The Music Man - 2019 - Washington, DC (Regional) Articles Page 6

The idea of the concept album took flight at the same time as the idea of the rock musical. A concept album introduces audiences to the score of a musical by deliberately releasing an album of the songs before any live production exists at all. The concept album ostensibly stands on its own terms.

The release of con slancio, with premier recordings of music written by Swiss composer and nonpareil oboist Heinz Holliger, marks 40 years of collaboration with ECM New Series.

Cher, Paul Simon, Whitney Houston, and more will be honored during the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony on Jan. 31, 2026. The event will celebrate the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustee Award and Technical Grammy Award recipients at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. 

On Monday, Monday, January 19, 2026, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso will present the 40th Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Howard Gilman Opera House marking four decades of the city’s largest and longest-running public celebration honoring Dr. King’s life and legacy.

Academy Award winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the first in the Spider-Verse series, is set to be presented live in concert, on tour across the UK.

The world premiere of All Out: Comedy About Ambition by Simon Rich, with direction by Tony Award-winner Alex Timbers, begins performances on December 12 at the Nederlander Theatre. Meet the cast of All Out here!

Multi-platinum band AJR has announced their concert album AJR: Live From The Hollywood Bowl, along with a livestream of their first-ever Hollywood Bowl performance, airing on Veeps on Saturday, January 3.

What did our critic think of AJR ACOUSTIC SET at Newport Music Hall?

Artists coming up at Birdland Jazz Club include KT Sullivan, Stacy Sullivan, Jeff Harnar, and Todd Murray in We Love the Winter Weather, Jane Monheit, Bryce Edwards’ Frivolity Hour, Stacey Kent, and Klea Blackhurst / Jim Caruso & Billy Stritch’s A Swinging Birdland Christmas.

Single tickets to the Broadway touring productions of HADESTOWN and more are now on sale to the public as part of the 2025-2026 Broadway in Wichita series.

The Other Palace will welcome back MTFestUK 2026, featuring six musicals over three weeks. First introduced in 2019, MTFestUK has championed bold, original musical theatre, with many works reaching full productions in the UK and beyond.

HERO: THE BOY FROM TROY, A MUSICAL ABOUT YOUNG JOHN LEWIS, will celebrate it's second national tour, January 15-March 6, 2026.

Roast Productions have announced that Dog Man: The Musical will have its European premiere at  the Southbank Centre from 30 July - 16 August 2026 following multiple sell-out Off-Broadway seasons  and US tours.

LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN returns to Los Angeles this month for a one-night-only performance. The show is a one-man show bringing 40 characters to life, telling two unbelievable true stories using hip-hop theater, spoken word, blues, calypso, comedy, and a video DJ.

New plays will ring in the new year at The Goodman when the popular annual New Stages Festival returns. This year’s line-up features the newest works by some of the country’s hottest playwrights.

“Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” took on a new meaning in Vancouver this week as MJ THE MUSICAL debuted at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Tuesday for its opening night. The touring production arrived with sharp focus on the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour, showing how Michael Jackson (or MJ) shaped every beat and detail.

Yorke Dance Project has carved a distinctive place in the UK dance landscape. Rooted in tradition while looking to the future, YDP will present immaculately reconstructed classics of contemporary dance and ballet.

David Kwong loves words the way chefs love food: obsessively, indulgently and with a eagerness to serve ever more and more of their treasured discoveries. In The Enigmatist, his puzzle-box of a show, that affection becomes both the engine and the anchor.

National Theatre at Home has announced the addition of James Corden's smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors and Indhu Rubasingham's Bacchae to its winter offering.

54 BELOW will celebrate the happiest time of the year with an incredible lineup of performances by Tony winner Christine Ebersole with Billy Stritch, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Darius de Haas, and more.

 Canada Ireland Foundation (CIF) will present the Toronto premiere of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, inspired from the short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez.

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations.

English National Opera has released new production photos for PARTENOPE, returning to the London Coliseum from 20 November to 6 December 2025. The revival of Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-winning staging features Nardus Williams in the title role and is conducted by Christian Curnyn.

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Mozart’s beloved masterpiece Così fan tutte. This glamorous rom-com returns to Lyric in a sun-soaked 1930s-era seaside country club setting.

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 years.