Usher News

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? WHO ARE YOU?, a musical by Simon Chouinard and T. Michael Vest, directed by Richard F. Grasso, with musical direction by Sean P. Pallatroni, assisted by Norris Person, and starring Daniel Bender Stern, Jean Ann Garrish, Ed Rosini, Noah Reece, Laura Mesrobian, David J. Raposo, and Maximus DeFrancesco, makes its world premiere at this year's Midtown International Theatre Festival.

Riley Thomas' new drama, CONVICTED, is having its World Premiere at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. To get the inside scoop on the new play, we sat down with Thomas and chatted about this exciting new work.

'Bad Manners At The Dinner Table' is a Christian Murder Mystery, written by Aalani Necole that is based on the principle of the Seven Deadly Sins. Performed in Charlotte, NC at the Little Rock Cultural Center.

The music video for 'Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)' from THE Hamilton MIXTAPE was released back in June. Now you can take a peek behind the scenes at the process and hear from the creatives who helped make it happen. Check it out below!

Acclaimed vocalist and one of the most revered popular singers of her generation Lizz Wright comes to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Thursday, October 12 at 8 p.m.

Alter Bridge have launched the digital pre-order for their upcoming Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities album that is scheduled for release on September 8th worldwide via Napalm Records.

Two heavyweight superstars of the electronic dance music scene, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, have released their latest single “Complicated” with David Guetta and Kiiara today (Click here to listen).

Lyric Unlimited has announced casting for the Chicago premiere of Fellow Travelers. Tenor Jonas Hacker and baritone Joseph Lattanzi will sing the lead roles of Timothy Laughlin and Hawkins Fuller, two men who fall in love during the height of the McCarthy era in 1950s Washington D.C. Devon Guthrie will sing the role of Mary Johnson, Hawkins's assistant and Timothy's confidante.

For the first time ever, dance superstars and online sensations WilldaBeast ('So You Think You Can Dance' choreographer; 2.6 million followers), Nia Sioux ('Dance Moms'; 5.8 million followers), Kenneth San Jose (685K followers), and Janelle Ginestra (587K followers) will join forces and hit the road in a brand new live dance show #FOLLOWME.

Leading the pack on Tuesday, Oct. 24 will be TBS's new scripted comedy The Last O.G, starring and created by superstar and multiple Emmy-nominee Tracy Morgan alongside creators and executive producers Jordan Peele and John Carcieri.

On last night's LATE LATE SHOW, James and Usher hit the road to work, singing Usher's classics like 'OMG' and 'Caught Up' before the two work on James's club entrance and help a group of guys with some car trouble.

On November 12, 2017, the Auditorium Theatre, The Theatre for the People, commemorates the 50th anniversary of its grand re-opening with a one-night-only mixed repertory program featuring dancers from the world's premier dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Dutch National Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Joffrey Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, MOMIX, New York City Ballet, Parsons Dance, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and The Washington Ballet.

The Las Vegas Philharmonic will start selling single tickets on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 to its 13 performances from September 2017 - May 2018 through The Smith Center Box Office.  This will be the orchestra's 19th concert season and Donato Cabrera's 4th season as Music Director for the Las Vegas Philharmonic. 

The music video for 'Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)' from THE HAMILTON MIXTAPE, released back in June, has received a 2017 MTV Video Music Awards nomination in the 'Best Fight Against the System' category.

Hitting shelves across the UK on the 4th of August, NOW have once again come up with the goods with their new release, NOW That's What I Call Old Skool.

International award-winning playwright, Sue Bevan, brings her internationally acclaimed one-person show to New York after successful runs in Boston, Cape Town, Stockholm, Prague, London, Edinburgh...

THE WATER CARRIERS, written by Michael Williams and directed by Tom Marion; featuring Tuka Al Muhaisen, Eunique Doran, Leah Kesselly, Jabaree Muhammad, Ky'Quana McAllister, Kassandra Rodriguez, Tuquan Clifton Smith, Rasheid Thompson, Winnie Esther, and Jonathan Rodriguez, is headed to MITF: Summer 2017, which runs July 15 - Aug 6, 2017 at The Jewel Box at the WorkShop Theater, 312 W.36th Street, NYC.

Two heavyweight superstars of the electronic dance music scene, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have signed a long-term deal with Epic Amsterdam, the international label of Sony Music Entertainment Netherlands, and will be releasing their newest single later this month.

The Hollywood Reporter has reported on some trouble for Ben Affleck's Batman franchise.

HEADLESS - a modern gothic rock-opera ghost story that revisits author Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from co-writers Bradley Bredeweg (Freeform's 'The Fosters,' Showtime's 'Intersection,' Bill Condon's Side Show on Broadway) and Brad Hooks (Freeform's 'The Fosters') - will be the focus of a new work development lab that will explore the score, story and new stage technology over the course of two and a half weeks at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis) in Beverly Hills. The lab will launch on Thursday, July 6 and will culminate with closed presentations today, July 22 and Sunday, July 23 (presentations by private invitation only).