My City - 2011 - West End Articles Page 1

Tony Award-winner Lea Salonga made history this week as the first Filipina to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Darren Criss and Brandy were on hand to celebrate the Tony Award winner and Disney Legend and reflect on her impact on stage and screen.Watch the videos.

Bassist and composer Emma Dayhuff released her second solo album, MOUNTAINS, featuring Isaiah Collier, Corey Wilkes, Paul Cornish and Jonathan Pinson, drawing on her Montana upbringing and Chicago jazz roots.

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.

Joffrey Ballet announced President and CEO Greg Cameron will step down after a 15-year tenure, with the board forming a committee to lead a national search for his successor.

“I thought what I was writing was fiction but some of the groundwork I laid out in the play actually came in helpful when it became time to actually deal with the real life situation,.It was like I was telling myself what I was going to need to know in the future.” Playwright Eric Coble

Before Vitoria de Oliveira had New York credits, a feature film lead, or a conservatory certificate from The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, she had rehearsal. A lot of it. Rooms in Madrid. Lines repeated until they stopped sounding like lines. Bodies moving through scenes that had to be made alive again, even when everyone was tired.

Japanese band SIM released its new album HOOMAN AFTER ALL via UNFD, featuring singles FIVE TIMES DEAD, BLINDEYES and FREEZE ME UP. Tickets are on sale now for the HOOMAN AFTER ALL World Tour.

ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS has announced its Season 35 celebrity cast and professional dancer pairings, with a two-night premiere set to air live on ABC and Disney+ and stream next day on Hulu.

David Ireland's first play will receive a limited season at the Finborough Theatre, directed by Harry Burton and starring Matthew Blaney and Robbie Martin as two ex-classmates awaiting a ferry to Belfast.

The Art Gallery of South Australia named Mark Feary, Artistic Director of Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne, as curator of the upcoming Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

Studio Theatre in Exile will present Marc J. Straus's play in verse APHASIA at the Chain Theatre, with the poet and physician performing his mother's story under Mara Mills's direction.

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.

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.

Bassist and composer Emma Dayhuff released "Distance," the second single from her upcoming album MOUNTAINS, exploring longing within long-distance relationships.

Francesca Montanile Lyons will bring her solo clown show VILE to Brooklyn Art Haus on September 4, 2026, marking its first New York performance after a national fringe festival tour.

New York artist Curran Reynolds, who records as BODY STUFF, released the anthemic new track THE WORLD IS YOURS ahead of his sophomore album, BODY STUFF 5.

Saxophonist and composer Kevin Sun has released the single CHANSON, featuring Christian Li, Walter Stinson, and Kayvon Gordon, ahead of the upcoming album KEVIN SUN, II.

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.

Bill T. Jones will present a world premiere work with live music by Samora Pinderhughes, performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company outdoors in Battery Park City.

Choreographer Jessica Lang will succeed founder Kevin McKenzie as Artistic Advisor at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, advising leadership on artist residencies and programming at the site.

Danny Wimmer Presents released the daily music schedule for AFTERSHOCK, featuring headliners MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, TOOL, LIMP BIZKIT and PIERCE THE VEIL across five stages at Discovery Park in Sacramento.

Mannes Opera announced its upcoming season, featuring Menotti's THE SAINT OF BLEECKER STREET, Puccini's SUOR ANGELICA, and a workshop of Arturo O'Farrill's debut opera LUCERO.

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.

Singer, actress, and author Melissa Errico – who will perform her concert “The Streisand Effect” as her debut at Town Hall in Provincetown on August 23 – says she first became aware of Barbra Streisand when, as a teenager, she saw “Yentl,” the 1983 movie musical co-written, co-produced, and directed by, and starring, the show business icon.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Emmy Award nominated television host Ariana Madix (“Love Island USA”) will star as Connie Francis in JUST IN TIME at Circle in the Square Theatre.