If you watched the Emmy Award-winning show Smash, you’ll know it featured a serious range of Broadway and Hollywood talent. There was music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman, who also served as Executive Producers alongside Steven Spielberg and show creator and playwright, Theresa Reback. It was Joshua

‘Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses,’ Christian Dior said in 1957. ‘They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.’ In 2019, when the Christian Dior, Designer of Dreams exhibit came to London’s Victoria

Some of you might have been lucky enough to hear gifted siblings cellist Sheku and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason perform at the Vancouver Recital Society Orpheum concert last December. 23 year old Isata was scheduled to perform the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Royal Albert Hall on April 18th

Online buzz has been building and today is the day. At 10 am PST, Andrea Bocelli will be performing his Easter concert – Music For Hope – live from Duomo di Milano. In the centre of a city besieged by Covid, the famed tenor will be alone, accompanied only by

You don’t have to wait long to find Legally Blonde playing on TV and an eager audience revisiting Reese Witherspoon in her signature 2001 role. . . It takes guts to re-mount a story people can recite from memory, vocal inflections and all, Yet, in 2007, Legally Blonde The Musical came

The crown, the barking dog, the crawling baby. Friends Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring developed their signature tags early. Both were enormously influential and politically provocative. Both died unthinkably young – Basquiat at 27, Haring at 31. Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria was to be running Crossing Lines – their

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is opening up his vault. And there is some serious treasure inside. . . In a new online series entitled The Shows Must Go On, we’ll see a different, full ALW musical each Friday.  First up: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Donny Osmond. And it

Getting a little squirrelly in the house? Wistful about cancelled Spring Break plans? Disneyland Paris offers distraction with come-along videos of their rides and best seat in the house views of their parades and shows. You get the experience of walking in and seeing the lines, but these ones move

The Sound of Music, Oklahoma, Carousal, South Pacific, The King and I… Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-79) and dramatist/lyricist Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) were the brilliant minds behind the songs and shows that continue to fill our heads and stages today. The industry powers-that-be came in convinced that Rodgers and Hammerstein could

‘The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center,’ we read, ‘is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. We believe jazz is a metaphor for Democracy. Because jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal freedom and encourages individual expression. Because jazz is swinging, it