A Number - 2022 - West End Articles Page 2

DEF LEPPARD announced a 45-date North American tour kicking off March 2 and running through July 2, 2027, with GOO GOO DOLLS and THE STRUTS. $1 from each ticket sold will benefit City of Hope cancer research.

Pianist Igor Levit performs an all-Beethoven program for his Baltimore debut at Shriver Hall, while French pianist Hélène Grimaud returns to the city for the first time in a decade.

Wendy Bevan released her album ALONE WITH THE UNKNOWN and shared a music video for the track 'Sirens' via Magnetic Magazine. The gothic synth-pop artist also released videos for additional album tracks.

The Tony Award-winning musical about Henry VIII's wives will return to East Lansing's Wharton Center for performances at Cobb Great Hall. Tickets start at $60, with discounts available for MSU students.

Future releases the music video for 'Build A Bitch,' directed by Cole Bennett, featuring the rapper constructing an animatronic woman from salvaged pieces of the Rock-afire Explosion. The track appears on his album THE REAL ME.

Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club announced Kazuo Ishiguro's KLARA AND THE SUN as the monthly selection, with exclusive content and a podcast interview between Lipa and the Nobel Prize-winning author.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 6, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky's Slam Frank, choreographed by Esosa Oviasu, music directed by Alex Harrington, and directed by Sam LaFrage, as back onstage at the Orpheum Theatre. Inspired by a 2022 viral Twitter thread that asked, “Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?”, SLAM FRANK imagines what happens when a progressive theater company asks themselves that same question, applying the rules and tropes of progressive theater to The Diary of Anne Frank. Transcending all taste and decency, they transform Anne Frank's true story into an intersectional, multi-ethnic, genderqueer, decolonized, anti-capitalist, hyper-empowering Afro-Latin hip-hop musical.  Check out what the critics are saying about the new musical.

Theater for the New City marks five decades of its East Village Halloween tradition with performances, aerial dance, live music, cabaret, and a costume contest.

Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's upcoming season features the world premiere of SHADOWS OF SOLACE, co-commissioned by major orchestras, a new production of opera UR_, and residencies with Bozar and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra across 17 countries.

The Pulitzer Prize finalist play by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich will open at the Barrymore Theatre with an ensemble featuring Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Montego Glover.

Nigerian rapper Blaqbonez announced his forthcoming album NOMADINHO: 4TH PRIME, due October 16, and reunites with Asake on new single IKEBE 3000. The track follows their summer hit CHANEL, which reached No. 5 on Billboard's Afrobeats chart.

HAMILTON may choose to focus on Alexander as the assumed protagonist, but greatness never thrives in a vacuum. HAMILTON as read through our binary lens means that each performer must have great chemistry with Alexander, yes, but also with their binary counterpart as well.

Lincoln Center Theater has created The Helen Gurley Brown Theater Lab through a $4.25M gift from The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation. The lab will support writers developing new work for the American theater.

Bruno Mars releases the official music video for 'Dance With Me' featuring Karol G, following his 2026 VMAs performance of the hit song.

Joe's Pub announced a new slate of programming spanning jazz, comedy, and pop music, featuring performances by Jake Schroeder, Kate Nash, Mollie Elizabeth, Gus Heagerty, Alice Smith, Morgan Bassichis, and others.

Sundance Institute announced 19 nonfiction projects selected to receive over $1 million in grants through its Documentary Fund. Projects span all production stages as the program approaches its 25th anniversary.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will present nightly performances throughout October, featuring The Hot Sardines, Ron Carter, and birthday celebrations for Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.

Saxophonist-composer Johannes Enders premiered the lead single from his upcoming album PHANTOM HAPPINESS, featuring pianist Rainer Böhm, bassist Doug Weiss, and drummer Jorge Rossy on the Enja Records label.

The Tony Award-winning musical SIX will present four performances at the Playhouse on Rodney Square in Wilmington, with a cast led by Christina Jones, Brittany Smithson, and Melina Savannah Cruz.

Overture Center for the Arts has announced that tickets for the Tony Award-Winning electrifying musical phenomenon SIX by Tony Award-winners Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss will go on sale this week.

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's landmark 1966 debut album receives a six-disc super deluxe edition featuring 105 tracks, including 90 rare live and studio recordings, many released for the first time.

British rock legends MADNESS will headline the inaugural London edition of ROCK N ROLL CIRCUS, joined by FAT FREDDY'S DROP, BIG SPECIAL, THE WAILERS, and Hollie Cook at Gunnersbury Park.

This season, Donna Feore has had the rare opportunity to helm two Stratford Festival productions: Guys and Dolls, running through November 14th, and Something Rotten!, running through November 15th, which share a stage and company of actors. 

Country singer-songwriter Jacob Hackworth released 'Last Night I Got Lonely,' the fourth track from his concept debut EP WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, which chronicles a breakup that led him to Nashville.