musicians to protest at Grammys Stuff.co.nz Angry musicians will protest outside Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony over a decision to cut 31 ethnic and minority musical categories from the music industry's top awards. Organisers said they hoped dozens of music artists and fans of Latin jazz, ... and more »

Fairfield Mirror

?Smash? raises bar for musical drama shows Fairfield Mirror The new musical drama from NBC ?Smash? is about the lives of the many people that are a part of creating, producing and performing a new Broadway show about Marilyn Monroe. The show focuses on three main women: Karen (Katharine McPhee, ?American Idol?) ... Broadway sees itself in 'Smash'Los Angeles Times NBC's new musical proves 'Smash' hitThe Gamecock 'Smash' Premiere Recap: We've Got Ourselves A Star!MTV.com CBS News -Entertainment Weekly (blog) -RollingStone.com all 989 news articles »

Chris Treadway: More musical talent coming to Point Richmond San Jose Mercury News By Chris Treadway Call the music of Rita Hosking and her string band Americana. Call it country soul. Call it mountain music or folk. When the award-winning singer and songwriter brings her ensemble to the intimate and acoustically inviting space at ... and more »

Chicago Tribune

BWW Reviews: Green Day's Punk Music Rolls into Town with Energy Anger Intact ... Broadway World The Tony-award winning punk/pop musical roared into town on Tuesday with its mix of anger, angst and apathy firmly in place. More than a few blue-hairs couldn't leave quick enough, exiting the theater shortly after the loud and frantically-energetic ... 'American Idiot' is a loud, hard, Green Day lamentChicago Tribune all 5 news articles »

Music Review: Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Bahrami Fard - I Will Not Stand Alone Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) ORG For most of us in the West classical music calls up visions of men in tuxedos and women in long gowns playing highly formalized and rigidly controlled music. This is the last type of music we'd ever associate with any sort of improvisation as the ... and more »

A Hymn to a Hymn: Amazing Grace Musical Will Get Goodspeed Life in CT
The new musical Amazing Grace, based on the life of John Newton, the former slave trader who wrote the famous hymn of the title, will launch Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 Norma Terris Theatre season of new works in May.

Where Are Your Musical Blind Spots?
Ever feel guilty about not appreciating music you know you should?

Musical?s blonde ambition!
GET ready to paint the town pink ? the award-winning musical Legally Blonde is coming to Sheffield Lyceum.

Smash Premieres: Is NBC's Musical Drama a Hit?
NBC's highly anticipated musical drama, starring Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty, premiered Monday night

Magic and Bird ... the musical?
Yes, there's a Broadway musical coming about Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Let's guess the musical numbers!

Musical to raise funds for School in Hospital project
Broadway Bites is a story about friendship, respect, achieving dreams and stopping bullies, and this time, it will benefit the Sekolah Dalam Hospital (School in Hospital) programme.

Eric Schorr: Naked Japanese Gangsters Inspire Romantic Tattoo Musical?
Quiz time for all you musical theater fans: what is the name of the American musical inspired by two completely naked and totally threatening Japanese gangsters, or yakuza, covered from head to toe in Technicolor tattoos?

PHOTO CALL: It's Prom Night! First Look at Carrie , the Musical
Carrie, the infamously short-lived 1988 Broadway musical based on the Stephen King novel about a bullied teen with telekinetic powers who takes vengeance on her tormentors, returned in a newly revised Off-Broadway production. The MCC Theater production began Jan. 31 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

?Honeymoon in Vegas? musical coming to Broadway in 2013, starring Tony Danza
Honeymoon in Vegas, a new musical based on the 1992 film starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker, will open

Musical by Sting given first outing on Tyneside
STING?S embryonic first stage musical was given two try out performances on Tyneside at the weekend ? and afterwards the Wallsend-born star spoke exclusively to The Journal about his new venture.