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Recommended Film: SHOULDER DANCE (Written and Directed by Jay Arnold)
Queer Film Shoulder Dance with The Flash Star Rick Cosnett to be Released by Breaking Glass Pictures in November Breaking Glass Pictures, having acquired worldwide rights to Jay Arnold’s award-winning queer romantic drama feature Shoulder Dance, plans a U.S. theatrical release beginning Nov. 3, followed by on-demand and digital release on November 14, 2023. The…
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Recommended Album: DEATH NOTE, THE MUSICAL (West End Cast Recording on Ghostlight Records)
GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release the London Concept Album of Death Note, The Musical following performances at London’s Palladium and Lyric theatres. The date for the 17-track album will be announced soon at Ghostlight. With score by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Bonnie & Clyde), lyrics by Jack Murphy, book by Ivan Menchell, and orchestrations and arrangements by Jason Howland, the forthcoming…
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Album Recommendation: THE DEEPEST BREATH (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Nainita Desai)
Lakeshore Records has released The Deepest Breath’”Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally with an original score by Emmy-winning composer Nainita Desai (The Reason I Jump). Desai captures the beauty, thrill and danger of the sport with music that weaves strings, keys and vocalizations into an enthralling mix. The film is streaming now on Netflix. Purchase or…
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Recommended Album: THE CREATOR (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer)
Hollywood Records has released The Creator (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with music by Hans Zimmer. The 12-track album is available now on digital platforms SPOTIFY & APPLE MUSIC. Gemma Chan as Maya in 20th Century Studios’ THE CREATOR. Photo by Oren Soffer. The Creator, from 20th Century Studios, New Regency, and Entertainment One, is an…
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Music Preview: LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (Matthew Kraemer’s Inaugural Season)
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Matthew Kraemer begins Inaugural Season Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at lpomusic.com or by calling Patron Services at 504-523-6530. Kraemer’s Upcoming Season Highlights Thursday, September 14, 2023 | 7:30 PM Opening Night Matthew Kraemer, Conductor Stacy Garrop: Song of Orpheus Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber…
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Recommended Jazz Album: MORE THAN YOU KNOW (Silva & Steini)
A SOOTHING YET UPLIFTING COLLECTION OF STANDARDS IS LOVELY — MORE THAN YOU KNOW Peaceful, lush, lovely, luminous, unhurried, timeless, and distinct, the debut album from Icelandic duo Silva & Steini, More Than You Know is proof of the pure magic in truly inspired song interpretation. Over the course of eight spellbinding tracks, Reykjavík-based musicians…
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Recommended Music: FREE POP-UP CONCERTS (Miller Theatre Fall Season at Columbia University)
Miller Theatre at Columbia UniversitySchool of the Arts announces the fall season of Pop-Up Concerts “Close to the music” takes on new meaning with this friendly, free modern music series with the audience onstage and free drinks at cocktail hour # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #…
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Recommended Film: RADICAL WOLFE (directed by Richard Dewey)
A WOLF IN WOLFE’S CLOTHING Kino Lorber is releasing Richard Dewey‘s Radical Wolfe, the first documentary about iconic American author and New Journalism pioneer Tom Wolfe. Radical Wolfe is an official adaptation of the 2015 Vanity Fair article “How Tom Wolfe Became : Tom Wolfe” by Michael Lewis, best-selling author of Moneyball and The Big Short and a long…
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Recommended Album: FYFTY (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Southern by the Grace of God indeed. On October 13, Geffen/UMe Recordings is set to release FYFTY, a 4CD/digital 50th anniversary box set that celebrates the enduring legacy of one of rock & roll’s most pre-eminent bands, Lynyrd Skynyrd. The career-spanning 50 tracks featured on FYFTY represent the best of the best music the band has offered up to its loyal,…
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Recommended Theater: RING OF FIRE: THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH (with Lance Guest, Drury Lane, Chicago)
Drury Lane Theatre continues its 2023 season with a celebration of one of America’s great music icons in Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash. American film and television actor Lance Guest, best known for his starring role in 1984’s The Last Starfighter., will play the lead. Drury Lane’s production of Ring of Fire: The…
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Highly Recommended Jazz Album: EXACTLY RIGHT! (Louis Hayes)
