Newsies

  You have to say this about Disney: They don’t give up easily. The original film version of Newsies may have earned rave reviews and starred Christian Bale, but it was a flop. When Disney went all-in on creating Broadway musicals, they reached back for this property, brought in Harvey Fierstein to retool it and—voila!—instant [...]

Chloe Caldwell

  Columbia County native turned international literary darling Chloe Caldwell returns to the region tonight (Thursday) to open this fall’s Frequency North literary series at Saint Rose. In addition to her acclaimed book of essays Legs Get Led Astray, Caldwell will be reading from her new novella, Women. Take note: No less than Lena Dunham [...]

Dover Quartet

  The Friends of Chamber Music will inaugurate their 2014-15 season at Emma Willard on Saturday night (Oct. 11) with the Dover Quartet. The quartet—Joel Link and Brian Lee, violins, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola, and Camden Shaw, cello—will perform music of Haydn, Vivian Fung and Beethoven. Before the concert, there will be a piano [...]

OK Go

  These guys played through a hailstorm four years ago at the 62nd Tulip Fest in Washington Park. Did that deter festivalgoers from rocking out? No way. They just sang along that much louder to the popular song, This Too Shall Pass (the one with the Rube Goldberg machine video that culminates with the band [...]

Capitol Chamber Artists

  Another venerable concert series returns this Saturday night when Capitol Chamber Artists present their season-opening gala concert at Albany’s Westminster Presbyterian Church. CCA’s Mary Lou Saetta, violin; Andre O’Neil, gamba and Alfred Fedak, organ, will perform rarely heard baroque works by Telemann, Buxtehude, Rosenmuller, C.P.E. Bach, Pisendel and Quantz. It is, by the way, C.P.E.’s [...]

Lacuna Coil

  The Gothfathers of Italy are upon us: Lacuna Coil from Milan are en route to Clifton Park. Their newest release, Broken Crown Halo, is the band’s seventh, and comes in the wake of the irresistible laments of 2012’s Dark Adrenaline, which charted at No. 15 on Billboard–an unusual height of mainstream success for their [...]

Richard Thompson

  English folk-rock legend Richard Thompson returns to the Egg this weekend to dazzle you with his great songs and even greater guitar playing. Thompson’s latest album, Acoustic Classics, reflects the kind of show you’ll experience Saturday night: a selection of great songs from over a four-decade career (“I Want to See the Bright Lights [...]

aLsO nOtEd

  Tonight (Thursday), award-winning jazz vocalist Alexis Cole will perform at A Place for Jazz (7:30 PM, $15, 393-4011). . . . Mikaela Davis will perform with special guests Bear Grass and Olivia Quillio at Parish Public House (465-0444). . . . Contemporary country singer/songwriter Martina McBride will play the Palace Theatre tomorrow (Friday, 8 [...]

John Hiatt

  One of the greatest American singer-songwriters to consistently fly just under mainstream commercial radar, John Hiatt has a string of accomplishments any would-be star should envy: Grammy nominations and and numerous other awards and distinctions, songs covered by top-flight artists, and consistent critical praise that almost always outpaces commercial success. An Indianapolis native who [...]

Bobcat Goldthwait

  It’s been quite a journey for Bobcat Goldthwait, from stand-up comic to movie actor to TV director to filmmaker. He was one of the iconic comedians of the 1980s and ’90s, appearing regularly on all the late-night TV shows. Later, moving to the other side of the camera, he directed Jimmy Kimmel Live for [...]