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Steve Hackett Announces ‘Best of Genesis & Solo Gems’ 2026 UK Tour With New Band Lineup

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Steve Hackett Announces ‘Best of Genesis & Solo Gems’ 2026 UK Tour With New Band Lineup

Guitar legend Steve Hackett announces his: Best of Genesis & Solo Gems 2026 UK Tour with 17 dates in October. Hackett is also excited to introduce two new members to his band: Swedish keyboard wizard Lalle Larsson, who replaces longtime associate Roger King, along with Felix Lehrmann, the German drummer taking over from Craig Blundell. The 2026 tour culminates with a return visit to London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall on Monday 26th October.

“The main thing is to keep a focus on the music which drives it all, but there will be some big changes in the band,” says Hackett, “Both Craig and Roger are amazing musicians, and I know Lalle Larsson and Felix will be equally fantastic.

“I’ve never worked with Lalle Larsson before but he’s completely brilliant and more than qualified for the job involving recreating Genesis circa 1971 to ’77. He’s a total virtuoso. We’ve already been working with Felix Lehrmann and listening to him with Jonas Reingold on bass is like a thousand iron girders coming at you at 100mph!”

Larsson and Lehrmann will take their places in Hackett’s touring band alongside Jonas Reingold (bass, backing vocals), Nad Sylvan (vocals) and Rob Townsend (saxophone, flutes, additional keyboards). “I have some extraordinary performers in the band,” Hackett adds “and I’m very happy with this level of virtuosos. These guys are all incredible professionals.”

Steve Hackett’s innovative guitar-work was an integral part of the classic Genesis catalogue from Nursery Cryme (1971) to Wind And Wuthering (1977). This is still the essential Genesis era for many hardened fans alongside the new generations who are still discovering these ground-breaking gems.

“I’m still in love with the idea of music,” Hackett says. “I absolutely adore it. It still sends shivers up and down my spine and so far, it’s kept me sufficiently young to keep touring with gusto!”

Steve Hackett – Best of Genesis & Solo Gems 2026 UK Tour Dates:
Fri 2nd October Cambridge Corn Exchange
Sat 3rd October Ipswich Regent Theatre
Sun 4th October Eastbourne Congress Theatre
Tue 6th October Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
Wed 7th October Bristol Beacon
Fri 9th October Basingstoke Anvil
Sat 10th October Torquay Princess Theatre
Sun 11th October Aylesbury Friars Waterside
Tue 13th October Leicester De Montfort Hall
Wed 14th October Birmingham Symphony Hall
Fri 16th October Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Sun 18th October Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Tue 20th October Manchester Bridgewater Hall
Wed 21st October Gateshead Glasshouse
Fri 23rd October York Barbican
Sat 24th October Liverpool Philharmonic
Mon 26th October London Royal Albert Hall

Neil Young Announces Official Release Series Vol. 6 Featuring Four 1990s Classics

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Neil Young Announces Official Release Series Vol. 6 Featuring Four 1990s Classics

Neil Young continues his Official Release Series (ORS) with the next installment of four classic titles from the 1990s. ORS Vol 6: Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29 collects HARVEST MOON, UNPLUGGED, SLEEPS WITH ANGELS and MIRROR BALL in the ongoing reissue series and is set for release on October 24 via Reprise Records.

Each disc in the limited edition, numbered box sets will contain 4 albums with the original, historically accurate artwork and will be reissued on double vinyl LPs, while the CD box contains single CD sets per title. MIRROR BALL is an analog recording and the album has been remastered from the original analog masters by John Hanlon and Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Additionally, four of the tracks have been remixed by John Hanlon and Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. (“I’m The Ocean,” “Big Green Country,” “Truth Be Known,” “Throw Your Hatred Down.”) Click here to pre-order.

HARVEST MOON (ORS Disc 26), originally released in 1992, helped open a new decade of Young’s music with what would become instant new classics like the title track “Harvest Moon,” “From Hank to Hendrix,” and “One of These Days.” It included originals written in the 1980s as well as brand new songs, which quickly became fan favorites and one of the most beloved albums in Young’s recorded output.

