…;Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop” is simply an engaging, breathless road-trip portrait. It candidly captures the abruptly-unemployed TV host as he embraces a new challenge: mounting and headlining a 32-city concert tour to fill the void and nurse his wounds after he left NBC in early 2010 and, according to the exit deal, was barred from being on TV for six long months. The film gives its audience a front-row seat for glimpses of the sh…
LONDON – The video is painful to watch, an artistic train wreck for all to see. The question is what Amy Winehouse is going to do next. The five-time Grammy Award winner, whose battles with alcohol and drug abuse have long overshadowed her music career, had a very public meltdown on stage Saturday night in Belgrade, the first stop of her European summer concert tour. The disastrous performance shattered the goal of the troubled singer’s co…
The pirates, Indians, lost boys and British siblings surrounding Cathy Rigby’s Peter Pan, on tour starting this August, have been revealed. Broadway’s Tom Hewitt and Kim Crosby had previously been announced. In addition to limber actress and former Olympic gymnast Rigby, who recreates her Tony Award-nominated turn as J.M. Barrie’s boy who wouldn’t grow up, the company features Broadway stars Hewitt (The Rocky Horror S…
TORONTO (Reuters) – More than 14 years after Soundgarden broke up, the Seattle rockers launched their reunion tour in Toronto on Saturday, taking 16,000 nostalgic fans back to the glory days of the 1990s grunge era. The foursome raced through 21 songs in two hours at the Molson Amphitheatre, focusing mostly on the riff-laden dark material that transformed them into MTV darlings. In contrast to the tense final show of their last tour in 1997, t…
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Like “American Idol” before it, NBC’s hit music competition show “The Voice” has a summer tour in the works. The show’s eight finalists — Beverly McClellan, Vicci Martinez, Dia Frampton, Javier Colon, Nakia, Xenia, Casey Weston and Frenchie Davis — will hit the road. But noticeably absent from the lineup are the show’s four chart-topping coaches, Christina…
LONDON – Amy Winehouse canceled part of her European tour on Sunday, a day after the British singer was heavily booed for being late and displaying erratic behavior on stage during a concert in Serbia. The concert late Saturday in the Serbian capital of Belgrade kicked off what was to be a 12-date tour of Europe. But Winehouse decided to cancel appearances in Istanbul on Monday and in Athens on Wednesday, according to a statement from publicity …