Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Folk music always has a menacing quality,” Wainwright explains. “It’s a ...

Twenty-five years have passed since the release of Rufus Wainwright’s self-titled debut album, a rhapsodic collection of 12 songs celebrating his open homosexuality and given suitably cabaret-inspired ...

Rufus Wainwright, who in fact might be inclined to utter ah, Rufus, je t'adore while listening to his swoony oeuvre, don't just love him for his looks. (He is a dreamboat at 38, however.) We don't ...

As the title suggests, Folkocracy is a homage to his own folk roots as part of Canada’s royal family of folk. The idea was conceived during the long wait through the 2021 Grammys. “I’ve shied away ...

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A unique collaboration between two world-class visionary artists, this album reunites Mecci and Wainwright, who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed show HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis, ...

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It’s been 25 years since the world was introduced to Rufus Wainwright with his debut self-titled album, which featured songs like “April Fools,” “In My Arms” and many more. To celebrate, the ...

"Want Two," the second half of singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright's epic third album, can truly claim to stand outside of the contemporary musical norm. Combining classical flourishes, melodramatic ...

Rufus Wainwright has come home - home to pop music, home to Los Angeles where, 20 years ago, he feels like he found himself as an artist. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: I was always a little too much of a dandy, a ...

Rufus Wainwright and Mark Ronson are two pretty big names in their own right but when put together that perhaps veers a little bit more towards massive. Anyway, that is exactly what they have done and ...

“Folkocracy” arrives within weeks of the 25 th anniversary of your debut album. Was that a coincidence or strategic? I had no sense that either it would be the 25th anniversary of my first album or my ...