Wednesday, March 20, 2019
“I know it’s been a really long time since I made a record,” said Sara Bareilles, introducing a night of mostly new music at the Troubadour Tuesday. Hearing some shouted assents from t…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:07PMMonday, March 18, 2019
Myspace-related news travels very, very slowly in the late 2010s. So while the company had quietly acknowledged a massive data loss in response to user inquiries last year, it took until thi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Aretha Franklin is going on tour — or, rather, the concert movie she stars in is, as “Amazing Grace” is being booked for a solid week’s worth of premieres across the country at the e…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PMSunday, February 10, 2019
One of this year’s most nominated artists at the Grammys, Brandi Carlile, won all three of the awards she was up for in the pre-telecast ceremony Sunday afternoon. She was one of two p…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:22PMMonday, January 28, 2019
A few months before the film version of “The Sound of Music” hit the silver screen, a song plugger working the catalog of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein approached label owner Dav…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57PMMonday, January 21, 2019
In a year when Lady Gaga stands to win at least one Oscar next month and has a decent chance at two, it may sound like a case of premature congratulation to suggest that she’s already enjo…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PMMonday, January 14, 2019
Among those who are so F—ing grateful to Ariana Grande right now: the nation’s festival bookers, who, facing a shortage of contemporary rock heavyweights, are increasingly looking to…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMFans attending a free screening of “Springsteen on Broadway” at Monmouth University in West Long Branch Sunday night may not have noticed a familiar face in the audience: Bruce S…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:48PMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Joni Mitchell’s birthday party is making its way to the big screen. Fans who lamented they weren’t able to attend a sold-out pair of all-star Mitchell tribute concerts in L.A. tw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AMFriday, December 28, 2018
Ariana Grande may be celebrating the run-up to New Year’s Eve with bed rest. One thing is certain: She won’t be spending it on stage at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, where she’d been …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12PMThursday, December 20, 2018
Now that America has come together as one and finally settled that whole “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” thing (we did, didn’t we?), it’s time to spend the remaining days of the Christma…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Hope you like the 69-year-old version of Bruce Springsteen’s face, because it’s virtually all you’re going to see for the two hours and 40 minutes of the filmed “Springsteen on Broad…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32PMBrandi Carlile has some famous friends, and they seem to especially love her song “Party of One.” Recently Carlile released a duet version of the tune in which she’s joined by Sam Smit…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:59AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
If you thought the idea of Bruce Springsteen following his grueling run on Broadway with an E Street Band tour sounded too good to be true, now it’s official: it was. Springsteen — w…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
When one disco’s doors close, another disco’s doors open. That seemed to be the message from a dual alert from the producers of “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:18PMMonday, November 26, 2018
Broadway won’t be going to a go-go for long. “Head Over Heels,” the Elizabethan period farce scored incongruously to the music of the Go-Go’s, has posted a closing no…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMWednesday, November 14, 2018
John Legend, lately seen as Jesus, took on the role of another king of kings Tuesday night: Otis Redding. He electrified the room at the BMI Country Awards in Nashville by appearing for a cl…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMFriday, 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 03:00AM 
