latifah in her Pops debut and they'll do it all over again tonight.

Famed Techno-Pop Band Hikashu Breaths Fresh Fire into 'Godzilla'
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 7, 2017


For the first time in the U.S., legendary Japanese composer Akira Ifukube's massively influential monster music comes to life in the chamber pop/rock aural extravaganza, Godzilla Legend-Music of Akira Ifukube. Presented by Japan's popular techno-pop bandHikashu, this 90-minute tour de force performance features favorite themes and sensational musical set pieces from some of the most reveredGodzilla movies of all time. Devised and arranged by Hikashu founding member INOUE Makoto under Ifukube's endorsement, the performance features narration by Inoue, who also plays synthesizers, and appearances by 'extreme vocalist' and multi-instrumentalist MAKIGAMI Koichi, current Hikashu front man, and rising star art-pop duo Charan-Po-Rantan. The one-night-only concert takes place Friday, April 28, 7:30 pm, at Japan Society.

Ravina Announces 2017 Summer Season
by Kevin Pollack - Mar 15, 2017


James Levine, Christoph Eschenbach, Gustavo Dudamel, Susanna Malkki, Kent Nagano, a "virtual" Esa-Pekka Salonen, and three conductors making Chicago Symphony Orchestra debuts take the podium. 

Celebrate The Music Of The Legendary Cilla Black At St Helens Theatre Royal
by BWW News Desk - Mar 9, 2017


???????Cilla And The Shades Of The 60s, the ultimate tribute to the legendary Liverpool redhead and a perfect musical stage show for families and pop music fans of all ages, comes to St Helen's Theatre Royal on Saturday, March 18th. 

Catherine Zuber and Tony Straiges Among 2017 Theatre Development Fund/Irene Sharaff Awardees
by BWW News Desk - Feb 22, 2017


Six-time Tony Award-winning costume designer CATHERINE ZUBER and legendary scenic designer TONY STRAIGES are among the 2017 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients which were just announced by Theatre Development Fund (TDF), a not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts.

Alan Gilbert Leads NY Philharmonic In ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, With YoYo Ma As Soloist, 3/15-18
by Molly Tracy - Feb 2, 2017


Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in the New York Premiere of The Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence Esa-Pekka Salonen's Cello Concerto - a New York Philharmonic co-commission with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Barbican Centre, and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg - with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist.

The Jewish Museum And FLSC Announce New York Jewish Film Festival Events, 1/11-24
by BWW News Desk - Jan 24, 2017


The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announce the special events lineup for the 26th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), January 11-24, 2017.

The Jewish Museum And FLSC Announce New York Jewish Film Festival Events, 1/11-24
by BWW News Desk - Jan 11, 2017


The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announce the special events lineup for the 26th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), January 11-24, 2017.

The Jewish Museum And FLSC Announce New York Jewish Film Festival Events, 1/11-24
by Molly Tracy - Dec 16, 2016


The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announce the special events lineup for the 26th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), January 11-24, 2017.

The Jewish Museum and FSLC Announce NYJFF Special Events
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 14, 2016


The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announce the special events lineup for the 26th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), January 11-24, 2017. Among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide, unique in New York City, and one of the longest running partnerships of two major New York cultural institutions, the NYJFF each year presents the finest narrative and documentary films from around the world that explore the diverse Jewish experience.

The Kennedy Center and CBS Announce New Broadcast Agreement
by Ashlee Latimer - Dec 4, 2016


CBS and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced today a new agreement that will keep the annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast on CBS through 2025. The new deal further extends one of the longest broadcast partnerships in television history.The special has been broadcast on CBS each year since its debut in 1978.

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' Returns to The Harlem Repertory Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Nov 19, 2016


The Harlem Repertory Theatre is reviving the 1978 TONY award winning musical 'Ain't Misbehavin', for a very limited engagement from October 8th to March 25th at the Tato Laviera Theatre at Harlem Prep Elementary School, 240 East 123rd Street (at 3rd Ave.), Manhattan. A swinging, rip-roaring musical tribute to the black musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, 'Ain't Misbehavin' opened on Broadway in 1978 as a musical revue of Jazz Legend Fats Waller's popular songbook, and it ended up winning a number of awards including the TONY for Best Musical. The Harlem Repertory Theatre's production of 'Ain't Misbehavin', which sold out it's 2008 run and won the AUDELCO 2008 Musical Production of the Year Award, is now returning to the Harlem Rep's stage for its' 2016-17 season in a new intimate cabaret style that will bring the audience closer to the performers. This brilliant showcase of Fats Waller's magnificent songbook will have audiences dancing in the aisles as the HRT's finest company members sing the toe-tapping, hand-clapping songs: T'Ain't Nobody's Business, This Joint is Jumpin', Honeysuckle Rose, the title song, Ain't Misbehavin', and many more! The Harlem Repertory Theatre is proud to be bringing this production back to Harlem; to the neighborhoods Fats Waller knew growing up that inspired him!