UNPLUGGED (ORS Disc 27), originally released in 1993, was first recorded for an MTV Unplugged concert, along with additional live recordings. Young thoughtfully assembled a group of musicians he had recorded with over the years for this special aggregation that quickly became a collector’s item as tapes were first shared from the show among his fans. The official live album is considered an acoustic one-of-a-kind release from Young’s 90’s cannon.

SLEEPS WITH ANGELS (ORS Disc 28), originally released in 1994, is an album that wrote its own legend when released. Including the 14-minute song “Change Your Mind” and “Unknown Legend,” it had a distinctiveness with Crazy Horse that Young achieved by keeping the sessions as spontaneous and immediate as possible allowing the tracks to breathe and come to life in real time. SLEEPS WITH ANGELS was the last album to be produced by Neil’s long-time collaborator David Briggs, who passed away in 1995 at age 51, which also brings a special meaning to these recordings.

MIRROR BALL (ORS Disc 29), is a double-album originally released in 1995 and recorded with Pearl Jam. Considering the Seattle band was one of the prime movers of rock bands in the 1990s, it was an event immediately upon its release, and found a rabid, younger audience and inspired long-time fans alike with its inherent high energy. Songs like “I Am The Ocean,” “Throw Your Hatred Down” helped impact so much of the second half of the 1990s.

The OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 6 – DISCS 26, 27, 28, 29 (ORS Vol 6) captures a large visceral part of the era, when Young was contributing his exploration of music with an unrelenting edge, in ways that he hadn’t really done before. These four releases took him towards a new century, and anticipated some of the musical places he would soon explore. These songs also capture some of the massive changes that the 2000s would bring, and ways that music would take on challenges that are still very much being met.

Nathaniel Bellows Announces New EP ‘The Moat’ With Smoky Lead Single “That Too”

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Nathaniel Bellows Announces New EP ‘The Moat’ With Smoky Lead Single “That Too”

olk singer-songwriter Nathaniel Bellows has released his driving, smoky new single “That Too” alongside the announcement of his forthcoming new EP The Moat, out October 17. Click here to listen to the new single “That Too,” a grounded, acoustic admission that redefines what “love” is while delving into its ever-changing, unpredictable nature.. Exploring how the things we put in place to protect us can also cut us off from the rest of the world, The Moat traverses a variety of musical landscapes with emotional intimacy while delving into paradoxical themes of armor and vulnerability, hiding and exposure, insularity and outreach.

“‘That Too’ is the lead track from my forthcoming EP, The Moat,” Bellows explains. “The song sets up many of the themes the album seeks to investigate—memory, desire, solitude, time, compromise, failure, intolerance, wit, artistry, ambition. The song explores the notion of the ‘moat’ by evoking a structure that is both of earth and of air, protection and isolation: If the meaning of love / is a series of rungs / to a roof // But, then we’ll / dig the hole / and seal up the walls / and it feels just like / a home / a hull / a tomb. ‘That Too’ was the second song I wrote in what would become The Moat, and, through its angular, surging rhythm, it gave the pursuit of self-exploration a rigorous, rootsy feel.”

Featuring the recently released single “Works for Me,” a self-described introvert’s anthem that recasts the notion of being “lonely” as an empowered state of hard-won self-knowledge, The Moat winds between rollicking, upbeat swings and jazz-inflected inner searching to icy, electronic balladry and soaring treatises—all with the goal of deepening our knowledge of who we are in the world. PRESS HERE to pre-save The Moat, which was produced by Bellows alongside Michael Hammond, and explores the inherent contradiction of its namesake as either a fortification of self-protection, safety, and security, or a defensive structure necessitated by a fear of the outside world. Full tracklist below.

Making a name for himself as a stark but emotive storyteller, with a voice and lyrics that are as deep as they are rich, Bellows has received acclaim from NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Paste, American Songwriter, Americana Highways, and more for his previous albums Three, Swan and Wolf (where each song was paired with one of his original illustrations), and The Old Illusions as well as for his work as the sole lyricist on Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Unremembered, which was inspired by 13 of his poems and illustrations. Bellows has also drawn comparisons to Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Bruce Springsteen for his raw, soulful, and emotionally textured songs that are equal parts grace and grit.

