A “Neil Sedaka Tribute” featuring Clay Aiken, David Foster, Lou Christie, Natalie Cole, Raul Midon, Renee Olstead, the Bad Plus and the Captain Tennille takes place at Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza in NYC, at 8 tonight. Tickets are $40-$140 at www.lincolncenter.org. Alt-rocker Morrissey rocks the Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 W. 34th St. [...]
Today You’ve spent weeks making sure the blood on your zombie costume looks realistic. See if your hard work will pay off at Rookies’ Halloween party and costume contest. There will be cash prizes for the best costume. 9 p.m. 1251 Yosemite Ave., Manteca. $10. 21 and older only. (209) 824-2889. October brings the [...]
Monday, the Public Theater revives its new play reading series, Public Exposure, with “Harry’s Friendly Service” by Rob Zellers , popular, longtime education director and co-author of “The Chief.” It follows a family through the decline of the steel industry in Zellers’ hometown, Youngstown. Ted Pappas directs Bridget Carey, Alex Coleman, Edward James Hyland, [...]
It’s probably worth getting out of the way letting you know that Control doesn’t suck; in fact, it doesn’t come close to sucking. With just about every musician biopic released in the past few years being an Oscar-baiting, barely above movie-of-the-week material, Control stands alone as a fascinating meditation of the stillness of an icon. [...]
Another big theatrical event is the arrival of “ The Drowsy Chaperone ” at the Academy of Music, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. This Broadway hit tells the story of a modern-day musical theater addict through a show within a show focused on a 1928 musical comedy. Its madcap fun and family friendly.
Piffaro - The Renaissance Band Late medieval and Renaissance music performed on period instruments. www.piffaro.com . St. Mark s Church, 1625 Locust St.; 215-735-1416. $15-$30. 10/26 8 pm. Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church and Widener Hall, 8855 Germantown Ave.; 215-247-8855. $15-$30. 10/27 8 pm. The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, 719 N. Shipley [...]
Vampires Rock will be at the theatre tonight. Billed as the Rocky Horror Show” meets “We Will Rock You”, the show combines some of rock music’s favourite anthems with dazzling pyrotechnics, garish costumes and seductive dancers. The story is set in New York in 2030, where the undead walk among us.
About now Radiohead’s new album should be provoking a strange feeling. No, not the panic of a music industry who might see the album’s honesty box download mode of delivery as the greatest blunder in rock’n’roll accounting since the Colonel handed Elvis a pen. And no, it’s not the habitual confusion which followed the English [...]
Marx once referred to religion as the opium of the masses, but in today s China it is the music promoted on state-monopolized radio that increasingly claims that role.
A drunkalogue consists of three parts: what it was like, what happened and what it’s like now. Following a format that Clapton, now 20 years sober, could probably recite in his sleep, the world’s most famous rock-and-blues guitarist duly — and sometimes dutifully — covers the bases.