A few weeks ago, I was hanging out with one of my best friends, a musical theater composer who has impeccable and refined taste. I had mentioned that I was going to review the Jersey Boys movie and he told me that when he saw the stage musical, it was so thrilling, “I wanted to…
When Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, neither one expected it to be the colossal hit it has turned into. It started out as a 15-minute piece in 1968, and then a concept album was recorded in 1969. Since then it has been on Broadway, in 1982, and…
SAN DIEGO – Members of the San Diego Opera Chorus will be singing opera arias and art songs as part of the 21st Annual San Diego Sicilian Festival on Sunday, May 18, 2014. The Jazz and Opera Stage at Grape Street will showcase opera in San Diego and raise awareness in support of San Diego…
LOS ANGELES – Today, 1Life Festival announced its nationwide search for one lucky couple to tie the knot this Independence Day weekend with a dream wedding celebration at “America’s First Gay Massive.” To celebrate equality in light of the legalization of gay marriage in California, 1Life is giving way the ultimate wedding package to the…
SAN DIEGO – At 7 p.m. Sunday, May 18, the iconic folk duo the Indigo Girls will join the San Diego Women’s Chorus (SDWC) for an exclusive performance at the Balboa Theatre. This unprecedented concertSongs of Protest, Songs of Peaceis a fundraising event benefiting the newly launched Lesbian Health Initiative of the San Diego Human…
OK, pay attention. Sometimes, that’s all you need: just someone to watch you, to hear what you’re saying or understand your feelings. A little attention can be a bad-mood squasher, a good-mood enhancer or just validation. Yes, a minute in the spotlight can do wonders. And as you’ll see in Ham: Slices of a Life…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego REPertory Theatre (San Diego REP) San Diego REP has announced their Season 39 line-up. Each of the six productions for 2014-2015 in San Diego REP’s 39th season “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” “Honky,” “Steal Heaven,” “Oedipus El Rey,” “Uncanny Valley,” and “Lifeline: The Music of Harry Nilsson” is brand new…
SAN DIEGO — Tickets are still on sale for Tantrums and Tiaras: Battle of the Bar Queens 2014 – and they’re going fast! The show, scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 16 at 7 pm, is an over-the-top drag competition where representatives from some of the community’s bars with little or no drag experience compete for the…
LOS ANGELES — David McFarland, founder and CEO of United For Equality In Sports & Entertainment (UESE), has announced the non-profit’s official launch with a high-level event, Sport Comes Out Against Homophobia, at the United Nations. The goal of the event, which takes place today is to create a global discussion on the role of sport in…
Not many singers have the distinction of winning both an Oscar and two Grammy awards and have starred in one of Broadway’s most acclaimed rock musicals. Not to mention also being a cancer survivor, mother of four children and a political activist; but that’s exactly what life is like if you’re Melissa Etheridge. Etheridge does…
