An expanded and reworked new production of the recent Toronto Fringe festival hit, My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, begins Nov. 7 at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto. [read more]

William Penn grad on 'My Fair Wedding' reality TV show [read more]

Dreamgirls Begins Previews at the Apollo Theatre Nov. 7 Dreamgirls , the 1981 Motown musical about a girl group on the rise to stardom, returns to New York in a newly-imagined production (with new songs), bowing at Harlem's Apollo Theatre. The Dreams will take to the road after NYC. [read more]

Dreamgirls , the 1981 Motown musical about a girl group on the rise to stardom, returns to New York in a newly-imagined production (with new songs), bowing at Harlem's Apollo Theatre. The Dreams will take to the road after NYC. [read more]

It started with a young couple searching for a project they could embrace together. A single song grew into an hour-long play, and then into a surprise sell-out hit at this year's Toronto Fringe Festival. [read more]

The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Sean R. (aka chembilly) in Foresthill, Calif.: [read more]

On "American Idol," Gedeon McKinney sang songs by Sam Cooke, The Isley Brothers and Percy Sledge, but McKinney set out on a European tour Thursday with a Michael Jackson repertoire from "Ben" to "Bad." The 21-year-old Memphian whose family once was homeless thought he'd "seen it all," but that's before a touring spinoff of London's West End "Thriller Live" production hit the road for what ... [read more]

The late Tony Wilson once told me, "I'm not the one who will have his life turned into legend, in the way that happened to Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud. It won't be me. It will be John Cooper Clarke." "Bloody hell," says the poet. That conversation took place 20 years ago, I tell him – when Wilson was still running the Haçienda; years before the release of Control and 24 Hour Party People ... [read more]

This band don't do small, and they don't do subtle. As the gig begins I am staring up at three giant illuminated tenement towers when they suddenly rip down the middle to reveal the three members of Muse – the bird-like Matt Bellamy, the elf-like Dom Howard and the dad-like Chris Wolstenholme – perched on podiums 20ft above our heads like the goodies inside the world's biggest Christmas cracker. [read more]

On the American poster for Karin Albou’s new film, “Le chant des mariées,” the tag line reads something like “a friendship nothing could destroy” (or some- thing like that). It’s a clichéd line that sells short this thematically bold and visually striking second feature by the director of “Little Jerusalem.” [read more]