entertainment - "music"

New york (Billboard) - Eight months after the floods following Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, there was at least one hard, good fact regarding a threatened music scene: the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival took place at its customary Mid-City Fair Grounds site.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, or don’t like Scarlett Johansson enough to follow her career (what are you, a commie?), then you know that Scarlett Johansson has been working on an album. A musical album. You know, like where she sings and stuff? Yeah, that kind. Anyways, we’ve all been dying to [...]

You could accept Operator Please's limited musicianship limitations and end on a 'potential for sure', but with these vocals they're are never likely to crack a smile on a critical face, let alone the mainstream market

The Broadway community turned out Tuesday night, April 1st to fete DANIEL BREAKER, the 'breakout' star of the new musical PASSING STRANGE (at the Belasco Theater) and his bride-to-be director KATE WHORISKEY, who will tie the knot in Manhattan on Daniel's one day off from his hit Broadway show on Monday, April 7.

Karajan shot to the top of Europe's classical music scene in the 1950s and remained a supremely powerful figure until he died in 1989. He leaves a legacy of gorgeous recordings, as well as a fair amount of controversy. The brilliant but embattled conductor lives on through his recordings, 100 years after his birth.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench will be starring (and singing) in the upcoming film version of the Tony Award Winning musical Nine. The film is being adapted by Rob Marshall and produced by the Weinstein Company.

By all accounts, Nathan Robinson was a 15-year-old who loved math, music and The Office.On Thursday night, Robinson's favorite TV show paid on-air tribute to the Massachusetts high-school...

Suzanne Shaw, who has just won the ITV television series Dancing on Ice, will return to the West End stage to star as Roxie Hart in the smash hit West End musical Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre on Monday 2 June for six weeks only (finishing on 12 July). Her other television credits include The Bill, City Central and Holby City. A member of Hear'Say (the original winners of television's Popstars), Suzanne has had several hit singles.

In Southern California, an ambitious Festival of New American Musicals aims to generate new great works to replace the constantly recycled old ones.

Exclusives: Buzz boosts musical's move to Lyceum -- Meta-tuner '[title of show]' gets its long-discussed Broadway run, when the musical about writing a musical lands at the Lyceum in July.