Joe the Shark and Cherry Pitz Present: HOTSY TOTSY BURLESQUE'S TRIBUTE TO THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 17, 2016


It is the holiday season and time once again at The Home For Wayward Girls and Fallen Women for the annual viewing of Cherry's favorite TV show: The Star Wars Holiday Special! Join us for a night of Star Wars themed burlesque acts and clips from the actual 1978 fiasco. George Lucas has reportedly said: 'If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.' We are so proud to own a copy!

Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo to Bring Acoustic Evening to Boulder Theater in March
by BWW News Desk - Nov 15, 2016


Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo will bring A VERY INTIMATE ACOUSTIC EVENING to BOULDER THEATER on March 21, 2017.

Muhammad Ali Art Book THE FINAL VICTORY by Paul Leo Faso is Announced
by Christina Mancuso - Nov 10, 2016


THE FINAL VICTORY - A Tribute to Muhammad Ali's Third Heavyweight Championship Belt, is now available at Amazon Books. This book has over 170 photo/art/graphics of the last and most important victory of Muhammad Ali, clinching him as 'The Greatest of All Time', at The Superdome on September 15, 1978. This artistic photographic archive is being published as a Coffee Table Book for the first time. After 38 years, the Kodak film has been restored, digitized, computer enhanced and artistically re-rendered.

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' Returns to The Harlem Repertory Theatre Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Oct 22, 2016


The Harlem Repertory Theatre is reviving the 1978 TONY award winning musical 'Ain't Misbehavin', for a very limited engagement now through March 25th at the Tato Laviera Theatre at Harlem Prep Elementary School, 240 East 123rd Street (at 3rd Ave.), Manhattan.

FEARnyc, NY's Biggest Horror Film Festival, Begins Today
by Caryn Robbins - Oct 21, 2016


FEARnyc, New York City's biggest horror film festival, will be presented this Halloween season at Cinema Village.

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' Returns to The Harlem Repertory Theatre
by Ashlee Latimer - Oct 16, 2016


The Harlem Repertory Theatre is reviving the 1978 TONY award winning musical 'Ain't Misbehavin', for a very limited engagement from October 8th to March 25th at the Tato Laviera Theatre at Harlem Prep Elementary School, 240 East 123rd Street (at 3rd Ave.), Manhattan. A swinging, rip-roaring musical tribute to the black musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, 'Ain't Misbehavin' opened on Broadway in 1978 as a musical revue of Jazz Legend Fats Waller's popular songbook, and it ended up winning a number of awards including the TONY for Best Musical. The Harlem Repertory Theatre's production of 'Ain't Misbehavin', which sold out it's 2008 run and won the AUDELCO 2008 Musical Production of the Year Award, is now returning to the Harlem Rep's stage for its' 2016-17 season in a new intimate cabaret style that will bring the audience closer to the performers. This brilliant showcase of Fats Waller's magnificent songbook will have audiences dancing in the aisles as the HRT's finest company members sing the toe-tapping, hand-clapping songs: T'Ain't Nobody's Business, This Joint is Jumpin', Honeysuckle Rose, the title song, Ain't Misbehavin', and many more! The Harlem Repertory Theatre is proud to be bringing this production back to Harlem; to the neighborhoods Fats Waller knew growing up that inspired him!

Prince's Protege Liv Warfield to Return to The Iridium; 2016 Shows Announced!
by BWW News Desk - Oct 15, 2016


Just announced at The Iridium: Prince's protege LIV WARFIELD on October 15 & 16!

Legacy Recordings to Release LOU REED - THE RCA & ARISTA ALBUM COLLECTION This October
by BWW News Desk - Oct 7, 2016


Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is proud to announce the much-anticipated release of Lou Reed - The RCA & Arista Album Collection today, October 7.

STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Joins Michael Feinstein Onstage at Feinstein's at the Nikko for Judy Garland Tribute
by Ashlee Latimer - Oct 2, 2016


The audience of Michael Feinstein's concert at Feinstein's at the Nikko got lucky last night when he invited legend of the star and stage, his friend Liza Minnelli, up to the stage with him to perform 'I Love A Piano.' The number was dedicated to the celebration and memory of Minnelli's mother, beloved actress Judy Garland. 

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