Bobby Darin News

​​​​​​​The Magnificent Seven, a new musical about the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics team, will be presented in a limited run this summer, from Thursday, July 7 to Sunday, July 17, at Theatre Row.

Respected cabaret artist Susanne Mack recently finished a run of shows at Pangea and guest reviewer Andrew Poretz has some high praise for her.

On Saturday, May 21 the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra (CJRO) returns to the Arvada Center Main Stage Theatre with internationally acclaimed music phenomenon Steve Lippia in his first CJRO appearance since 2018. A long-time Las Vegas headliner and engaging entertainer, Lippia will be singing your favorite American songs of yesterday and today.

The Tiger Lillies return to the Soho Theatre with a vicious and viscous re-imagining of the classic Brecht and Weill opera, thick with murderers, thieves and all manner of villainy.

The indisputable music icon Roger McGuinn returns to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Monday, April 25, 2022 at 8 p.m.

Mr. Tambourine Man himself, Roger McGuinn, returns to the Poway stage on Friday, April 22, at 8 PM for “An Evening with Roger McGuinn.”

Drayton Entertainment will welcome audiences back this year at the the Drayton Festival Theatre in Drayton, Hamilton Family Theatre in Cambridge, Huron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend, King's Wharf Theatre in Penetanguishene, and St. Jacobs Country Playhouse and Schoolhouse Theatre in St. Jacobs. See what's coming up!

The album is a digital compilation featuring recordings from Darin's years with Capitol Records and Motown Records in the early 1960s, including “More” and “Call Me Irresponsible,” which was recently featured in the hit HBO show “Euphoria.” The singer's management also signed with 7S Management for Estate representation. 

Actor and comedian, Ricky Tomlinson is to return to the stage in a new musical comedy that celebrates the best of Irish culture.

One of the longest-running and most successful musicals of all time, the trio playing the iconic leads will be Melbourne-born Joshua Robson as The Phantom, Brisbane performer Georgina Hopson as Christine and acclaimed West End and Broadway musical theatre performer Callum Francis as Raoul Vicomte de Chagny.

Cinelounge Theatres and Cleopatra Records present a special screening of the 1963 fan-favorite Bye Bye Birdie, followed by an in-person Q&A with its star Ann-Margret February 14, 2022, at The Montalban. Those in attendance will also be treated to a sneak preview of a few songs from Ann-Margret’s upcoming release from Cleopatra Records, Born to Be Wild. I had a chance to chat with and re-interview (after twenty years) Ann-Margret on things Birdie, her USO stints, her latest CD, and, most important of all, how she defines sexy.

Because of concerns regarding the recent surge of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, with an abundance of caution we are moving the opening date of this show to February 26, instead of the originally scheduled January 22.

TheatreZone, Naples’ professional Equity theatre, is in full swing in February with three engaging productions that each have deep roots in musical history and the powerful talents of renowned musicians.

Suffolk Theater presents SAL THE VOICE on Friday and Saturday, February 4 and 5 at 8:00PM. Tickets are $69, plus applicable fees.

Maybin Hewes has a show business career that spans eight decades. She started out as a child performer in Mississippi, appeared on TV in New Orleans as a teenager, and went on to a lengthy and active career as a dancer and singer in many shows on Broadway, off Broadway, at the Paper Mill Playhouse, on national tours and in regional theatre.

Most will bring an entire memory book of the “Good ol' Days” singing a tribute to his musical heroes, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr. and Bobby Darin.  Audience members can reminisce about yesteryear with Donny, backed by a special “Hollywood-style” Hershey Symphony Orchestra playing the Great American Songbook and the music of “Happy Days.”  Audience masks are required during the concert.  

TheatreZone, a Naples-based professional Equity theatre specializing in Broadway musicals, celebrates a full, post-pandemic reopening— as well as its 17th season —in December with its original production, Home for the Holidays.

The Hershey Symphony will perform “Beethoven's Belated Birthday Bash” on October 29, 2021 at 8 p.m. at The Hershey Theatre. The concert celebrates his 251st birthday since he was cheated out of his 250th in 2020.

Oh, What a Night! Broadway is BACK at The Ridgefield Playhouse with Under The Streetlamp – founded by leading cast members of the Tony Award-winning sensation JERSEY BOYS and starring Broadway veterans from shows such as Hairspray, Thoroughly Modern Millie, RENT, The Lion King, Dream Girls and more! 

With power notes like the ones displayed in his new show, Scott Raneri is completely cast-able in musical theater, which is most of what he talks about in his show about being an extra.