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Carole King’s life and times – and songs she wrote with her ex-husband, Gerry Goffin -- will be the stuff of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” whose producers are aiming for a spring 2014 opening on Broadway. Playbill reports...

When a poll was taken late last year to mark the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s popular music charts, the song the public chose as its No. 1 of all time wasn’t by U2 or Sinead O’Connor or Thin Lizzy. Saw......

Here are the Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week: 1 . ED KOWALCZYK It’s almost four years since Ed Kowalczyk parted ways with Live, the York-based band whose writing and singing he defined with such alternative chart-toppers as “Lightning......

It's March, and that means it's time for all things Irish to invade local clubs and venues. The Saw Doctors are one of Ireland's all-time top-selling bands, and they'll be returning to the Ridgefield Playhouse Thursday night to get us pumped up for St....

An Irish rock band that in its native country has had 18 Top 30 singles, including three No. 1s, will play Musikfest Café at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem this spring, the venue just announced. The Saw Doctors, who......

Julie Andrews is wearing a white cap with the word "Think" embroidered on it as she sits down to tea in the Victorian parlor of the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. The star of iconic and beloved musicals and films such as "My Fair Lady," "Camelot,"...

LOS ANGELES -- Richard Dawson, the longtime host of "Family Feud" known for planting kisses on female contestants, has died, his son said in a statement Sunday. He was 79. "It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my father passed away this...

Quick: What comes after this? “When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go ... ” If you know the next word is “Downtown,” you are well-equipped to sing along at next week's “Sirens of the '60s” show at the Capitol Theatre. The...

Tickets for Aberdeen Community Theatre's first show of 2012 go on sale to the public on Monday. The theater is bringing in the touring production, “Sirens of the '60s,” which will be presented at 7:30 p.m. March 14-16 and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. March 17...

THEATER REVIEW: "Shout!" ★★½ Through Aug. 14 at Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire; Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: $41-$49 at 847-634-0200 or ticketmaster.com If there's one thing that most of the songs in “...

• PLUS KERRY REID'S CHART OF DOZENS MORE SHOWS FOR THE SEASON After the grayest spring on record, Chicago is looking forward to a change in season. Time and reviews will tell for sure, but here are 10 summer shows......

The Marriott Theatre is to produce a new musical based on the 1991 Bette Midler film "For the Boys." Penned by Aaron Thielen, Marriott's co-artistic director, the new show is the tale of a 1940 big-band singer and employs a......