Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas. Sadly, she died of a heroin overdose at the young age of 27, in Los Angeles, California in 1970. In between those dates, though, she ...

Randy Johnson’s “A Night with Janis Joplin” is FST’s final Stage III production for this season. It’s a musical adaptation of her final concert, not a by-the-numbers jukebox musical. Over the course ...

Janis Joplin’s talent was always likely to make its way through to the mainstream. Like any artist, however, the mercurial singer needed a song to act as a catalyst. “Piece Of My Heart”, the song that ...