EXACTLY RIGHT! IS, WELL, EXACTLY RIGHT What swinging, unpretentious, accessible fun! Louis Hayes‘s music is full of life and humanity. It is sometimes refreshingly simple and sometimes intricately complex, sometimes light, sometimes dark, but it is always interesting and consistently engaging. Through it all, Louis Hayes has always remained indefatigably optimistic and his latest Savant release, Exactly Right!, is…
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Highly Recommended Album: SCHMIGADOON! SEASON TWO (Songs by Cinco Paul)
SCHMICAGO! The soundtrack to Season 2 of “SCHMIGADOON!” is now out, and it’s fizzy, frothy fun. The musical comedy series, a confluence of stage productions and their film adaptations produced by Lorne Michaels features original music and lyrics by the show’s co-creator and showrunner Cinco Paul, who has crafted all-new songs to match the Season…
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Highly Recommended Album: DARK BLACK COAL (Logan Halstead)
Logan Halstead, 18 years old, is a country/folk/americana singer-songwriter who grew up in Comfort, WV. Logan pulls most of his music from the struggle and hardship of his life and those around him. Small-town living isn’t intensely stimulating socially or economically, but spiritually there is always a yearning for more. Being from WV and KY, it’s no surprise…
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Highly Recommended Event: IMMERSIVE DISNEY ANIMATION (Lighthouse Immersive Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios in Hollywood
[Editor’s Note: The opening of the Los Angeles venue for Immersive Disney Animation has been delayed until further notice. There is no further comment at this time apart to say that guests have been notified, and tickets holders are being issued refunds. Lighthouse Immersive Studios apologizes for any inconvenience or disappointment.] IMMERSIVE DISNEY ANIMATIONPREMIERING IN…
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Highly Recommended Concert: RED EYE 2 TOKYO (Boston Court in Pasadena on April 1, 2023)
THEY RISE AGAIN Red Eye 2 Tokyo, founded by composer and multi-instrumentalist Shih-Wei Wu, will return to the stage for the first time after the pandemic shut down to bring you some rocking J-traditional Jazz fusion sound on Saturday April 1, 2023 at 8 at Boston Court in Pasadena (for tickets, visit Boston Court). There…
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Recommended Album: CHICAGO CLARINET CLASSICS (John Bruce Yeh, Patrick Godon, & Teresa Reilly)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist curates album of intimate treasures by past and present Windy City composers John Bruce Yeh, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s celebrated assistant principal clarinet and solo E-flat clarinet for over 40 years, headlines a program of lyrical and engaging chamber and solo works by noteworthy Windy City composers of the past and present,…
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Highly Recommended Music: CAMERATA PACIFICA (Feb. 12-17, Ventura, Pasadena, DTLA & Santa Barbara)
Camerata Pacifica is far and away the most programmatically original chamber outfit I know. In addition, the quality of the players is stunning (see my review of a program earlier this season). Based in Santa Barbara, CP performs a monthly series of concerts in Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Marino (at the Huntington), and DTLA’s Zipper…
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Highly Recommended Album: FEVER: A PEGGY LEE CELEBRATION! (Ann Hampton Callaway)
With her artist legacy series, pop/jazz vocalist and songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway paid homage to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan on two critically-acclaimed CDs while staying true to her artistic aesthetic. Callaway continues that series with Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration!, which highlights the songwriting talents of Lee, who wrote or co-wrote over 270 songs…
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CD Recommmendation: DAWN (Ola Gjeilo on Decca Classics)
GREET THE DAWN Dawn is the follow-up to Ola Gjeilo’s hugely successful 2020 album Night. This new solo piano wonder is now out on Decca Classics. Improvisation has long been at the core of Gjeilo’s composition and performance. Without being cloying, 17 cathartic tracks are guaranteed to soothe your troubles away. It’s great for working, meditating,…
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Music: ALAN & MARILYN BERGMAN LYRIC AWARD (ASCAP Foundation)
Alan Bergman and his late wife, Marilyn, wrote lyrics for film, stage and television for more than five decades, which earned them multiple Emmys, Grammys and three Oscars for “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “The Way We Were” and the score for Yentl. The ASCAP Foundation Alan and Marilyn Bergman Lyric Award is a new…
Music Review: NELLIE McKAY (City Vineyard)
by Rob Lester | April 29, 2026
in Cabaret, New YorkOff-Broadway Review: BROKEN SNOW (Theatre 71)
by Gregory Fletcher | April 28, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: THE SECRET SHARER (DNAWorks at Emerson Paramount Center)
by Lynne Weiss | April 27, 2026
in Boston, TheaterBroadway Review: JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (Barrymore Theatre)
by Paola Bellu | April 25, 2026
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