Award-winning, quadruple-platinum recording artist Jessica Simpson, whose work spans film, television, music, fashion, and publishing, is set to headline the 2025 Women Who Rock Benefit Concert. The concert is slated for September 25 and presented by Gibson Gives at Stage AE in Pittsburgh. The lineup of the annual event is all female-fronted, and proceeds support lifesaving women’s health research and patient care initiatives at Magee-Womens Research Institute and UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital.In addition to music, there will be a silent auction, and the event will be emceed by 100.7 Star personality Kelly Dzanaj with Kiya Tomlin receiving the Impact Award. Learn more, see the lineup, and get tickets at axs.com/events/964223/women-who-rock-tickets.
Foreigner is set to appear at a special benefit concert, Foreigner: The Hits Unplugged, on September 5, 2025 at Long Island University’s Tilles Center For The Performing Arts, hosted by the band’s original lead singer Lou Gramm. The event will support the production of Feels Like the First Time – The Foreigner Musical, which is set for an April 2026 world premiere and directed by Broadway star Adam Pascal, as well as LIU’s New Works Initiative, an effort to develop original work. Pascal (Rent, Aida, Cabaret, Chicago, Something Rotten) will lead a creative team that includes book writer Stephen Garvey (The Bardy Bunch, Five Golden Rings, Stages of Rita: The Rita Hayworth Musical) and orchestrator and arranger David Abbinanti (Heartbreak Hotel, Saturday Night Fever The Musical, Ghost The Musical). Feels Like the First Time will also feature 14 of Foreigner’s iconic hit songs. The fall benefit show will include a cocktail reception for 50 special guests and photo opps with the band. For more information, including an opportunity for a local high school choir to be part of the show, visit tillescenter.org/foreignerbenefit.
It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley, the new documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil, Phoenix Rising, West of Memphis) opened in theaters on August 8, and will have its premiere on HBO and be available for streaming on HBO Max this winter. Warmly received at its Sundance world premiere, Berg’s portrait of the iconic, late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley features never-before-seen archival footage and interviews from Buckley’s inner circle, including with his mother Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, former bandmates
Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, and other artists, friends, and collaborators. The film chronicles his short but boundary-pushing career—from his first, only, and widely acclaimed studio album Grace, released in 1994, to his sudden death in 1997 at just age 30. For more information, contact George Nicholis at gnicholis@magpictures.com.
