Before Taylor Mac returns next year with the full 24 Decade History of Popular Music at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel, take a look a Taylor's pov on the entire project with an interview I did that posted...
Let’s throw it back to April 1, 1981 for a moment: It was two days after the attempted assassination of President Reagan. It was the day that Isuzu started selling automobiles in the United States. Blondie was topping the...
“The thing about doing concerts,” Brian Stokes Mitchell says, “is that it’s doing a live show. It’s on my schedule, it’s songs I want to sing, it’s saying what I want to say, it’s working with the people I...
After making a name for herself playing Sally Bowles in a French production of Cabaret in 1987, singer-actress Ute Lemper was encouraged to make an album featuring songs from that show and other pop and Broadway tunes. The CD was...
Hilty performs at VPAC on September 24, 2015
"Some people tend to say that some older songs feel trite and too old-fashioned. The truth is, they were, back in the day, incredibly innovative."
“I’ve known T Bone since we grew up together in Fort Worth Texas,” says singer and actress Betty Buckley in a room at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts where she will be performing on Saturday. Her...
There’s something about the decades well before his birth that keep hovering over Cheyenne Jackson. He first came to fame in All Shook Up, a musical using Elvis Presley’s songs. He later appeared in a revival of Finian’s Rainbow,...
“It’s like a marriage and I don’t want that to ever end.”
Not many singers who have a hit song at the age of sixteen are still performing at the age of 68. Even fewer still could suffer the incredible highs and lows that Bettye LaVette has experienced and still be,...