Sam Phillips News

The Cape Playhouse will continue its 98th summer season with the Tony-nominated musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET directed by Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, and the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, directed and choreographed by David Ruttura and Joyce Chittick.

Watch as the cast and creative team of La Jolla Playhouse's world-premiere musical, The Ballad of Johnny and June talk about bringing the production to the stage.

Shimmying into Crown Theatre this month is ELVIS: A MUSICAL REVOLUTION, celebrating the life and art of the king of rock n roll. Featuring over 40 songs and a talented cast, not to mention choreography that does so much more than just complement the soundtrack, the show has plenty to offer everyone.

Christie Perfetti Williams new play Bettye and the Jockettes Spinning Records at the Holiday Inn opens tonight at The Gene Frankel Theatre in NoHo.. The World Premiere runs until May 18. Go inside the process with new photos from the rehearsal room. 

Million Dollar Quartet is now playing through May 12th at the Gargaro Theater in Pittsburgh's West End. Check out all new photos here!

Little Feat have just dropped the second track from this upcoming album Sam's Place, which is due out on May 17.“Can’t Be Satisfied,” a rollicking cover of the classic Muddy Waters-written song, is the second offering from the jumping SAM’S PLACE (Hot Tomato Productions/MRI). This marks their first new studio album in 12 years; first-ever blues album; and the first one to feature linchpin conga player Sam Clayton on lead vocals on every song. Listen to the song here!

Get ready to rock with Musical Theatre West's (MTW) electrifying production of Million Dollar Quartet in Long Beach, which opened this weekend April 13th.

The world premiere of Christie Perfetti Williams' new play, BETTYE AND THE JOCKETTES SPINNING RECORDS AT THE HOLIDAY INN is coming to the Gene Frankel Theatre.

5-Star Theatricals does superb work capturing the charisma and characters of these great rock and country legends, and the music and energy of the show is breathtaking, jubilant and infectious.  Million Dollar Quartet has one extraordinary songbook.  You don’t want to miss this show.

Conceived and starring the award-winning actor and singer Beto Sargentelli as Elvis Presley, the show is a tribute to one of the greatest world music icons. Unreleased and originally Brazilian, O Rei do Rock - O Musical delves into Elvis' fascinating trajectory, from his first album recording, at the age of 18, until his premature death at 42.

Million Dollar Quartet, the show inspired by a legendary Sun Records jam session in 1956, was an unlikely hit when it made its Broadway debut in 2010. Although it was based on an actual event, the musical takes liberties with what actually went on during that memorable day in order to create a more appealing show. If you take that into account, you can ignore the show’s numerous exaggerations, anachronisms, and falsehoods, because it is simply enormously entertaining. The show opens this Friday for a two-weekend run at the Fred Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks.

It marks the band's first new studio album in 12 years, first-ever blues album and the first one to feature linchpin conga player Sam Clayton on lead vocals on every song. This joyously blues-soaked party gets started now with the album's first single/video “You'll Be Mine,” a cover of the Willie Dixon-written chestnut.

Experience the world premiere of PRELUDE TO A KISS, THE MUSICAL at South Coast Repertory. This modern fable, with lyrics by Sean Hartley and Daniel Messé, explores love's peaks and valleys.

Going all the way back to Hullabaloo's first album 20 years ago, people have compared the Hullabaloo sound to Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Carl Perkins. Those artists, and a handful of others that had a big influence on Hullabaloo's music, all got their start at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.