It's a rainy morning in New York City (cue traffic jams and very angry locals), but inside the Baccarat Hotel, everything is coming up roses. We’re stationed in a lovely penthouse atop all the hustle and bustle, dry as the Sahara, and Naomi Watts has a closetful of ... More

In a city as culturally saturated as New York, how will Manhattan’s new $500 million arts venue The Shed set itself apart? Scheduled to open this spring in the Hudson Yards at the upper end of the High Line, The Shed’s stated mission is to nurture artistic ... More

Celine. Elton. Britney. And now Gwen. Gwen Stefani’s new Las Vegas residency at Zappos Theater is thanks in part to Jason Gastwirth, president of entertainment at Caesars Entertainment. When Gastwirth began in Las Vegas about a dozen years ago, production shows were a different animal entirely. Broadway-style musicals were ... More

Broadway is going to turn back time to the golden era of Cher when the Goddess of Pop’s 50-plus years of music is turned into a glittering, glamorous Broadway show with previews beginning at New York’s Neil Simon Theatre on November 1. The music icon is so much larger than ... More

Where the Oakland of the early aughts regularly ranked as one of the country’s most dangerous cities, in recent years, it has seen a renaissance as artists and writers—even the next gen of startup entrepreneurs—have come to the area for affordable housing and a culturally rich community. “In the last ... More

"We’re not in the mindset of re-carpeting and putting some memorabilia on the walls; we thought it was very important to either present a product that was going to be brand new, or to not do it at all,” Hard Rock International chairman Jim Allen says of the new More

Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, which recently returned to Broadway after 25 years, was a stark and hallucinatory portrait of gay life in the ‘80s when it first debuted in 1993. The Marianne Elliott-directed revival, which originated in London and stars Andrew Garfield as the AIDS-stricken protagonist ... More

The Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles has become a hotbed for provocative cultural events (recall their bloody Carrie-themed prom party?). Next up is Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, coming to the hotel theater on March 15. As with ... More

Contemporary English opera Sunken Garden will make its stateside debut on March 9 at the Dallas Opera. Spearheaded by the house’s recently departed CEO Keith Cerny, the production will blend live performance and dazzling 3-D cinematic elements. “[It will] stretch boundaries like no one else,” Cerny says. ... More

Since 2006, Company XIV has been bringing a unique blend of circus, Baroque dance, ballet and opera to audiences across the country. Founder Austin McCormick created the organization with a goal of fusing genres into ornate productions. Over the past ten years the company has performed at ... More