Producers of the Grammy Awards telecast typically leave Broadway production numbers to their brethren who stage the annual Tony Awards, but this year they are making an exception. The openin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:01AMThe story of Motown Records is a rich and important one. It's not only the rags-to-riches story of a record label that rose out of inner-city Detroit to become a cornerstone in the foundatio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05PMLong before he was a Beatle, John Lennon was expressing his feelings not through song but through drawings and sketches he loved to create.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30AMSongwriter Mike Stoller says Pasadena Playhouse is the perfect hall for latest production of his jukebox musical 'Smokey Joe's Cafe.' It's just a few miles away from where he met songwritin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45PMEvangeline is back, a bit older but she’s still growing and changing. We’re referring both to the character and the play of the same name based on the Los Lobos song “Eva…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:17PMClive Davis has played a key role in some of the biggest careers in pop music, including '60s rock icons Janis Joplin , the Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana as well as pop and R&B hitmakers…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:14PMThe awkward Broadway hit, set in segregated Memphis in the 1950s, means well in its pleas for tolerance, but it falls back on the usual pop cliches.In one of the numerous bits of B movie dia…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThe musical is based on a 1956 Sun Records session with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.There's a moment each night in the "Million Dollar Quartet" stage musical…
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