Rufus Wainwright wanted to make it clear his new music video for "Sword of Damocles" is a direct address to President Trump — in fact, he opened the clip with a card that reads, "Dear Mr. President." ...

Wainwright Does Weill, a new tribute album that explores the songbook of German-American composer Kurt Weill. Listen to it ...

Rufus Wainwright has long expressed his admiration for “pop music with an operatic sensibility, the profane with the divine”, ...

Rufus Wainwright occupies a very rare and important space in modern music. He makes pop music, he is popular, and yet he is decidedly not populist. What’s more is he appears to know this. It is with ...

Rufus Wainwright says that sometimes when he sings he lets his imagination wander. “Depending on how difficult the piece is, I mean,” he quickly adds. “Sometimes I have to be totally concentrated and ...

It’s 8.30am in LA’s Laurel Canyon, and in his crimson-walled, book-lined living room, Rufus Wainwright is fitting me into his manic week. He asks if he can turn off the camera to collapse as he ...

Post-pandemic, many musicians are only now getting the artistic automobile out of the garage and getting the engine gently purring again. But meanwhile, composer Rufus Wainwright is already tooling ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. One of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation, Rufus ...

Next week, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music will celebrate a milestone anniversary for one of Memphis' most pivotal musical figures, Rufus Thomas. Known as “The World's Oldest Teenager," Thomas ...

The year 2020 was supposed to mark the first time in history that a female, American hero would finally grace U..S currency. That image would be of Harriet Tubman, leader of the Underground Railroad, ...