An accomplished musician, poet, novelist, and visual artist who originally wrote music as companion pieces to his other artistry but never recorded the songs to put them out in the world, Bellows’ poems have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Academy of American Poets “Poem a Day” Program, the Poems of New York anthology, The Golden Shovel Anthology, and many more, as well as in his own published poetry collection Why Speak? (W.W. Norton), which was called “gripping…the book’s power depends on the slow accumulation of an inner world” by The New York Times Book Review and was pronounced “a smart and powerful debut” by Library Journal. Bellows is also the author of two novels: On This Day (HarperCollins) (“A triumph,” The Los Angeles Times) and Nan: A Novel in Stories (Harmon Blunt Publishers). His short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Narrative, Guernica, Redivider, The Best American Short Stories (selected by novelist Michael Chabon), and more.

The Moat tracklist:

  1. That Too
  2. True
  3. Night in Day
  4. Works for Me
  5. Your Fault
  6. Proof

My Chemical Romance Drop Deluxe ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’ With Restored “Ghost Of You” Video

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My Chemical Romance Drop Deluxe ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’ With Restored “Ghost Of You” Video

My Chemical Romance release the expanded edition of their 3x platinum certified sophomore album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge – out now. Additionally, the official music video for “The Ghost Of You” has also been film restored.

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Deluxe Edition) arrives nearly 21 years to the original release date. The Deluxe Edition is remixed and remastered and will be available on CD, multiple colored vinyl variants, including a stunning zoetrope 2LP, and digitally. The 2 LP vinyl formats are 3-sided, with Side 4 boasting a special etching, making them collector’s items for the MCRmy.

To commemorate the band’s beloved 2004 album, GRAMMY Award-winning producer Rich Costey has done new mixes for the Deluxe Edition. It is also presented with brand new artwork. The collection features four bonus tracks recorded for BBC in 2005: previously unreleased live versions of “I’m Not Okay (I Promise),” “Helena,” and “The Ghost Of You,” plus a live take on “You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison” – originally released as a B-side on the limited edition UK CD single of “I’m Not Okay (I Promise).”

The band’s impact continues to reverberate from one generation to the next-and that influence shows no signs of diminishing. If anything, My Chemical Romance’s upcoming 2025 North American stadium tour – “Long Live”: The Black Parade – proves just that. Limited tickets remain for their highly anticipated summer tour, which includes 2 nights at Dodger Stadium.

Spock’s Beard Announce New Album ‘The Archaeoptimist’ Out November 21

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Spock’s Beard Announce New Album ‘The Archaeoptimist’ Out November 21

Following their recent signing to the Madfish label, legendary prog outfit Spock’s Beard have announced their highly anticipated new album The Archaeoptimist.

Set for release on 21st November, the new album sees the group at their effervescent and experimental best delivering some of their finest work from a career spanning more than 30 years.

Speaking on the news, frontman Ted Leonard shared: “The new album is largely the brainchild of Ryo and a co-writer, Michael Whiteman, with lyrical contributions from Alan and myself. While not a concept album, the title is taken from one of the tracks called ‘The Archaeoptimist’. This epic follows the story of a young girl being raised by her father in a post-cataclysmic world and her pathway from being an inspiration to a leader. Other songs vary in theme from obsession with one’s work or task to musings about the passage of time forging ahead despite obstacles.

Musically, while tipping a hat to the Spock’s legacy, the new album has an energy that arguably surpasses many or our previous releases due, in no small part, to the addition of Nick Potters on drums. He’s an amazing and well-rounded musician who has perfect pitch and a great singing voice (yes, we found a drummer that is an amazing singer…named Nick!). Between Michael and Ryo’s writing, this album also has a melodic complexity that may sound new to fans. Anyone who has heard Ryo improvise will have likely picked up on a fusion influence and that certainly shows up in the writing.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m very proud, excited, and honestly relieved that it turned out as good as it did. Everyone put in a ton of work but none so much as Ryo in pushing this over the line.”

Rose Gray Drops New Single “April” And Announces Deluxe Album ‘A Little Louder, Please’

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Rose Gray Drops New Single “April” And Announces Deluxe Album ‘A Little Louder, Please’

Rose Gray returns with brand-new single “April,” alongside news of the deluxe version of her debut album Louder, Please (released January 2025). Titled A Little Louder, Please, the expanded edition arrives on October 24th.

