Friday, October 26, 2018
The title of Sara Bareilles’ new song, “Armor,” makes it sound like she’s ready for battle. And that’s not altogether off the mark for this female-centric anthem, as the lyrics tak…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:29AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
The “A Star Is Born” soundtrack is a star in its own right. Sources watching retail reports come in from the album’s first five days of sales say it’s expected to debut with more tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:25PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
It’s not hard to convince a lot of pop stars to run off to the circus when that circus is the “Greatest Showman” score, the original soundtrack of which has been one of the biggest sel…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01AMMonday, October 8, 2018
One of the emotional climaxes of the new “A Star is Born” remake arrives when Bradley Cooper, playing alcoholic country-rocker Jackson Maine, drunkenly humiliates his wife, a mortified L…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMFriday, August 17, 2018
At some point in the process of listening to Ariana Grande’s fourth and most delightful album, “Sweetener,” which is slightly dominated by six songs produced and co-written by Pharrell…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
The Go-Go’s have never had a harmonic bicoastal convergence like the one they’re enjoying in both Los Angeles and New York this month. On the east coast, Broadway is currently playing ho…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMFriday, April 20, 2018
The sleek, carefree party jam of the spring… as inspired by the Manchester bombing of last spring? That’s not a contradictory notion, at least not in the intent behind Ariana Grande’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:28AMSaturday, February 24, 2018
Baz Luhrmann is nowhere near South Korea at the moment, but you could be forgiven for thinking that he had a hand in the winter Olympics. A good part of it is playing out as a tribute to his…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, October 16, 2017
“It’s a world out there that is horribly stressed,” said Bob Roth, the well-known transcendental meditation (TM) teacher, providing some remarks at a two-day festival designed to raise…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35PMMonday, November 10, 2014
“I don’t think the term mash-up existed then," playwright/director James Lapine said of the origins of the 1987 Broadway successread more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:53PMSunday, June 8, 2014
One day last fall, on the Jersey Boys location shoot, music legend Frankie Valli found himself at his childhood home, revisiting his humble beginnings in the projects of Newark. “I was sit…
SOURCE: parade.condenast.com at 08:36AMEvery time a Broadway musical gets made into a feature film—which isn’t nearly often enough—a groan goes up in the world of theater lovers as casting announcements are made. Almost wit…
SOURCE: parade.condenast.com at 08:36AMThursday, March 21, 2013
Cautionary tale or theatrical thrill-aganza? Who cares, when Tracie Bennett, as Judy Garland, commands the stage. Playing Judy Garland in the months leading up to the actress' fatal 1969 ove…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMThursday, April 26, 2012
The musical's thin fictionalized take on the actual meeting of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins is saved by the songs and performances.You'd be hard-pressed to fi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThursday, December 29, 2011
With sweeping themes of friendship, individualism, power and prejudice, 'Wicked,' now in its third run at the Pantages, offers something for everyone. Dear little girls and Gleeks of America…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM 
