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Cheyenne Jackson and Bettye LaVette to Take the Stage at Café Carlyle This Winter Season

Café Carlyle, based out of the Carlyle Hotel, presents January and February line-ups featuring singer and actor Cheyenne Jackson and songstress Bettye LaVette.Jackson's two-week engagement, "Eyes Wide Open," will be the performer's Café Carlyle debut and open the winter season from Jan. 13 to 24. "Eyes Wide Open" will take a personal and humorous look at loss, love, revelation and recovery with music ranging from Louis Armstrong to Lady Gaga.Cheyenne Jackson’s stage credits include "The Performers," "Damn Yankees" and "Xanadu" with television appearances on "30 Rock," "Glee," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Ugly Betty" and film work including "Love Is Strange," "United 93" and "Lola Versus."
By Jaime Prisco

  • Renée Fleming Will Make Her Broadway Debut in 'Living on Love' in April, Written by Joe DiPietro and Directed by Kathleen Marshall

    Grammy Award-winning opera singer Renée Fleming will make her Broadway debut this spring in a new play titled "Living on Love," a comedy based on none other then an opera diva, according to "The New York Times."In "Living on Love," Fleming will play opera singer Raquel De Angelis, whose conductor-husband starts to fall for a woman hired to ghostwrite his long-delayed autobiography. She retaliates by hiring her own ghostwriter but also gets romantically attached.Fleming will only sing a little in the play, some improvised a cappella.“I’ve spent my life singing tragic characters, so to be able to make people laugh is an extraordinary joy,” said Fleming.Written by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro ("Memphis"), Living is based on the play "Peccadillo" by Garson Kanin.
    By Jaime Prisco

  • The Collegiate Chorale Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Will Go Toward Concert and CD Recording of Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel's 'The Road of Promise'

    The Collegiate Chorale has been announced as one of 919 nonprofits nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Arts grant. The Collegiate Chorale will receive $30,000 in support of its May 2015 concert and CD recording of Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel's musical epic "The Road of Promise."NEA Chairwoman Jane Chu said, "I'm pleased to be able to share the news of our support through Art Works including the award to The Collegiate Chorale. The arts foster value, connection, creativity and innovation for the American people, and these recommended grants demonstrate those attributes and affirm that the arts are part of our everyday lives.""The Road of Promise" is a new concert adaptation of Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel's 1937 epic musical spectacle "The Eternal Road." The performance will feature a dramatic mix of opera, musical theater and pageant play. "The Road of Promise" tells the story of a young boy left in the care of a rabbi and his congregation in the wake of a pogrom. To calm the boy's fears and help him understand his faith and heritage, the rabbi recounts ancient biblical tales, and as he does the stories of Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, Rachel, Moses, Ruth, Saul and David come to life.
    By Jaime Prisco