Marilyn Maye. Streaming a new concert from Feinstein’s/54 Below. Meet her; get your tickets.
On an early Sunday morning, 54 years ago, I walked into the music library at KAKE FM in Wichita, Kansas …
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50 years ago, I dug deep into my piggy bank and took my best friend to see Ella Fitzgerald.
A dear friend called one evening, 50 years ago, to let me know he was coming to New York to …
Academy Awards: Here’s your printable ballot for this year’s Oscars presentation.
The 93rd Oscars will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre …
Awards season comes to life with the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Here’s your printable ballot.
The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, April 4, 2021, at …
This year, the 74th Annual Tony Awards will be a virtual production. Here’s your printable ballot.
Voting for the 74th Annual Tony Awards will take place between March 1 and March 15, 2021 according to Tony …
Storyline Online: Celebrating Black History Month through relevant storytelling.
As a little kid, my parents read to me every night. Then as got a bit older and learned to …
A good tune makes our days in isolation more bearable. Tonight, I’m remembering Harry Nilsson.
I love working from home, and I have a great WFH space. Yet oddly, from time to time over the …
Merry Christmas! I’m sending you a tune to brighten your holiday. Thanks for reading BrockelPress.
In many ways, 2020 has been the year from hell, hasn’t it? I’ve been working from home since March 13 …
You can’t go to Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular this year. (Psst. The show can come to you.)
The news.While Radio City Music Hall’s annual Christmas Spectacular won’t have live audiences this year, NBC will air a taped view of …
Three minutes, seventeen seconds of pure musical joy. Ready for your face to sport a smile?
This may be my shortest blog post ever. Nothing more needs to be said than: Laura Osnes and Colin Donnell …
Isolation’s tough. For 11 months and counting, virtual arts programs have kept me going.
2020 has been a real piece of work. Before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, some of my greatest joy came …
Get ready for goosebumps. Viola Davis is Ma Rainey—and she’s superb.
The screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will premiere on Netflix December …
There was a killing in Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre building: Folks are feeling it.
Danny Gavigan is a resident company member of Everyman Theatre and over the years, we’ve enjoyed his spot-on performances in …
Broadway tales, backstage banter, stars’ stories—you’ll love these two guys.
When I was going to theatre school New York in the 70s, I’d go to gay bars on the weekend …
The nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards are being announced. Watch here.
Tony Award® winner, James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) is announcing the nominations for the American Theatre Wing’s 2020 Tony Awards. Here’s your …
Get a head start on Halloween. Phantom of the Opera streams free this weekend.
If you’ve been missing Broadway and local theatre as much as I have over the past 9 months, this announcement …
Tonight, you can buy a Tyrannosaurus Rex if you have deep pockets. (It won’t eat much.)
From impressionism’s opening moments to cutting-edge contemporary art, the 20th Century Evening Sale at Christie’s tracks the major movements of …
One of Broadway’s hottest tickets is free to all this year. The standing-room-only show is virtual for 2020.
The first Broadway Bares was presented in 1992 by Jerry Mitchell and the company of The Will Rogers Follies at …
“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
Look in your drawers. There may be something small, yet really valuable in them.
Reading a story in Christie’s Magazine last week, I was reminded of a time, a decade or so ago, when …
