The Life - 2017 - West End Articles Page 6

The Bell House will present multiple comedy events featuring Beth Stelling, Kevin Sullivan, and a Jimmy Chin book release show, along with stand-up showcases and jazz-accompanied comedy sets.

Audible Theater has opened applications for its Emerging Playwrights Fund, offering up to five commissions of $25,000 each to early-career writers creating original audio plays.

Roku announced a new live weekday sports talk series hosted by fantasy football analyst Matthew Berry, streaming free on The Roku Channel. The show will cover fantasy football, the NFL, and major sporting leagues with interviews and pop culture segments.

SIX released its first Korean-language studio album featuring six original cast members from the Seoul production. The recording is available to stream and download across major digital platforms worldwide.

KC Melting Pot Theatre's Melonnie Walker has been appointed Board Vice President and Conference Planner of the August Wilson Society, a national organization dedicated to the playwright's legacy. The appointment coincides with KCMPT's production of JITNEY, the theater's seventh August Wilson play.

The Keegan Theatre will present the DC premiere of the folk-punk musical HUNDRED DAYS, featuring nine local actor-musicians. Directed by Christina A. Coakley, the production is based on the true story of composers Abigail and Shaun Bengson.

Steppenwolf Theatre Co-Founder Gary Sinise will join Artistic Director Audrey Francis for a one-night conversation at the Chicago theater. Sinise will discuss Steppenwolf's history and reflect on his upcoming memoir about his son Mac.

Sarasota Youth Opera will present Rachel J. Peters' one-act opera based on Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories, featuring young performers aged 8-18 alongside professional artists.

Anita Mitchell recounts her life alongside Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell in a new memoir that explores behind-the-scenes moments from America's space program era.

On September 17th, we lost Duncan Sheik, a major composer and influence on 21st century theatre, whose music for Spring Awakening pushed the art form forward. Sheik was impressively prolific. While the headline of his theatre career may be the impactful Spring Awakening, his career was filled with over a dozen other varied and worthwhile theatrical projects, in addition to his achievements in popular music. He wrote music and sometimes lyrics for an impressive slate of musicals in addition to composing music for plays, and amassed a notable collective of collaborators on his many shows. 

Melissa Greenspan's one-person comedy about a mother's struggle to let go of her daughter opens at the Matrix Theatre. The play explores the parent-child dynamic through humor and heartfelt moments.

Alyssa Fox appears in the second music video from composer and lyricist Tevi Eber's new musical SO FAR, SO GOOD, part of a three-video campaign ahead of the show's stage debut.

The Amsterdam-based duo announced a new experimental EP inspired by Puerto Rican landforms and Caribbean cultural practices, with lead track X now available and European performances planned.

Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin releases her new studio album THE GEM on 4AD, ahead of a North American, UK, and European tour beginning in 2026.

Neil deGrasse Tyson will present 'This Just In: Latest Discoveries in the Universe' at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Islandia Music Records released the third volume in the WEATHER SYSTEMS series from percussionist Steven Schick. The album features compositions exploring themes of time and temporal experience.

Lucie Jones will reprise her role as Jenna Rink in the North American premiere of 13 GOING ON 30 THE MUSICAL at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre for a limited Christmas season starting December 2026. Tickets are on sale.

Two Santa Fe poets will present a free reading at Teatro Paraguas, featuring Karen Petersen's award-winning chapbooks and selections from her forthcoming debut volume, alongside Mary Strong Jackson's work.

What did our critic think of JERSEY BOYS at TPAC'S Jackson Hall?

Tove Lo releases her sixth studio album ESTRUS, featuring focus track 'source of life,' and kicks off her ESTRUS World Tour with a Brooklyn show.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale and The VOCES8 Foundation USA announced a new partnership providing professional performance and training opportunities for early-career singers in the VOCES8 US Scholars Program during the Desert Chorale's Summer Festival.

Center Stage Records released ONCE EVERY HUNDRED YEARS, a song cycle by William Finn and Danny Ursetti, recorded live at 54 Below in New York. The album features Jeff Blumenkrantz, Demond Green, and Zachary Noah Piser.

Country artist Danielle Bradbery released the single 'Poetic,' reflecting on loving deeply through life's imperfect moments. An official lyric video accompanies the release.

It was something that just shot out of my brain when discussing with Jason Nodler, my co-artistic director, what shows we were considering for this current season, and it just wasn't even something we debated. It just sort of was like, well, we need to do Rhinoceros again.

HONGJOONG of K-pop group ATEEZ releases ENOUGH, a collaboration with GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Bazzi, marking a new chapter in the artist's individual music.