“April” is a shimmering, carefree ode to living in the moment – an extension of Rose’s bold, euphoric debut era. It arrives alongside a visualizer filmed in Chamonix, the same location where the deluxe artwork was shot, that acts as a playful juxtaposition to Rose’s sun-soaked debut. Speaking on the new track, she says:

“Show me what you live for. Have you ever met someone out and just thought, whatever ‘it’ is, you’ve got it? Carefree, sexy and completely in their body. That’s what ‘April’ is about. Someone I met on the dance floor who made me want to live a little more. ‘April’ feels like an extension of ‘Louder, Please’… the big sister. I’m so in love with the fact I get to release it now.”

Boasting features from Melanie C, JADE, Shygirl and Casey MQ, the expanded A Little Louder, Please also includes two brand-new bonus tracks (“April” and ‘Lotus’) alongside an additional disc of club edits, string versions and remixes, with reworks from the likes of Logic1000, Peach, Clementaum, Alex Chapman and more.

News of the deluxe album follows the release of Rose’s Hackney Wick mini doc, released this week and shot by HOWL (the team behind The Cube Sessions). The short film offers a vibrant portrait of Rose’s affinity with the East London suburb, the journey to her debut album and the beautifully messy nights that paved the way.

Meanwhile Rose’s rise continues to accelerate: earlier this week, she announced her very first shows in Brazil in November alongside a performance at Corona Capital in Mexico City. which follow a whirlwind summer that saw her support Kesha and Scissor Sisters on their US ‘The Tits Out Tour’. Having already teased “April” across her recent live shows, Rose will soon bring these songs back to the UK with her headline run this October, including two nights at London’s Village Underground.

Alex Skolnick Trio Announce ‘Prove You’re Not A Robot’ With Daring Jazz-Rock Fusion

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Alex Skolnick Trio Announce ‘Prove You’re Not A Robot’ With Daring Jazz-Rock Fusion

Brooklyn-based jazz-rock innovators Alex Skolnick Trio (AST) return this fall with PROVE YOU’RE NOT A ROBOT, the group’s sixth LP, arriving November 7, 2025. The album’s first single, a wildly inventive take on Tom Petty’s “Breakdown,” is available today. Listen here.

Blending fearless improvisation, genre-defying arrangements, and the virtuosity of its members, PROVE YOU’RE NOT A ROBOT captures AST at the height of their creative powers. The title reflects both a wry nod to our tech-saturated era and a deeper meditation on humanity, direct interaction, and the irreplaceable spark of live musicianship in an age of artificial intelligence.

Recorded with a range of vintage and custom instruments—from a Roger Sadowsky archtop to a 1935 Gibson L-00 acoustic—the album spans moods from the uplifting “Guiding Ethos” to the mind-bending Chick Corea/Steve Howe mashup “Armando’s Mood.” Alongside Skolnick’s inventive guitar work, bassist Nathan Peck and drummer Matt Zebroski bring rhythmic complexity and emotional depth, with odd-time signatures and genre twists that have become AST hallmarks.

“I feel this album represents my strongest work as a composer,” says Skolnick. “Nathan and Matt really brought their A-game throughout. I think it’s safe to say this is the record we’re all most proud of.”

Since forming in the early 2000s, AST has reimagined the jazz guitar trio, melding influences as far-reaching as Wes Montgomery, Black Sabbath, Prince, tango, calypso, and Western swing. Known for their adventurous covers of rock and metal classics, they’ve earned praise from outlets like Billboard, DownBeat, Jazziz, The Village Voice, and NPR, and have toured internationally, captivating audiences from Norway’s Larvik Guitar Festival to Paris’s The Olympia and New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

PROVE YOU’RE NOT A ROBOT promises to be a bold addition to the AST legacy—equally engaging for jazz aficionados and rock fans curious about the inventive, genre-bending journey of Testament original guitarist Alex Skolnick.

