Monday, June 23, 2025
Dolly Parton has not been out on the road since her "Pure & Simple" tour wrapped up in 2016, with only scattered one-off full concerts in the years since. So fans have an understanding o…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2025
It doesn't have to be a Great Depression " yet " for musicians who lack health care to get downtrodden about their prospects. To that end, the Sweet Relief charity has put together a new com…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
There was a good share of on-stage comedy happening at Rhiannon Giddens' all-star roots music night Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl. That much was assured, with Ed Helms hosting the evening,…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The singer for the alternative rock band Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is looking to make the audiences at their shows great again by making their crowds free of outright MAGA supporters again. In …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2025
For the last quarter-century, no one shared more musical moments with Brian Wilson than Darian Sahanaja, who was part of the Beach Boys architect's solo band from his return to live shows in…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2025
Never ask Halsey to be just one thing at a time, whether it's on record or in person. The singer's current outing, dubbed the "For My Last Trick" Tour, is one of this year's most impressive …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
The queen of "Defying Gravity" engages in a high level of expectation defiance on "I Forgive You," her exemplary second album as a singer-songwriter and first release since "Wicked" firmly e…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
This will not be your father's "Hamlet" " or even your dead-king father's "Hamlet" " when writer-director Robert O'Hara's reinterpretation of the Shakespeare perennial opens at the Mark Tape…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26PM[SHARE]To sleep, or not to sleep? That is certainly a question for Patrick Ball, who will spend his nights during the coming weeks playing the title role in "Hamlet" at the Mark Taper Forum in down…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01PM[SHARE]Morten Harket, the singer for A-Ha who rose to fame with the massive hit "Take on Me," has revealed that he is grappling with Parkinson's disease, and is not sure whether he will be able to …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2025
In some ways, among musicians whose catalogs are not chock-full of universally recognizable hits, Jill Sobule's catalog is exceptionally well-suited for a tribute show. The late singer-songw…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
"Jesus Christ Superstar" is getting starrier. The three-night production of the classic Broadway musical that is set for the Hollywood Bowl this summer is adding Adam Lambert to the cast, as…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2025
"Broadway becomes her" is something it's easy to say about Megan Hilty. When the average theatergoer heads to see her in "Death Becomes Her," they may feel, with good reason, that they're bu…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2025
From "Also Sprach Zarathustra" to also sprach LL Cool J… Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic managed to pack something for everybody into a guest-filled appearance Saturday eveni…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2025
A major exhibition exploring the life and career of the woman who is arguably country music's biggest living superstar, "Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker," will open at the Country Music Ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2025
Sara Bareilles, Jackson Browne and Kristin Chenoweth have been added as honorees and performers, alongside the previously announced Wyclef Jean, for a concert gala in New York benefiting Mus…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Adam Lambert is currently living out a dream, playing the role of the Emcee in the current Broadway run of "Cabaret," or, as it's officially known in this production, "Cabaret at the Kit Kat…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2025
There are the ladies who lunch. And then there are the ladies of musical theater who eat everyone else's lunch. "Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends" has plenty of the latter, and as a revue, as …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2025
The LA Phil announced the full lineup for its 2025 summer season at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday morning, with big names like Hugh Jackman, Juanes, Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross included in the …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
Allison Russell, the Grammy-winning Americana artist, is coming back up from the underground. On Sunday night, she finishes up a 15-week run in Broadway's "Hadestown," which has left her wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:17PM[SHARE]John Mulaney may have spoken best to the mostly wonderful randomness of the lineup for Friday night's live "SNL50: The Homecoming Concert" special when, late in the show, he invoked the memo…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
Fountains of Wayne will be performing concert dates this year for the first time since 2013, and the shows are proceeding with the blessings of the family of the band's co-founder, the late …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Everything's coming up you-know-what if you're a Sondheim fan on either coast this season. "Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends," the third revue to be built around the great composer's songbook …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2025
No one lauds the "Wicked" quite like Billie Eilish, at least when she is in full Ariana Grande fangirl mode, as she was in interviewing her longtime singing heroine after a screening of the …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Dolly Parton announced Tuesday that her autobiographical stage musical "Dolly: An Original Musical" will have its world premiere in Nashville this July, the first public stop on the way to a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2025
For most of the film and TV industry, the devastating L.A.-area fires of the last week have at least avoided scorching the studios where the work largely occurs. But there's no such consolat…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 5, 2025
Although most of Greg Wells' professional life has involved producing or writing for big pop artists (including Adele, Katy Perry, OneRepublic & Timbaland, Twenty One Pilots and John Leg…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 4, 2025
It's become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Stephen Schwartz will see you now. The worthier wizard of "Wicked" is the one who wrote one of Broadway's all-time top song scores and now, a little over two decades later, has overseen the …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2024
When Kevin Cahoon got his Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2023 as a featured actor in Broadway's "Shucked," he played a hayseed character whose sexuality might or might not have been know…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2024
When the sing-along screenings of "Wicked" go down beginning Christmas Day, I'll be there " but not because I have any intention of personally raising my voice in song. (Or maybe I'll join i…
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