Leonard Cohen Adds More North American Tour Dates

Leonard Cohen has announced additional North America stops in support of his latest year’s critically acclaimed album, Old Ideas. After finishing the last leg of his previous tour at Brooklyn Nets’ Barclays Center in December, Cohen will take January and February off before beginning the next leg of his tour at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, Calif. on March 2. From there, he’ll be stopping at various locations across North America before taking his tour to Europe in the summer....  read more

Decatur native leads Les Miserables cast at the Fox through Sunday

When I heard that, after 23 years, uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh had retooled his great Les Miserables (and was premiering the changes at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre), I was simultaneously excited and horrified. Of all the musicals of our generation, Les Mis is not only easily the greatest and most enduring, but also the most unlikely-- a three-hour-plus show of all original music, based on a French novel over a hundred years old and over fourteen hundred pages long, entitled (loosely translated) “The Wretched,” and which, when not concerning itself with the plight of the urban poor, dwells largely on the fundamental...  read more