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Audra McDonald, Billy Porter and More Reunite for Shuffle Along
The 2016 Broadway cast reunites at Rose Theater Sept. 27 and 28 as part of Lincoln Center’s San Juan Hill festival.
Ben Harper Returns to the Bowery Ballroom With the Innocent Criminals
Ben Harper playing the Bowery Ballroom is the kind of booking that makes a familiar New York venue suddenly feel small. Harper…
UB40 Brings Four Decades of Reggae Pop to Town Hall
UB40’s relationship with American audiences has always contained a small paradox. The British group helped make reggae a fixture of mainstream pop…
The Chicks Return to the Album That Refused to Apologize
Twenty years after Taking the Long Way, The Chicks are returning to the record that transformed a political backlash into one of…
Buddy Guy Gets a 90th Birthday Party at Radio City
Buddy Guy turned 90 this summer, an age that makes the phrase “career retrospective” sound comically insufficient. On Oct. 1, Radio City…
Weezer Turns Barclays Center Into a Nineties Alternative Summit
Weezer arrives at Barclays Center on Sept. 30 with a bill that could have been assembled from several different chapters of alternative…
Wave to Earth Brings Bedroom-Scale Dreaminess to Radio City
Wave to Earth makes music that often feels designed for a room much smaller than Radio City Music Hall. On Sept. 29,…
CBGB Is Gone. Its Festival Wants the Argument to Stay Alive
CBGB closed nearly 20 years ago, but New York has never stopped arguing about what the club meant. On Saturday, the CBGB…
Role Model Is About to Find Out How Big Heartbreak Can Get
Tucker Pillsbury, who records as Role Model, has built a pop career out of making romantic confusion feel conversational. This weekend he…
Phoebe Bridgers Is Asking an Arena to Put Away Its Phones
Phoebe Bridgers is bringing The Lost Tour to Barclays Center for three nights this week, but the most radical production choice may…
