STAGE TUBE: Meet the NEWSIES- Ben FankhauserMarch 17, 2012NEWSIES is now in previews at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre. It will play a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse in fall 2011. The musical, featuring a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman, and a book by four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will open on March 29th; the final performance is scheduled for June 10
Watch Anthony Kearns Sing 'Danny Boy'March 17, 2012New video clips from world renowned Tenor Anthony Kearns' solo performance on October 20, 2011 in Washington, D.C. are now available on YouTube in time to celebrate the St. Patrick's Day season. Click here to watch the videos!
Lesley Heller Workshop Presents 'Jade Townsend: Leviathan' & 'Inside, Outside - Outside In' Galleries, 4/22-5/25March 17, 2012On April 22 - May 25, 2012 (Opening Reception: Sunday, April 22, 6-8 pm) Lesley Heller Workshop will present Gallery 1: Jade Townsend: Leviathan and Gallery 2: Inside, Outside - Outside In Dawn Clements, Theresa Ganz, Bjorn Meyer-Ebrecht, Fran Siegel.
Slightly Unusual to Perform at Brighton Fringe, May 10- 19March 17, 2012Slightly Unusual are one of the top Illusion Acts in the UK. They combine illusions, comedy and magical moments into one show. Although fun for all the family in their 2012 show they will be debuting one of the most dangerous illusions ever designed.
WHO KILLED CAPTAIN KIRK? to Play at Star Trek Convention, 3/22-25March 17, 2012So who really did kill Captain Kirk or, in this case, William Shatner, the actor who once helmed the captain's chair on the original series of Star Trek? Thespian Production's Who Killed Captain Kirk? seeks to answer this question in a stage play that combines Star Trek fandom with murder-mystery hijinks.
Blues Brothers Band Members To Tour With Singer Stevie HawkinsMarch 17, 2012Through a collaborative effort in support of the new critically acclaimed CD release titled 'What The Funk?' that is receiving radio global airplay, '2012 Artists In Music Awards Winner as Best Jazz Artist' Stevie Hawkins, and Asteroid Funk will perform a live music experience and show on their "What The Funk? Tour 2012".
AUDIO: Listen to THIS AMERICAN LIFE's Mike Daisey 'Steve Jobs' RetractionMarch 17, 2012Mike Daisey's THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS, which has celebrated sold-out and extended runs across the country and twice in New York, has been admittedly 'embellished.' Mike Daisey made a statement about show's fabrications on THIS AMERICAN LIFE. Listen to the retraction here.
Photo Flash: HAIR Opens at the Paramount Theatre!March 17, 2012Everything about them was a statement. Their clothes, a rejection of materialism. Their drugs, a quest to get closer to God. Their long hair, a flag of freedom. They were hippies, the social watch dogs of the 1960s, and they played a pivotal role in American pop culture.
HUMAN NATURE Changes Show Date For the Akoo Theatre to 4/29March 17, 2012Due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, "Smokey Robinson presents HUMAN NATURE: The Motown Show," originally scheduled to perform Saturday, April 7 at the Akoo Theatre at Rosemont (formerly the Rosemont Theatre) has been moved to Sunday, April 29 at 7:00pm.
Musician Tommy Vaughn Pens Book Series 'This Rock in My Heart'March 17, 2012They say only time will heal a broken heart but Frankie Spencer proves that theory wrong. Music was her guide, and a job at a legendary Hollywood recording studio was her gateway. Bravely fighting her way out of a suffocating relationship, Frankie began working at Cherokee Studios with a cast of characters fit for a royal tabloid court. From the Amazon blonde drummer to the son of a rock legend, she danced, pranced, and sang with rock stars and strippers alike. Every strum of the guitar was like a beat of her heart, bringing her back from the edge into a whole new world of mayhem, romance and stuff "books are made of". Frankie stepped into the Hollywood dream and made it her own. The beginning volume of the Frankie Spencer Series will lead you through the start of her rock and roll awakening and may even inspire a journey of your own.
STAGE TUBE: Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins Manila's IN THE HEIGHTS Curtain Call!March 17, 2012A different kind of 'Lin-sanity' is happening in Manila! Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator, original leading man, and Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer of the critically-acclaimed Broadway musical In the Heights, visited the Philippines for the first time, and led, March 16, Friday night's opening night curtain call for Atlantis Productions' restaging of In the Heights - the show's first ever licensed production in Asia, which features an all-Filipino cast - at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City.
Music/Words Presents Concert Featuring Clarice Assad & Inna Faliks With Samantha Malk, 4/22March 11, 2012Music/Words (www.musicwordsnyc.com), an interdisciplinary series founded and curated by NYC- based pianist Inna Faliks (www.innafaliks.com), continues its fourth season on Sunday, April 22, 2012, at 6:00 pm with a performance at New York's Cornelia Street Cafe featuring Faliks and guest pianist Clarice Assad at the piano along with soprano Samantha Malk and poet Irina Mashinski. The program will explore the sensuousness of early Schoenberg (with the Stefan Georgy poetry used in the songs), along with the passion of Mashinski's poetry and Assad's Brazilian music. The program includes Schoenberg's Drei Klavierstucke, opus 11; his songs from Book of Hanging Gardens; and various improvisations by Ms. Assad based on Brazilian piano music. The Cornelia Street Cafe (www.corneliastreetcafe.com) is located at 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, NYC. Tickets are $20 (includes a drink or credit against food) and are available by calling 212-989-9319.