Chicago - 2012 - US Tour Articles Page 2

SABATON released a new version of their 2025 hit TEMPLARS featuring POP EVIL frontman Leigh Kakaty. The bands debuted the collaboration at Louder Than Life and will tour North America together this fall.

Grammy-winning pianist Kris Davis returns with her trio featuring bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake for the album LOST IN GENEVA via 4166 Records.

When you go to a show and find out that an understudy is going on for one of the leading roles, you may actually be seeing a future Tony Award winner in the making.

Jimmy Flemion of THE FROGS will present an intimate performance at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, following a sold-out Milwaukee show. The appearance marks a rare live outing to celebrate the expanded 2LP vinyl reissue of the band's 1996 album MY DAUGHTER THE BROAD.

The National Center for Choreography–Akron received a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation honoring Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke's decade leading the organization. NCCAkron marks its 10th anniversary as a hub for dance artists and choreographers.

Cedille Records releases THE PACIFICA QUARTET's new album featuring world premiere recordings of works by Gabriela Lena Frank and Jennifer Higdon, with narration by NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg.

Lillias White and Reeve Carney reunite for an off-Broadway production of the musical TEXAS IN PARIS at Signature Theatre's Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre. Directed by Akin Babatundé, the limited engagement explores race relations through spirituals and cowboy songs.

Sacha Baron Cohen will star in a West End production of Quentin Tarantino‘s stage play The Popinjay Cavalier. The production is said to be arriving in the West End in spring 2027.

Pony World Theatre will present 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE at Studio @ 12th Avenue Arts in Seattle, directed by Kate Jaeger, the fall mainstage comedy set during a 1956 quiche breakfast.

The 25th anniversary national tour of the comedy musical will make its only Chicago-area stop at Aurora's Paramount Theatre, timed to National Menopause Awareness Month.

Roger Sellers, known as Bayonne, has released his new album FILTERS via Nettwerk. His U.S. tour begins Sept. 27 in Oklahoma City, with stops in Chicago, New York, Austin, and Los Angeles.

Phillip Phillips has released his new EP LET'S GO FAR: VOL. 1, featuring the single "My Dark Places." He will launch his headlining LET'S GO FAR Tour in Dallas, with stops in Austin, Chicago, New York and more.

BET will air the return of "SOUL TRAIN AWARDS," simulcast on CBS for the first time, taped in Chicago and produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment.

John Lydon's PUBLIC IMAGE LTD opened its first North American tour in eight years in Pioneertown, CA, with stops through Nashville on October 9 and a second leg set for February.

Arden Theatre Company will open its new season in Philadelphia with GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, a musical featuring Bob Dylan songs performed live by an actor-musician cast.

Tickets are on sale for POTTED POTTER: THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY EXPERIENCE, a parody condensing all seven Harry Potter books into 70 minutes, at Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse.

It’s been more than 17 years since the hit Fox musical series 'Glee' premiered in May 2009. BroadwayWorld looks back on the show, which ran for six seasons from 2009 to 2015.

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.

Aaron Dilloway announced his first full-length album since 2017, completing a trilogy that began with Modern Jester. The noise pioneer will also perform live dates this fall.

IN THIS MOMENT released its ninth studio album WITCH, featuring the single "I Want to Believe" with Dayseeker, and will embark on the Taste of Chaos Tour with Hollywood Undead and I See Stars.

HBO Max will add new original series and documentaries, including Sharon Horgan's comedy YOUTH, the drama prequel 4 BLOCKS ZERO, and the true-crime series A KILLER STORY.

Ballet Hispánico New York is set to bring “CARMEN.maquia,” a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on the Georges Bizet classic opera, to the McAninch Arts Center.

Second Stage Theater just announced complete casting for the upcoming Broadway premiere of THE FANTASTICKS, directed and  choreographed by Christopher Gattelli.  The company of THE FANTASTICKS will feature Maxim Chlumecky (Appropriate, Harry Potter and the Cursed  Child) as The Boy (Matt), Kevin del Aguila (Some Like It Hot, Frozen) as The Man Who Dies (Mortimer), David  Patrick Kelly (Once, The Warriors) as The Old Actor (Henry), Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Spamalot, Beetlejuice) as Matt’s Mother (Mildred Hucklebee), Nathan Levy (& Juliet, Aladdin) as The Boy (Lewis), Ruthie Ann Miles (Sweeney Todd, The King and I) as Lewis’ Mother (Bessie Mae Bellomy), Zane Phillips (“The Comeback,” “Mid Century Modern,” Fire Island) as The Narrator (El Gallo), and Ahmad Simmons (Illinoise, Hadestown) as The  Mute. Mr. Phillips will be making his Broadway debut.  

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.

Bruce Wood Dance Dallas unveiled its 17th season, the first under Artistic Director Melissa M. Young, featuring eight programs, three premieres, and a new Shubert Foundation grant.