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The gods themselves get mostly shoved out of the picture in “The Odyssey,” as has been noted by some filmgoers who wished Zeus or Poseidon got in on the action instead of just being talk…
To paraphrase Aaliyah: Cast size ain’t nothing but a number. In the realm of the theater, no one exactly equates the number of headshots on a Playbill page with the ultimate fulfillment a …
Broadway will be saying “Hello, Dolly” before the end of the year, as the musical telling the life story of country-pop superstar Dolly Parton is set to begin previews at the St. James T…
In the acclaimed revival of “Brigadoon” now playing at Pasadena Playhouse, Tyne Daly is by far the marquee name, as the “Cagney & Lacey” star appears as the Widow Lundie, a role …
In the classic musical “Brigadoon,” the Scottish townspeople who inhabit the mysterious town of the title keep referring to “the miracle,” which confounds the two American travelers …
Hayley Williams has some mixed feelings about both Los Angeles and Nashville, evidently. Kicking off a three-night stand at the Wiltern Wednesday night to conclude her “Hayley WIlliams at …
Rita Wilson is hardly the first Hollywood actress who’s complained of a dearth of interesting parts for women, or to have met that by realizing that she might have to proactively create ch…
There’s something deeply counterintuitive about the idea that we would go to a pop concert — the most communal-seeming of all gathering places, outside of a football game or church — i…
“Who’s Madeline?” is still the year’s preeminent pop-music question. But coming up close behind that: “Where the eff is Randy Newman on the New York Times’ list of the 30 greates…
At the annual ASCAP Screen Music Awards Tuesday night, the performing rights organization announced the winners of its Composers Choice Awards, a set of honors voted upon by members, with tr…
Ringo Starr, crooner. It’s not everyone’s first go-to when we’re talking about someone who has rightly earned a reputation as the most important, and many would say best, drummer in th…
The Indigo Girls have been receiving an outpouring of support and love from fans and famous admirers, after the duo released a video statement in which Emily Saliers got exceptionally frank …
Headed into an upcoming residency at Las Vegas' Sphere, No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont revealed in a video statement over the weekend that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease years ago,…
When Bruce Springsteen brought his "Land of Hope and Dreams Tour" to the Los Angeles area this week, it followed the same template as the opening night of the tour in Minneapolis exactly sev…
Mitchell Fink, whose career as a celebrity gossip columnist and entertainment journalist included stints ranging from People magazine to the New York Daily News to the Los Angeles Herald Exa…
As Mitski played a five-night engagement at Hollywood High School this past week, any teachers who might have made it into the school auditorium for the shows must have been insanely jealous…
When Mitski wraps up a five-night residency at Hollywood High School this weekend, it will conclude an engagement that follows in a very limited tradition of rock or pop stars doing shows in…
First of all, let's dispense with some Bruce Springsteen mythology: It is a fallacy that all his concerts last three hours. Opening a fresh tour Tuesday night at the Target Center in Minneap…
Bruce Springsteen has said that his 2026 "Land of Hope and Dreams" tour with the E Street Band will be political, and he was not exaggerating. On the tour's opening night in Minneapolis, aft…
Playing the first of two nights at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood Friday night, Paul McCartney acknowledged the tiered arrangement that had VIPs up in the balcony and the hoi polloi down on …
A benefit for Music Will, described as the largest non-profit school music education program in the U.S., will salute T Bone Burnett, Master P and Maren Morris as its honorees at a gathering…
Chip Taylor, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee who is best known for writing the classic hits "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing," died Monday at age 86. The death was reported on so…
Bob Dylan's touring continues to appear never-ending, to use the catchphrase that fans long ago applied to his near-constant bouts of road work. Now the west coast will be the beneficiary of…
Willie Nelsons Outlaw Music Festival will return for an 11th anniversary tour in summer 2026, it was announced Tuesday. But for some fans of these Americana extravaganzas, it may require a b…
Taylor Goldsmith, the frontman of Dawes, was addressing the crowd from the stage at the grand opening of Pacific Electric, a brand new venue near downtown L.A., when he made it clear that he…
