The Life - 2017 - West End Articles Page 5

Amy Kolling is the Senior Director of Artistic and Production for Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, she curates a multi-disciplinary performance series, and engages artists from around the world in teaching, research, and creation. She played a lead role in developing CPA’s first festival, All. Together. Now., and its newest venue, CURRENT ArtSpace and Studio. I had the great pleasure of speaking to her about a lot of this and more.

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association will present ECHOES OF ETERNITY, pairing Mozart's Requiem with Ola Gjeilo's Sunrise Mass at the Great Auditorium, led by Maestro Jason Tramm and the MidAtlantic Philharmonic Orchestra.

Trish Toledo, known for reviving classic pop and soul ballads, will perform at the Fox Theatre, blending music from an earlier era with today's audiences.

Wilmington drummer and bandleader Jonathan Whitney will release a new album honoring enslaved people and freemen tied to the Cooch's Bridge Revolutionary War site in Delaware.

Butcher Babies announced their new album NIGHTBLOOM, produced by Howard Benson, and released a music video for the single "Blame It on the Wind."

That Parenting Musical recently recorded a studio cast album starring Christopher Jackson, Kara Lindsay, Bonnie Milligan, Max Mendoza Crumm, Vidushi Goyal, and Scott Rathbun, with a release date yet to be revealed.

IKON Presents and Dr. Holly Carter will add an extra performance to the Las Vegas gospel residency featuring THE CLARK SISTERS, Fred Hammond and Deitrick Haddon at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.

The Joffrey Ballet will open its season with the Chicago premiere of John Neumeier's LILIOM, performed at the Lyric Opera House with a live 16-piece jazz band and orchestra.

Shattered Globe Theatre's new season under Producing Artistic Director Ian Frank will include Midwest premieres of VLADIMIR and THE WATERFALL alongside BRACE BRACE at Theater Wit in Chicago.

Steppenwolf co-Artistic Director Audrey Francis discusses the company's 2026/27 season, including TOPDOG/UNDERDOG and ADIRONDACK CHAIR CIRCLE, and stepping onstage herself in the psychological thriller ELLEN B.

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.

Scout Durwood's ten-song covers album WOMAN LOVE spans genres and generations, led by a rendition of 'I've Been Loving You Too Long,' marking her third project with the Kirk Pasich Project.

Gus Dapperton released a new single and accompanying video via ALTER Music, marking his first solo music release in three years, following his previous album.

Making his debut with the Boston Pops at Tanglewood on August 11, Hugh Jackman dazzled his sold-out audience – under the Koussevitzky Music Shed and stretching as far as the eye could see on the lawn that surrounds it – from the moment he took the stage.

Sacred Fools Theater Company will present a season of West Coast and world premieres, including RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS and MY GIRLFRIEND HAS CANCER AND THIS SHOW IS ABOUT ME, at The Broadwater Theater Complex in Hollywood.

Josh Alexander’s documentary, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief will receive a nationwide release this fall. The film offers an intimate, unfiltered portrait of Bareilles’ return to the recording studio in years. Watch the trailer for the documentary!

Third Coast Percussion will tour VERNACULAR, a new program created with electronic music artist Jlin, across the U.S. and Europe, alongside an album release and debut single.

Michael Hagins will bring his solo show CONQUERING THE CANON to the Yellow Bicycle Theater in Philadelphia for a limited three-performance engagement as part of the FringeArts season.

The Huntington has revealed the cast and creative team of Purpose, a sharp family drama written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Josiah Davis, set to be presented this fall.

THE BLACK WATCH will release its 27th studio album, led by single Marie Bouzkova, named for the tennis player but centered on themes of modesty and charm.

Cardi B returned with new single AH HA, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD's Sweater Weather crossed one billion views, and KATSEYE held two songs in the US Top 5.

TCG Books will publish Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Pulitzer Prize-finalist play EVERYBODY, now available for pre-order ahead of its release.

German band HASA has released its second album STREIK, mixing jazz, funk, blues, reggae and dialect lyrics following its 2022 Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize win.

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.

Vocalist Denise Donatelli announced a new recording featuring Kenny Rampton, Donny McCaslin, Yotam Silberstein, and Reuben Rogers, with musical direction by Geoffrey Keezer on the Savant label.