Rick Springfield to strip down

NEWTON — Rick Springfield’s Stripped Down tour comes to The Newton Theatre on Friday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. Springfield’s Stripped Down performance includes music, storytelling and a special question and answer session with the audience.

With 25 million records sold, a Grammy Award for his No. 1 hit "Jessie’s Girl," and 17 Top-40 hits including "Don’t Talk to Strangers," "An Affair of the Heart," "I've Done Everything for You," "Love Somebody" and "Human Touch," Springfield has no intention of taking his foot off the accelerator.

“I put everything I've got into making records,” he says. “Sometimes people think they have you pegged but I trust my music to show them otherwise.”

In early 2013, Springfield collaborated with The Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl on the song, "The Man That Never Was," for the Sound City soundtrack, Sound City: Real to Reel. At the 2014 Grammy Awards the album won for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. In May 2014 Springfield’s first novel, "Magnificent Vibration" was released marking his second publication on the New York Times Bestsellers List and he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Currently, he is finishing production on the Tristar film Ricki And The Flash to be released in Summer 2015 and co-starring with Meryl Streep and Kevin Klein.

Tickets for Rick Springfield are $79 for premium seating, $74 for orchestra, and $69 for balcony. Purchase tickets by visiting www.thenewtontheatre.com or contact the box office at 973-383-3700.

The historic Newton Theatre, located at 234 Spring Street in Newton.