The Hails Release New Single 'Breathless'
by Michael Major - February 16, 2023 Five-piece indie outfit The Hails unveil their next single “Breathless,” and set a run of upcoming tour dates supporting The Happy Fits. Dreamily sliding from a leisurely guitar-driven stroll into a swanky groove, “Breathless” tier by tier climbs in intricacy until a sharp, punctuated ending on an e...
NKU Virtual Dance Concert to Feature New Works by Guest Artists
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 02, 2021 Northern Kentucky University's School of the Arts will be streaming Dance '21, a dance concert highlighting new works by guest artists, faculty, and students. Eleven dynamic dances will add up to an evening of concert pieces that highlight various genres of dance. The production will be available to...
Casting Announced For HAMLET at Shakespeare's Globe
by Stephi Wild - December 20, 2021 Shakespeare's Globe has announced the full cast of Hamlet which will be performed for the very first time in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by the Globe Ensemble, directed by Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes....
VIDEO: Red Hot Chili Peppers Reveal New Single 'Black Summer'
by Michael Major - February 04, 2022 Red Hot Chili Peppers will unveil their new, twelfth full-length album, Unlimited Love. It notably marks their first recording with guitarist John Frusciante since 2006 and first with producer and longtime collaborator Rick Rubin since 2011. To herald Unlimited Love, the Los Angeles band just shared...
Photos: First Look at INTO THE BREECHES! at Stage West
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 27, 2022 Stage West will present George Brant’s hilarious Into the Breeches!, which begins a 4-week regional premiere run on Thursday, June 9. ...
VIDEO: Josh Levi Shares 'NASA' Performance
by Michael Major - January 26, 2022 With his soulful spirit, and attesting to his singular creative vision, Josh Levi gifts us with a live performance of his single “NASA”. Beginning his performance with an intimate approach while showing off his R&B cadence, Levi escapes the song using the black ambiance to his advantage and centerin...
Annabel Lee Announces Debut LP & Shares Track 'Los Angeles'
by Michael Major - January 25, 2023 Lee shares the powerful final single of the project, 'Los Angeles' out everywhere now. The most delicate and heart-wrenching song on the forthcoming LP, “Los Angeles” is the comfort to which every hopeless creative can empathetically cry along. With a pulsating soundscape like an unstable heartbeat,...
BASSET Debut New Single 'At My Feet'
by Michael Major - October 13, 2022 Acoustic songwriters Sam Clark and Yasmine Shelton, who make up the folk duo Basset, often look out the window of their Toronto basement apartment dreaming about going back to parts of the world they’ve fallen in love with. And it’s their appreciation for the natural world and its intersection with ...
VIDEO: Babyface & Ella Mai Unveil 'Keeps on Fallin'' Official Video
by Michael Major - August 31, 2022 The new video stars Emmy and GRAMMY® winning actress/comedienne Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip, Night School, Nobody’s Fool) as the very lively queen mother and Kendrick Sampson (Miss Juneteenth, “Insecure,” “The Vampire Diaries”) as the handsome prince who is courting Ella Mai. Babyface, who plays a d...
VIDEO: Ponderosa Grove Unveils New Video for 'Changin''
by Michael Major - March 16, 2022 Ponderosa Grove has released the video for their uplifting new single, “Changin’.” The song, inspired by the challenges of the pandemic, brims with optimism and poetic insights and is lavished with heavenly harmony vocals and elegant Americana instrumental virtuosity. Watch the new music video now!...
freeFall Theatre Presents LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL
by Stephi Wild - March 09, 2022 The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of one ...
THE WANDERERS Will Play Off-Broadway in January 2023
by Nicole Rosky - January 31, 2022 Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) has just announced updates to the next season’s Fall/Winter programming Off-Broadway. The Wanderers, by Anna Ziegler, directed by Barry Edelstein will start performances on January 26, 2023 at the Laura Pels Theater in the Harold & Miri...
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Comes to Stage West
by Stephi Wild - February 03, 2023 An unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything—what more could go wrong? Plenty, and you’ll have a grand time finding out, in the uproarious The Play That Goes Wrong, which begins a 4-week run Thursday, February 16, following its initial run at Water...
