by Deborah Wilker | Feb 15, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Music
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING | Tues. Nov. 8, 2016 8:23 am By DEBORAH WILKER Headlining for months at a time requires a special sort of endurance from the musicians who star in the world’s biggest concert tours. Million-dollar paydays are helpful, but the grind is real....
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 6, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Reviews, Stage
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Theater Review | Thurs Nov. 17 12:50pm PST By DEBORAH WILKER The world may be coming to an end in playwright Alena Smith’s Icebergs, but you wouldn’t know it from the sunny home at the center of this brisk comedy, making its world...
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 6, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Reviews, Stage
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Theater Review | Fri Dec. 16, 2016 4:14pm EST By DEBORAH WILKER [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″...
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 6, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Stage, TV and Film
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Thurs Feb. 2, 2017 1:14pm PST By DEBORAH WILKER LOS ANGELES — As the calm center in M. Night Shyamalan’s low-budget box-office sensation Split, Tony winner Betty Buckley has her best screen role in years — and a theory as to why the...
by Deborah Wilker | Jan 13, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Music, Stage
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING | Feb. 4, 2013 By DEBORAH WILKER Back when Natalie Cole was a student at the University of Massachusetts, she had many dreams — but “nine-time Grammy-winner” was never one of them. “I wanted to be a doctor. I certainly didn’t...
by Deborah Wilker | Nov 6, 2016 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Music
BILLBOARD | Fri Nov. 11, 2016 By DEBORAH WILKER Rock legend John Fogerty capped his keynote Q&A at the Billboard Touring Conference on Thursday, with a surprise for the executives on hand: Pristine renditions of “Proud Mary” and “Have You Ever...
by Deborah Wilker | Nov 4, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Music, Reviews, Stage, TV and Film
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Theater Review | 10:51 AM PDT 11/3/2016 by DEBORAH WILKER LOS ANGELES — It’s been more than a year since the Tony-winning revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inchclosed on Broadway, and more than 20 years since it was conceived, but...
by Deborah Wilker | Oct 24, 2016 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Music
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE | Oct. 20, 2016 From Drake to Sia to Shawn Mendes, today’s superstars wouldn’t be topping charts, filling arenas and disrupting the music business without the vision and hustle of these pioneering young executives. Read this story in...
by Deborah Wilker | Sep 9, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Stage, TV and Film
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Wednesday Sept. 8, 2016 9:59 A.M. By DEBORAH WILKER With four decades of stage, film and television work behind her, Tony-winner Phylicia Rashad has lately been receiving some of the finest reviews of her career. As Apollo Creed’s widow...
by Deborah Wilker | Aug 2, 2016 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Interviews, Music
BILLBOARD | July 6, 2016 By DEBORAH WILKER Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, Jason Derulo, Meghan Trainor, Juanes, Pink, Mary J. Blige, Selena Gomez and Britney Spears are among 24 artists featured on a new recording to raise money for victims of the Pulse nightclub...
