Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Of the song, Merchant says, "'Come on, Aphrodite' is an invocation to the ...

"Come On, Aphrodite," the new single from Natalie Merchant featuring singer Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), is out now. It is the first track released from Merchant's forthcoming ...

Music has been written for film or TV adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays nearly 470 times since Erich Wolfgang Korngold arranged Mendelssohn for Max Reinhardt’s 1935 production of “A Midsummer Night’s ...

Somewhere in south Allentown, near the intersection of 12th and Vultee streets, lies a building that, on most days, would pass for an empty warehouse or uninhabited mall. Such is Merchants Square Mall ...

Though derided by some for the in-your-face political correctness of much of her music, Natalie Merchant’s boldness in saying exactly what’s on her mind is far preferable to today’s barely ...

NEW YORK— Natalie Merchant was a major star in the late 1980s and 1990s, first with 10,000 Maniacs and then with a solo career where her debut went platinum times five. She dropped off the pop music ...

A FEW weeks ago Natalie Merchant was pondering what the promotional sticker should say on the package of her new album, “Leave Your Sleep.” She was worried that “the P-word,” as she put it, might ...