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Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn released THE BLOOD OF OTHERS, an album featuring songs written by others that influenced his five-decade career. The collection traces his musical lineage from gospel and blues records to folk traditions.

The Immigrant Story will present a live performance blending storytelling, gospel, hip-hop, and mariachi to explore America's 250th anniversary and the diverse experiences that have shaped the nation.

Halloween season in Williamson County has found its crown jewel. Studio Tenn has officially launched its 17th theatrical season at the Turner Theater with a deliciously macabre production of The Addams Family running through October 25. Directed with razor-sharp comedic timing and vibrant visual flair, this production proves that Broadway’s favorite ghoulishly eccentric clan translates brilliantly to the local stage.

When people hear about Idlewild, the first thing that comes to mind is the 2006 drama film with a musical score produced, written, and mostly performed by the Grammy award winning hip-hop duo Outkast. Set in fictional Idlewild, Georgia, the film focuses on the seedier side of the music business rather than the majesty that was Idlewild, Michigan.

Singer-songwriter Crys Matthews released a soulful version of the classic song via Shamus Records as part of the HOLIDAYS & EVERGREENS collection. Matthews is a two-time International Folk Music Awards Song of the Year winner.

Fredi Shehadi is an Emmy award-winning New York–based guitarist, composer, songwriter and recording artist. His brilliant new Jazz/Americana genre-bending album ‘Bout Time’ just dropped on 9/25.

Tangerine Records released the first complete vinyl edition of Ray Charles' 75-minute concert from the Shrine Auditorium, expanded from the original 1965 album and freshly remastered.

SOMM Recordings will release three chamber music recordings featuring British composers Ivor Hodgson and Sir George Dyson, performed by the ensemble I Musicanti and conducted by Leon Bosch.

The 9/13 show offered the first New York performance since the original 1964-65 Broadway run of a revolutionary musical originally starring Robert Preston.

What did our critic think of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at William County Performing Arts Center?

A previously unreleased Peggy Lee original discovered in Capitol Records vaults after more than 60 years will debut as the title track of a new digital EP, paired with signature recordings and a new visualizer.

Based on the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake, DOWN TO CHANCE follows radio reporter Genie Chance as she broadcasts live during a crisis. The two-person play, written by and starring Ellie Jay Cooper alongside Robert Merriam, will visit 14 venues across South East England.

Verity Power will play Eliza Doolittle opposite Alan Cumming's Professor Higgins in a new chamber production of MY FAIR LADY, directed by Maria Friedman, running November 21 through December 31 at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

54 Below will host a lineup of performers including Britani Bateman with Lagoona Bloo, Claybourne Elder, Charles Busch, Ute Lemper, Linda Eder, Orfeh, and Jeanna de Waal, alongside a Frank Sinatra tribute concert and other cabaret acts.

Epiphone will present THE JOURNEY, a video series following European musicians including Kitty A. Austen of SAINT AGNES, Reuben Moonasar of DEAD AIR and Jiri Taihuttu of DE NACHTWACHT.

Verve Records and UMe will launch VERVE ESSENTIALS, a vinyl reissue series featuring landmark albums by John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus.

Remembering Joe - The Joe Dolan Show with The Dolan family will return with a 2027 nationwide tour will mark the 20th anniversary of Joe Dolan's passing in 2007 — and his music remains as popular as ever.

Theatre has always intersected with politics, and the presence of American presidents in Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre plays and musicals is a major part of this. Did you know that all of our heads of state have been featured in shows, whether as characters or as plot points that are part of the action? Dramatizing current and former leaders of our nation is a way to examine their affect on society at the time and how political events, even those of many years ago, still impact us all. 

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Playwright and Director Peter Gill has died at age 86. Learn more about Gill and read his full obituary here.

Bruce Cockburn will release a covers album tracing the gospel, blues and folk songs that influenced him, with a title drawn from a Simone de Beauvoir novel.

Bruce Cockburn will release an album of songs by other artists that shaped his musical development, spanning gospel, blues, jazz and folk influences from his youth in Ottawa.

Cyril Nri will take on the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN at the Liverpool Everyman, directed by Olivier Award-winning Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu.

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. 

While it’s impossible to choose, BroadwayWorld looks at a handful of the most exciting and entertaining performances by Tony-winning icon Liza Minnelli.

Annika Low portrays Mary Poppins at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre June 26-August 8!