Broadway's Christine Ebersole to perform in Broadway in …
Dec 5, 2024 · A 2023 review of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by New York Stage Review when Ebersole and Stritch took it to 54 Below cabaret club in New York City, said "Sure, there’s definitely plenty of sentiment ladled out in the course of the evening, roughly two thirds of which is devoted to Yuletide-themed numbers. But there’s also plenty of hilarity, thanks to Ebersole’s perfectly timed, deadpan ...
Chuck & Mud to strum into 45th anniversary with show at John …
Oct 10, 2024 · That influence lasts a lifetime, as Rocheleau-Demers recalled. Some of the fans who were children in the audience at Chuck & Mud’s 1990s and early 2000s shows are now adults in the audience at today’s shows, old enough to bring along children of their own.
Broadway in Worcester announces show starring Cheyenne Jackson
Dec 5, 2024 · Stage, television and film star Cheyenne Jackson will perform as part of Broadway in Worcester's 2024-25 season on March 7 at the BrickBox Theater at the Jean McDonough Arts Center.. Tony-Award winning actor and singer and songwriter Gavin Creel was to have appeared in the Broadway in Worcester series on March 7, but died tragically on Sept. 30 at the age of 48 of a rare and aggressive form of ...
'Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience' to bring art to heart of …
Nov 12, 2024 · "Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience," running from Nov. 14 to Jan. 31 at the Mercantile Center, is "exactly what it sounds like," said John Zaller, the producer overseeing the exhibition. "From the minute you enter to the time you leave you are immersed in the world of Vincent van Gogh like never before," Zaller said. That includes using 360-degree projections and virtual reality where you are ...
'Tina — The Tina Turner Musical' coming to The Hanover Theatre
Oct 8, 2024 · "Tina — The Tina Turner Musical" was just two performances into its new national tour, but the show was already putting together a notable record. "So far, two-for-two standing ovations," said cast member Steven Sawan after the musical's opening Sept. 24 and 25 at the E. J. Thomas Hall in Akron, Ohio. "You feel the audience," he said about the reaction to he show's inspiring story of Tina ...
Opinion/Worcesteria: A closer look at the Downtown Worcester BID
Oct 7, 2024 · The organization first caught the public eye when it partnered with the city to put on the Out to Lunch concerts and Movies on the Common (the last of which for this year will be Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” Oct. 17).
Fractal Tribe art collective set to bring light to holiday festival
Nov 21, 2024 · Years ago, during the days when the Fractal Tribe art collective ran its own music venue in Worcester, fans would come to see their favorite artists, but stay for the glowing hieroglyphs that lit up the walls. “We made our own font and wrote a bunch of important values we thought people should live by, and we never translated them.
Nick Noble's annual live holiday show for WICN is 'Controlled chaos'
Dec 3, 2024 · Somehow, Nick Noble’s year-end holiday shows keep getting bigger and bigger. Noble, who hosts “The Folk Revival” from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursdays for WICN 90.5 FM, has always held his annual live holiday show on the second Thursday of the month. This year, for the first time in a while, the show is coinciding with the station’s annual fund drive, taking an event which he already refers to ...
Gary Sohmers crafts out-of-this world 'Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera'
Oct 2, 2024 · Rock 'n' roll fantasy. Ageless hippie Gary Sohmers is the writer, lyricist, creator and producer of “Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera.” Turns out, Sohmers — an appraisal expert of pop culture, collectibles and toys for 13 years on “The Antique Roadshow” and entrepreneur of the legendary Wex Rex, formerly in Hudson (where he lives) — is also a frustrated rock star.
Get your Irish up at Irish Cultural Festival at Polar Park
Oct 9, 2024 · (This story was updated to correct the spelling of a name)At the beginning of Worcester’s first Irish Cultural Festival last October, organizer Caitlin Sargent watched one memorable moment unfold as two Gaelic football teams lined up on the grass at Polar Park. “Right before the opening ceremonies, we had a lineup with the Irish flag, the American flag, and one line was the American-born ...