The performance was visceral and devastating. “Louisiana 1927,” a classic from Randy Newman’s album “Good Old Boys” (1974), could have easily been written any time in the past hundred years.

Randy Newman’s ingenious lyricism earned him devoted fans but not mainstream success. His turn to Hollywood would bring wider recognition.

He’s one of the all-time great singer-songwriters, but these days, more people probably know Randy Newman for his work scoring animated kids’ films like “Cars” and the “Toy Story” trilogy.

For the last 55 years or so, you’ve had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and ...

At the behest of a public radio station, Randy Newman wrote and recorded "Stay Away," a song of love — and concern — during the pandemic. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

Newman returns to New Orleans for the first time in four years for a solo show tonight at the Contemporary Arts Center. He’s touring in support of a new CD, "The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1." ...

“Randy Newman’s Faust,” the only musical comedy ever written for the stage by the dean of barbed American singer-songwriters, has never been produced in its creator’s hometown before.

Randy Newman on writing songs about pigs: ... ‘A Bug’s Life’ (1999), score: ... Randy Newman talks about why he’d like to do a duet at the Oscars with Lady Gaga.

But Saturday's "Shock and Awe" was a well-paced and relatively streamlined affair, with 46 songs clocking in at a little more than three hours. No one puts on a better tribute concert than Hal ...

‘Randy Newman’s Faust,’ the Songwriter’s Brilliant but Rarely Produced Stage Musical, Rises Again for a Weekend in L.A. at the Soraya Newman and the show's director talk about bringing the ...