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By the time they got to Woodstock, three Inquirer readers and two staffers knew there was something special going on.

Bob Wiseman's gotten a lot of letters from defamation lawyers. Rather than turtling, he's used them as the basis for both music and theatre

Jailed US music producer Phil Spector is not coping too well in prison, says his publicist.

The Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) today announced details of its Performing Arts programming for 2009/10. With an eclectic mix of dance, music, comedy, and innovative artistic expression, the program is designed to transcend social, political and religious differences, and connect to the vital multicultural fabric of the Bay Area community.

A new doc premiering in Vancouver on Sunday features 31 different people listening to a 10-minute piece of music the audience can’t hear. Sound boring? Some are calling it the best film ever made about how people experience music

Music Reviews: Crooner has achieved pop accessibility by enhancing the punch of her music without compromising her classical training.

Sergio Trujillo, the acclaimed choreographer of Jersey Boys, Next to Normal and the forthcoming musicals The Addams Family and Memphis, will make his directorial debut with Havana, a new musical (not based on the film of the same name) with a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuban author Nilo Cruz, music by internationally-renowned Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Jack Murphy. Produced by Kathleen Raitt, William Franzblau/Jay Harris, Ben Sprecher/Louise Forlenza and Steven E. Leber/Jordan Leber, Havana, which is aiming for the 2010-11 Broadway season, will have a private industry presentation this week in New York.

Priestley, McEntire to appear at Vancouver awards ceremony in September

185 apprentices from 28 states, as well as Canada and American Samoa, will be performing in the Broadway Theatre Project Festival from July 30-August 1. Numbers in the four festival performances have been directed and choreographed by members of the BTP faculty including Artistic Director Debra McWaters, So You Think You Can Dance's Ryan Kasprzak, Radio City Rockette Kelly King, among others. Performances also include world premieres of workshops by Broadway Music Director David Loud and Broadway Composer Frank Wildhorn.

Nylon magazine music director to be first female editor of IPC music weekly NMEKrissi Murison, the music director of Nylon magazine in New York, is to be the first female editor of the IPC Media music magazine NME in its 57-year history.Murison, who will take up the role from 1 September, takes over from Conor McNicholas, who resigned in June to become editor of BBC Worldwide's Top Gear magazine.She had previously worked for NME for six years, joining as a junior staff writer in 2003 and rising to become deputy editor. Murison only left the title in February to make the move to Nylon.'There was an enormous amount of interest in this position and we interviewed some very strong internal and external candidates,' said Paul Cheal, the publishing director of NME.'However, I'm delighted that we've managed to lure Krissi back from New York to become the 11th editor of the NME.'NME has had a tough time recently, with circulation down 24.3% year on year to 48,549 in the six months to the end