The title of Taj Mahal's just-announced album, due out May 1, is "Time," a simple concept that the blues-folk-soul-reggae artist is better equipped to address than most musicians, in part be…
How many phenomenal young British female singers can one world withstand? It's hard to imagine a more enjoyable onslaught than the wave that has brought us Olivia Dean, Raye and Sienna Spiro…
Paul McCartney is putting on sale two performances in an intimate setting at Hollywood's Fonda Theater for March 26-27, his first shows since wrapping up an arena tour in November. The conce…
Fresh off the road from a stint with Heart, Ann Wilson will undertake another tour in the coming months " this time hitting theaters, clubs and museums with the rolling premiere of a new doc…
Diane Warren is taking her latest Oscar loss in stride, posting on social media after the ceremony: "Well at least I'm consistent! And I set a new record tonite!! But U know me, I will be ba…
Barbra Streisand brought the audience at the Oscars ceremony to its feet by capping an In Memoriam speech offered in tribute to Robert Redford with a stanza from the theme song for "The Way …
The Shaggs may be the unlikeliest group since the dawn of rock 'n' roll to have attracted a cult of hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans, all of whom take their place on different …
Noah Kahan has stepped up with a spirited defense of Chappell Roan, after the "Pink Pony Club" singer went viral for tearing into paparazzi and professional autograph seekers that surrounded…
If you wrote a terrific batch of material as a young artist, would you immediately set out to record it, or would you put it into a time capsule, bury it and think, "This might come in handy…
As some institutions and individuals have headed for the exit door at the beleaguered Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra has thus far stayed put, after a 55-year association. Bu…
Stephen Hibbert, a writer and actor who went from the Groundlings to writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" and "Mad TV" to a cult role as the Gimp in "Pulp Fiction," died March 2 in …
For years now, there has been a lot of waiting, guessing and surely in-house prevaricating about who will be the next James Bond. But there is no need to dally, or shouldn't be, on the quest…
TAIT, for decades a juggernaut in providing technology and equipment for concert touring and other live experiences, has acquired Silent House, one of the foremost production studios and cre…
"The Kennedy Center Honors" have been presented under that longstanding, historic name for the final time. (Or at least for the last time for the next three years.) To the surprise of probab…
Is the 1977 album "The Beach Boys Love You" a classic and essential part of this great American band's catalog, or a lark? It's so different from virtually every other album the group ever r…
Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" is, at heart, a great love triangle. At one vortex, there's 18th century composer Antonio Salieri, wavering between piety and murderous peevishness. At another corn…
Baz Luhrmann is about to dive back into his long-aborning Joan of Arc movie. But before he does, he had to return to the Elvis well, and the King's new and returning subjects are glad he did…
Another Bruce Springsteen tour on-sale; another bout of elation among those who procured tickets. Along with, of course, another round of debate over how easy it was or wasn't to get those t…
Barry Manilow expected to be back on the road a week from now for the resumption of an arena tour. But life and his surgeon had other ideas. Manilow took to multiple media platforms Friday t…
Fascism has arrived and settled into Los Angeles. And before you say "Tell us something we don't already know," this refers to the opening on this coast of "Here Lies Love," the David Byrne-…
The Hollywood Bowl has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 summer season, and a key touchstone will be a week in August celebrating Gustuvo Dudamel's 17th and last season as music and artistic …
The group Young the Giant will be looking to turn North America's amphitheater circuit into its own private "Victory Garden" this summer, with a nearly three-month tour behind the forthcomin…
The majesty is not just in the purple mountains: It's in the voice of Brandi Carlile, who has one of the most celebrated vocal ranges in modern American music, and was an apt pick by the NFL…
No "Joke": Brandi Carlile is one of the few vocalists out there with so powerhouse of a voice, she could almost be considered overqualified to sing "America the Beautiful." That's what she'l…
The evening before Music's Biggest Night, there is always Music's Smallest but Mightiest Night. That could serve as one way to describe the Americana Music Association's annual Grammy Eve co…
