The Tony Award nominations were announced for the 79th annual celebration, honoring the best plays and musicals that Broadway offered during the 2025-2026 season. The award ceremony will return to the Radio City Music Hall located in Midtown Manhattan, airing live on CBS television channel and streaming online via Paramount+. This year s nominations have been […]
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The weather in NYC is slowly getting warmer, and there s no better way to enjoy it than a performance at the historical Mercury Lounge. Known for hailing artists big and small, the venue welcomed San Diego based band Foxtide with open arms this past Saturday, May 2. The night opened up with Georgia based band, […]
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On Friday May 2, St. Andrew s in New Paltz hosted the local band Wickham Falls for a stop on their first ever tour. The band, which originates from the Hudson Valley, was accompanied by New Vision (Hudson Valley) and 3 Dollars (Hoboken). Though it may not be what typically comes to mind when considering small […]
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The Park Theater Foundation presents its inaugural Bands & Brews festival Saturday, July 25 from 4 to 9 p.m. at The Barn at Dancing Grain Farm Brewery in Gansevoort, NY. The festival is headlined by Capital Region band Chestnut Grove, known for their high-energy grooves. The lineup also includes Griff, featuring members of Let’s Be […]
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On Friday, May 1, through dreary weather, fans came out to The Lost Horizon to celebrate Overtired’s new album Sweet Dreams and the play through of its entirety as well as bandmate Rick Dias’s (Beaustars) birthday. Starting the night of celebration was Poetry for Boys, a local alternative rock band that is set to open […]
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This June 3-21, Irish Arts Center (IAC) and Solab, in association with the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, will present North Star, created and directed by Kwame Daniels. This collaborative, immersive, standing-room theatrical event brings together Belfast artists and students from Belfast and New York for an epic live music and spoken word performance responding to abolitionist Frederick Douglass historic visit to […]
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The Glimmerglass Festival has announced details and casting for its touring production of Happy End, the electrifying musical satire by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Elisabeth Hauptmann. This new touring production brings together The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Saratoga, Finger Lakes Opera, and Seagle Festival in a shared effort to expand access to opera across the […]
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Three icons whose individual legacies helped define hip-hop, rock and social consciousness across decades have formed a new power-group called FREEDOM. Darryl “DMC” McDaniels (Run-DMC), DJ Johnny Juice (turntablist, Public Enemy) and Brian Hardgroove (Public Enemy, Fine Arts Militia) unite to form FREEDOM, a band created to bridge genres and generations, blending raw hip-hop energy, rock power and […]
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Playhouse Stage Company, the Capital Region s professional musical theater and premier arts education organization, has announced its summer 2026 season at Park Playhouse in Albany s Washington Park. In a new direction for the beloved summer program, PSC will present Elephant & Piggie s We Are in a Play, a musical adaptation of Mo Willems enormously popular children s […]
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On this episode of the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Podcast, host Tom Needham welcomes noted hip-hop historian JayQuan to discuss his new book Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years. The conversation celebrates the lasting impact of Run-DMC trailblazers of hip-hop and inductees of the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame while […]
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