Thomas Bartlett Releases 'Bach: French Suites'
by Michael Major - May 27, 2022 Thomas Bartlett’s remarkable career has seen the musician, composer, and producer performing around the world both as Doveman and alongside The National, David Byrne, Nico Muhly, Anohni, Rufus Wainwright, and his own group, The Gloaming. Listen to the new suite!...
Stage West Announces 2021-22 Season, Beginning in October 2021
by Stephi Wild - June 20, 2021 Learn more about the full lineup, including Scrooge in Rouge, Between Riverside and Crazy, JQA, Church & State, On The Exhale, Witch, and Into the Breeches!...
LISTEN: Jennifer Hudson Sings 'Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)' From RESPECT; Co-Written by Carole King!
by TV News Desk - June 18, 2021 Hear the new Carole King-cowritten track from the upcoming Aretha Franklin biopic....
ON THE EXHALE By Martin Zimmerman Will Be Performed by Actors Collaborative Toledo
by Stephi Wild - September 20, 2021 One the Exhale by Martin Zimmerman stars Marissa Rex as a woman facing an unthinkable tragedy. When a random act of gun violence tears one woman's world apart, she finds herself caught in the cross hairs of power lost and, very possibly, regained....
BWW Review: GALLIM Dance Company's BLUSH is Anything But Shy
by Lora Strum - April 28, 2022 In GALLIM Dance Company's 'BLUSH,' so many moments feel like a mental breakdown. Perhaps that madness is what lies just outside the theater, or perhaps that’s what audiences will leave behind....
Belinda Davids Makes Return To UK Stages With Tour Kicking Off This Month
by Stephi Wild - October 05, 2021 One month out, Australian producers of the hit Whitney Houston tribute concert The Greatest Love of All starring Belinda Davids have confirmed that their UK national tour is on track to kick-off later this month as scheduled....
Jennifer Holliday & Loretta Devine to Talk DREAMGIRLS on FRIDAY NIGHT VIBES
by Michael Major - May 26, 2022 This week Jennifer Holliday and Loretta Devine will sit down on Friday Night Vibes to discuss their experience working on 'Dreamgirls' with Tiffany Haddish and co-host Deon Cole. Additionally, super fan Diimond Meeks will perform 'And I Am Telling You' on the episode. Holliday and Devine starred in ...
Pronoun Release New Single 'I'm Right Back In It'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 20, 2021 Vellturo recently announced her first collection of songs since 2019 entitled, ‘OMG I MADE IT’, out June 11 through Wax Bodega. Vellturo describes ‘OMG I MADE IT’ as a replacement for catching up with someone over the past year; opening with the explosive ambulance siren in SOUNDS THE ALARMS!!!1! to...
Angela Bassett, Rian Johnson and the Cast and Crew of RRR to Be Honored at the 6th Annual Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards
by Michael Major - December 05, 2022 The Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) announced that Angela Bassett will receive the HCA Acting Achievement Award, Rian Johnson will receive the HCA Filmmaking Achievement Award, and the cast and crew of RRR will be presented with HCA Spotlight Award at the 6th Annual HCA Film Awards....
AN EVENING WITH WHITNEY: THE WHITNEY HOUSTON HOLOGRAM CONCERT to Play Extended Harrah's Residency
by A.A. Cristi - July 21, 2021 The boundary-breaking hologram concert spectacle, AN EVENING WITH WHITNEY: THE WHITNEY HOUSTON HOLOGRAM CONCERT, featuring the voice of one of the world's greatest entertainers virtually performing among a live band, backup singers and dancers while being surrounded by cinematic special effects will...
STEW By Zora Howard Will Have its Milwaukee Premiere This Month
by Stephi Wild - October 19, 2021 Milwaukee Chamber Theatre announce full casting and production details for STEW by Zora Howard, a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play and Milwaukee Premiere. ...
The Birmingham 2022 Festival Announces HEALING GARDENS OF BAB
by Stephi Wild - June 07, 2022 The Birmingham 2022 Festival and Fierce today announce the programme for Healing Gardens of Bab - a celebration of queer artists from across the Commonwealth, queer culture and histories. ... |