OUR TOWN Comes to Theater D This Month
by Stephi Wild - Mar 17, 2025
Deerfield Park District's Theater D will present Thornton Wilder's American classic, Our Town at Caruso Auditorium. Edward Albee, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright called Our Town, 'The greatest American play ever written.'
The Miracles Confirm 2025 Tour Schedule Including Seattle Residency
by Josh Sharpe - Mar 12, 2025
The Miracles continue to tour America treating audiences to the esteemed catalogue of one of the world’s most well-known and legendary acts. The current lineup will perform shows later this month before a four-night residency in Seattle in May.
Video: Six13 Releases 'A Wicked Chanukah'
by Stephi Wild - Dec 17, 2024
The Jewish a cappella group Six13 has released their Chanukah video, 'A Wicked Chanukah'! Set to the tunes from Wicked, including 'Popular' and 'Defying Gravity,' Six13's latest creation offers a fresh and heartfelt retelling of the Chanukah story.
Review: JOHN LLOYD YOUNG Wows with His Lush Tenor and Soaring Falsetto
by James Lindhorst - May 9, 2024
The Blue Strawberry in Midtown St. Louis welcomed John Lloyd Young on Wednesday evening for the first of two Shows.Highlights from his set included a soulful performance of the R & B classic “Show and Tell,” and a haunting introspective rendition of The Hollies song “The Air That I Breathe.” To say that Young’s voice is special is an understatement. His phrasing is impeccable. His vowels are open, pure, and rich. Young’s tenor is lush and resonant with pitch-perfect head and chest voice and a falsetto that soars. His vocal stylings are magnificent.
Interview: J. Daughtry of MJ THE MUSICAL at Broadway Across America
by Alan Portner - Apr 17, 2024
I remember seeing a remarkable, ten-year-old Michael Jackson with his brothers on Sunday’s Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1960s. He was a heck of a performer even then. It seems remarkable that the man that little boy became passed away more than fifteen years ago. More unbelievably, Michael would be eligible this year for Social Security and Medicare.
REALLY BIG SHOW Opens at MUSE/IQUE This Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 2, 2024
MUSE/IQUE’s next show in their 2024 season, themed Make Some Noise: Music and Stories of American Defiance and Hope, is Really Big Show: How Ed Sullivan Changed America Every Sunday Night.
Eclipse International Announces SHURIKA and DARIYO: PLANET UNIVERSE
by Michael Major - Feb 19, 2024
SHURIKA is written and directed by Kevin Grevioux (Underworld, I Frankenstein, King of Killers, now in release via Lion’s Gate) and produced by Moshe Diamant, whose many credits include The Protege, starring Michael Keaton, Maggie Q and Samuel L. Jackson, Memory, starring Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce and Taj Atwal, and more.
Interview: Paul Linke Illuminates Why IT'S not ONLY A SHOW!
by Gil Kaan - Jan 9, 2024
A long-time collaborator with Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Linke has co-written It’s Only a Show!, performing as the popular comedian in his one-man tribute to Charles Nelson Reilly. This solo show directed by Edward Edwards opens January 13, 2024 at the Ruskin Group Theatre, 5pm curtain, in tandem with John Colella’s An Extraordinary Ordinary Man at 8pm. Paul managed to find some time before starting tech to answer a few of my queries.