Janis Joplin was one of the iconic singers from the 60's free spirit scene. Her flame burned brightly for the few years she performed on stage from the Monterey Pop Festival to her death too soon in ...

Mary Bridget Davies was playing Janis Joplin long before she stepped on stage as the legendary Pearl at the Cleveland Play House's Allen Theatre. As a little girl, she jumped onto her parents' green ...

"One Night With Janis Joplin" star Cat Stephani, who wowed audiences on the West Coast as the titular blues rocker, has bowed out of the hotly anticipated musical at the Cleveland Play House's Allen ...

Four years after the letter was written, on Oct. 4, 1970, the Queen of the Blues was found on the floor of her Los Angeles hotel room, dead from a heroin overdose. Weeks before, her former lover, Jimi ...

It is another week of many choices for the state blues scene. Fans of blues and rock are in for a real entertaining evening when “A Night with Janis Joplin” plays The Ridgefield Playhouse stage on ...

The first show singer and actress Dorian Rush created for herself was a musical tribute to Janis Joplin. It ran for more than two years at the Warehouse District cabaret Le Chat Noir, and it led Rush ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed Performances January 19-20 at Boch Center Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston, ...

Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg (“West of Memphis,” “Prophet’s Prey”) has made an elegant, affectionate and, in many ways, remarkably cheerful film about Janis Joplin -- blues singer, bandleader, rock ...

In the green room before Los Lobos’ Memorial Day concert at West Marin’s Rancho Nicasio, everyone’s attention was focused on the band’s guest for the day: 84-year-old bluesman Nick Gravenites. Wearing ...

“I want to be the biggest blues singer in the world!” That’s what Janis Joplin told her producer Paul Rothchild when he asked her where she wanted to be at age 65. Five years past that landmark, ...

Music journalist Holly George-Warren, author of the new biography, "Janis: Her Life and Music" (published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS), offers "CBS Sunday Morning" a roster of favorite ...

Mary Bridget Davies portrays the psychedelic blues-rock superstar in this concert-style bio-musical, which comes to Broadway after hit regional engagements. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic The show ...