PROVE YOU’RE NOT A ROBOT TracklistL

  1. Parallel Universe
  2. Armando’s Mood
  3. Infinite Hotel
  4. Prove You’re Not A Robot
  5. Guiding Ethos
  6. Breakdown
  7. The Polish Goodbye
  8. Asking For A Friend

AST on Tour

2025

  • September 30 – New York, NY – The Cutting Room (Album launch party)
  • November 15 – Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
  • November 16 – Ottawa, ON – Brass Monkey
  • November 17 – Pittsburgh, PA – City Winery
  • November 19 – Detroit, MI – Token Lounge
  • November 20 – Chicago, IL – Reggie’s
  • November 21 – Cleveland, OH – Irishtown Bend Tap Room
  • November 22 – Buffalo, NY – Nietzsche’s
  • November 23 – Annville, PA – The Allen Theatre

2026

  • January 8 – The Woodlands, TX – Dosey Doe
  • January 9 – McKinney, TX – Guitar Sanctuary
  • January 11 – San Antonio, TX – Fitzgerald’s
  • January 13 – Los Angeles, CA – Baked Potato
  • January 14 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
  • January 15 – Seattle, WA – Funhouse
  • January 16 – Portland, OR – Jack London Revue
  • January 17 – Redding, CA – The Dip
  • January 18 – Mill Valley, CA – Sweetwater Music Hall

‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Brings Bruce’s ‘Nebraska’ To The Big Screen This October

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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Brings Bruce’s ‘Nebraska’ To The Big Screen This October

“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album, only in theaters on October 24. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.

“‘Nebraska’ is where Bruce chose truth over expectation—a choice that still reverberates through everything he’s written since. At that crossroads, he could have chased the bright lights and the roar of arenas, but instead he turned inward, armed only with silence, a four-track recorder, and the courage to confront himself. For him to trust me with telling that story—the most vulnerable chapter of his life—is the greatest honor I’ve ever had as a filmmaker,” says Cooper.

“This film takes a couple years out of my life and looks at them very closely, a time when I made ‘Nebraska’ and went through some personal difficulties,” says Springsteen. “I’m so appreciative of Jeremy Allen White and the entire cast for their wonderful and moving performances—and Scott Cooper, one of the most generous collaborators I’ve ever worked with.”

Starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, the film is directed by Scott Cooper from his adaptation of Warren Zanes’ book of the same name. “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” also features Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s long-time confidant and manager, Jon Landau; Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan; Odessa Young as Faye; Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father, Doug; Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mother, Adele; and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive, Al Teller.

The film is produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson and Scott Stuber. Tracey Landon, Jon F. Vein and Zanes executive produce. The film includes an original score by composer Jeremiah Fraites, cinematography by Masanobu Takayanagi, production design by Stefania Cella, costume design by Kasia Walicka-Maimone, and is edited by Pamela Martin.

REBOLU Bring Colombia’s Caribbean Coast To Life At NPR Tiny Desk

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REBOLU Bring Colombia’s Caribbean Coast To Life At NPR Tiny Desk

With soaring vocals, fiery percussion, and a groove that blends Colombia’s Caribbean traditions with reggae and funk, REBOLU turned NPR’s Tiny Desk into a celebration. Led by Johanna Castañeda and Ronald Polo, the band’s infectious energy had the room moving from the first note. It’s music that feels like a party, a history lesson, and a love letter to heritage all at once.

‘Kimberly Akimbo’ To Make Canadian Premiere In Montreal And Toronto With Star-Studded Cast

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‘Kimberly Akimbo’ To Make Canadian Premiere In Montreal And Toronto With Star-Studded Cast

The multi-Tony award winning musical Kimberly Akimbo will make its highly anticipated Canadian Premiere beginning this November in a co-production with the Segal Centre for Performing Arts and David and Hannah Mirvish. Kimberly Akimbo will play Montreal’s Segal Centre from November 23 – December 21, 2025 before transfer to Toronto’s CAA Theatre from January 15 – February 8, 2026. 

Tickets for the Toronto engagement will be available at 10AM on Friday September 19 at mirvish.com or by calling 1.800.461.3333 

The cast:

The legendary Louise Pitre — who originated the role of Fantine in the Canadian premiere of Les Misérables, Donna in the North American and Broadway premieres of MAMMA MIA!, and Edith Piaf in Piaf/Dietrich and performed in dozens of other productions across Canada, in the U.S. and internationally, including originating Fantine in the Paris premiere of Les Misérables — stars as the title character in this deeply moving and wildly funny musical. Louise is the winner of four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a National Broadway Touring Award, a New York Theatre World Award, a San Francisco Theatre Critics’ Award and a Betty Mitchell Award, all for best performance by a leading actress in a musical. 

