The Life I Lead - 2019 - West End Articles Page 1

Opera Atelier opens its 2026/27 Season of Heroes with Canada’s first fully staged production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s THE DESCENT OF ORPHEUS, now playing through October 25, 2026 at Koerner Hall in Toronto’s TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning.

Tomáseen Foley's A CELTIC CHRISTMAS will perform at UCSC Music Recital Hall in Santa Cruz, featuring Irish musicians, dancers, and storyteller Foley alongside lead dancer Natalie Wagner.

A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL will premiere in Miami at the Adrienne Arsht Center's Ziff Ballet Opera House December 1-6, 2026, featuring Jesse Labelle as Neil Diamond and hits including Sweet Caroline and America.

La MaMa will present its 2026 Puppet Festival featuring world premieres and international artists exploring contemporary puppet theatre across multiple venues.

La MaMa announced the 2026 lineup for its biannual puppet festival, featuring new contemporary works including the world premiere ENDLESS FORMS and TIRESIAS PRESENTS NEW WEIRD FUTURE - A WORK IN PROCESS.

Country star Aaron Tippin teams with Sam Grow for a re-recorded version of his 1993 hit MY BLUE ANGEL, with an accompanying music video addressing the fentanyl epidemic.

Initial casting has been announced for Warriors, the new musical with book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, coming to Broadway next year! Find out who is starring in the show here.

Allen Barton's drama examines financial crises through two men separated by time: an economics professor during 2008's market collapse and a theatre owner navigating pandemic lockdowns.

In contemporary American performance, one of the more celebrated creative pairings are theater artists and makers Taylor Mac and Matt Ray, who will launch ArtsEmerson’s 2026/27 season with “Taylor Mac and Matt Ray: Songs from Bark of Millions” – a reflection on queer lineage, community, and futures told through a collection of new music – presented in association with The Huntington, at the Emerson Paramount Center’s Robert J. Orchard Stage October 15–18.

The Fisher Center at Bard, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, will present EVIDENCE: 2026 LAB International Festival.

Indigenous power pop rockers Low Budget Rock Star from Opaskwayak Cree Nation released the single Cotton Candy on New Sun Records, featuring a music video with Melody McArthur.

Hulu has greenlit Ryan Coogler's reimagining of THE X-FILES, starring Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel as FBI agents investigating unexplained phenomena. Coogler wrote and directed the pilot for the series produced by 20th Television.

The cast of NEW GIRL, including Zooey Deschanel, Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone and Damon Wayans Jr., reunited in Los Angeles to receive the inaugural Rising Phoenix Award at the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, an annual fundraiser that raised $2.7 million.

Lou Spisto will step down as executive director and producer of Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles on January 31, 2027, after leading the organization through a financial turnaround and landmark European tour.

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.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will present nightly performances throughout October, featuring The Hot Sardines, Ron Carter, and birthday celebrations for Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.

Julian Clary announced a 40-date UK tour of his new hour FULLY DILATED from April 7 to June 5, 2027, following his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut. The tour includes two performances at London Palladium on May 13 and 14.

Read reviews of the Broadway production of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, now open at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Singer-songwriter Marco Luka released the single "GOTTA LET YOU GO" with an accompanying music video ahead of his debut album F_UNK on Arista Records.

New York City trio BAILEN released their new album SWIM!!!, their first fully independent release. The 10-track record includes the focus track 'Eve Babitz,' with a music video produced by Lorde collaborator Devin Hoffman.

Choreographer Joanna Kotze will present an interdisciplinary dance work examining history, leadership, and collective agency at New York Live Arts Theater.

Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto leads the COLBURN ORCHESTRA in a season-opening concert at The Soraya featuring works by Márquez, Kevin Puts, Falla, and Giménez, with student soloists on marimba and mezzo-soprano.

Jesse Labelle, an award-winning singer-songwriter who has toured with Elton John and Garth Brooks, will star as Neil Diamond in A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL's North American tour, launching November 3, 2026 in Austin, Texas.

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.

Tove Lo released her sixth studio album ESTRUS via Pretty Swede Records and Virgin Music Group. The 13-track electro-pop album explores contradictions central to her music, from euphoria to melancholy and desire to doubt.