Because of Him on Video - 2021

Andrew Lloyd Webber made a visit to CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL at PAC NYC, and met with the company after the show. We spoke to the production's music supervisor, William Waldrop, about Webber's visit. See the photos and learn more about Webber's time at the Junkyard.

Colorful, bright, and moving — some words I’d use to describe Junie B. Jones The Musical. The music grabs you right off the top and the energy carries through until the end. Never a dull moment.

The first musical of 2024 has officially arrived! In this video, watch as Brian d'Arcy James, Kelli O'Hara and the team of Days of Wine and Roses celebrate opening night on Broadway.

Jazz vocalist and pianist Sarah McKenzie is set to release her new album 'Without You' featuring renowned Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo and cellist Jacques Morelenbaum, along with drummer Peter Erskine. The album is a culmination of McKenzie's career and showcases her collaboration with the talented trio.

 Brenda Mills, President of the Plano Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors, announced that at a recent Board of Directors’ retreat, Maestro Héctor Guzmán, the PSO’s longstanding music director and conductor, presented a five-year strategic artistic plan for the orchestra.

Nashville Ballet will be concluding their 2022-23 Season April 21–23 at TPAC with New in Nashville. A celebration of long-time Artistic Director Paul Vasterling, who has been a part of the company for more than three decades, this unique sampling of music and movement will highlight the growth of the company under Vasterling’s leadership. 

Rice has worked in music, theatre, and films since 1965 and has collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on The Likes Of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita. He has also worked on The Lion King, Aida, Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast, Chess, From Here To Eternity, and more.

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center announces the passing of Pedro Rodriguez, legendary director of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) and elder statesman of Chicanx arts. He passed away on December 1 in San Antonio from long-term illness complications.  He was 86 years old.

SHOWTIME Documentary Films today announced We Need To Talk About Cosby, a four-part docuseries from Emmy-winning director W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell) that offers an in-depth look at the revolutionary career and personal descent of Bill Cosby. Watch the new teaser now!

Kritzerland celebrates their eleventh anniversary of producing monthly shows with KRITZERLAND’s 115th September 12, 2021 at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s. Had the chance to talk to Robert Yacko, a Kritzerland staple on his long relationship with Kritzerland, as well as on fun stuff on his resume.

After releasing 4 singles from his critically-acclaimed album, 'Things To Come,' including two international #1 iTunes chart-toppers, one might think Jeremy Parsons would sit back and enjoy the sweet sounds of success.

Today, Baltimore Center Stage announced updates to their 58th season. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, this new season allows both the rehearsal process for cast and crew, as well as the delivery of the productions to audiences, to happen in the safest way while also best honoring the spirit of each production.  

Last month, post hardcore band LIMBS unleashed their new single 'Empty Vessel,' catching the attention of  Brooklyn Vegan,   Revolver, Metal Insider, and more.

A longtime theatre director in Indianapolis has died due to COVID-19.

Alecia Nugent’s new music video resonates with a visual simplicity and emotional honesty that is incandescent.

At a time of uncertainty with regards to the continuing effects of the global pandemic, as well as a much-needed reckoning of the ongoing racial injustice in our country, Baltimore Center Stage honors the collective need for progress, hope, and joy.

The Los Angeles Premiere of prolific playwright Del Shore's latest THIS SIDE OF CRAZY begins January 30, 2020 at the Zephyr Theatre. Del's latest in his entertaining and relatable dysfunctional family tales centers on renown Gospel singer Ditty Blaylock as she's about to be honored by the Gospel Music Network. Unbeknownst to her adoring public, the promised reunion of her three singing daughters, estranged for twenty-five-plus years, may be the death of Ditty yet. I had the chance to ask a few questions of Del Shores regular Dale Dickey, who plays Abigail Blaylock, the crazy, angry daughter.

Dance Media's Dance Magazine, the leading industry publication for everything dance, today released its inaugural “Dance & Activism” issue (November 2019), featuring pioneering choreographer Sean Dorsey as the first-ever, openly transgender artist to be featured on the cover. Dorsey is the founder of the SF-based modern dance company, Sean Dorsey Dance, which celebrated its fifteenth anniversary earlier this year.  The company is currently on a 20-city U.S. tour with its latest critically-acclaimed work, Boys in Trouble.

A welcome revisiting to this American classic.

John Bell and John Gaden reprise their roles as the men who saved Paris from being obliterated in the encore season of DIPLOMACY. 

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) presents its annual awards for the encouragement of new writing at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on Friday 8 February 2019.

The Disney classic, THE LION KING, is bringing the animals to Finland January 9th to March 28th, 2019.

On Wednesday, legendary ballet dancer and founder of National Dance Institute (NDI), Jacques d'Amboise, honored Harry Belafonte at the Fall installation of Jacques' Art Nest Series, “Dance for Change.”

Thirty years after its Broadway premiere - and just two-and-a-half years since its last run at Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center - Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera returns to Music City in celebration of that momentous anniversary with another stand in Andrew Jackson Hall, replete with all the firepower and starpower one so readily associates with the production. And Nashville aduiences once more respond with rapt attention and thunderous applause, almost as if they are witnessing the Phantom's exploits for the very first time.

DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME, a one-woman show, is a playwright's tribute to her Holocaust-survivor father.

Jasmine Batchelor and Andrea Goss star in The River opening this month at TheaterWorks in Hartford, Connecticut. The two actresses sat down with BroadwayWorld.com to chat about the upcoming play, the characters, and what the best advice they ever received when first starting out in the business.

Jim Schaeffer, the Artistic & General Director of the Center for Contemporary Opera since October 2008 announces his retirement, effective June 30, 2018.   A search for a new General Director will begin immediately.