A Time to Sing - 2020 - Off-Off-Broadway Articles Page 12

Washington Performing Arts has announced its 2024/25 season, In Harmony, running from September 2024 through June 2025 in seven indoor and outdoor venues across the Washington, D.C., region.

To kick off Pride month, actress and powerhouse vocalist Amber Riley has teamed up with virtuoso pianist and fast-rising pop artist Micah McLaurin to reimagine GRAMMY-winning songwriter Jimmy Webb’s hit single “MacArthur Park,” an enduring classic that has boasted several chart-topping and GRAMMY-winning renditions. Listen to the cover now!

Ben Platt was joined on stage by Adrienne Warren during his residency at The Palace Theatre. The pair performed 'If Momma Was Married' from Gypsy. Check out the video here!

Today’s subject Stephen Cole is an accomplished lyricist, performer, and book writer. You can now add novelist to that already impressive list of accomplishments. Stephen Cole’s latest literary endeavor takes us back to the Golden Age of Broadway with his first novel entitled Mary & Ethel…and Mikey Who?. The book is now available everywhere for purchase in both hardcover and digital versions.

To close out their 2023-2024 Series, Segerstrom Center welcomed theater aficionado Seth Rudetsky to serve as an interviewer/pianist for Tony Award winner Lillias White for three shows May 16-18, 2024 in one of the most incredibly wonderful, fan-favoring shows that the OC arts campus has ever hosted at the intimate Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa, CA.

Experience the world premiere of ELLA THE UNGOVERNABLE by David McDonald at Theater for the New City from June 20 to July 7. This gripping drama explores themes of rebellion and resilience.

ELLA THE UNGOVERNABLE by David McDonald will be presented at TNC this summer. Learn how to purchase tickets.

It's official! six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway this fall, taking on what is widely regarded as the greatest role in musical theatre, “Rose” in GYPSY. We have all of the details!

Jenna Pastuszek, featuring special music direction by Trent Hines, will celebrate PRIDE with GET HAPPY!: A Tribute to the World's Greatest Entertainer, Judy Garland, at the Swallow Hill Concerts at Four Mile Historic Park in Denver, CO.

54 BELOW will present Andrew J. Koehler in My Golden Age: Songs From An Old Soul.

Tony-Award-winning actor and singer Ben Platt recently stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show to discuss his three-week New York residency at the Palace Theatre, which is running from May 28- June 15. In the interview, Platt discussed growing up around musical theatre, and recalled the first time he went to see a Broadway musical in New York. Watch the video now!

LES MISÉRABLES returns to the Arsht Center from June 18-23. Experience the beloved musical with its powerful story and unforgettable music. Don't miss this limited engagement.

The Green Room 42 will present “Gotta Sing with Kenneth Gartman” on Monday, June 17th at 9:30 pm.  Host and Music Director Kenneth Gartman shines a light on some of NYC's best musical theatre talent each month in a new cabaret series - Gotta Sing.

Michael R. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning A Strange Loop opens June 5, 2024; at the Ahmanson. A co-production of Center Theatrer Gtoup and American Conservatory Theatre, Stephen Brackett  directs the cast led by  Malachi McCaskil as Usher with Dave J. Abrams, Angela Alise, Jordan Barbour, J. Cameron Barnett, Carlis Shane Clark, Alvis Green Jr., Albert Hodge, Avionce Hoyles, Tarra Conner Jones, Jamari Johnson Williams and John-Andrew Morrison. I was able to chat Malachi after he finished his West Coast premiere at A.C.T.

Tickets are on sale for Cameron Mackintosh's production of LES MISÉRABLES at Philadelphia's Academy of Music. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Nairobi-born, Adelaide-based singer, rapper and producer Elsy Wameyo has announced her debut album, Saint Sinner, due out July 26th.Lead single “Umva” is a blistering and compelling testament to her strengths as an MC, writer and producer. On the single she shares, “There’s a comfortability that comes with understanding one’s greatness. Respectfully, in this game I know I run laps around most so it’s easy to say and do whatever I want. I know exactly who I am and have nothing to prove...' Listen to the single now!

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Northey will perform What the World Needs Now: A Celebration of Burt Bacharach for two shows only at Hamer Hall.

Central New Jersey alternative rock outfit Bobby Mahoney, newly signed to Stevie Van Zandt's Wicked Cool Records, has released 'We Go On,' the next single off the band's upcoming label debut, 'Another Deadbeat Summer,' out June 14. Bobby Mahoney has made a name for itself in the vibrant Asbury Park, NJ music scene, sharing the stage with the likes of Frank Turner, Against Me!, Steve Earle, and more. Listen to the new single!

West End and Broadway sensation Marisha Wallace is returning to London's Adelphi Theatre for her biggest ever headline show.

Experience Giacomo Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West presented by Washington Opera Society at the Atrium of the Embassy of France in Washington, DC. Cocktail attire encouraged.

On Thursday, Tony-Award-winning actor and singer Ben Platt stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to discuss his three-week New York residency and his upcoming album.His residency will be at the recently closed Palace Theatre, running from May 28- June 15. Watch the interview!

Like her idol, Lea Salonga, and any aspiring singers, Natalie Grace Yanson began performing at family gatherings or parties.

The musical genius that is composer / lyricist Jason Robert Brown took center stage for his one night only performance of An Evening with Jason Robert Brown, part of the Lyrics & Lyricists event at The 92nd Street Y, New York on May 9, 2024. This reviewer was overwhelmed by the awe-inspiring compilation of melodies.

Drunk Drag Productions is set to return to SF Oasis for 10 performances of Drunk Drag Dizney on Broadway, a Musical Parody with a refreshed spirit, an updated script, and a stellar new cast.

 Jenna Pastuszek and Joshua Zecher-Ross will make their Carlsbad debuts bringing ME, MYSELF & BARBRA: The Music that Made Barbara Barbra, to New Village Arts May 16-17, 2024.