Tess Benger stars as Kimberly’s mom Pattie. Tess played Carole King in the Segal Centre’s production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.  She performed three seasons at the Shaw Festival, performing in Top Girls, Cabaret, Philadelphia Story and Sweeney Todd. She also starred in a different Sweeney Todd production for Talk is Free Theatre, for which she received a Dora nomination. 

Cyrus Lane stars as Buddy, Kimberly’s dad. Cyrus’s stage credits include Twelve Angry Men (Soulpepper Theatre), Minotaur (YPT), RIFLES (Praxis Theatre), Passion Play (Sheep No Wool, Convergence, Outside the March); Cymbeline, Wanderlust, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Peter Pan (Stratford Festival). He plays recurring character Roger Newsome in the popular TV series Murdoch Mysteries.  

Kristen Peace stars as Kimberly’s Aunt Debra. Kristen starred as Bonnie in the Canadian production of Come From Away, performing the show from 2018 to 2024. For Mirvish productions, she also starred in The Producers, The Boys in the Photograph, Les Misérables and Kinky Boots. 

Thomas Winiker plays Seth, a fellow student who becomes Kimberly’s close friend. Thomas graduated from The Etobicoke School of the Arts and is enrolled in the BFA Musical Theatre program at Carnegie Mellon University, class of 2030. His professional credits include The Music Man (Stratford Festival), and Michael Hobbs in Elf: The Musical, Les in Disney’s Newsies and Benji in Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (Drayton Entertainment). 

Jake Cohen plays Aaron, one of the students who hangs out with Kimberly in high school. Jake studied at theatre Dawson College and acting at the National Theatre School of Canada. He previous appeared at the Segal Centre in the Dale Wasserman Yiddish Theatre production of The Sages of Chelm.  

Taylor Lovelace plays Teresa, another of the students who hangs out with Kimberly in high school. Taylor’s credits include Waitress, A Year with Frog and Toad and Little Shop of Horrors (Cameco Capitol Arts Centre), Be Kind Rewind (Deirdre – Edge of the Sky Production), and Memory of Dr. Gordon P. Silver (Outside the March / Musical Stage Company). 

Luca McPhee plays Delia, another of the students who hangs out with Kimberly in high school. Currently in their fourth year in Sheridan College’s Musical Theatre Program, Luca’s credits include Iris (says goodbye) (Mixtape Projects), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Falsettos (Bowtie Productions), Alice by Heart (Thaumatrope Theatre) Levels the Play (Capitol Sound Collective) The Calling (Makeshift Theatre). 

Kyle Jonathon plays Martin, another of the students who hangs out with Kimberly in high school. A graduate of the Sheridan College’s famed Musical Theatre Program, Seth starred in the college’s productions of Head Over Heels and Casimir and Caroline. 

Tracy Michailidis (Kimberly Akimbo Standby) is a Dora-award winning actor whose work has taken her across Canada (in both regional theatres and at the Stratford, Shaw, and Charlottetown Festivals), the U.S. (both off and on Broadway and on U.S National Tours and in regional theatres), and internationally. Favourite roles include: Harper in Angels in America (WJT), Sarah in Guys and Dolls (Segal Centre), Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman (Eclipse Theatre, Dora nomination), Beth in Life After (Canadian Stage/Musical Stage/Yonge St. Theatricals, Dora award), Mary’s Wedding (Magnus Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (Stratford Festival), The Ugly One (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Into the Woods (TIFT, Dora nomination), and Indecent (Studio 180/Mirvish). 

About the show 

Kimberly Akimbo is the most Tony Award-winning show of the 2022-2023 season – including Best Musical – and features a Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Shrek the Musical) and a Tony Award-winning score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home; Caroline, or Change; Shrek, The Musical). 

Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this “howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show” (The New Yorker), she is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush…and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure. 

Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire 

Music by Jeanine Tesori 

Directed by Robert McQueen 

Choreography by Allison Plamondon 

Music Direction by Chris Barillaro Kimberly Akimbo is presented through a special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). www.mtishows.com

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