entertainment - "music"

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in association with The Institute for Vietnamese Culture & Education (IVCE) announces the North American premiere of The Missing Woman, a Vietnamese folk tale examining the lives of women in Vietnamese society. Written and directed by Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc and music by Tran Vuong Thach and Hai Phuong, The Missing Woman is performed in Vietnamese with English narration and plays April 2nd - April 12th at the West End Theater, 263 West 86th St. opening night is Monday, April 7th at 7:30 PM. For more information please visit www.PanAsianRep.org.

Under the mentorship of Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist William Finn, Barrington Stage Company is proud to announce the third exciting season of its acclaimed Musical Theater Lab. Developed by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd in conjunction with Finn in 2006, the Lab is designed to nurture and assist musical theater writers, composers, and lyricists as they create new works. These musicals, when fully developed, will result in workshops and/or full presentations. Since its founding, the Musical Theatre Lab has already presented six original/new musicals/revues, in addition to numerous readings and workshops.

THE PHILADELPHIA Film Festival - which opens tomorrow and runs through April 15 - will really be humming this year, with more music-oriented documentaries and biopics than ever before. A couple focus on highbrow musical forms, more celebrate mainstream styles or service the freaky fringe. Yet all reflect, in their way, on the power of music to unify and invigorate as well as entertain us. Here's one music fan's brief take on the offerings, as they'll be unspooling chronologically.

Front Page: music artist to host 'Spectacle' for network -- Sundance Channel has landed Elvis Costello as host of a weekly music-variety talkshow to kick off in December, signing Elton John as an executive producer.

Music News: 'Making the Band's' Day26 at No. 1 spot -- It's a significant fortnight for the groups created on the TV show 'Making the Band': Last week it was Danity Kane at No. 1 and this week it is Day26.

Music News: Executive joins from Google -- EMI music has appointed Google's chief information officer, Douglas Merrill, to lead its growing digital music business.

Rap music went from an art form that warned against the dangers of drug abuse to one that often glorifies illegal drug use, ...

International News: Program to air on Sundance, Channel 4, CTV -- Elton John and Elvis Costello are teaming up for a new music series set to launch on the U.K.'s Channel 4 and Sundance Channel in the U.S. later this year.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The 'High School Musical' gang is returning to Utah this month for their senior year....

Music News: Executive to head Swedish operations -- Per Sundin has been appointed managing director of Universal music Sweden, replacing Marten Aglander, who left the company earlier this year.