Actually - 2017 - Williamstown, MA (Regional) Articles Page 1

Ahead of Claybourne Elder’s upcoming 54 Below show, the actor gets candid on his Mormon upbringing and exclusively tells BroadwayWorld there is power in setting boundaries and saying ‘no.’

LILLIAN AXE announced Keith Long as its new bassist while confirming a new studio album is in the mixing stage for release on BraveWords Records.

Daniel Pickard, the UK indie pop eccentric, announced his debut album BEHAVIOUR via AWAL, accompanied by new single HEARTBEATS THE FLAW and an official visualizer.

Jim James' fifth solo album, WOWED OUT, is out now. The My Morning Jacket frontman will begin a solo acoustic headline tour November 28 in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

Scottish band NEON WALTZ released their second single in three years, WINNER, recorded in Glasgow with producer Tom Rees amid studio standoffs with a neighboring takeaway.

Black Rose Theater ATX founder Zell Miller talks about the legacy behind Austin’s newest theatre company, the Jazz Aesthetic that shapes its work, creating space for Black and Brown artists, and launching with the deeply personal world premiere of And She Was Loved.

Opening on September 11, 2026, the 25th anniversary of “The Day that Changed America,” Come From Away takes the stage at Bell Theater at Bell Works in a new professional production directed and choreographed by Lisa Stevens (Broadway's Chicago and West End's 9 to 5).

Trombonist and composer Sam Blakeslee released the title track and an in-studio video from his forthcoming album NEW BLOOD, due on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records.

Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma have released a new album pairing Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with Leonore Overture No. 3, featuring violist Antoine Tamestit on Sony Classical.

Trombonist and composer Sam Blakeslee released the title track "New Blood," the second single from his forthcoming album on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, alongside an in-studio video.

Seven Lions and Kill The Noise will release their eighth collaboration, I NEED, via Monstercat, revisiting the sound of their earlier track COLD HEARTED.

Jim James released the single and video for "Lost Child" ahead of his solo album WOWED OUT, out Friday, August 28. His acoustic headline tour opens November 28 in Louisville, KY.

Trombonist, composer, and educator Sam Blakeslee will release a new album, NEW BLOOD, recorded with the Sam Blakeslee Large Group, on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records.

Toronto singer and 1974 JUNO Award winner Cathy Young has released a new single, a song she wrote decades ago and finished after reconnecting with a fellow musician before his death.

Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma will release a fifth album in their Beethoven for Three series on Sony Classical, pairing Symphony No. 3, Eroica, with Leonore Overture No. 3.

Trombonist, composer, and educator Sam Blakeslee is set to release NEW BLOOD, a new album recorded with the Sam Blakeslee Large Group, on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records.

Michelle Branch and NEW RADICALS frontman Gregg Alexander appear together in a reimagined music video for The Game of Love, marking Alexander's first on-screen band appearance in decades.

Dance Theatre of Harlem named Derrick Adams, Sanford Biggers, Virginia Johnson, Fatima Robinson, Marcus Samuelsson and Mickalene Thomas to its first Artistic Council, a group of advisors shaping the company's programming and outreach.

She bounds on stage in sunglasses, fur and foulard like she’s just taken a Vespa from the Trevi Fountain. The Floria Tosca in Wolf Trap Opera’s stylish new production of Puccini’s classic is fully 20th century woman — an Italian film star of 1970s Rome whose poster hangs alongside those for films by Fellini and Argento. She still sings though, and this Tosca her dulcet tones can be heard through the town before she makes her entrance in the church where her lover is painting a Madonna on the wall. 

Baby Boy of AG CLUB released BUCK*, his debut solo project on Epic Records, alongside a music video for AVOIDANCE that he co-directed.

Trombonist and composer Sam Blakeslee has released the first single and accompanying video from his new album NEW BLOOD, according to Red Cat Publicity.

Indonesia has a long history of theatrical forms that integrate musical elements to the performance. From traditional art forms such as Lenong and Ludruk, to the birth of Komedie Stamboel during the colonial era, up to the modern influence of American musical theater, thespians throughout the nation have always been exploring how music can add another layer to theatrical works. 

BroadwayWorld spoke to Reid about infusing audiences with a renewed love of language, creating immersive, magical spaces, and subverting hierarchies while challenging expectations both on stage and behind the scenes.

The flimsy theme holding together this year’s summer season at Shakespeare’s Globe is ‘1599 or 1939’, which has allowed them to stage a work by Brecht as well as several Shakespeare plays which are frequent flyers at this theatre complex. Fortunately it leaves room for something which hasn’t been produced for either stage since Michelle Terry’s inaugural season in 2018; this Love’s Labour’s Lost, however, finds itself in the outdoor Globe Theatre and with a distinctive Spanish flavour.

Trombonist, composer, and educator Sam Blakeslee has released NEW BLOOD, a new album showcasing his work as a performer and composer.