Love/Life - 2005 - Broadway Articles Page 3

The indie rock band released their first new music in over two years, a closing song for the stop-motion animated film based on frontman Colin Meloy's debut novel.

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.

BroadwayWorld looks back on the 1981 Broadway musical 'Dreamgirls,' which ran for more than 1,500 performances, and what members of its cast are up to now.

Sony Pictures Classics will release the psychological thriller BUNKER, written and directed by Florian Zeller and starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, following an awards-qualifying run.

Cincinnati Opera and CCM's Opera Fusion: New Works partnership will present a public preview of CLAUDE & MARCEL, a new opera with music by Alyssa Weinberg and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, commissioned by West Edge Opera.

Two-time Tony winner Victoria Clark will be honored by the Sarah Siddons Society for her outstanding achievements in theatre, including roles in Kimberly Akimbo and The Light in the Piazza.

The Boston Pops and Keith Lockhart will present concerts featuring the music of A.R. Rahman and The Legend of Zelda at Symphony Hall in May 2027.

Eva Marie Saint, an Academy Award-winning actress known for ON THE WATERFRONT and NORTH BY NORTHWEST, died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. Her career spanned more than 70 years in film, television, stage and radio.

Ballet Etudes will present THE NUTCRACKER at Chandler Center for the Arts and Mesa Arts Center, marking four decades of the holiday production featuring guest artists and company dancers performing the full-length classical ballet.

Jared Padalecki, Jim Beaver, Mark Sheppard, Mark Pellegrino, and Ruth Connell from SUPERNATURAL, along with Adam Savage of MYTHBUSTERS, will attend FAN EXPO New Orleans at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

This October, Broadway treasure Kelli O’Hara is heading from the stage to the big screen—or at least, one of her stage performances is. O’Hara stars in Fallen Angels, the sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously potent Noël Coward comedy, coming to movie theatres this month, giving audiences everywhere another chance to see one of Broadway’s most celebrated leading ladies in action.

SIMPLE PLAN announced 14 Canadian dates for 2027, marking the band's first headlining tour in the country in a decade. YELLOWCARD and BOWLING FOR SOUP will join as special guests, with MARIANAS TRENCH appearing on select dates. General onsale begins October 9.

GRAMMY-nominated Matisyahu and Eurovision runner-up Yuval Raphael released the pop-R&B track 'Carry On,' written by Rachel Sapoznik and produced by GRAMMY-winner Rico Love, as an anthem for healing and overcoming adversity.

A new book by Brian Beck and Piotr Orlov features essays from 80 celebrated musicians, including Dolly Parton, Erykah Badu, Chris Stapleton, and Jamie xx, highlighting overlooked and beloved albums.

NYC Winter Jazzfest will present its 23rd season across Manhattan and Brooklyn, marking bassist William Parker's 75th birthday and hosting a Coltrane 100 celebration alongside artists from Portland, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

Tom Gammill's new play about cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the classic NANCY comic strip, will play six performances at Brooklyn's Mark O'Donnell Theater. Directed by filmmaker Owen Kline, the production examines Bushmiller's legacy as his once-popular work loses cultural relevance.

BroadwayWorld sends me some guidelines for writing a blog. ‘Offer real insight’, they say. ‘Avoid repeating text we’d find elsewhere’, they say. When you’ve been talking about a play for 21 years, it’s hard to find new things to say. So let me talk about costume.

A press release for AN OAK TREE is set to go out, with further details forthcoming.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its fall conference at Lincoln Center, featuring keynote speaker Andrew Lippa and sessions on non-profit and commercial musical theatre production models.

IATI Theater will present Nora Coss's bilingual memory play about a teenage boy navigating caregiving and language barriers when his mother falls seriously ill in Mexico.

Theatrical costume designer and artist Beaver Bauer presents a fifty-year retrospective at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, displaying five decades of artistic work. The free exhibition runs in the Jewett Gallery and Koret Lobby.

U2 and Third Man Records have partnered on a limited-edition yellow vinyl pressing of CARNAVAL DE LUZ, the band's new album, created exclusively for independent record stores.

American Ballet Theatre will perform in Guangzhou and Shanghai, marking the company's debut in Guangzhou and closing the Shanghai International Arts Festival at the newly opened Shanghai Grand Opera House.

Early music ensemble Sonnambula will premiere three 300-year-old airs by Baroque composer Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, discovered in a rare 1712 book at the Morgan Library & Museum and never performed for modern audiences until now.

Japanese rock band RADWIMPS announced a new song written as the theme for the live-action film YOU, LIKE A STAR, a bestselling novel adaptation starring Ryusei Yokohama and Suzu Hirose.